CHAP. 1.
[verse 1] WIsedome Elixer of the purest life,
Hath taught hir lesson to iudicial views,
To those that iudge a cause & end a strife,
Which sits in Iudgements seat & Iustice vse:
A lesson worthy of diuinest eare,
Quintessence of a true diuinest scare.
Vnwilling that exordium should retaine,
Her life-infusing speech, doth thus begin,
You (quoth shee) that giue remedy or paine:
Loue Iustice, for iniustice is a sin.
Giue vnto God his due, his reuerent stile;
And rather vse simplicity then guile.
For him, that guides the radiant eie of day,
[verse 2] Sitting in his star-chamber of the Skie,
The Horizons and hemespheres obay,
And windes the fillers of vacultie:
Much lesse shuld man tempt God, when all obay,
But rather be a guide, and leade the way.
For temting argues but a sins attempt,
Temptation is to sin associate;
So doing, thou from God art cleane exempt,
Whose loue is neuer placde, in his loues hate,
He will be found, not of a tempting minde,
But found of those which he doth faithfull finde.