As doth the sory man, and longer by a day.

Yet the Grassehopper for all his Sommer pipyng,

Sterveth in Winter wyth hungrie gripyng,

Therefore an other sayd sawe doth men advise, 5

That they be together both mery and wise.

Thys Lesson must I practise, or else ere long,

Wyth mee Mathew Merygreeke[333] it will be wrong.

In deede men so call me, for by him that us bought,

What ever chaunce betide, I can take no thought, 10

Yet wisedome woulde that I did my selfe bethinke