Of both their understandings till this houre.
There is a deepe nicke in Times restlesse wheele
For each mans good, when which nicke comes, it strikes;135
As rhetorick yet workes not perswasion,
But only is a meane to make it worke:
So no man riseth by his reall merit,
But when it cries "clincke" in his raisers spirit.
Many will say, that cannot rise at all,140
Mans first houres rise is first step to his fall.
I'le venture that; men that fall low must die,