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I know my soul hath power to know all things
Yet she is blind and ignorant in all:
I know I'm one of natures little kings
Yet to the least and vilest things am thrall.

I know my life's a pain and but a span;
I know my sense is mocked in everything;
And, to conclude, I know myself a man --
Which is a proud, and yet a wretched thing.

-- John Davies