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Visions Of The Worlds Vanitie. Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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One day whiles that my daylie cares did sleepe	A
My spirit shaking off her earthly prison	B
Began to enter into meditation deepe	A
Of things exceeding reach of common reason	B
Such as this age in which all good is geason	B
And all that humble is and meane debaced	C
Hath brought forth in her last declining season	B
Griefe of good mindes to see goodnesse disgraced	C
On which when as my thought was throghly placed	C
Vnto my eyes strange showes presented were	D
Picturing that which I in minde embraced	C
That yet those sights empassion me full nere	D
Such as they were faire Ladie take in worth	E
That when time serues may bring things better forth	F
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In Summers day when Phoebus fairly shone	B
I saw a Bull as white as driuen snowe	G
With gilden hornes embowed like the Moone	B
In a fresh flowring meadow lying lowe	G
Vp to his eares the verdant grasse did growe	G
And the gay floures did offer to be eaten	B
But he with fatnes so did ouerflowe	G
That he all wallowed in the weedes downe beaten	B
Ne car'd with them his daintie lips to sweeten	B
Till that a Brize a scorned little creature	D
Through his faire hide his angrie sting did threaten	B
And vext so sore that all his goodly feature	D
And all his plenteous pasture nought him pleased	C
So by the small the great is oft diseased	C
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Beside the fruitfull shore of muddie Nile	H
Vpon a sunnie banke outstretched lay	I
In monstrous length a mightie Crocodile	H
That cram'd with guiltles blood and greedie pray	I
Of wretched people trauailing that way	I
Thought all things lesse than his disdainfull pride	C
I saw a little Bird cal'd Tedula	H
The least of thousands which on earth abide	C
That forst this hideous beast to open wide	C
The greisly gates of his deuouring hell	H
And let him feede as Nature doth prouide	C
Vpon his iawes that with blacke venime swell	H
Why then should greatest things the least disdaine	B
Sith that so small so mighty can constraine	B
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The kingly Bird that beares Ioues thunder clap	A
One day did scorne the simple Scarabee	J
Proud of his highest seruice and good hap	A
That made all other Foules his thralls to bee	J
The silly Flie that no other redresse did see	J
Spide where the Eagle built his towring nest	C
And kindling fire within the hollow tree	J
Burnt vp his yong ones and himselfe distrest	C
Ne suffred him in anie place to rest	C
But droue in Ioues owne lap his egs to lay	H
Where gathering also filth him to infest	C
Forst with the filth his egs to fling away	H
For which when as the Foule was wroth said Ioue	K
Lo how the least the greatest may reproue	J
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Toward the sea turning my troubled eye	L
I saw the fish if fish I may it cleepe	A
That makes the sea before his face to flye	L
And with his flaggie finnes doth seeme to sweepe	A
The fomie waues out of the dreadfull deep	A
The huge Leuiathan dame Natures wonder	J
Making his sport that manie makes to weep	A
A sword fish small him from the rest did sunder	J
That in his throat him pricking softly vnder	J
His wide Abysse him forced forth to spewe	H
That all the sea did roare like heauens thunder	J
And all the waues were stain'd with filthie hewe	H
Hereby I learned haue not to despise	M
What euer thing seemes small in common eyes	M
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An hideous Dragon dreadfull to behold	C
Whose backe was arm'd against the dint of speare	J
With shields of brasse that shone like burnisht golde	C
And forkhed sting that death in it did beare	J
Stroue with a Spider his vnequall peare	J
And bad defiance to his enemie	N
The subtill vermin creeping closely neare	J
Did in his drinke shed poyson priuily	H
Which through his entrailes spredding diuersly	H
Made him to swell that nigh his bowells brust	C
And him enforst to yeeld the victorie	J
That did so much in his owne greatnesse trust	C
O how great vainnesse is it then to scorne	B
The weake that hath the strong so oft forlorne	B
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High on a hill a goodly Cedar grewe	H
Of wondrous length and streight proportion	B
That farre abroad her daintie odours threwe	H
Mongst all the daughters of proud Libanon	B
Her match in beautie was not anie one	B
Shortly within her inmost pith there bred	C
A litle wicked worme perceiue'd of none	B
That on her sap and vitall moysture fed	C
Thenceforth her garland so much honoured	C
Began to die O great ruth for the same	N
And her faire lockes fell from her loftie head	C
That shortly balde and bared she became	N
I which this sight beheld was much dismayed	C
To see so goodly thing so soone decayed	C
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Soone after this I saw an Elephant	C
Adorn'd with bells and bosses gorgeouslie	H
That on his backe did beare as batteilant	C
A gilden towre which shone exceedinglie	H
That he himselfe through foolish vanitie	C
Both for his rich attire and goodly forme	N
Was puffed vp with passing surquedrie	J
And shortly gan all other beasts to scorne	B
Till that a little Ant a silly worme	N
Into his nosthrils creeping so him pained	C
That casting downe his towres he did deforme	N
Both borrowed pride and natiue beautie stained	C
Let therefore nought that great is therein glorie	J
Sith so small thing his happines may varie	J
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Looking far foorth into the Ocean wide	C
A goodly ship with banners brauely dight	C
And flag in her top gallant I espide	C
Through the maine sea making her merry flight	C
Faire blew the winde into her bosome right	C
And th' heauens looked louely all the while	H
That she did seeme to daunce as in delight	C
And at her owne felicitie did smile	H
All sodainely there cloue vnto her keele	H
A little fish that men call Remora	J
Which stopt her course and held her by the heele	H
That winde nor tide could moue her thence away	H
Straunge thing me seemeth that so small a thing	O
Should able be so great an one to wring	O
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A mighty Lyon Lord of all the wood	C
Hauing his hunger throughly satisfide	C
With pray of beasts and spoyle of liuing blood	C
Safe in his dreadles den him thought to hide	C
His sternesse was his prayse his strength his pride	C
And all his glory in his cruell clawes	M
I saw a wasp that fiecely him defide	C
And bad him battaile euen to his iawes	M
Sore he him stong that it the blood forth drawes	M
And his proude heart is fild with fretting ire	J
In vaine he threats his teeth his tayle his pawes	M
And from his bloodie eyes doth sparkle fire	J
That dead himselfe he wisheth for despight	C
So weakest may anoy the most of might	C
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What time the Romaine Empire bore the raine	B
Of all the world and florisht most in might	C
The nations gan their soueraigntie disdaine	B
And cast to quitt them from their bondage quight	C
So when all shrouded were in silent night	C
The Galles were by corrupting of a mayde	C
Possest nigh of the Capitol through slight	C
Had not a Goose the treachery bewrayde	C
If then a Goose great Rome from ruine stayde	C
And Ioue himselfe the patron of the place	M
Preserud from being to his foes betrayde	C
Why do vaine men mean things so much deface	M
And in their might repose their most assurance	M
Sith nought on earth can chalenge long endurance	M
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When these sad sights were ouerpast and gone	B
My spright was greatly moued in her rest	C
With inward ruth and deare affection	B
To see so great things by so small distrest	C
Thenceforth I gan in my engrieued brest	C
To scorne all difference of great and small	H
Sith that the greatest often are opprest	C
And vnawares doe into daunger fall	H
And ye that read these ruines tragicall	H
Learne by their losse to loue the low degree	J
And if that fortune chaunce you vp to call	H
To honours seat forget not what you be	J
For he that of himselfe is most secure	J
Shall finde his state most fickle and vnsure	J