Some manifest, some secret, troops come at all hours.
God granteth them celebrity within their spheres,
That they may witness bear against their own compeers.75
Then, both are elevated on a gallows high,
As warning unto others who for honours sigh.
They both were covetous of homage and applause;
And both received due punishment through God’s just laws.
Thou, man, perchance, the idol of some crowd mayst be.
For God’s sake, then, beware thou transgress not as he.
And setting up thyself against a better man,