Proceede as if their Projects were as sure,

As when Sound Reason did their Course maintayne:

And these not much unlike those Children are,

Who through a Storme advent'ring desp'rately,

Had rather on their Heads, a Sive to beare,

Then Cov'rings, that may serve to keepe them drye.

For, at a distance that perchance is thought

A helpfull Shelter; and, yet, proves to those

Who neede the same, a Toy, which profits nought;

Because, each drop of Raine quite through it, goes.