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THE Cuttle fishe, that likes the muddie crickes,
To which, the sea dothe flowe at euerie tide:
For to escape the fishers ginnes, and trickes,
Dame nature did this straunge deuise prouide:
That when he seeth, his foe to lie in wayte,
Hee muddes the streame, and safelie scapes deceyte.
All waies, and meanes, shoulde vse to saue his life:
Not wilfullie, the same for to detest,
Nor rashlie runne, when tyrauntes rage with strife:
But constant stande, abyding sweete or sower,
Vntill the
Atramenta vetant: abdita, tuta nato.
Nec que praeteriit, cur-
su revocabitur vnda:
Nec quae praeteriit
hora redire potest.
Vtendum est aetate, cito
pede labitur aetas,
Nec bona tam sequi-
tur, quàm bona prima
fuit.
de Sepia.