10A seldome comet is, but active good
A miracle, which reason scapes, and sense;
For, Art and Nature this in them withstood.
As such a starre, the Magi led to view
The manger-cradled infant, God below:
15By vertues beames by fame deriv'd from you,
May apt soules, and the worst may, vertue know.
If the worlds age, and death be argued well
By the Sunnes fall, which now towards earth doth bend,
Then we might feare that vertue, since she fell