But if that any Oedipus unware Shall chaunce, through power of some divining spright, To reade the secrete of this riddle rare, And know the purporte of my evill plight, Let him rest pleased with his owne insight, Ne further seeke to glose upon the text: For griefe enough it is to grieved wight To feele his fault, and not be further vext.

"Not the like Discourser, for Tongue and head: to be fóund out; Not the like resolute Man, for great and serious áffayres; Not the like Lynx, to spie out secretes and priuities óf States; Eyed like to Argus, Earde like to Mídas, Nosd like to Naso, Wingd like to Mercury, fitist of a Thousand for to be émployed.

It is apparently not the ductless glands alone that furnish internal secretions; the glands that are provided with ducts and yield a definite and observable product secrete also a substance (perhaps more than one) which they give up to the blood.