141981Let him haue time to teare his curled haire,
982Let him haue time again
st him
selfe to raue,
983Let him haue time of times helpe to di
spaire,
984Let him haue time to liue a lothed
slaue,
985Let him haue time a beggers orts to craue,
986 And time to
see one that by almes doth liue,
987 Di
sdaine to him di
sdained
scraps to giue.
142988Let him haue time to
see his friends his foes,
989And merrie fooles to mocke at him re
sort:
990Let him haue time to marke how
slow time goes
991In time of
sorrow, and how
swift and
short
992His time of follie, and his time of
sport.
993 And euer let his vnrecalling crime
994 Haue time to waile th'abu
sing of
his time.
143995O time thou tutor both to good and bad,
996Teach me to cur
se him that thou taught'
st this ill:
997At his owne
shadow let the theefe runne mad,
998Him
selfe, him
selfe
seeke euerie howre to kill,
999Such wretched hāds
such wretched blood
shuld
spill.
1000 For who
so ba
se would
such an o
ffice haue,
1001 As
sclandrous deaths-man to
so ba
se a
slaue.
1441002The ba
ser is he comming from a King,
1003To
shame his hope with deedes degenerate,
1004The mightier man the mightier is the thing
1005That makes him honord, or begets him hate:
1006For greate
st scandall waits on greate
st state.
1007 The Moone being clouded, pre
sently is mi
st,
1008 But little
stars may hide them when they li
st.
1451009The Crow may bath his coaleblacke wings in mire,
1010And vnperceau'd
flie with the
filth away,
1011But if the like the
snow-white Swan de
sire,
1012The
staine vppon his
siluer Downe will
stay.
1013Poore grooms are
sightles night, kings glorious day,
1014 Gnats are vnnoted where
soere they
flie,
1015 But Eagles gaz'd vppon with euerie eye.