Religion
Against Fortune-tellers, commonly called, Wise-men
From Essaies (1612)
SIth all our Knowledge from our Senses comes,
which oft mistake, then must our Wisedome needs
Mistake, as oft as Error ouer-comes
our Knowledge, that from rring Sense proceedes.
Then all our Wisedome must be most vnsure,
as are the grounds from whence the same doth grow;
Yet some great Wi mn harly can endure
that GOD should know that, which they do not know.
And, sith they know, they know not as they ought;
more then they ought they seeme to know, at least;
These are the Wie-men that by Fooles are sought,
to sew unts to come to giue them rest:
On whom they do bestow a Wise-mans ee,
Which thse wise Seers, onely, doe fore-see.
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