Du Bartas His Divine Weekes And Workes with A Compleate Collectio[n] of all the other most delight-full Workes: Translated and written by yt famous Philomusus: Iosvah Sylvester |
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21 Væ vobis.
Who but hath heard Both bitterly deploreTheir dismall Fortune, and disastrous Fate?
O! cries th'Ambitious, I have lost my State:
O! th'Avaritious, I have lost my Store.
Why cry you out on Wracks, and Rocks, and Shelves,
And Wars, and Wiles, that have your States vndon?
Rather complain, rather cry-out, vpon
Your Goods and Greatnes, where you lost your Selves.
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