Despaire not _Man_, in what thou oughtst to doe, Although thou faile when one _Attempt_ is made; But, adde a _New-Endeavour_ thereunto, And, then another, and another, adde: Yea, till thy Pow’r and Life shall quite be spent, Persist in seeking what thou shouldst desire; For, he that falleth from a good _Intent_, Deserves not that, to which he did aspire. Rich _Treasures_, are by _Nature_, placed deepe; And, ere we gaine them, we must pierce the _Rockes_: Such _Perills_, also, them, as _Guardians_ keepe, That, none can winne them without wounds and knockes. Moreover, _Glories_, _Thrones_ are so sublime, That, whosoever thinkes their Top to gaine, Till many thousand weary steps he clime, Doth foole himselfe, by Musings which are vaine. And, yet, there is a _Path-way_, which doth leade Above the highest things that Man can see; And (though it be not knowne to all who tread The _Common-Tract_) it may ascended be. As, therefore, none should greater things presume Then well becomes their strength; So, none should feare (Through _Folly_, _Sloth_, or _Basenesse_) to assume Those things upon them, which beseeming are. In _Time_, and by _Degrees_ may things be wrought, That seem’d impossible to have beene done, When they were first conceived in the thought; And, such as these, we may adventure on. Mine _Arme_, I know, in time will fell an _Oke_; But, I will nev’r attempt it, at a _Stroke_. _=Afflictions Fire= consumeth =Sinne=; But, =Vertue= taketh =Life= therein._ [Illustration: NVDRISCO IL BVONO ET SPENGO IL REO ILLVSTR. XXX. _Book. 1._]