As marish rootes dissolve, even as they breed:

An humane creature, inhumanely taught,

Is worser given to ill, than evill fraught:

Things in themselves, be not so bad as ill,

The cause exeemd, corruption hath free will:

Mans fraile affection, is a cloudy mist,

Whose vapours fall, and fogge, as passions list:

Bad counsell’s worse, than nature ill applies,

Weake judgment dulls, when feare in reason flies:

Thus sad ecclips’d, the darke ecclipsed Moone