Our friendships, shrinking from the funerall.

The thought of this begets that brave disdaine

With which thou view'st the world and makes those vaine

Treasures of fancy, serious fooles so court,

And sweat to purchase, thy contempt or sport.

What should we covet here? Why interpose

A cloud twixt us and heaven? Kind Nature chose

Mans soule th' Exchecquer where she'd hoord her wealth,

And lodge all her rich secrets; but by th' stealth

Of our owne vanity, w'are left so poore,