[BNP/E3, 49A2 – 56v]

|Action’s extent in the will’s[1] cause with sense

Is subtly a circumference of action,

Where at no point known action doth commence

Now to the soul’s centre has it but attraction.|

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Lack thou, askance at the warm, hasty sense

Of sayings, such as, that we living learn,

For we learn but by fighting, and the tense

That {…} has in us changes

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For what it is to learn impurity

But to forget the purity |we had|?

Wise in lies forgot aside alone[2] he

Who finding, leaves not, more good and land.

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Expression |sweetest| {…} should consist

In the perfect expansion of desire (wildhood)

To greater goodness, alter to assist

Aging to manhood, not too grey[3] childhood.

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When thou felst keenness, we then

     Look then therefore that gaining 

     It be not but a less that thou dost gain.

That new thing in thee is not but a loss.

 
[1] will’s /mind’s\
[2] alone /only\
[3] grey /grey haired\