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Flamma sine Fumo

or, poems without fictions. Hereunto are annexed the Causes, Symptoms, or Signes of several Diseases with their Cures, and also the diversity of Urines, with their Causes in Poetical measure. By R. W. [i.e. Rowland Watkyns]

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The Changes.

Tempora mutantur, nos & mutamur in illis.

The painful Bee, which to her hive doth bring
Sweet honey, in her tail retains a sting
Our sweetest joyes are interlin'd with cares,
No field of corn, but hath some choaking tares.
The stream, which doth with silent motion slide,
Is oftentimes disturb'd with wind and tide.
Who sits to day in Honours lap, and sings,
God soon can change his tune, and clip his wing.
Sometimes the Sea doth ebb, and sometimes flow,
Now with anon against the tide we row;
No haven's so secure, but some ill blast
May toss the ship, and break the stately Mast:
Who now in Court doth dance, and lift his head,
To morrow droops, and sickly keeps his bed.
The King may beg, and beggars may command.
High Cedars fall, when little shrubs do stand.
The sweetest comfort I do feel, or find,
Though fortune change, is not to change my mind.