Other Sonnets vpon other Subiects, 23

PLato putts difference these Tearmes betweene
A Man Is not, and is that hath no Beeing:
For, in the first a Nullity is seene,
Which with nor Sence, nor Substance hath agreeing.
The other showeth but the difference
Betweene the Cause, and Matter; or, more plaine,
Betweene the Pow'r, and Passion; wherein Sence
Perceaues that Odds doth really remaine:
For, This distinguisheth twixt that which Is
(Yea, of It selfe Is, euermore the same)
And That which of another's That, or This,
Yet holds nor This nor That, but alters Frame:
So, Man, compared with his constant Cause,
No Beeing hath at all, by Natures Lawes!