They[3] geue no heede before they[356] get the clap:

And then to late they[4] wish they[357] had bin wise,

When from the fall they[358] would, and cannot, rise.

4.

As if two twinnes, or children at the teate

Of nurce, or mother, both at once might bee,

And both did striue the better dugge to geat,

Till one were downe, and slipt beside her knee:

Even so it fares, by others as by mee,[359]

In Fortune’s lap they[360] haue so little hold,