<p>When Silver Medalls, or some coynes of Gold,<lb/> Are by the Gold-smith either bought or sold,<lb/> Hee doth not only search them with his Eye,<lb/> But, by the Scale, their weight will also trie;<lb/> Or, by the Touchstone, or the Test, assay<lb/> The truenesse of them, and their just Alay.<lb/> Now, by their warinesse, who thus proceed,<lb/> Wee fairely are admonished, to heed<lb/> The faithfulnesse of him wee make our Friend ;<lb/> And, on whose love wee purpose to depend:<lb/> Or else, when wee a Iewell thinke to get,<lb/> Wee may bee cheated by a Counterfet.<lb/> All is not Gold that glisters: Otherwhile,<lb/> The Tincture is so good, it may beguile<lb/> The cunningst eye: But, bring it to the Touch,<lb/> And, then, you find the value not so much.<lb/> Some, keepe the Tincture, brooking, likewise, well<lb/> An ordinarie Touch ; but, yeeld a Smell,<lb/> Which will discover it, if you apply<lb/> Vnto your Nose, that piece of Chymistrie.<lb/> Sometime, when there's enough to give content,<lb/> In Colour, in the Touch, and in the Scent ;<lb/> The Bulke, is more than answers Gold in weight,<lb/> And, proves it a sophisticall deceit.<lb/> Nay, some, is fully that which you desire,<lb/> In all these Properties ; and, till the fire<lb/> Hath made assayes, you'l thinke you might be bold<lb/> To pawne your life, it had been Ophir-gold :<lb/> But, to bee false, the Metall's then descride;<lb/> And, such are many Friends, when they are tride.<lb/> </p>

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A hand from the clouds is pushing a gold coin over a touch-stone to test its purity; in the background scenes from the story of the Flagellation of Christ

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<p>All is not Gold, which makes a show;<lb/> But, what the Touchstone findeth so.</p>

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