Plain-path'd Experience, th'unlearned's guide, <br />Her simple followers evidently shows <br />Sometimes what Schoolmen scarcely can decide, <br />Nor yet wise Reason absolutely knows. <br />In making trial of a murther wrought, <br />If the vile actors of the heinous deed <br />Near the dead body happily be brought, <br />Oft it hath been prov'd the breathless corse will bleed. <br />She's coming near, that my poor heart hath slain, <br />Long since departed, to the world no more, <br />The ancient wounds no longer can contain, <br />But fall to bleeding as they did before. <br />But what of this? Should she to death be led, <br />It furthers justice, but helps not the dead.<br /><br />Michael Drayton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sonnet-xlvi-plain-path-d-experience/
