Which all our rights and wronges doth dayly see[379]

The good to aide, and gracelesse to withstand;

If either vice or vertue wee aband,

Wee either are rewarded as wee serue,

Or else are plaged, as our deedes deserue.

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Let this my warning then suffice ech sort,

Bid them beware: example here you see:

It passeth play, ’tis tragicall disport

To clime the steppes of stately high degree.[380]