Other Sonnets vpon other Subiects, 10

WIsedome, and Vertue cannot (if they would)
Misguide the Soule to whom they stil are Guides:
They guide to Glory going bt on Gold:
And all that Earth doth pretious hold besides.
Or, if ill Times should (with iniurious hand)
Oppresse Them in their Course, or Crosse theyr way,
Yet must He needs about Times Compasse stand
That, with such firm Vp-lifters, falls away.
The ayme of Wisedome, yea aud Fortunes too,
Is at one White, to make bright whom they loue:
Ne can Crosse Fortune Wisedoms Friends vndo,
Sith their vndoings do their makinges proue.
The Stars rule Fools, both ru'ld by Wisemen are:
So, ech Mans Manners do his Fortunes square.