Were Mannes Thoughts to bee measured by Dales
Tenn thouzäd Thoughts ti thousäd Days should haue:
Which in a Day, the Mynd doth, daily, raise:
For still the Mind's in motion like a Waue!
Or, should his Daies bee measured by Thought
Then Time shortst Moment they would faster flee:
Yet, Thought doth make his life both long, & nought;
That's nought, if longe, and longe, if nought it bee
If longe it bee, for beings nought, (though short)
The shortest thought of longe life is too longe:
Which thinkes it longe in laboure short in sport ,
So, Thought makes Life, to bee still old, or yonge:
But sith its full of thought , sith full of Synnes
Thinke it may ende, as thought of it beginnes.