Barnabe Googe (
1540-
1594)
Give
money me, take
friendship whoso list,
For friends are gone, come once
adversity,
When money yet remaineth safe in chest,
That quickly can thee bring from
misery;
Fair face show friends when riches do abound;
Come time of proof, farewell, they must away;
Believe me well, they are not to be found
If
God but send thee once a lowering day.
Gold never starts aside, but in distress,
Finds ways enough to ease thine heaviness.