| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth. 1845. | | | | Address to Time | | XC. A. W. |
| | | ETERNALL Time, that wastest without wast, | |
| That art, and art not—diest, and liuest still; | |
| Most slow of all, and yet of greatest hast; | |
| Both ill and good, and neither good nor ill: | |
| How can I iustly praise thee or dispraise? | 5 |
| Darke are thy nights, but bright and cleare thy daies. | |
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| Both free and scarce, thou giu’st and tak’st againe; | |
| Thy wombe, that all doth breede, is tombe to all: | |
| Whatso by thee hath life, by thee is slaine; | |
| From thee do all things rise, to thee they fall: | 10 |
| Constant, inconstant; mouing, standing still: | |
| Was, is, shall be, doe thee both breede and kill. | |
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| I lose thee, while I seek to find thee out; | |
| The farther off, the more I follow thee; | |
| The faster hold, the greater cause of doubt; | 15 |
| Was, is, I know; but shall I cannot see: | |
| All things by thee are measured, thou by none; | |
| All are in thee, thou in thy selfe alone. | | | | |
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