Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?

And what is faith, love, virtue unassayed Alone, without exterior help sustained?

Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north - wind's breath, And stars to set; but all, Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death!

In Physic, things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humors.

No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.

Beyond is all abyss, eternity, whose end no eye can reach.

Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.