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R215929 8 UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN In Peascod Time UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN UNKNOWN ONe year begins, another ends, / our time doth pass and go, Roxburghe Ballads Editor None None None None Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 1: 501 A GODLY BALLAD A GODLY BALLAD A GODLY BALLAD ?-?

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ONe year begins, another ends, our time doth pass and go, And this to our instruction tends, if we could take it so: The Summers hot, the Winters cold, whose season lets us see, When youth is gone, and we wax old, like flowrs we fad and die. Men for the most part do rejoice, when sons are to them born; Whose weeping eyes bewail their woes our sinfulnesse to scorn: They are the messengers of death, our time is passing fast; Till at the hour of fading breath, then death us parts at last. Thus must we learn to spend our dayes in vertue as we ought: In doing good make no delaies, let sloath out of our thought: The sloathful man yet nere attaind to honour, wealth nor fame; But manie have by vertue gaind, a long long lasting name, In prime time of our youth we should, the seeds of learning sow, Weed forth our vices, if we could, and sinful lusts down throw: He that in time of youth takes pain, his vertue to bestow, In harvest of his age again, he grapes of grace shal mow, Since all things creat have an end, nothing but fame remains: Happie is he can wiselie spend his time in vertuous peins: For soon the time shal pass awaie, and pleasures shal abide, O happie happie thrice are they, who takes time at the tide. The tide of time doth flow full fast, and quicklie ebs awaie: And if our ship lack sail or mast, our voyage must delaie: Our bodies are the brittle bark, which sails the floods of fame; But if through sloath we miss the mark, we sink in seas of shame. Occasion she hath hair before, but she is bald behind; Lost time no travel can restore, as many fools do find: The little ants and honey bees, in Summer laie up store, For to provide for Winter storme, men ought to do much more. This have I done to please your will, now let me have my hire; I have bewrayd my want of skil in doing your desire: The weakness of a womans wit, is not through natures fault, But lack of education fit, makes nature oft to halt.
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