What ordayned God to bee terrestriall,[1223]

Without recourse to the earth by nature?

Who to liue euer may himselfe assure?

What is it to trust to mutability?

Sith that in this worlde nothing may endure:

(For now am I gone that was late in prosperity)

To presume thereuppon it is but[1224] vanity:

Not certayne, but as a chery fayre full of wo:

Raigned not I of late in great prosperity?[1225]

Et ecce in nunc puluere dormio.