Who list to live upright and hold himself content
Shall see such wonders in this world as never erst was sent:
Such groping for the sweet, such tasting of the sour,
Such wandering here for worldly wealth that lost is in one hour.
And as the good or bad get up in high degree,     		 	5
So wades the world in right or wrong; it may none other be.
And look what laws they make, each man must them obey
And yoke himself with patient heart to drive and draw that way.
For such as long ago great rulers were assigned,
Both lives and laws are now forgot and worn clean out of mind.      	10
So that by this I see no state on earth may last,
But as their times appointed be to rise and fall as fast.
The goods that gotten be by good and just desart,
Yet use them so that needy hands may help to spend the part
For look what heap thou hoard'st of rusty gold in store,		15
Thine enemies shall waste the same, that never swat therefore.