All trying by a love of littlenesse

20To make abridgments, and to draw to lesse,

Even that nothing, which at first we were;

Since in these times, your greatnesse doth appeare,

And that we learne by it, that man to get

Towards him that's infinite, must first be great.

25Since in an age so ill, as none is fit

So much as to accuse, much lesse mend it,

(For who can judge, or witnesse of those times

Where all alike are guiltie of the crimes?)