This lyfe a dreme and a shadow

This wretched life (the trust & confidence

Of whose contynuaunce maketh vs bolde to synne)

Thou perceiuest well by experience

Sith that houre in wiche hit dyde begynne

Hit holdeth on the course and wyll not lynne

But fast hit rynneth on and passen shall

As doth a dreme or a sadowe on the wall