Note E485 — 112.
Reading edition
In the edition of 1577 the arrangement of this chapter is somewhat different. The Latin verses are first printed by themselves, and headed "Sancti Barnardi dicta," and after comes the English version, with the following title: "Eight of Saint Barnardes verses, translated out of Latin | into english by this Aucthor for one kind | of note to serue both ditties." The translation in the "Paradise of Dainty Devices," mentioned by Mason, is by Barnaby Rich, under the signature of "My Luck is Loss." The following is the first verse, transcribed for comparison with Tusser's version:
"Why doth each state apply itself to worldly praise? And undertake such toil, to heap up honour's gain, Whose seat, though seeming sure, on fickle fortune stays, Whose gifts are never prov'd perpetual to remain? But even as earthen pots, with every fillip fails: So fortune's favour flits, and fame with honour quails."