1911141It
shall be
fickle, fal
se, and full of fraud,
1142Bud, and be bla
sted, in a breathing while,
1143The bottome poy
son, and the top ore-
strawd
1144With
sweets, that
shall the true
st sight beguile,
1145 The
stronge
st bodie
shall it make mo
st weake,
1146 Strike the wi
se dūbe, & teach the foole to
speake.
1921147It
shall be
sparing, and too full of ryot,
1148Teaching decrepit age to tread the mea
sures,
1149The
staring ru
ffian
shall it keepe in quiet,
1150Pluck down the rich, in rich the poore with trea
sures,
1151 It
shall be raging mad, and
sillie milde,
1152 Make the yoong old, the old become a childe.
1931153It
shall
su
spe
ct where is no cau
se of feare,
1154It
shall not feare where it
should mo
st mi
stru
st,
1155It
shall be mercifull, and too
seueare,
1156And mo
st deceiuing, when it
seemes mo
st iu
st,
1157 Peruer
se it
shall be, where it
showes mo
st toward,
1158 Put feare to valour, courage to the coward.
1941159It
shall be cau
se of warre, and dire euents,
1160And
set di
ssention twixt the
sonne, and
sire,
1161Subie
ct, and
seruill to all di
scontents:
1162As drie combu
stious matter is to
fire,
1163 Sith in his prime, death doth my loue de
stroy,
1164 They that loue be
st, their loues
shall not enioy.
1951165By this the boy that by her
side laie kild,
1166Was melted like a vapour from her
sight,
1167And in his blood that on the ground laie
spild,
1168A purple
floure
sproong vp, checkred with white,
1169 Re
sembling well his pale cheekes, and the blood,
1170 Which in round drops, vpō their whitene
sse
stood.