Excerpt from Bussy D'ambois: A Tragedie, as It Hath Been Often Acted With Great Applause; Being Much Corrected and Amended by the Author Before His Death Ortune, not Reafon, rules the fiatehfihings, ' Re ward goes backwards, Honor on his head Who is not poore, is'monfirous only Need Gives forme and worth to every humane feed. As Cedars beaten with continual] florme's, so' great men Bodrifh {and doe imitate Unskilful] fiatuaries, who fuppofe In forming a Colcfl'us) ifthey make him Stroddle enough, flroot, and look big, and gape, Their work is goodly do men meereiy great (in their affefied gravity of voice, Sowemeffe of countenance, manners cruelty, Authority, 'wealth, and all the (pawne of Fortune) Think they beare all thekingdone'es worth before them 3 Yet differ not from thofe Coloflick Statues, Which with Heroique forme's without o're-fpread, Within are nought but motter, flint and lead. Man is a Torch borne in the Winde; a Dream; But of a fhadow, fumm'd with all his fubflariee And as great seamen ufing all their wealth Andskills'in Neptune: decpc invifible pathes, M A 3in tall (lups richly built and txbcl with brae To put abr Girdle round about the world, have done it (coming neere their Are (slim to give a warning peece and call A poore {laid fifher man, that never pail His Countries fight, to waft and guide them 1n So w hen we Wander Furthefi through the waves laflie Glory and the Gulfes of State, Topt with alltitles fpteading all our reaches, As ifeach private Arme would fphete the earth, Wee mull to v ertue For her guide refort, Or Wee {hall fhipwiack 111 out {afeil Port. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.