What better a lawe
Than subjects in awe?
13
Such awe as a warning will cause to beware,
doth make the whole houshold the better to fare.
14
The lesse of thy counsell thy seruants doe knowe,
Their dutie the better such seruants shall showe.
Good musicke regard,
Good seruants reward.
15
Such seruants are oftenest [painfull] and good,
that sing in their labour, as birdes in the wood.
16
Good seruants hope iustly some friendship to feele,
and looke to haue fauour what time they do weele.
By once or twise
Tis time to be wise.
17
Take [runagate] Robin, to pitie his neede,
and looke to be filched, as sure as thy creede.
18
Take warning by once, that a worse do not hap,
foresight is the stopper of many a gap.
Some change for a shift,
Oft change, small thrift.