5. Sonnets in praise of Eminency or a publike Life, 14

THe Seas vnfit to saile on, it too calme:
As it is when it is too turbulent:
Then, the meane motion sets it so a walme
As doth the Sailors Eare, and Eye content:
So, neither too calme, nor too rough a Mind
Giues Vertue Way whose waies are in the Mean:
In Loue, if Passion do not Reason bind
Their Action to the Clouds commends the scean
Hatred, and Ire makes way, (and Lets putback)
For Iustice, and for Prowesse t'act their Parts:
Courage is cold, and Iustice is but flack
If Ire and Hatred did not stir their Harts,
Then, sith Loues pass, may with Reason hold
Good reason we should loue as Reason would.