The fall of leafe is nothing like the spring, Ech eye beholdes the rising of the sunne, All men admire the fauour of a king: And from great states growne in disgrace they run, Such sodaine claps ne wit nor will can shun: For when the stoole is taken from our feete, Full flat on floore the body falls in streete. 75. I had no house wherein to hyde my heade, The open streete my lodging was perforce: Full oft I went all hungry to my bed, My flesh consumde, I looked lyke a corse: Yet in that plight who had on mee remorse: O God, thou knowste my frends forsooke mee than, Not one holpe mee, that succred many a man. 76. They frownd on mee that fawnd on mee before, And fled from mee, that followde mee full fast: They hated mee, by whome I set much store, They knew full well, my fortune did not last, In euery place, I was condemnde and cast, To pleade my cause at bar it was no boote, For euery man did treade mee vnder foote. 77. Thus long I liu’d, all weary of my lyfe, Tyll death approcht, and rid mee from that wo: Example take by mee, both mayde and wyfe, Beware, take heede, fall not to folly so: A Mirour make by[1998] my greate ouerthro, Defy the[1999] world and all his wanton wayes, Beware by mee, that spent so yll her dayes. Tho. Churchyard.[2000] [As _Baldwine_ indeede being a minister, had bene most fit to set forth the life of a cardinall and byshop (for causes belonging to his knowledge and ministery) so to encourage a writer now aliue to play the part of a _Pasquill_, and rather make his pen his plough, then in a hard season, liue like a labourer that doth seruice to many and litle good to himselfe, I thought it necessary in a kinde of beneuolence and curtesy of minde, to bestow some credit on that person that not only hath preferred my tragedy to the printer, (being of his owne deuice and penning) but also hath enlarged, by playne and familier verse, the matter the world desires to heare or read, and makinge common among a multitude that were secret and priuat among a fewe. Which study and paynes of his owne purpose procures mee (as one whom fortune hath flattered and afflicted) to appeare vnto him, for the hearing of my calamity, and for the setting out both of my rising vp and falling downe. So, to the whole worlde, by his helpe and mine owne desire, I step out from the graue, where long I lay in forgetfulnes, and declare in the voyce of a cardinall, a curious discourse; yet sadly and sorrowfully tolde, as well vnto _Churchyard_ (the noter thereof) as to the rest that pleaseth to heare any peece of my misfortune.]