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Chapter V.
[verse 1] AS these two slumbers haue two contraries,
One slumber in the face, one in the minde,
So their two casements two varieties,
One vnto heauen, and one to hell combinde:
The face is flattery, and her mansion hell,
The minde is iust, this doth in heauen dwell.
The face heauing her heauie eie-lids vp,
From foorth the chamber of eternall night,
Sees vertue holde plenties replenisht cup,
And boldly stands in Gods and heauens sight:
Shee opening the windowes of her brest,
Sees how the wicked rest in their vnrest.
[verse 2 3] Quoth shee, those whom the curtaine of decay,
Hath tragically summoned to paine,
Were once the cloudes, and clouders of my day,
Deprauers and depriuers of my gaine;
The wicked hearing this descending sound,
Feare strucke their lims to the pale-clothed ground.
Amazed at the freedome of her words,
Their tongue-tide accents droue them to dispaire,
And made them change their mindes to woes records,
And say within themselues, lo what wee are:
We haue had vertue in derisions place,
And made a parable of her disgrace.