The Secrets of /lugliug. 27 



HOOKES. 



'I 'hen buy your Hookes the finest and the best 



That may be had of such as vse to sell, 



And from the greatest to the very least 



Of euery sort picke out and chuse them well, 



Such as in shape and making passe the rest, 



And doe for strength and soundnesse most excel! : 

 Then in a little Boxe of dryest wood 

 From rust and canker keepe them faire and goud. 



That Hooke 1 loue that is in compasse round, 



Like to the print that Pegasus did make, 



With horned hoofe vpon Thessalia?i ground ; 



From whence fortliwith FernassHS spring out brake, 



That doth in pleasant Waters so abound : 



And of the Muses oft the thirst doth slake ; 



Who on his fruiifull bankes doe sit and sing. 

 That all the world of their swee[t] tunes doth rini 



Or as T/iauinaniis, when she list to shrowd 

 Herselfe against the parching sunny ray, 

 Vnder the mantle of some stormy cloud, 

 Where she her sundry colours doth display 

 T,ike lunoes bird, of her faire garments proud, 

 That Phmhus gaue her on her marriage day: 



Shewes forth her goodly Circle farre and wide 

 To mortall wights that wonder at her pride. 



His Shank should neither be too short nor long. 

 His point not ouersharpe, nor yet too dull : 

 The substance good that may indure from wrong ; 

 His Needle slender, yet both round and full, 

 Made of the right Iberian mettell strong, 

 That will not stretch nor breake at euery pull. 



Wrought smooth and cleane withouten crack or knot 

 And bearded like the wilde Arabian goat. 



