When a poor man hath made many hungry meals, got together a small sum, which he loseth in an instant; a scholar spent many an hour's study to no purpose, his labours lost, &c., how should it otherwise be?

This day the sunne is in his chiefest hight, With Barnaby the bright*, From whence declining daily by degrees, He somewhat loseth of his heat and light, When once the Crab behind his back he sees.

The more the king loseth to Pushkara, the greater becometh his ardour for the play.