Other Sonnets vpon other Subiects, 26

SO long as Vnity retaines hir might
She is but only One: the Number Two
Breeding but diffrence: so indefinite
Doth stil deuide, that so it may vndo;
Eu'n so a Word, or Speech whil they abide
But in the Thought, It's cald a Secret right:
But if put forth, forthwith abrode it glydes:
For, words haue wings as swift as Thought in flight.
A Ship, vpon her wings (the Sailes) may be
In roughest winds stayd by her Anchor hold
When she would into wel-known dangers flee
And so the same from vtter wrack withhould:
But speak a word, and nought shal let it hie
Oft to the wrack of him that let it fly.