As wealthy men their wealth may show by beggars’ glee.
The hungry man’s the mirror best shows what is bread.
And tinder mirrors flint and steel’s gleam, quickly spread.
Wherever want, defect, is seen, beauty’s most prized.
The mirror of perfection’s then best realised.55
If clothes grew, ready cut and sewn, to meet our needs,
Where’d be the use of tailor’s art, to fashion weeds?
The unhewn trunk is needed, for the carver’s skill,
And carpenter, to cut out thence his frames, his thill.
The surgeon hastens to the couch where suffering lies;