135939Times glorie is to calme contending Kings,

940To vnmaske falshood, and bring truth to light,

941To stampe the seale of time in aged things,

942To wake the morne, and Centinell the night,

943To wrong the wronger till he render right,

944 To ruinate proud buildings with thy howres,

945 And smeare with dust their glitring golden towrs.

136946To fill with worme-holes stately monuments,

947To feede obliuion with decay of things,

948To blot old bookes, and alter their contents,

949To plucke the quils from auncient rauens wings,

950To drie the old oakes sappe, and cherish springs:

951 To spoile Antiquities of hammerd steele,

952 And turne the giddy round of Fortunes wheele.

137953To shew the beldame daughters of her daughter,

954To make the child a man, the man a childe,

955To slay the tygre that doth liue by slaughter,

956To tame the Vnicorne, and Lion wild,

957To mocke the subtle in themselues beguild,

958 To cheare the Plowman with increasefull crops,

959 And wast huge stones with little water drops.