By day or night, I seldome sate alone;

And, welcome seemed, wheresoere I came.

But, where are now those multitudes of Friends?

Alas! they on a sudden flasht away.

Their love begun, but, for some sensuall ends,

Which fayling them, it would no longer stay.

If I to vaine expences, would have mov'd them,

They, nor their paines, nor purses, would have spared;

But, in a reall need, if I had prov'd them,

Small showes of kindnesse, had bin then declared.