| Edward Farr, ed. Select Poetry of the Reign of King James the First. 1847. | | | | Human Frailty | | LXIII. William Drummond |
| | | A GOOD that neuer satisfies the minde, | |
| A beautie fading like the Aprile flowres, | |
| A sweete with floods of gall that runnes combin’d, | |
| A pleasure passing ere in thought made ours, | |
| A honour that more fickle is than winde, | 5 |
| A glorie at opinion’s frowne that lowres, | |
| A treasurie which banckrupt time deuoures, | |
| A knowledge than graue ignorance more blinde, | |
| A vaine delight our equalles to command, | |
| A style of greatnesse in effect a dreame, | 10 |
| A swelling thought of holding sea and land, | |
| A seruile lot deckt with a pompous name,— | |
| Are the strange endes we toyle for heere below, | |
| Till wisest death make vs our errores know. | | | | |
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