What licoure first the earthen pot doth take,

It keepeth still the sauour of that same.

Full hard it is a Cramocke[339] strayght to make,

Or crooked Logges with wainscot fine to frame.

Tis hard to make the cruell Tiger tame.

And so it fares with those haue vices caught:

Naught once (they say) and euer after naught.

7.

I speake not this as though it past all cure

From vices vile to vertue to retire: