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So youth bee easiest to destruction If then wee follow all, or follow none. Yet as in great clocks, which in steeples chyme, Placd to informe whole Townes to imploy their tyme. An Errour doth more harme being generall, When small clocks faltes, only on the wearer fall. So worke the faults or age, on which the Eie Of chyldren, Seruants or the State relie. Why wouldst not thou then, which hadst such a Soule, A clock soe true, as might the Sun controwle, And daly hadst from him, who gaue itt thee, Instruction, such as it could never bee, Disordered stay, here as a Generall And great Sundiall to haue tell vs all? O why wouldst thou bee any Instrument To this Vnnaturall course, or why consent To this not Miracle, butt Prodigie, That where the Ebbs, longer then flowings bee Virtue whose flud did with thy youth begin Should so mvch faster Ebb out, then, flowe in? Though her flood were blowne in by thy first breath, All is att once sunck, in the Whirlepoole Death. Which now I would not name, not that I see Death els a Desart, is a Court by thee. Now I growe sure that if a man would haue Good companye, his entry is a Graue; Me thinks all Cyties now but Ant hills bee Where when the seuerall labourers I see For Chyldren, howse, prouision takyng paine They are all but Ants, carying eggs, strawe or graine. |
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