And, seldome struggle from them, till I see,

That, smother-fortunes will securer be.

What spight soere my Foes, to me, can doe,

I laugh thereat, within an houre or two;

For, though the World, and I, at first, believe,

My Suffrings, give me cause enough to grieve;

Yet, afterward, I finde (the more to glad me)

That, better Fortunes, might farre worse have made me.

By some young Devills, though, I scratched am,

Yet, I am hopefull, I shall scape their Dam.