Other Sonnets vpon other Subiects, 8

WEre Mannes Thoughts to bee measured by Daies
Tenn thouzād Thoughts tē thousād Days should haue:
Which in a Day, the Mynd doth, daily, raise:
For, still the Mind's in motion like a Wave!
Or, should his Daies bee measured by Thought
Then Times shortst Moment they would faster flee:
Yet, Thought doth make his life both long, & nought.
That's nought, if longe, and longe, if nought it bee.
If longe it bee, for being nought, (though short)
The shortest thought of longe life is too longe:
Which thinkes it longe in laboure, short in sport,
So, Thought makes Life, to bee still old, or yonge:
But sith its full of thought, sith full of Synnes
Thinke it may ende, as thought of it beginnes.