Some men liue now, scarce four score yeares of age,
Who in time past, did know the cardnall’s grace:
A gamesom worlde, when byshops run at bace:
Yea, get a fall, in striuing for the gole,
And body loase, and hazarde seely sole.
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Ambitious minde, a world of wealth would haue,
So scrats and scrapes, for scorfe, and scoruy drosse:
And till the flesh, and bones, be layde[2001] in graue,
Wit neuer rests, to grope for mucke and mosse: