The noone tide, and the twilight of your Time,

In childish play-games, or meere worldly things;

As if you could, at pleasure, clip Times wings,

Or turne his Glasse, or, had a Life, or twaine

To live, when you had fool'd out this in vaine.

Short is the present; lost Times-passed bee;

And, Time to come, wee may not live to see.


The Garland, He alone shall weare,
Who, to the Goale, doth persevere.