Note 93 — THE AUTHORS INDUCTION.
Reading edition
Thus in first edition.
Me thinkes they might beware by others harme, And eke eschue to clammer vp so hye: Yet cursed pryde doth all their wittes becharme, They thinke of naught but prouerbes true do trie: Who hewes aloft the chips may hurte his eye: Who climes the tops of trees, wher bowes ar smal, Or hawty towres, may quickly catch a fall. This thing full well doth Phaëtons fall declare, And Icarus aloft would flie and soare: Eke Bladud once of Britayne rule that bare, Would clyme and flie, but eache did fal therfore: For Phaëton was with lightning all to tore, And Icarus the meane that did not recke, Was drownde; by fal did Bladud breake his neck. The scriptures eake of such beare witnes can; As Babilon for high presumption fell: But let me ende my tale—