Bel-vedére, or, The Garden of the muses

Of Time.

Time calls account of what before is past, For time will haue a reckning made at last.

TIme wanting bounds, still lacketh certaintie. Time hath a ••alue for all e••••••emities. There's none but haue in time perswaded been. Flowers haue time, before they fall to seed. VV••e can helpe time, to ••••••••ow vs with age, Bus stop no w••inkl•• in ••is pilgrimage. Times office is to end the hate of fo••s. Times glorie is to calme contending kings. Time is a tutour ••oth to good and bad. Short time seemes long, in sorrowes sharpe s••staining. Time is the herald, that doth best of all Emblazon all affections of the mind.

They that watch well, see time how slow it creepes. Dalliance of time doth long lookt ioyes preuent. Time offers still each houre to doe amisse. In time all things decay, and draw to end. Time is the sweet Phisition, that allowes Some remedie for all our past mishap. Times minutes losse, no treasure can restore. We may much shorten time by negligence. Time h••ales, when Art and reason both doe faile. No time so long as that which breedeth griefe. Nothing than time there is more precious, And nothing lesse than time accounted of. Nothing so firme, but time dissolueth it. Faire baits of time doth all the world deuoure. By time and wisdome, passions are supprest. In time, small wedges cleaue the hardest Oakes. He that will not endure the stormie time▪ VVhere will he liue vntill the lustie prime? In time the flint is pierc'd with softest showers Time is the anker both of truth and right. In great extreames, aduantage hath no time. Times losse, is greatest prodigalitie. Time ripens all, and hastes the haruest on, To sow new seeds ere all the old are gone. Showres come out of time, when corne is ripe. Time is discouerer of all mishaps. Time hath set downe the compasse of his course. When time is lost, repentance is but vaine. VVhile we haue iewels, we doe not esteeme them: But being lost, would with our liues redeeme them. Times chaunge, and we in them, doe alter still. By times delay, new hope of helpe still liues. Time is the father of vncertaintie. Time measureth our daily actions.

Times motions equalleth the reeling Sunnes, Or as the Sea reciprocally runnes. That longest kept, must yet at length be spent. Both life and loue, in time must haue an end. Our daily labours harbour deepe distrust. Time, on the weariest wretch, bestoweth rest. The losse of time, all other losse exceeds; And commonly, too late repentance breeds. Time is best gouernour of all our counsailes. Time to the greatest sorrowes limits end. Neglected time is follies chiefest signe. Time is our liues discreetest councellor.

Similies on the same subiect.

AS when the ship is split, no anker helpes, So time once spent, can neuer be repeal'd. As ioynts cut off, the plaister comes too late, So time being past, repentance booteth not. As no retrait auailes, when fight is fought: So no deuise recouereth passed time. As time well vsde, a mans best treasure is, So badly wasted, is most miserie. As nothing is of greater price than time, So nothing should with greater care be kept. As winter nips the freshest flowers that be, So time makes furrowes in the fairest face.

Examples likewise on the same.

SEuerus made such deare account of time, As nothing grieu'd him more than losse of time. Pyrrhus had priuat obseruations, Whereby to know how time did steale away. Philip of Macedon would chide him-selfe, For the least vaine employment of his time.

Great Alexander learn'd of Diogenes, How in his warre affaires to spend his time. Byas maintain'd; Fooles might in time be wise, And ignorance attaine to learnings reach. Our happines of time (in Solons mind) Consisteth in the shorter while it lasts.