My name, quod he, is in division;

As tyme was, tyme is, and the tyme future:

I marveyle muche of the presumption

Of the dame Fame so puttyng in ure

Thy great prayse, saiyng it shall endure

For to be infinite evermore in prease,

Seyng that I shall al thy honoure cease.

Shall not I, Tyme, destroye both sea and lande?

The sunne and mone, and the starres all,

By very reason thou shalt understande,