<p>By viewing this fixt-Head, enwreath'd with Bayes,<lb/> (And, what the Motto round about it sayes)<lb/> Your Apprehension's eye, may partly see<lb/> What constant Vertues, in true Knowledge be.<lb/> For, if right plac'd it be, it ever will<lb/> Continue in the same condition, still:<lb/> And, though it make mens manners to be chang'd;<lb/> Yet, never is it, from it selfe, estrang'd:<lb/> Nor doth, nor can it, cease to be a Friend,<lb/> What Fate soever, shall on us attend.<lb/> When Wealth is lost, or faileth to besteed us;<lb/> Shee findes out honest meanes to cloath and feede us.<lb/> In farre, and forraigne Lands, shee will become,<lb/> As kinde, and as familiar, as at home;<lb/> And, travelleth, without the costly cumber,<lb/> Of Carriages, or Clokebagges full of Lumber.<lb/> No Place can from our presence, her enclose;<lb/> Nor is she frighted from us by our Foes.<lb/> No Pickthankes, of her Favours, can bereave us;<lb/> No Promises, can woo her to deceive us.<lb/> In Youth, in Age, in Sickenesse, and in Griefe,<lb/> Shee bringeth Consolation and reliefe:<lb/> And, is in all estates, a blessing to us,<lb/> So constant (and so apt, all helpes to doe us)<lb/> That, he for whom, such Knowledge, God provideth,<lb/> Enjoyes a Friend, that alwaies firme abideth.<lb/> Lord, I am friendlesse left; therefore, to me,<lb/> This Knowledge, and this Friend, vouchsafe to bee:<lb/> For, thou that Wisdome art, (from heav'n descending)<lb/> Which, neither hath beginning, change, nor ending.<lb/> </p>

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<p>True Knowledge is a constant Friend,<lb/> Whose Friendship, never shall have end.</p>

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