lodestar

Tho when her ways he could no more descry,

But to and fro at disaventure strayd;

Like as a ship, whose lodestarre, suddenly

Covered with cloudes, her pilot hath dismayd

Selfe loue, to him ſelf tender, to the reſt tough, / Is, of iuſt iuſtice, neither roote, braunce, nor bough. / Loue (namely ſelfe loue) corruptibly growyng, / Is cheefe lodeſter of lets, in iuſtice ſhowing.

Many, though not all, of the objections to lodestars seem to us to be overstated.