Page:Age and life of man, or, A short description of the natur (sic), rise, and fall, according to the twelve months of the year.pdf/3

 Man's course on earth I will report,

if I have time and space;

It may he long, it may be short,

as God hath giv’n thee grace:

His nature to the herbs compare

that in the ground ly dead,

And to each month add five year,

and so we will proceed.

The first five years then of naan’s life

compare to JanuarJanuary [sic]

In all that time but sturt and strife,

he can but greet and roar:

So is the fields of flow’rs all brae,

by reason of the frost,

Keeping the ground both soft and found

yet none of them is lost.

So to years ten, I shall speak then,

of rebutar but lack;

The child is meek, and weak of sprtsort [sic],

nothing can undertake.

So all the flow’rs for lack of showers,

no springing up can make,

Yet birds do sing, and praise their K

and each one choose their mate.

Then in comes March that noble arch,

with wholesome spring and air.

The child doth spring to years fifteen,

with vifage fine and fair:

So do the flow’rs with softning show’rs

ay spring up as we see;