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Who dazzling so, that eye shall be his heed,
And give him light that it was blinded by.
Study is like the heaven’s glorious sun,
That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks. [85]
Small have continual plodders ever won,
Save base authority from others’ books.
These earthly godfathers of heaven’s lights,
That give a name to every fixèd star,
Have no more profit of their shining nights [90]
Than those that walk and wot not what they are.
Too much to know is to know naught but fame,
And every godfather can give a name.
KING
How well he’s read, to reason against reading.
DUMAINE
Proceeded well, to stop all good proceeding. [95]
LONGAVILLE
He weeds the corn, and still lets grow the weeding.
BEROWNE
The spring is near when green geese are a-breeding.
DUMAINE
How follows that?
BEROWNE
Fit in his place and time.
DUMAINE
In reason nothing.
BEROWNE
Something then in rhyme.
KING
Berowne is like an envious sneaping frost [100]
That bites the first-born infants of the spring.
