In the same houre the worlde was create,

Originally I toke myne estate.

Coulde the nyne worthies so victorious,

Do all their actes without tyme or space?

Tyme is a thyng both gay and glorious,

When it passeth with vertue and grace.

Man in this worlde hath a dwellyng place,

Eyther hell or heaven, wythout lesynge,

Alway he getteth in his tyme spendynge.

Withouten tyme is no erthly thynge,