659686As prai
ses of who
se ta
ste the wi
se are found
660687La
sciuious meeters, to who
se venome
sound
661688The open eare of youth doth aIwayes li
sten,
662689Report of fa
shions in proude Italie,
663690Who
se maners
still our tardy api
sh nation
664691Limps after in ba
se imitation:
665692Where doth the world thru
st forth a vanitie,
666693So it be new, theres no re
spe
ct how vile,
667694That is not quickly buzde into his eares
? 668695Then all too late comes Coun
sell to be heard,
669696Where will doth mutiny with wits regard
: 670697Dire
ct not him who
se way him
selfe wil chu
se,
671698Tis breath thou lack
st and that breath wilt thou loo
se.
672699Gaunt Me thinkes I am a prophet new in
spirde,
673700And thus expiring do foretell of him,
674701His ra
sh fierce blaze of ryot cannot la
st:
675702For violent
fires
soone burne out them
selues
. 676703Small
shoures la
st long, but
sodaine
stormes are
short
: 677704He tires betimes that
spurs too fa
st betimes
678705With eagre feeding foode doth choke the feeder,
679706Light vanitie in
satiate cormorant,
680707Con
suming meanes
soone praies vpon it
selfe
: 681708This royall throne of Kings, this
sceptred Ile,
682709This earth of maie
stie, this
seate of Mars,
683710This other Eden, demy Paradice,
684711This fortre
sse built by Nature for her
selfe,
685712Again
st infe
ction and the hand of warre,
686713This happy breede of men, this little world,
687714This precious
stone
set in the
siluer
sea,
688715Which
serues it in the of
fice of a wall,
689716Or as moate defen
siue to a hou
se,
690717Again
st the enuie of
le
sse happier lands.
691718This ble
ssed plot, this earth, this realme, this England,
692719This nur
se, this teeming wombe of royall Kings,
693720Feard by their breed, and famous by theyr byrth,
694721Renowned for theyr deedes as far from home,
695722For chri
stian
seruice, and true chiualry,