Preferment, like a game at boules,

To feede our hope hath divers play:

Heere quick it runns, there soft it roules,

The betters make and shew the way

On upper ground, so great allies

Doe many cast on their desire;

Some up are thrust and forc'd to rise,

When those are stopt that would aspire.

Some, whose heate and zeal exceed,

Thrive well by rubbs that curb their haste,