None stands so fast, But may be cast By Fortune, and disgraced: Once did I weare Her Garter there, Where you her Gloue haue placed. 30 I had the Vow That thou hast now, And Glances to discouer Her Loue to mee, And she to thee Reades but old Lessons ouer. She hath no Smile That can beguile, But as my Thought I know it; Yea, to a Hayre, 40 Both when and where, And how she will bestow it. What now is thine, Was onely mine, And first to me was giuen; Thou laugh'st at mee, I laugh at thee, And thus we two are euen. But Ile not mourne, But stay my Turne, 50 The Wind may come about, Sir, And once againe May bring me in, And help to beare you out, Sir. A SKELTONIAD The Muse should be sprightly, Yet not handling lightly Things graue; as much loath, Things that be slight, to cloath Curiously: To retayne The Comelinesse in meane, Is true Knowledge and Wit. Not me forc'd Rage doth fit, That I thereto should lacke Tabacco, or need Sacke, 10 Which to the colder Braine Is the true _Hyppocrene_; Nor did I euer care For great Fooles, nor them spare. Vertue, though neglected, Is not so deiected, As vilely to descend To low Basenesse their end; Neyther each ryming Slaue Deserues the Name to haue 20 Of Poet: so the Rabble Of Fooles, for the Table, That haue their Iests by Heart, As an Actor his Part, Might assume them Chayres Amongst the Muses Heyres. _Parnassus_ is not clome By euery such Mome; Vp whose steep side who swerues, It behoues t' haue strong Nerues: 30 My Resolution such, How well, and not how much To write, thus doe I fare, Like some few good that care (The euill sort among) How well to liue, and not how long. THE CRYER