Firste tillage and weuinge and eloquent speache,
Or windes to obserue, the seas to saile ouer,
They were called goddes for their good indeuour.
Then were men more thankefull in that golden age:
This yron wolde nowe vngratefull in rage,
Wyll yelde the thy reward for trauaile and paine,
With sclaunderous reproch, and spitefull disdaine.
Yet thoughe other men vnthankfull will be,
Suruayers haue cause to make muche of me.
And so haue all Lordes, that landes do possesse: