The master quick rejoined: “Look now; break one; halt! halt!”
As soon as one was broken, both were gone from sight.
Poor squint-eye nearly lost his wits in childish fright.
There was but one; his eyes were cause that he saw two.
The one away, the other consequently was gone too.
Desire or rage, at times, makes people double see.
The mind’s distortion brings the eyes perverse to be.10
From passion’s mists our reason ever blinded lies.
The heart its clouds sends up; the mind’s eye’s vision flies.
The judge to taking bribes who basely bends himself,