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[In each created thing]
In
each created thing
One motion onely, and of might,
Predominant continually is found.
Which still doth keepe and bring
The same, one way, and course aright,
That's alwaies like, and vniforme, and round.
And none can be vnbound
From this compacted order though he would,
None can againe the same forsake,
Or any other take,
And yet it would not though perhaps it could:
Thou Fortune art alone
Without it, in disorder onely one.
One motion onely, and of might,
Predominant continually is found.
Which still doth keepe and bring
The same, one way, and course aright,
That's alwaies like, and vniforme, and round.
And none can be vnbound
From this compacted order though he would,
None can againe the same forsake,
Or any other take,
And yet it would not though perhaps it could:
Thou Fortune art alone
Without it, in disorder onely one.
That first, and highest Sphere,
That mooues, and is not moou'd againe
Of any other heauen, that mooues one whit:
The which with his Careare,
And swiftest course doth turne amaine
The lowest heauens, and caries after it:
An order doth admit,
And doth maintaine, not erring in the lest:
For it doth cary them with speede,
And with more haste (indeede)
The nearest heauen to it, from East to West:
But rule thou dost disdaine,
And onely without order dost remaine.
That mooues, and is not moou'd againe
Of any other heauen, that mooues one whit:
The which with his Careare,
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The lowest heauens, and caries after it:
An order doth admit,
And doth maintaine, not erring in the lest:
For it doth cary them with speede,
And with more haste (indeede)
The nearest heauen to it, from East to West:
But rule thou dost disdaine,
And onely without order dost remaine.
The circled Elements
Of qualities most opposite,
The fire, the aire, the sea, and earth belowe,
In motions not inuents
A nouell course, but mooue aright,
And euer keepe good order, as they goe:
None erreth, no.
The earth about his lowest Centre mooues,
The water next in circle wise,
The aire next that that lies,
And fire to that a gallant order prooues:
But Fortune in thy Spheare
Thou run'st, without good order, rule, or feare.
Of qualities most opposite,
The fire, the aire, the sea, and earth belowe,
In motions not inuents
A nouell course, but mooue aright,
And euer keepe good order, as they goe:
None erreth, no.
The earth about his lowest Centre mooues,
The water next in circle wise,
The aire next that that lies,
And fire to that a gallant order prooues:
But Fortune in thy Spheare
Thou run'st, without good order, rule, or feare.
The heauie fals downe right
(Vnlesse it haue impediment)
Vnto the Centre of his proper Spheare:
And that, which is but light,
If that it haue an open vent,
Mounts to his highest region euery where:
And so each thing doth beare
Good order, and good rule continually:
In generation it doth spring,
Corruption it doth bring,
In fine, all things by order liue and die:
Without it, thou dost range
(Fortune) that with disorder still dost change.
(Vnlesse it haue impediment)
Vnto the Centre of his proper Spheare:
And that, which is but light,
If that it haue an open vent,
Mounts to his highest region euery where:
And so each thing doth beare
Good order, and good rule continually:
In generation it doth spring,
Corruption it doth bring,
In fine, all things by order liue and die:
Without it, thou dost range
(Fortune) that with disorder still dost change.
In this world nothing is
(If out of order it be gone)
But ordred it may be in time againe:
Ther's nothing in blacke Dis
(Though there be all confusion)
Nor order kept (for there it were but vaine)
But may indeede remaine
In order, in their manner, forme, and kinde,
And may be call'd to order fit,
If we consider it:
Though nought but paines and plaintes are there assign'd.
Thou worse then hellish thought
In no point canst not be to order brought.
(If out of order it be gone)
But ordred it may be in time againe:
Ther's nothing in blacke Dis
(Though there be all confusion)
Nor order kept (for there it were but vaine)
But may indeede remaine
In order, in their manner, forme, and kinde,
And may be call'd to order fit,
If we consider it:
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Thou worse then hellish thought
In no point canst not be to order brought.
Thy motion out of kinde
So far besides proportion lies,
That it can neuer be to order brought:
Swifter sometimes then winde,
With hastie speede so soone it flies,
That it is neuer seene, nor felt, nor thought:
The Parthian neuer wrought,
Nor sent an arrow out of steeled bowe
With such great haste and maine:
Sometimes with sloth againe,
Like to the snaile or Tortuse she doth goe:
Blinde Fortune thou dost reele,
And more doth he, that sits vpon thy wheele.
So far besides proportion lies,
That it can neuer be to order brought:
Swifter sometimes then winde,
With hastie speede so soone it flies,
That it is neuer seene, nor felt, nor thought:
The Parthian neuer wrought,
Nor sent an arrow out of steeled bowe
With such great haste and maine:
Sometimes with sloth againe,
Like to the snaile or Tortuse she doth goe:
Blinde Fortune thou dost reele,
And more doth he, that sits vpon thy wheele.
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