“I know my soul hath power to know all things,
Yet is she blind and ignorant of all;
I know I am one of nature's little kings,
Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall.”

— John Davies (poet)

Stanza 44.
Nosce Teipsum (1599)

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

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