The wise do say and know.
Our lives, then, let us mend with speed,
Or we shall suerly rue
The end of everie hainous deede,
In life that shall insue.
Finis. Ign.
FOOTNOTES:
[677] In the Introduction I have expressed my opinion that this ballad is a forgery.
[678] We are to suppose an allusion to Robert Greene.
[679] The anagram of Marlowe.