Book I, 2: On the contingencie of Actions

I Saw him dead; I saw his Body fall
Before Deaths Dart; whō tears must not recall:
Yet is he not so dead, but that his Day
Might have bin lengthen'd, had th'untrodden way
To life beene found: He might have ose agin,
If something had, or something had not bin:
What mine sees past, Heav'ns eie foresaw to come
He saw, how that contingent Act should summe
The toall of his Dayes: His knowing Eye
(As mine doth see him dead) saw he should die
That very fatall howre; yet saw his death,
Not so so necessary, but his Breath
Might beene enlarg'd unto a longer date,
Had he neglected This, or taken That:
All times to Heav'n are now, both first and last;
He see things present, as we see them past.