Englands Parnassus: or the choysest flowers of our moderne poets, with their poeticall comparisons Descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces, mountaines, groues, seas, springs, riuers, &c. Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasaunt and profitable.

Labour.

Where ease abounds, it's death to do amisse, But who his limbs with labours, and his minde Behaues with cares, cannot so easie misse: Abroad in armes, at home in studious kinde, Who seekes with painfull toyle, shall honor soonest finde. Ed. Spencer.

Learne with the Ant in sommer to prouide, Driue with the Bee the drone from out the hiue, Build like the Swallow in the sommer tide. D. Lodge.

Much labor is too litle, that should houshold charge defraye. W. Warner.

—Industry well cherisht to his face, In sun-shine walkes in spight of sower disgrace. M. Roydon.

The noblest borne dame should industrious bee, That which doth good, disgraceth no degree. G. Chapman.

Let Mandeuile example be to men not to be idle In amorous passions: labour is to loue at least a bridle▪ VV. Warner.

Adams labour in Eden. —Edens earth was then so fertill and so fat, That he made only sweet assaies in that. Of skilfull industry and naked wrought, More for delight, then for the gaine he sought.

In briefe, it was a pleasant exercise, A labour likte, a paine much like the guise Of cunning dauncers, who although they skip Run, caper, vault, trauerse and turne and trip, From morne til euen, at night againe full merry Renew their daunce, of dauncing neuer weary: Or els of hunters, that with happie lucke, Rowsing betimes some often breathed bucke Or goodly stagge, their yelping hounds vncouple, Wind loud their horns, their hoopes & hallows double Spurre on and spare not, following their desire: Themselues vnweary, though their hacknies tire. But for in th'end of all their iollitie Their's found much stifnesse, sweat and vanitie; I rather match it to the pleasing paine Of Angels pure, who euer sloth disdaine. Or to the Suns calme course, who plainlesse aye About the welkin poasteth night and day. I. Syl. Transl.