Was better seen, or hurtful beasts to hont?
I learned als the signs of heaven to ken,
How Phœbus fails, where Venus sets, and when.
"And tried time yet taught me greater things;
The sudden rising of the raging seas,
The sooth of birds by beating of their wings,
The power of herbs, both which can hurt and ease,
And which be wont t' enrage the restless sheep,
And which be wont to work eternal sleep.
"But, ah! unwise and witless Colin Clout,