And, as if on a streame I fixe mine eye,

That drop, which I looked on, is presently

Pusht with more waters from my sight, and gone,

50So in this sea of vertues, can no one

Bee'insisted on; vertues, as rivers, passe,

Yet still remaines that vertuous man there was.

And as if man feed on mans flesh, and so

Part of his body to another owe,

55Yet at the last two perfect bodies rise,