If aught can teach us aught, Affliction's looks,
Making us pry into ourselves so, near,
Teach us to know ourselves, beyond all books,
Or all the learned schools that ever were.
Robert Anderson, Geoffrey Chaucer, Henry Howard Earl of Surrey, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Thomas Sackville Earl of Dorset (1795). “The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces”, p.683
