141981981"Let him have time to tear his curlèd hair,
982982Let him have time against himself to rave,
983983Let him have time of Time's help to despair,
984984Let him have time to live a loathèd slave,
985985Let him have time a beggar's orts to crave,
986986And time to see one that by alms doth live
987987Disdain to him disdained scraps to give."
142988988"Let him have time to see his friends his foes,
989989And merry fools to mock at him resort;
990990Let him have time to mark how slow time goes
991991In time of sorrow, and how swift and short
992992His time of folly and his time of sport;
993993And ever let his unrecalling crime
994994Have time to wail th' abusing of his time."
143995995"O Time, thou tutor both to good and bad,
996996Teach me to curse him that thou taught'st this ill.
997997At his own shadow let the thief run mad;
998998Himself, himself seek every hour to kill.
999999Such wretched hands such wretched blood should spill,
10001000For who so base would such an office have
10011001As sland'rous deathsman to so base a slave?"
10031003To shame his hope with deeds degenerate.
10041004The mightier man the mightier is the thing
10051005That makes him honored or begets him hate;
10061006For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.
10071007The moon being clouded presently is missed,
10081008But little stars may hide them when they list."
14510091009"The crow may bathe his coal-black wings in mire
10101010And unperceived fly with the filth away;
10111011But if the like the snow-white swan desire,
10121012The stain upon his sliver down will stay.
10131013Poor grooms are sightless night, kings glorious day;
10141014Gnats are unnoted wheresoe'er they fly,
10151015But eagles gazed upon with every eye."