A friends aduice in an excellent ditty, concerning the variable changes in this world : to a pleasant new tune. Campion, Thomas, 1567-1620. 1625 Approx. 6 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. Text Creation Partnership, Ann Arbor, MI ; Oxford (UK) : 2003-03 (EEBO-TCP Phase 1). A17874 STC 4541.5 ESTC S1852 22835581 ocm 22835581 25786 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A17874) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 25786) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1789:18) A friends aduice in an excellent ditty, concerning the variable changes in this world : to a pleasant new tune. Campion, Thomas, 1567-1620. 1 broadside : ill. Printed for H. Gosson, [S.l.] : [ca. 1625] Attributed to Thomas Campion by STC (2nd ed.) and NUC pre-1956 imprints. Date of imprint suggested by STC (2nd ed.). Without music. Reproduction of original in the Pepys Library. Created by converting TCP files to TEI P5 using tcp2tei.xsl, TEI @ Oxford. Re-processed by University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Northwestern, with changes to facilitate morpho-syntactic tagging. Gap elements of known extent have been transformed into placeholder characters or elements to simplify the filling in of gaps by user contributors. 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Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements). Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Ballads, English. 2002-11 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2002-12 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-01 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2003-01 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-02 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion A Friends aduice : In an excellent Ditty , concerning the variable changes in this World. To a pleasant new Tune . VVhat if a day , or a month , or a yéere , Crowne thy delights with a thousand wisht contentings , Cannot the chaunce of a night or an houre , Crosse thy delights , with as many sad tormentings ? Fortunes in their fairest birth , Are but blossomes dying , Wanton pleasures , doting mirth , Are but shadowes flying : All our ioyes are but toyes , Idle thouhgts deceiuing ; None hath power of an houre , In our liues bereauing . What if a smile , or a becke or a looke , Féede thy fond thoughts , with many a sweet conceiuing : May not that smile , or that becke , or that looke , Tell thee as well they are but vaine deciuing ? Why should beauty be so proud , In things of no surmounting ? All her wealth is but a shroud , Of a rich accounting : Then in this repose no blisse , Which is so vaine and idle : Beauties flowers haue their howers , Time doth hold the bridle . What if the world with allures of her wealth , Raise thy degree to a place of high aduancing ? May not the World by a check of that wealth , Put thée againe to as low dispised chancing ? Whilst the Suune of wealth doth shine , Thou shalt haue friends plenty : But come want , then they repine , Not one abides of twenty : Wealth and Friends holds and ends , As your fortunes rise and fall , Up and downe , rise and frowne , Certaine is no state at all ▪ What if a griefe , or a straite , or a fit , Pinch thée with paine , or the féeling panges of sicknes : Doth not that gripe , or that straine , or that fit , Shew thée the forme of thy owne true perfect likenesse ? Health is but a glimpse of ioy , Subiect to all changes : Mirth is but a silly toy , Which mishap estranges . Tell me then , silly Man , Why art thou so weake of wit , As to be in ieopardy , When thou maist in quiet sit ? Then if all this haue declar'd thine amisse , Take it from me as a gentle friendly warning ; If thou refuse , and good counsell abuse , Thou maist hereafter déerely buy thy learning : All is hazard that we haue , There is nothing byding , Dayes of pleasure are like streames , Through faire Medowes gliding , Wealth or woe , tune doth goe , There is no returning , Secret Fates guide our states , Both in mirth and mourning . The Second Part. To the same Tune . MAn 's but a blast , or a smoake , or a clowd , That in a thought , or a moment is dispersed : Life 's but a span , or a tale , or a word , That in a trice , or sodaine is rehearsed : Hopes are chang'd , and thoughts are crost , Will nor skill preuaileth , Though we laugh and liue at ease , Change of thoughts assayleth , Though a while Fortune smile , And her comforts crowneth , Yet at length failes her strength , And in fine she frowneth . Thus are the ioyes of a yeare in an hower , And of a month , in a moment quite expired , And in the night with the word of a noyse , Crost by the day , of an ease our hearts desired : Fayrest blossoms soonest fade , Withered , foule , and rotten , And through griefe , our greatest ioyes Quickly are forgotten : Séeke not then ( mortall men ) Earthly fléeting pleasure , But with paine striue to gaine Heauenly lasting treasure . Earth to the world , as a Man to the earth , Hath but a poynt , and a poynt is soone defaced : Flesh to the Soule , as a Flower to the Sun , That in a storme or a tempest is disgraced : Fortune may the Body please , Which is only carnall , But it will the Soule disease , That is still immortall , Earthly ioyes are but toyes , To the Senses election , Worldly grace doth deface Mans diuine perfection . Fleshly delights to the earth that is flesh , May be the cause of a thousand swéet contentings , But the defaults of a fleshly desire Brings to the Soule many thousand sad tormentings : Be not proude presumtious Man , Sith thou art a poynt so base , Of the least and lowest Clement , Which hath least and lowest place : Marke thy fate , and thy state , Which is only earth and dust , And as grasse , which alasse Shortly surely perish must . Let not the hopes of an earthly desire , Bar thée the ioyes of an endlesse contentation , Nor let not thy ●●e on the world be so fixt , To hinder thy heart from vnfeyned recantation : Be not backward in that course , That may bring thy Soule delight , Though another way may seeme Far more pleasant to thy sight ; Doe not goe , if he sayes no That knowes the secrets of thy minde , Follow this , thou shalt not misse An endlesse happinesse to finde . FINIS . Printed for H. Gosson .