Why should a man bee prowde or presume hye?
Saint Bernard thereof nobly doth treate,
Saying a man is but a sacke of stercory,
And shall retourne vnto wormes meate:
Why, what became of Alexander the great?
Or else of strong Sampson, who can tell?
Were not wormes ordaynde theyr flesh to freate?
And of Salomon that was of wit the well,
Absolon preferred his hayre for to sell,
Yet for his bewty wormes eate him also,