MS. Fair/ax 40. 275 



Those things itt shghts the World doe hold 



Pretious as Fortunes Goods & Gold 

 [p. 578] These hath ther wings & flye away 



When Man desireth most ther Stay 



The virtious Soule prize most that some 



Thinkes but from sheepesh nature Come 



And nott from Grace the spring fro whence 



Flowes Virtue Goodnes Inocence 



Care thou for these sence they'le apeare 



Much surer Goods then Riches are 



Thy virtious acts goe wher thou will 



For Companions thou shalt haue still 



When Men shall faile & freindship both 



A better frende w^ii thee then goe'th 



Enuy att death shal Cease in Foes 



No Post-hume euel Malice knowes 

 [p. 579] In transendent hight shal vertue shine 



Wher feet of Enuy Can not clime 



Virtue alone doth death outline 



As't t'wer againe new life doth giue 



Whilst Goods of Fortune here haue ends 



Virtue alone to heauen assends 



[p. 582] Nature & Fortune 



What thing is nature we may thus define 

 God draws't through Beings in directst line 

 Wher as in Fortune soe miscal'd by some 

 More Crooked is & in Meanders rune 

 As Natur's rule by prouidence deuine 

 Soe Fortune too in an obstrucer line 

 Then Fortune is not blinde as vaine men says 

 Tis they are blinde discerning not her wayes 



I p. 583] The Christian War-fare 



The miirke of note Gods children here doc beare 

 Is from the World's a different Carrecter 

 He to th'one for portion here beneath 

 Doth Losses, Shame & Pouerty bequeath 



