141981Let him haue time to teare his curled haire,

982Let him haue time against himselfe to raue,

983Let him haue time of times helpe to dispaire,

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 Disdaine to him disdained scraps to giue.

142988Let him haue time to see his friends his foes,

989And merrie fooles to mocke at him resort:

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'abusing of his time.

143995O time thou tutor both to good and bad,

996Teach me to curse him that thou taught'st this ill:

997At his owne shadow let the theefe runne mad,

998Himselfe, himselfe seeke euerie howre to kill,

999Such wretched hāds such wretched blood shuld spill.

1000 For who so base would such an office haue,

1001 As sclandrous deaths-man to so base a slaue.

1441002The baser 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 greatest scandall waits on greatest state.

1007 The Moone being clouded, presently is mist,

1008 But little stars may hide them when they list.

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 desire,

1012The staine vppon his siluer Downe will stay.

1013Poore grooms are sightles night, kings glorious day,

1014 Gnats are vnnoted wheresoere they flie,

1015 But Eagles gaz'd vppon with euerie eye.