This double-face, that man to signifie,

Who (whatsoere he undertakes to doe)

Lookes, both before him, and behinde him, too.

For, he shall never fruitfully forecast

Affaires to come, who mindes not what is past:

And, such as doe not, oft, before them looke,

May lose the labour, that's already tooke.

By, sometimes, looking backward, we behold

Those things, which have been done in times of old;

By looking wisely forward, we foresee