Barnabe Googe Poems

Give money me, take friendship whoso list,
For friends are gone, come once adversity,
When money yet remaineth safe in chest,
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The oftener seen, the more I lust,
The more I lust, the more I smart,
The more I smart, the more I trust,
The more I trust, the heavier heart;
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O raging seas, and Mighty Neptune's reign,
In monstrous hills that throwest thyself so high,
That with thy floods dost beat the shores of Spain,
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Behold this fleeting world, how all things fade,
How every thing doth pass and wear away;
Each state of life, by common course and trade,
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Once musing as I sat,
And candle burning by,
When all were hushed, I might discern
A simple silly fly,
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O fond Affection,
wounder of my heart,
When wilt thou cease
To breed my ceaseless pain?
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The Moutaines hie the blustryng wids
The fluds: ye Rocks wtstad
The Cities strong, the Canons shot,
& threatning Cheiftains had.
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The Senses dull of my appalled muse
Foreweryed with the trauayle of my brayne
In scannyng of the argued Bookes difuse,
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The little fish that in the stream doth fleet,
With broad forth-stretched fins for his disport,
Whenas he spies the fish's bait so sweet,
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Good aged Bale, that with thy hoary hairs
Dost yet persist to turn the painful book,
O happy man, that hast obtained such years,
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