The Mind
Nosce Teipsum: Objection V
From Complete Poems, ed. Grosart (1876)
The Mind
Well, well, say these vaine spirits, though vaine it is
To thinke our Soules to Heauen or Hell to goe,
Politike men haue thought it not amisse,
To spread this lye, to make men vertuous so.
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