| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of King James the First. 1847. | | | | The World | | LXXVII. Richard Zouche |
| | | TO our small Isle of Man some will compare | |
| The world, that greater continent’s hugh frame; | |
| Nor much vnlike, eyther’s perfections are— | |
| Their matter and their mixture both the same: | |
| Whence man’s affection it so much allures, | 5 |
| Sith greatest likenesse greatest love procures. | |
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| But if their outward formes we looke vpon, | |
| Wee shall their figures divers plainly see; | |
| For man’s erected tall proportion | |
| To his heav’n-hoping soule doth best agree: | 10 |
| Whereas the world, each way being framed round, | |
| The aptest forme for turning change hath found. | |
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| Like Nature’s rarist workmanship, the eye, | |
| The well-contrived instrument of seeing, | |
| Which, by exact and apt rotunditie, | 15 |
| Performes his duty, and preserves his beeing; | |
| Of many curious circling spheres composed, | |
| And orbs within the orbs without inclosed. | | | | |
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