Epigram 26 (When Adam couered his first nakednes,)

When Adam couered his first nakednes,
With figge tree leaues, he did, he knew not what,
The leaues were good indeed, but not for that,
God ordaind skins gainst his skins wretchednesse.
But gainst diseases and our inward neede,
To piece our life which slitting still doth passe.
What leafe do we not vse, what herbe, what grasse,
Their secret vertues standing vs in steede?
Thus in our garmentes these we cast away:
And yet our life doth weare them euery day.