Other Sonnets vpon other Subiects, 22

PLesure with Profitt is the Pynn whereto
Penns direct their best directed ayme;
Which if they splitt, they do as they should do;
And iustly for it Glories prize they claime.
Now from my Will (well-bent as I suppos'd)
(With Shafts of the indeuors of my Witt)
I haue roud at this Point, and them disposd
As the Winde sate abrode, the Pynn to splitt.
If I haue shott too much on the left hand,
I (as not weather-wise) the Winde mistooke:
Yet I considered both the Aire, and Land;
But, though my Shafts can neither of them brooke,
I loost them right, though light mine Arrowes were
Yet some being weightie, I must needs bee neere.