“We seek to know the moving of each sphere,
And the strange cause of th' ebbs and floods of Nile;
But of that clock within our breasts we bear,
The subtle motions we forget the while.”

Stanza 24.
Nosce Teipsum (1599)

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English poet, lawyer, and politician, born 1569 1569–1626

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