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[5] Doo hornets good, or these same biting gnats ? 
Foule swelling toades, what good by them is seene + 
In house well deckt, what good doth gnawing rats ° 
Or casting mowles, among the meadowes greene ? 
Doth heauie newes make glad the hart of man? 
[10] Or noisome smels, what good doth that to health ° 
Now once for all, what good (shew who so can ?) 
Doo stinging! snakes, to this our Commonwealth ? 
Vo more doth good a peeuish slanderous toung, 
But hurts tt selfe, and notes both old and young. 
66. 
“| A sonet vpon the Authors first seuen 
yeeres seruice. 
Chap. 55. 
[1] Q(IEUEN times hath Janus tane new yéere by hand, 
Seuen times hath blustring March blowne forth his 
powre: 
To driue out Aprils buds, by sea and land, 
For minion Maie, to deck most trim with flowre. 
[5] Seuen times hath temperate Ver, like pageant plaide, 
And pleasant Aéstas eke hir flowers told: 
Seuen times Autumnes heate hath béene delaide, 
With Hyems boistrous blasts, and bitter cold. 
Seuen times the thirtéene Moones haue changed hew, 
[10] Seuen times the Sunne his course hath gone about : 
Seuen times ech bird hir nest hath built anew, 
Since first time you to serue, I choosed out. 
Still yours am I, though thus the time hath past, 
And trust to be, as* long as life shall last. 
1 stinking. 1577. 2aSOn) 11577. 
