But Fame and Vertue neuer shall decay;
For Fame is toombles, Vertue liues for aye.
The snow is white, and yet the pepper's blacke,
The one is bought, the other is contemned:
Pibbles we haue, but store of Ieat we lacke;
So white comparde to blacke is much condemned:
We doo not praise the Swanne because shees white,
But for she doth in Musique much delite.
And yet the siluer-noted Nightingale,
Though she be not so white is more esteemed;