Where I did see how all the world did lie;
I went about the world in eight Daies space,
And then return’d unto my Native place.
What pleasure I did wish to please my mind,
He did perform as bond and seal did bind,
The secrets of the Stars and Planets told,
Of earth and sea with wonders manifold.
When four and twenty years was almost run,
I thought of all things that was past and done;
How that the Devil would soon claim his right,