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Upon the sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset,
then falling from favour.
Dazel'd thus, with height of place,
Whilst our hopes our wits beguile,
No man marks the narrow space
'Twixt a prison, and a smile.
Whilst our hopes our wits beguile,
No man marks the narrow space
'Twixt a prison, and a smile.
Then, since fortunes favours fade,
You, that in her armes do sleep,
Learn to swim, and not to wade;
For, the Hearts of Kings are deep.
You, that in her armes do sleep,
Learn to swim, and not to wade;
For, the Hearts of Kings are deep.
But, if Greatness be so blind,
As to trust in towers of Aire,
Let it be with Goodness lin'd,
That at least, the Fall be fair.
As to trust in towers of Aire,
Let it be with Goodness lin'd,
That at least, the Fall be fair.
Then though darkned, you shall say,
When friends fail, and Princes frown,
Vertue is the roughest way,
But proves at night a Bed of Down.
When friends fail, and Princes frown,
Vertue is the roughest way,
But proves at night a Bed of Down.
H. W.
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