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<DIV1 TYPE="ballad">
<PB N="116" REF="1" MS="y"><!-- PDF PAGE 20 -->
<HEAD>A Friends aduice: In an excellent Ditty, concerning the variable changes in this World.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To a plea&s;ant new tune&punc;</OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>VVHat if a day or a month, or a yeare,</L>
<L>crown thy de&s;ires with a thou&s;a~d wi&s;ht co~ten|tings</L>
<L>Cannot the chance of a night or an houre,</L>
<L>Cro&s;&s;e thy delights with as many &s;ad tormentings;</L>
<L>Fortunes in their faire&s;t birth,</L>
<L>Are but blo&s;&s;oms dying,</L>
<L>Wanton plea&s;ures, doting mirth,</L>
<L>Are but &s;hadowes flying:</L>
<L>All your toyes are but toyes,</L>
<L>Iole thoughts deceiuing;</L>
<L>None hath power of an houre,</L>
<L>In our liues bereauing.</L>
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<LG>
<L>What if a &s;mile, or a becke, or a looke,</L>
<L>F&eacute;ed thy fond thoughts with many a &s;weet co~ceiuing</L>
<L>May not that &s;mile, or that beck or that looke,</L>
<L>Tell th&eacute;e as well they are but vain deceiuings;</L>
<L>Why &s;hould beauty be &s;o proud,</L>
<L>In things of no &s;urmounting;</L>
<L>All her wealth is but &s;hroud,</L>
<L>Of a rich accounting:</L>
<L>Then in this repo&s;e no bli&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Which is &s;o vaine and idle:</L>
<L>Beauties flowers haue their houres</L>
<L>Time doth hold the bridle.</L>
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<LG>
<L>What if the world with a&s;&s;ures of her wealth,</L>
<L>Rai&s;e thy degr&eacute;e to a place of high aduancing;</L>
<L>May not the World by a check of that wealth,</L>
<L>Put thee again so as low de&s;pi&s;ed chancing;</L>
<L>Whil&s;t the Sunne of wealth doth &s;hine,</L>
<L>Thou &s;halt haue friends plenty:</L>
<L>But come waitt, then they repine,</L>
<L>Not one abides of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">enty:</L>
<L>Wealth and Friends holds and ends,</L>
<L>As your fortunes ri&s;e and fall,</L>
<L>Vp and downe, ri&s;e and frowne,</L>
<L>Certaine is no &s;tate at all,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What if a grief, or a &s;traine, or a fit,</L>
<L>Pinch thee with pain, or the feeling pangs of &s;icknes</L>
<L>Doth not that gripe, or that &s;traine, or that fit,</L>
<L>Shew th&eacute;e the form of thine own crue perfect l&iacute;knes</L>
<L>Health is but a glimp&s;e of ioy,</L>
<L>Subiect to all changes:</L>
<L>Mirth is but a &s;illy <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">oy,</L>
<L>Which mi&s;hap e&s;tranges.</L>
<L>Tell me than, &s;illy Man,</L>
<L>Why art thou &s;o weak of wit,</L>
<L>As to be in teopardy,</L>
<L>When thou maye&s;t in quiet &s;it;</L>
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<LG>
<L>Then if all this haue deelar'd thine ami&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>Take this from me for a gentle friendly warning,</L>
<L>If thou refu&s;e, and good coun&s;ell abu&s;e,</L>
<L>Thou mai&s;t hereafter dearely buy thy learning:</L>
<L>All is hazard that we haue.</L>
<L>There is nothing bideing,</L>
<L>Dayes of plea&s;ure are like &s;treams,</L>
<L>Through faire Medows gliding,</L>
<L>Wealth or woe, time doth goe,</L>
<L>There is no returning,</L>
<L>Secret Faces guide our &s;tates,</L>
<L>Both in mirth and m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 word"></L>
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<DIV2 N="2" TYPE="part">
<PB N="117" REF="1" MS="y"><!-- PDF PAGE 20 -->
<HEAD>The Second Part.</HEAD>
<OPENER>To the &s;ame tune.</OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>MAn's but a bla&s;t, or a &s;moake, or a clowd,</L>
<L>D<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="3 letters">t in athought, or a moment is di&s;per&s;ed:</L>
<L>Life's but a &s;pan, or a tale, or a word,</L>
<L>That in a trice, or &s;uddaine is rehear&s;ed:</L>
<L>Hopes are chang'd, and thoughts are cro&s;t,</L>
<L>Will nor skill preuaileth,</L>
<L>Though we laugh and liue at ea&s;e,</L>
<L>Change of thoughts a&s;&s;ayleth,</L>
<L>Though a while Fortune &s;mile,</L>
<L>And her comforts crowneth,</L>
<L>Yet at length faile her &s;trength:</L>
<L>And in fine &s;he frowneth.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus are the ioyes of a yeare in an hower,</L>
<L>And of a month, in a moment quite expired.</L>
<L>And in the night with the word of a noy&s;e,</L>
<L>Cro&s;t by the day, of an ea&s;e your hearts de&s;ired:</L>
<L>Faire&s;t blo&s;&s;oms &s;oone&s;t fade,</L>
<L>Withered foule and rotten&punc;</L>
<L>And throvgh grief our greate&s;t ioyes</L>
<L>Quickly are forgotten:</L>
<L>Seeke not then (mortall men)</L>
<L>Earthly fleeting plea&s;ure</L>
<L>But with paine &s;triue to gaine</L>
<L>Heauenly la&s;ting trea&s;ure,</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Earth to the World, as a Man the Earth;</L>
<L>Hath but a point, and a point &s;oon defaced:</L>
<L>Fle&s;h to the Soule, as a Flower to the Sun,</L>
<L>That in a &s;torme or a tempe&s;t is di&s;graced:</L>
<L>Fortime may the Body-plea&s;e,</L>
<L>Which is onely carnall,</L>
<L>But it will the Soul<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> di&s;ea&s;es</L>
<L>That is &s;till immortall,</L>
<L>Earthly ioyes are but <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">oyes,</L>
<L>To the Soules election,</L>
<L>Worldly grace doth defate</L>
<L>Mans diuine perfection&punc;</L>
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<LG>
<L>Fle&s;hly delights to the earth that is fle&s;h,</L>
<L>May be the cau&s;e of a thou&s;and &s;weet <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">oa<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter">tings,</L>
<L>But th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"> defaults of a fle&s;hly de&s;ire</L>
<L>Brings to the &s;oule many thou&s;and &s;ad tormentings,</L>
<L>Be not proud pre&s;umptious Man,</L>
<L>Sith thou art a point &s;o va&s;e,</L>
<L>Of the lea&s;t, and lowe&s;t Element,</L>
<L>Which hath lea&s;t and lowe&s;t place:</L>
<L>Marke thy fate, and thy &s;tate.</L>
<L>Which is onely earth and du&s;t,</L>
<L>And as gra&s;&s;e, which ala&s;&s;e</L>
<L>Shortly &s;urely peri&s;h mu&s;t.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Let not the hopes of an earthly de&s;ire,</L>
<L>Bar thee the ioyes of an endle&s;&s;e contentation,</L>
<L>Nor let not thy eye on the world be &s;o &s;ix<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="pdcc" EXTENT="1 letter"></L>
<L>To hinder thy heart from unfained recantation,</L>
<L>Be not backward in that cour&s;e,</L>
<L>That may bring the Soule delight,</L>
<L>Though another way may &s;eem</L>
<L>Far more plea&s;ant to thy &s;ight:</L>
<L>Do not goe, if he &s;ayes no,</L>
<L>That knowes the &s;ecrets of they minde,</L>
<L>Follow this, thou &s;halt not mi&s;&s;e</L>
<L>And endle&s;&s;e happine&s;&s;e to finde,</L>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P><HI>Printed by the A&s;&s;ignes of Thomas Symcock</HI></P>
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