who doth them well marke,
Are made by good Geometrye. And so in the warke
Of Tailers and Shoomakers, in all shapes and fashion,
The woorke is not praised, if it wante proportion.
So weauers by Geometrye hade their foundacion,
Their Loome is a frame of straunge imaginacion.
The wheele that doth spinne, the stone that doth grind,
The Myll that is driuen by water or winde,
Are workes of Geometrye straunge in their trade,
Fewe could them deuise, if they were vnmade.
And all that is wrought by waight or by measure,
without proofe of Geometry can neuer be sure.
Clockes that be made the times to deuide,
The wittiest inuencion that euer was spied,
Nowe that they are common they are not regarded,
The artes man contemned, the woorke vnrewarded.
But if they were scarse, and one for a shewe,
Made by Geometrye, then shoulde men know,
That neuer was arte so wonderfull witty,
So needefull to man, as is good Geometry.
The firste findinge out of euery good arte,
Seemed then vnto men so godly a parte,
That no recompence might satisfye the finder,
But to make him a god, and honoure him for euer.
So Ceres and Pallas, and Mercury also,
Eolus and Neptune, and many other mo,
Were honoured as goddes, bicause they did teache,
Firste tillage and weuinge and eloquent speache,
Or windes to obserue, the seas to saile ouer,
They were called goddes for their good indeuour.
Then were men more thankefull in that golden age:
This yron wolde nowe vngratefull in rage,
Wyll yelde the thy reward for trauaile and paine,
With sclaunderous reproch, and spitefull disdaine.
Yet thoughe other men vnthankfull will be,
Suruayers haue cause to make muche of me.
And so haue all Lordes, that landes do possesse:
But Tennaunted I feare will like me the lesse.
Yet do I not wrong but measure all truely,
All yelde the full right of euerye man iustely.
Proportion Geometricall hath no man opprest,
Yf anye bee wronged, I wishe it redrest.

But now to procede with learned professions, in Logike and
Rhetorike and all partes of phylosophy, there neadeth none other
proofe then Aristotle his testimony, whiche without Geometry
proueth almost nothinge. In Logike all his good syllogismes and
demonstrations, hee declareth by the principles of Geometrye. In
philosophye, nether motion, nor time, nor ayrye impressions
could hee aptely declare, but by the