It taught mee well, all earthly things be borne

To dye the death: for nought long time may last:

The sommer’s beauty yeeldes to winter’s blast.

9.

Then looking vpward to the heauen’s leames,[1494]

With nighte’s starres[1495] thicke powdred euery where,

Which erst so glistned with the golden streames

That chearfull Phœbus spred downe from his sphere

Beholding darke, oppressing day, so neare:

The sodayne sight reduced to my mynde,