For, thus friends absent speake. This ease controules

The tediousnesse of my life: But for these

I could ideate nothing, which could please,

5But I should wither in one day, and passe

To'a bottle'of Hay, that am a locke of Grasse.

Life is a voyage, and in our lifes wayes

Countries, Courts, Towns are Rockes, or Remoraes;

They breake or stop all ships, yet our state's such,

10That though then pitch they staine worse, wee must touch.

If in the furnace of the even line,