Which divers and many ways you may understand;
Sometime I bring sickness; sometime perturbation;
Sometime trouble and misery throughout the land;
Sometime I signify God's wrath to be at hand;
Sometime a forerunner of destruction imminent,
But an executor of pain I am at this present.
Thou insipient fool, that hast followed thy lust,
Disdaining the doctrine declared by Sapience,
In Treasure and Pleasure hath been thy trust,
Which thou thoughtest should remain ever in thy presence: