For that which seemeth best, is soonest brought to naught,
Which playnely doth appeare by that which I haue taught:
The worthiest in the worlde, princes, philosophers,
Will teach that I haue taught, and proue it passing playne:
Paulus Aemilius did dye but wretchedly:
And was not Scipio euen to his dying day
Constraynde, to helpe his neede, the painfull plowe to plye?
Cæsar and Silla both, did not they tast the whyppe?
And made not Hannibal a miserable end?
And how was Socrates before his tyme destroyed,