Living

Vnum alam

by Henry Peacham 1576?–1643?

From Minerva Britanna (1612)

Living

THE Husband good, that by experience knowes,
With cunning skill, to prune, and when to plant,
Must lop the Tree where ranck abundance growes,
Aswell as helpe the barren in her want:
Else happilie, when Summer season's past,
With leaues he may goe satisfie his tast.

Even so the wit, that ranckly doth abound,
With many fancies but it selfe deceiues:
And while it seemes in sundry Artes profound,
In no one good it's fruitfull, but in leaues:
Then some one calling choose, whence good may growe,
And let the rest, as needelesse branches goe.

MLA

Peacham, Henry. “Vnum alam.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/peacham/187/.

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Peacham, Henry. “Vnum alam.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/peacham/187/.

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