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The Authors life. 
When gaines was gon, and yeres grew on, 
And death did crie, from London flie, 
In Cambridge then, I found agen, 
a resting plot: 
In Colledge best of all the rest, 
With thanks to thee, O Trinitee,' 
Through thee and thine, for me and mine, 
some stay I got. 
Since hap haps so, let toiling go, 
Let seruing paines yeeld forth hir gaines, 
Let courtly giftes, with wedding shiftes, 
helpe now to liue: 
Let Musicke win, let stocke come in, 
Let wisedome kerue, let reason serue, 
For here I craue such end to haue, 
as God shall giue. 
Thus friends, by me perceiue may ye, 
That gentrie standes, not all by landes, 
Nor all so feft, or plentie left 
by parents gift: 
But now and then, of gentlemen, 
The yonger sonne is driuen to ronne, 
And glad to seeke from creeke to creeke, 
to come by thrift. 
And more by this, to conster is, 
In world is set, ynough to get, 
But where and whan, that scarsely can, 
the wisest tell: 
By learning some to riches come, 
By ship and plough some get ynough, 
And some so wiue that trim they thriue, 
and speede full well. 
1 Founded in 1546. 
The plague 
at London 
[1574, 1575]. 
Trinitie 
College in 
Cambridge. 
Youth ill 
spent makes 
age repent. 
A lesson for 
yonger 
brothers. 
A true 
lesson. 
