Classic Poem

Once more for a Farewell

In deserued praise of this neuer too.

much praysed Worke.

Good Wine doth need no Bush: (Lord! who can tell
How oft this old-said-Saw hath prais'd new Bookes?)
But yet good Water (drawne from Founts and Brookes)
By Sluce (the Signe) makes dry Groundes drinke it well.

Men may haue store of Water, and dry Land;
Yet, if they draw it not through Trenches fitt,
(By Sluce, that shewes how (well) to vtter it)
It idely runnes, while scarce the Owners stand.

Good Water, then by Sluce, through Trench must passe
For good returne; that else runnes to no end;
Which Signe doth draw it in, it selfe to spend
On dryest Grounds, that (drunken) cast vp Grasse;
Which giddy Simily, in sober Sence.
Shewes the Effect of this Workes excellence.
Iohn Dauies