For can their carefull ghosts from Limbo take

Return, or listen from the bowed skie

To heare how well their learned lines do take?

Or if they could; is Heavens felicitie

So small as by mans praise to be encreas’d,

Hells pain no greater then hence to be eas’d?

Therefore once dead in vain shall I transmit

My shadow to gazing Posteritie;

Cast farre behind me I shall never see’t,

On Heavens fair Sunne having fast fixt mine eye.