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VVhen with this GLASSE, you are acquainted grown
So that your Self, may to your self be known;
(For, it will shew more plainly than your face
You ever, yet beheld in any Glasse
VVhat's in your heart; and also let you see
What things are wanting, which there ought to be)
And, when by practice you enabled are
To know to what heads, those things to refer
Of which you would enquire, place opposite,
What you have by your hearing, or by sight
Discovered, to that Subject pertinent,
Concerning which, you seek to know th'event,
Or good or ill condition of the same,
And what you may conjecture without blame.
So that your Self, may to your self be known;
(For, it will shew more plainly than your face
You ever, yet beheld in any Glasse
VVhat's in your heart; and also let you see
What things are wanting, which there ought to be)
And, when by practice you enabled are
To know to what heads, those things to refer
Of which you would enquire, place opposite,
What you have by your hearing, or by sight
Discovered, to that Subject pertinent,
Concerning which, you seek to know th'event,
Or good or ill condition of the same,
And what you may conjecture without blame.
| Miscellaneous works of George Wither | |