Both steele and yron must be tempred well:

(For yron giues the strength vnto the blade,

And steele, in edge doth cause it to excell)

As ech good Bladesmith by his Arte can tell:

For, without yron, brittle will it breake,

And, without steele, it will bee blunt and weake:

So bookes, that now theyr faces dare to show,

Must mettald bee with Nature and with Skill:

For Nature causeth stuffe enough to flow,

And Arte the same contriues by learned quill