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[After the sight and speech of these]
Argument.
After the sight and speech of these,rich Diues did present:
His life his fall and his estate,
with sorrowing teares besprent,
Wherin he did disclose to mee,
how subiect Worldlings liue:
To ruin, as his owne estate,
to vs example giue.
FINIS.
See worldlinges see th'ūtrust of your estate
Beholde the pomp & glory of your time:
Look vpon mee (now dead) who liued late
(As you) on earth inferiour vnto crime,
Delighted with the plesures of my Prime.
And soothed with the follies of my minde:
The due deserts of follies pathes I finde.
Beholde the pomp & glory of your time:
Look vpon mee (now dead) who liued late
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Delighted with the plesures of my Prime.
And soothed with the follies of my minde:
The due deserts of follies pathes I finde.
No certain state I had to vaunt vpon,
My glorie was compared to the flower:
Vnlooked for my stately strength was gon,
To saue my life it lay not in my power.
Or might prolong the minute of an houre.
Death strook his stroke, I might no lōger liue
Though in my hands I thousandes had to giue.
My glorie was compared to the flower:
Vnlooked for my stately strength was gon,
To saue my life it lay not in my power.
Or might prolong the minute of an houre.
Death strook his stroke, I might no lōger liue
Though in my hands I thousandes had to giue.
The worldly welth which I had leudly got
My careful cōscience makes mee to expres:
To shroude such acts my guilty hart cānot,
In life I vsde the wayes of wickednes,
Would God I had contented been with lesse
And not haue sought by leud desire ye drosse,
Which dayly is inferiour vnto losse.
My careful cōscience makes mee to expres:
To shroude such acts my guilty hart cānot,
In life I vsde the wayes of wickednes,
Would God I had contented been with lesse
And not haue sought by leud desire ye drosse,
Which dayly is inferiour vnto losse.
What booted mee to build vp houses braue,
To purchase landes or keep my goods in store
All are depriu'd my body laid in graue,
The greedy woormes my caren carcase gore
The worm of cōscience prickes me more and more
The hanous sin I vs'd while I did liue:
As due deseru'd a thousand torments giue.
To purchase landes or keep my goods in store
All are depriu'd my body laid in graue,
The greedy woormes my caren carcase gore
The worm of cōscience prickes me more and more
The hanous sin I vs'd while I did liue:
As due deseru'd a thousand torments giue.
Fie on the filthines of greedie gain,
Fie on the subtle sleights of leud desire:
Fie vpon plesure, Nurisher of Pain,
Fie on vntrueth which worldly men require
Fie on ye sin, which mooues our God to ire.
Wo worth ye man whose hart dooth burn wt hate
Twise happy hee content with his estate.
Fie on the subtle sleights of leud desire:
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Fie on vntrueth which worldly men require
Fie on ye sin, which mooues our God to ire.
Wo worth ye man whose hart dooth burn wt hate
Twise happy hee content with his estate.
I loth'd to hear the needie mans request,
I grudg'd to giue but ioyed to retain:
No godly feare did harbour in my brest,
The Scriptures red I termed speech in vain
Of godly life the state I did disdain
To hourde vp drosse I did decline my minde:
In heaps wherof no certain state wee finde.
I grudg'd to giue but ioyed to retain:
No godly feare did harbour in my brest,
The Scriptures red I termed speech in vain
Of godly life the state I did disdain
To hourde vp drosse I did decline my minde:
In heaps wherof no certain state wee finde.
Diues I am, who scorned Lazarus,
Whose gotten gain of riches did surpasse:
For which misdeed I am tormented thus,
In flāes of fire which neuer quenched was
For worldly men a perfect looking glasse.
Wherby they may perceiue the fall of sin:
And learn in life the ioyes of heauen to win.
Whose gotten gain of riches did surpasse:
For which misdeed I am tormented thus,
In flāes of fire which neuer quenched was
For worldly men a perfect looking glasse.
Wherby they may perceiue the fall of sin:
And learn in life the ioyes of heauen to win.
FINIS.
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