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So do the flowers with ioftening showers,
ay spring, up as we see;
Yet nevertheless, remember this,
That one day we must die.
Then brave April doth sweetly smile,
the flowers doth 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 scoold.
Then men may know if he forth show,
a wise man or a fool.
Then cometh May gallant and gay,
when fragrant flow'rs doth thrivet
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.
May he above send peace and Love,
and grace into the end.
Then cometh June pleasant tune,
when fields with flow'rs are clad,
And Phoebus bright is at his height,
all creatures then are fed.
Thou he appears of thirty years,
with courage bold and stout,
His nature so makes him to go,
of death he hath no doubt.
