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Yet nevertheless, remember this,
that one day we must die.
Then brave April doth sweetly smile,
the flow'rs do fair appear.
The child is then become a man,
to the age of twenty year.
If he be kind and well inclin'd,
and brought up at the school,
Then men may know if he forth show,
a wise man or a fool.
Then cometh May, gallant and gay,
when fragrant flow'rs do thrive,
The child is then become a man,
of age twenty and five;
And for his life doth seek a wife,
his life and days to spend.
Christ from above send peace and love,
and grace unto the end.
Then cometh June with pleasant tune,
when fields with flow'rs are clad.
And Phoebus bright is at his height,
all creatures then are fed,
Then he appears of thirty years,
with courage bold and stout,
His nature so makes him to go,
of death he hath no doubt.
Then July, comes with hot calms,
and constant in his kind;
The man doth thrive to thirty-five,
then sober is in mind.
