Book III, 3: On a Picture

Some Pictures, with a fore-right eye, if seene,
Present unto the view some beauteous Queene;
But step aside, and it objects the shape;
On this side, of an Owle; on that, an Ape:
Looke full upon the world, It proves the Story,
And beauteous Picture of th' Almighties Glory;
But if thy change of posture lead thy sight
From the full view, to th' left hand, or the right,
It offers to thine eye, but painted Toyes,
Poore antick Pleasures, and deceitfull Ioyes.