Tyme would be vsed when tyme is best;

Tyme to begyn, and tyme for to cease; 20

And when tyme is, [to] put thyselfe in prease,

And when tyme is, to holde thyselfe abacke;

For tyme well spent can neuer haue lacke.

The rotys take theyr sap in tyme of vere;

In tyme of somer flowres fresh and grene;

In tyme of haruest men their corne shere;

In tyme of wynter the north wynde waxeth kene,

So bytterly bytynge the flowres be not sene;