Salomonis prudentia: To the right worshipfull Sir DAVID FOVLIS Knight

THE meanes of wisedome, heere a booke is seene,
Sometime the glory of great Salomon,
A Cedar branch, with Hysope knotted greene,
The heart and eie withall, plac'd herevpon:
For from the Cedar saith the Text he knew,
Vnto the Hysope, all that ever grew.

The eie and heart, doe shew that Princes must,
In weightiest matters, and affaires of state,
Not vnto others over rashly trust,
Least with repentance they incurre their hate,
But with sound iudgment, and vnpartiall eie,
Discerne themselues twixt wrong and equitie.