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Looke home.
Retyred thoughts enioy their owne delights,
As beawtie doth in selfe beholding eye:
Mans mind a myrrour is of heauenly sights,
A breefe wherein all maruailes summed lye.
Of fayrest formes, and sweetest shapes the store,
Most gracefull all, yet thought may grace them more.
As beawtie doth in selfe beholding eye:
Mans mind a myrrour is of heauenly sights,
A breefe wherein all maruailes summed lye.
Of fayrest formes, and sweetest shapes the store,
Most gracefull all, yet thought may grace them more.
The mind a creature is, yet can create,
To natures paterns adding higher skill:
Of finest workes wit better could the state,
If force of wit had equall power of will.
Deuise of man in working hath no end,
VVhat thought can think an other thought can mend.
To natures paterns adding higher skill:
Of finest workes wit better could the state,
If force of wit had equall power of will.
Deuise of man in working hath no end,
VVhat thought can think an other thought can mend.
Mans soule of endlesse beauties image is,
Drawne by the worke of endlesse skill and might;
This skilfull might gaue many sparkes of blisse,
And to discerne this blisse a natiue light,
To frame Gods image as his worthes requirde,
His might, his skill, his word, and will conspirde.
Drawne by the worke of endlesse skill and might;
This skilfull might gaue many sparkes of blisse,
And to discerne this blisse a natiue light,
To frame Gods image as his worthes requirde,
His might, his skill, his word, and will conspirde.
All that he had his image should present,
All that it should present he could afford:
To that he could afford his will was bent,
His will was followed with performing word.
Let this suffice, by this conceiue the rest,
He should, he could, he would, he did the best.
All that it should present he could afford:
To that he could afford his will was bent,
His will was followed with performing word.
Let this suffice, by this conceiue the rest,
He should, he could, he would, he did the best.
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