"Yet sometimes riches is geuen by some chance
To such as of good haue greatest aboundaunce.
Likewise as streames unto the sea do glide.
But on bare hills no water will abide.
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So smallest persons haue small rewarde alway
But men of worship set in authoritie
Must haue rewardes great after their degree."—Eclogue I.
"And so such thinges which princes to thee geue
To thee be as sure as water in a siue