Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,

Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.

XLI

The knight much wondred at his suddeine wit,[°]

And said, The terme of life is limited,

Ne may a man prolong, nor shorten it;

The souldier may not move from watchfull sted,

Nor leave his stand, untill his Captaine bed.

Who life did limit by almightie doome