Miscellaneous works of George Wither :: :: University of Virginia Library

If he shall lay an over-heavy weight
On those, whom he had left in such a streight,
VVithout their fault (except a fault it were
To lose, what they to keep unable were)
Or, if he shall, as other men have done,
Lose those Advantages that he hath won
By Angling for a Frog till from his Net
The Fishes now inclosed forth shall get;
Young Counsellors may prove to him as bad
As those which foolish Rehoboam had.
But, this is more than probable (altho
The Priests and Prophets dare not tell him so,
VVho now most fawn upon him) that, even all
GOD's Condescentions are conditional;
And, that now or hereafter, their success
VVill to his weal or woe add more or less,
Accordingly as he, and as these Nations
Improve at this day, His and their Probations.
VVhich Truth most men beleeve not, or forget;
And, that makes mee so often mention it.