If then the fervent Love, the Vision clear, 1540 Of primal Virtue do dispose and seal, Perfection absolute is there acquired. Thus was of old the earth created worthy Of all and every animal perfection; And thus the Virgin was impregnate made; So that thine own opinion I commend, That human nature never yet has been, Nor will be, what it was in those two persons. Now if no farther forth I should proceed, ‘Then in what way was he without a peer?’ 1541 Would be the first beginning of thy words. But, that may well appear what now appears not, Think who he was, and what occasion moved him To make request, when it was told him, ‘Ask.’ 1542 I’ve not so spoken that thou canst not see Clearly he was a king who asked for wisdom, That he might be sufficiently a king; ’Twas not to know the number in which are The motors here above, or if necesse