Past to the place where pouertie did dwel,

With frowning face and with a troubled brayne,

With woe and want, his vexed vaynes did swell,

With myrth and ioy the poore man did excel:

And being come vnto his house ymade

Of one poore hogsheadde, thus to him he sayde.

23.

“'Diogenes, thou lead’st a lothsome life,

Me thinke thou might’st much better spend thy time

Within my court, both thou and eeke thy wife: