More subtle must we practise, to defend

Our pride from sliding, then we did t' ascend?

How doth successe delude the mysteries

And all th' involv'd designements of the wise?

How doth that Power, our Pollitickes call chance,

Racke them till they confesse the ignorance

Of humane wit? Which, when 'tis fortified

So strong with reason that it doth deride

All adverse force oth' sudden findes its head

Intangled in a spiders slender thread.