<p><term id="embstma_1667_19101"/>WHAT creature thou? <rs>Occasion</rs> I doe showe.<lb/> On whirlinge wheele declare why doste thou stande?<lb/> Bicause, I still am tossed too, and froe.<lb/> Why doest thou houlde a rasor in thy hande?<lb/> That men maie knowe I cut on euerie side<lb/> And when I come, I armies can deuide.<lb/> But wherefore hast thou winges vppon thy feete?<lb/> To showe, how lighte I flie with little winde.<lb/> What meanes longe lockes before? that suche as meete,<lb/> Maye houlde at firste, when they occasion finde.<lb/> Thy head behinde all balde, what telles it more?<lb/> That none shoulde houlde, that let me slippe before.<lb/> Why doest thou stande within an open place?<lb/> That I maye warne all people not to staye,<lb/> But at the firste, <rs>occasion</rs> to imbrace,<lb/> And when shee comes, to meete her by the waye.<lb/> <persName>Lysippus</persName> so did thinke it best to bee,<lb/> Who did deuise mine image, as you see.<lb/> <gloss target="embstma_1667_19101" lang="la"><name type="author">Horat.</name> lib. 1. Ep. 11.<lb/> ad Bullatium.<lb/> Tu quamcumque Deus<lb/> tibi fortunauerit horam,<lb/> Grata sume manu: nec<lb/> dulcia differ in annum.</gloss> </p>

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