English Dictionary

Court, city, church are all shops of smallwares;

All having blown to sparks their noble fire,

And drawn their sound gold ingot into wire;

All trying by a love of littleness

To make abridgments, and to draw to less

Court, city, church are all shops of smallwares; All having blown to sparks their noble fire, And drawn their sound gold ingot into wire; All trying by a love of littleness To make abridgments, and to draw to less Even that nothing which at first we were;