It is much question'd in Philosophy.
Whether the sight that's resiant in the eye,
Be first by sending out those radiant streames,
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I waile not those,
Who take their sweete repose;
Within the bowels of our common mother:
Those grieue me most,
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Great King, when of thy death we vnderstood,
Although the newes were bad, the lie was good.
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My friends you see haue thought it not amisse,
To praise my booke, yet you besides all this,
Looke that it should commend it selfe: now fie,
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If that the subiect do the worke commend,
The what more worthy work, then I intend?
For Lords, nay more (let me not be mistook)
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My booke it must please all, or some, or none;
And one of these three must it needs embrace.
It cannot possibly please eueryone,
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Looke how a tree doth spring out of the earth,
So we discend from thence by lineall birth.
Looke how a tree shootes vp, and blossomes faire:
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Oft did I wonder why the setting Sunne
Should looke vpon vs with a blushing face:
Ist not for shame of what he hath seene done,
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Epigram. V. Oculi Emissitij
It is much question'd in Philosophy.
Whether the sight that's resiant in the eye,
Be first by sending out those radiant streames,
Or els by taking in reflexed beames.
Might I with my poore skill resolue this doubt.
I should determine 'twere by sending out.
So nimbly doe we others faults discrie,
So blinde we are when we looke inwardly.