46.

Securefull thoughts do foster fond delay,

Bewitching hopes breed carelesnesse of minde,

Occasion set on wing flies fast away,

Whose backe once turn’d no hold fast can we finde,

Her feet are swift, bald is her head behinde,

Who so hath hold and after lets her goe,

Doth lose the lot which fortune did bestowe.

47.

Euen as a fire supprest, if yet remaine