To whose proportions if we would compare

Cubes, th'are unstable; Circles, Angular;

She who was such a chaine as Fate employes

To bring mankinde all Fortunes it enjoyes;

145So fast, so even wrought, as one would thinke,

No Accident could threaten any linke;

Shee, shee embrac'd a sicknesse, gave it meat,

The purest blood, and breath, that e'r it eate;

And hath taught us, that though a good man hath

150Title to heaven, and plead it by his Faith,