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[verse 7] Slaues by desart a cockhorse ride, right nobles lackie by,
[verse 8] But who layes snares, himselfe may fall: and pricks in hedges try.
7.
I haue seene seruants on horses, & Prin∣ces walking as seruants on the ground.
For what obsurder thing can you suppose,
Then what is oftentimes before your eye?
When you on cockhorse see a prauncing those,
Whose birth and qualities you may despise,
Whilst wise and noble both contemned lies.
Nay lackie-like in trotting, time do loose,
In seruing such as know not true desart,
A worser life there could be no way chose,
Or that could more torment an honest hart:
For where shall they expect their paines reward,
Which they to foole all readie see is shard.
8.
He that dig∣geth a pit, shall fall into it, and he that brea∣keth the hedge a Serpent shall bite him.
But for my part I can be well content,
To yeeld all honor where God honor giues,
But yet oppressors should in time repent,
For God in heauen a iudge for euer liues,
And to confusion wicked worldlings driues.
He doth preuent their fraudulent intent,
And makes them fall into the pit they cast,
Whilst they indeuour others to preuent,
The Serpents sting to martyr them as fast:
For fraud with fraud, is oftentimes repayd,
And wicked snard, in grin for others layd.