My life is such as (if thou note it well) May cause the witty wealthy[1244] to beware: For their sakes therefore playnly will I tell, How false and cumbrous worldly honours are, How cankred foes bring carelesse folke to care, How tyrauntes suffered and not queld in time, Doe cut theyr throates that suffer them to clime. 12. Neither will I hyde the chiefest point of all Which wisest rulers least of all regarde, That was and will bee cause of many a fall: This cannot bee too earnestly declarde Because it is so seeld, and slackly harde, The abuse[1245] and scorning of God’s ordinaunces, Is chiefest cause of care and woefull chaunces. 13. God’s holy orders highly are abused Whan men doe chaunge their ends for straunge respects: They scorned are, whan they bee cleane refused, For that they cannot serue our fond affects: The one our shame, the other our sinne detects: It is a shame for christians to abuse them, But deadly sinne for scorners to refuse them. 14. I meane not this al onely of degrees Ordainde by God for people’s preseruation, But of his lawe, good orders, and decrees, Prouided for[1246] his creature’s conseruation: And specially the state of procreation, Wherein wee here the number of them encrease, Which shall in heauen enioy eternall peace. 15. The only end why God ordayned this, Was for th’[1247] encreasing of that blessed nombre For whom hee had preparde eternall blisse: They that refuse it for the care or cumbre, Being apt thereto, are in a sinfull slumbre: No fond respect, no vayne devised vowes, Can quit or bar what God in charge allowes. 16. “It is not good for man to liue alone:” Sayd God, and therfore made he him a make: “Sole life,” sayd Christ, “is graunted few or none, All seede sheders are bound like wiues to take:” Yet not for lust, for landes, or riches sake, But to beget and foster so theyr fruite, That heauen and earth be stored with the suite. 17. But as this[1248] state is damnably refused, Of many apt and able thereunto, So is it likewise wickedly abused Of all that vse it as they should not doe: Wherein are guilty all the greedy, who For gayne, for friendship, landes, or honoures wed, And these pollute the vndefiled bed. 18.