WE doe acknowledge (as this Emblem showes)

That Fruits and Flowres, and many pleasant-things,

From out the Ground, in ev'ry season growes;

And, that unto their being, helpe it brings.

Yet, of it selfe, the Ground, we know is dull,

And, but a Willing-patient, whereupon

The Sunne, with Beames, and Vertues wonderfull,

Prepareth, and effecteth, what is done.

We, likewise, doe acknowledge, that our eyes

Indowed are with faculties of Seeing,