Vain Thoughts adieu; for now I will repent:

And yet my Wants persuade me to proceed,

Since none takes pity of a Scholar's need.

Forgive me, God, although I curse my Birth,

And ban the Ayr wherein I breath a wretch,

Since Misery hath daunted all my Mirth,

And I am quite undone through Promise breach.

Oh Friends! no Friends, that then ungently frown,

When changing Fortune calls us headlong down.

Without redress complains my careless Verse,