Yet are the trunkes which doe to us derive

Things, in proportion fit, by perspective,

Deeds of good men; for by their living here,

40Vertues, indeed remote, seeme to be neare.

But where can I affirme, or where arrest

My thoughts on his deeds? which shall I call best?

For fluid vertue cannot be look'd on,

Nor can endure a contemplation.

45As bodies change, and as I do not weare

Those Spirits, humors, blood I did last yeare,