So quicke of sense as hath experience taught

SO quicke of sense as hath experience taught,
The Tortoise liues within her armed shell,
That if wee lay the lightest straw aloft,
Or touch that Castle wherein she doth dwell,
Shee feeles the same and quickly doth retire,
A worke of Nature we do most admire,

So many men are in theire Nature prone,
To make the worst of matters vaine and light,
And for a straw will take occasion,
In choller moou'd to quarrell and to fight,
Then meddle thou the least for feare of wrong,
But most of all beware a lavish tongue.