13 A poore chylde beyng wise, is better then an olde kyng that doteth, and can not beware in tyme to come.

14 Some one commeth out of prison, and is made a kyng: and another which is borne in the kyngdome, commeth vnto pouertie.

15 And I perceaued that all men lyuyng vnder the sunne, go with the seconde childe that shall stande vp in the steade of the other.

16 As for the people that haue ben before him, and that come after him, they are innumerable, and they that come after him shall not reioyce in him: This is also a vayne thyng, and vexation of mynde.

Ecclesiastes 4:13-16, Bishops' Bible of 1568. Public domain.
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