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A13789 Take time, while time is being an exhortation to all sorts or sexes, of what degree soever, from the highest to the lowest, old or young, rich or poore. To the tune of, The ladies daughter of Paris. 1638 (1638) STC 24087; ESTC S101991 1,586 2

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Take Time while Time is Being an Exhortation to all sorts or Sexes of what Degree soever from the Highest to the Lowest Old or Young Rich or Poore To the Tune of The Ladies Daughter of Paris OH stay a while you lusty Lads that seeme to skip and mount From me your aged Patron although you make no count Of Father Mother kith or kin what ever they d●t say You snuffe and snort when they correct you flie and will not stay Oh stay I say and learne of me a Lesson by the way You are vnfit for any vse seeing you 'l not obey Behold I say the Picture now that here doth stand aboue And be you warn'd by what I say if that your selues you loue To you he offers now himselfe vntill your thred be spun But as he offers steales away vntill your thred be done Lay hold on him therefore I say and say I warn'd anew Lest that be steale away from you and bid you so adiew For Time doth stay here for no man bee 't King bee 't Prince bee 't Péere He leaues them to what life they will bee 't ioy bee 't loue bee 't feare Bee 't life or death I say or ought that blind Fate doth ordaine As some in bed asleepe we see and some in field are slaine His Glasse that in his hand he holds doth cut off all delay His Wings that on his backe do sticke do shew he cannot stay For any that comes after him be he swarthy or faire But he must come and stand before and take hold of his haire And when that you haue hold of it in no case let it goe For hauing once forsooke him quite your footsteps are too slow For to lay hold on him againe when once that he is past 〈◊〉 fauours you must thinke with you 'l not alwaies last The second Part To the same tune THe Dyall fixt vpon his Head most euident doth shew How fléeting is this mortall life and Time doth alwayes goe Although wee not perceiue it mooue old age doth come at last And brings diseases on vs all our liues are but a blast His Sythe within the other hand doth shew how he cuts downe The liues of all from great to small from Cottage to the Crowne We are like grasse which soone doth fade and withereth in an hower When Time is past grim Death doth come and feazeth with his power The Flowers like to Youthfulnesse is fragrant swéet and fayre But soone is pluckt and vanished as is the smoke in ayre The swift wing'd Swallow shewes vs plaine how Time doth fléet away We Summer haue and Winter eke and Time for none will stay What though thy Father he be rich and thou be yong in yeares Thinkst then that God hath no meanes left to blast thy Fathers eares Of Corne or Cattell or what else that doth maintaine his fame Yea God hath meanes enough in store for to confound the same But oh the mighty number now that in this Land there be That doe goe vp to braue London out of their owne Countrey And there to sport and play their fill they make it all their ioy Their carefull Parents counsels all they make of them a toy But if thou followst on this life and mean'st therein to lie Thou shalt be barred from Gods blisse and damn'd eternally But be thou ruled by thy friends when Counsell they thee giue And God shall prosper all thy waies that thou long daies maist liue Make much of Time therefore I say before that thou bee'st old Lest that he tell thee to thy teeth that thou art too too bold To trust vnto this winged man that stieth on so fast For if thou car'st not what I say Repentance comes at last But now to make an end with you hoping you know my mind Concerning this same Picture here that I haue so defin'd If that you marke it well I say and what therein is meant I hope you 'l turne your bias round and of the same repent And let vs pray vnto our God to blesse our soueraigne King Vnder whose happy gouernment we inioy euery thing That God eu'n of his mercie giues and downe vpon vs sends He grant we may be thankfull still and send vs blessed ends FINIS London Printed by M. P. for Henry Gosson dwelling vpon London-bridge neere the Gate