_Where like to like is a-matched so, That virtue must of force decay: There God with vengeance, plagues and woe, By judgment just must needs repay. For, like to like, the worldings cry: Although both likes do grace defy. And where as Satan planted hath In vicious minds a sinful trade: There like to like do walk his path, By which to him like they are made. So like with like reward obtain, To have their meed in endless pain. Likewise in faith, where matches be, And where as God hath planted grace; There do his children still agree, And like to like do run their race. Like Christ, like hearts of Christian men; As like to like well-coupled then. Therefore like grace, like faith and love, Like virtue, springs in each degree: Where like assistance from above Doth make them like so right to be. A holy God, a Christ most just: And so like souls in him to trust._ _Then like as Christ above doth reign, In heaven high our Saviour best: So like with him shall be our gain, In peace and joy, and endless rest. If we ourselves like him do frame, In fear of his most holy name. To him be praise, that grace doth give, Whereby he fashioneth us anew: And make[s] us holily to live, Like to himself in faith most true. Which our redemption sure hath wrought: Like him to be most dearly bought._ FINIS. FOOTNOTES: [329] [Suspicious.] [330] [Nearer.] [331] [In the old copy, _aloof of_.] [332] ["A dwarfe, dandiprat, little-skipjacke."--_Cotgrave._] [333] [_Can_ or _con thee thank_, give thee thanks--a common expression.] [334] [Nature.] [335] [Fault.] [336] [A tolerably early example of the use of this saying, which may have taken its rise from the custom of having a pudding as the first dish on the table, and may consequently be equivalent to _betimes_.] [337] [Clownish or rude, like a cobbler, from _souter_, a cobbler.] [338] [A word of somewhat uncertain meaning and of obscure origin. See Halliwell _v. Liripoops_.] [339] [This is an allusion worth noting; the editor does not recollect to have met with it before.] [340] [The two places chiefly used for executions, after the discontinuance of the Elms in Smithfield.] [341] [The leathern drinking vessel, generally called _a jack_.] [342] [The Flemings or Dutch (for the two seem to have been pretty generally confounded) had a great reputation here, like the Danes afterwards, for habits of excessive drinking.] [343] [Salisbury plain was formerly one of the resorts of foot-pads, who infested the place in small bodies, and waylaid travellers.] [344] [The entrances and _exits_ in this piece are so imperfectly marked, that it is often difficult to be sure about them. It seems to be Tom Tosspot who goes out now; but if so, he soon returns, though his re-entry is not recorded.]