The Sheaf
The Sheaf: ploughs, corn and full barns.
[p. 65] When with her Tenth Degree, the Sheaf appears,Shews her full Corn, and shakes her loaden Ears:The Fields may fear, for those that shall be bornShall Plough the Ground, and be intent on Corn:They'll trust their Seed to Clods, whose large produceShall yield the Sum, and give increase by Use.Build Barns for Grain, for Nature those contrives,And in the Ear it self a Pattern, gives;In that the Corn lies safe, her Laws ordainA proper different Cell for every Grain:How blest the World, had this been only known,Had Gold lain hid, and Corn been born alone!Then Men were rich, when they could Want suffice,And knew no Baits for Lust, and Avarice.Yet had they still employ'd their Cares on CornAlone, those Arts would have been slowly born,Which make Grain useful, and for Common goodGrind, Mould, and Bake, and work it up to Food.
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The text is Thomas Creech's 1697 verse translation, checked word by word between three scans of the same type (the 1697 printing, the 1700 printing and a third copy). The long s is printed as s; every other spelling is Creech's. Pages are cited as the 1697 printing numbers them. The portrait is William Marshall’s engraving of Lilly from the front of the 1659 printing (Wellcome Library, public domain).