FOOTNOTES:
[614] liv 8 champain 1611
[615] ii 3 feeble] sable 1609: corr. Hughes
[616] iv 5 euery 1609
[617] vii 8 they] they 1609
[618] viii 3 as] ar 1609
[619] 9 showe 1611
[620] ix 1 hard] heard 1609: corr. 1611
[621] 7 kindes] kinde Morris after Upton
[622] x 4 mores] more Hughes &c.
[623] 7 which om. Hughes &c.
[624] xii 1 neuer 1609
[625] 5 Pelene 1609: corr. 1611
[626] xiv 9 to’each 1609: corr. 1611
[627] xv 8 esteeeme 1609
[628] xvi 3 thy] my 1611
[629] xl i full bis 1609
[630] xli 7 Iæan 1609, 1611: corr. Upton
[631] xlix 8 if] If 1609
[632] lv 7 saine] faine 1611
The VIII. Canto, vnperfite.
When I bethinke me on that speech whyleare, i
Of Mutability, and well it way:
Me seemes, that though she all vnworthy were
Of the Heav’ns Rule; yet very sooth to say,
In all things else she beares the greatest sway.
Which makes me loath this state of life so tickle,
And loue of things so vaine to cast away;
Whose flowring pride, so fading and so fickle,
Short Time shall soon cut down with his consuming sickle.
Then gin I thinke on that which Nature sayd, ii
Of that same time when no more Change shall be,
But stedfast rest of all things firmely stayd
Vpon the pillours of Eternity,
That is contrayr to Mutabilitie:
For, all that moueth, doth in Change delight:
But thence-forth all shall rest eternally
With Him that is the God of Sabbaoth[633] hight:
O that great Sabbaoth God[634], graunt me that Sabaoths sight.