Other Sonnets vpon other Subiects, 5

SIth glorious Princes like to Mirrours are,
(As cleare, as brittle) how dare they contend:
Sith when they meete, and light vpon the bare,
They may see their beginnings, in their ende?
And, sith base Vp-starts like to Bladders bee
(Put vp with winde which maks them stiffe, as stout)
Mee thinkes each bound they should rise heauily:
Sith That which makes them mount, may let It out.
Lastlie, sith Men to Bubbles are compar'd
(Then which no Being's neerer kin to Nought)
Why from ill Thoughts do they their Wills not warde
Sith they may bee extinguisht with a thought?
It is sith Bubbles do but weake appeare:
So, in their Weaknesse, Men to Nought are neere!