Tixall Poetry/To Mr Ed. Thimelby, That Unity Is No Argument for the Forehead Against the Eyes

by unknown author

To Mr Ed. Thimelby,

That Unity Is No Argument for the Forehead Against the Eyes.

 

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No head with bays was ever drest,
For making one sole verse; at least,
A distich must be offerd still
Upon the double-headed hill.
By number Nature's workes advance;
What's done but once is done by chance.
Of perfect things she has made a store;
To sin belongs doe it noe more.
Good poems, such as yours, ne'r lye
Uncoppyed, but multiply.
One only child, although most deare
To his parents, brings less joy than feare.
The seaman gives his ship for gon,
Loosing his anchors all but one.
How bravely men would live and dye,
Did not the fates two lives deny;
But since they us one only gave,
Ther's few well use even that they have.
Each cottage hath a single dore,
Poor men, alas! can build no more;
Great palaces esteeme it state
To have a fair and double gate.
Let not the eyes then be outdone,
By th' forehead, cause they're two for one;
Who hope that justice will do right,
Though she be blind to others' sight.
Eyes, where no pencil has a part,
Adorn'd by Nature, not by Art;
The only part from painting free,
Yet that wherein all colors be.