Seeing not in youth, then short of yeares to crowne

Her head with age, she di’de by death’s constraint,

But ripe in yeares, and loaden with renowne;

Made mellow for the graue, she lai’d her downe:

And leauing earth that part, which earth had giuen,

On faith’s strong wings she tooke her flight for heauen.

Heere Clio ceast, her lute no more did sound,

But in a moment mounting from the ground,

She vanisht from my sight, and with her fled

The place of pleasure which mine eyes had fed;