Vireo tamen

THE Semper-vivum, though from earth remoou'd,
His leafe with flower, are fresh and growing seene,
And many times, as by experience proou'd,
It will abide, in sharpest winter greene,
As faire, and full of life, vnto the view,
As if abroad, in fertil'st soile it grew.

So many men, of rarest partes there are,
Who though the world afford them not a foote,
Yet doe they thriue, within the emptie aire,
As well as they, that haue the richest roote:
Yea, when as some, that are vpheld like Hops,
Doe droope, and die, even vnderneath their props.