Seest not, how badly all things present bee,
And each estate quite out of order goth?
The sea it selfe doest thou not plainely see
Encroch vppon the land there vnder thee;
And th’earth it selfe how daily its increast,
By all that dying to it turned be?[263]
Were it not good that wrong were then surceast,
And from the most, that some were giuen to the least?
Therefore I will throw downe these[264] mountaines hie, xxxviii
And make them leuell with the lowly plaine: