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 Man's course on earth I will report,

si [sic] have tim and space.

It may be long it may be short,

as God hath given 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 man's life,

compare to Januar;

In all that time but sturt and strife,

he can but greet and roar;

So in the fields of flowers all bare,

by reason of the frost;

Keeping the gorundground [sic] both soft and sound,

yet none of them is lost

So to years ten I shall speak then,

of Februar but lack;

The child is meek and weak of spirit,

nothing can undertake.

So all the flowers for lack of showers,

uono [sic] springing up can make.

Yet birds do sing, and praise eirth King,

and each one choose their mate.

Then in comes March thntthat [sic] noble arch,

with wholesome spring and air.

This child doth spring to years fifteen,

with visage fine and fair;