In Cosmum

Cosmus hath more discoursing in his head,
Than Jove, when Pallas issued from his braine,
And still he strives to be delivered,
Of all his thoughtes at once, but al in vaine.
For as we see at all the play house dores,
When ended is the play, the daunce, and song:
A thousand townsemen, gentlemen, and whores,
Porters and serving-men togither throng,
So thoughts of drinking, thriving, wenching, war,
And borrowing money, raging in his minde,
To issue all at once so forwarde are,
As none at all can perfect passage finde.

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Sir John Davies (1569-1626)

Sir John Davies, The Poems of Sir John Davies; Oxford University Press, Oxford; ISBN 0198127162