When they his fall set downe so vnderstand,

They may beware: a warning this may be,

Against the slothfull sweames of sluggardye.

2.

The stories tell of Comodus the raygne,

A wise and noble Emperour at first:

He diligent to gouerne well tooke payne,

Till at the length him sloth in vice had nurst.

But see at last, see whereunto it burst:

He strangled was by wicked treacherie,