39.
As hard it is of quarryed marble stone,
For man to make a liuely mouing wyght,
As of a lout, or els of such a one
Who dayly doth imploy his whole delyght
To digge and delue, it passeth mortal myght,
To make him serue the courte a kinge’s behest:
Turne hym to plowe, the cart for him is best.
40.
For though thou canst by cunninge art compell