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Falls headlong downe into that pit of woe,

Fit for such damned creatures ouerthrow.

To make this publicke that obscured lies,

And more apparant vulgar secrecies:

To make this plaine, harsh vnto common wits,

Simplicitie in common iudgement sits.

This down-cast angell, or declining saint,

Is greedy Croone, when Cron makes his compt:

For his poore creditors faine to decay,

Being bankerouts, take heeles and run away.

Then franticke Cron, gald to the very hart,

In some by corner playes a diuels part:

Repining at the losse of so much pelfe,

And in a humor goes and hangs himselfe.

So of a saint, a diuell Cron is made,

The diuel lou'd Cron, and Cron the diuels trade.

Thus may you see such angels often fall,

Making a working day a festiuall.

Now to the third point of his deitie,

And that's th' earth, thus reasons credulitie:

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