(When I was yong and wylde as now thou art):

But her good counsell I regarded not;

I markt it with my eares, not with my hart:

But now I finde it too—too true (my Sonne),

When my Age-withered Spring is almost done.

Behold my gray head, full of siluer haires,

My wrinckled skin, deepe furrowes in my face:

Cares bring Old-Age, Old-Age increaseth cares;

My Time is come, and I haue run my Race:

Winter hath snow'd vpon my hoarie head,