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Chapter III.
[verse 1] BVt euery cloude can not hide Phoebus face,
Nor shut the casement of his liuing flame,
Nor is there euery soule which wanteth grace,
Nor euery hart seducde with mischiefs name;
Life cannot liue without corruption,
World cannot be without destruction.
Nor is the body all corrupt, or world
Bent wholie vnto wickednes assault,
The adder is not alwaies seene vncurlde,
Nor euery soule found guiltie in one fault;
Some good, some bad, but those whom vertues guard,
Heauen is their hauen, comfort their reward.
[verse 2 3] Thrice happy habitation of delight,
Thrice happy step of immortalitie,
Thrice happy soules to gaine such heauenly sight,
Springing from heauens perpetuitie;
Oh peacefull place, but oh thrice peacefull soules,
Whom neither threats, nor strife, nor wars control▪
They are not like the wicked, for they liue,
Nor they, like to the righteous, for they die;
Each of their liues a differing nature giue,
One thinkes that life endes with mortalitie,
And that the righteous neuer liue againe,
But die as subiects to a grieuous paine.