And turne their mirth to extreame miseries:

Nothing more certaine than incertainties;

Fortune is full of fresh varietie:

Constant in nothing but inconstancie.

The wealthie Merchant that doth crosse the Seas,

To Denmarke, Poland, Spaine, and Barbarie;

For all his ritches, liues not still at ease;

Sometimes he feares ship-spoyling Pyracie,

Another while deceipt and treacherie

Of his owne Factors in a forren Land;