A Great While Ago The World Begun,

You Had Measured How Long A Fool You Were Upon The Ground.

A Virtuous And A Christianlike Conclusion-- To Pray For Them That Have Done Scathe To Us.

But As The Unthought-on Accident Is Guilty To What We Wildly Do, So We Profess Ourselves To Be The Slaves Of Chance, And Flies Of Every Wind That Blows.

One Fairer Than My Love? The All-seeing Sun Ne'er Saw Her Match Since First The World Begun.

But 'tis Common Proof, That Lowliness Is Young Ambition's Ladder, Whereto The Climber-upward Turns His Face; But When He Once Attains The Upmost Round, He Then Turns His Back, Looks In The Clouds, Scorning The Vase Defrees By Which He Did Ascend.