Classic Poem

Little child, I counsel you that ye
Take heed unto the nurture that men use,
New-found or ancient whether it be,
So shall no man your courtesy refuse;
The guise and custom shall you, my child, excuse.
Men's works have often interchange,
What now is nurture, sometime hath been strange.

Things whilom used be now laid aside,
And new feats daily be contrived;
Men's acts can in no plight abide,
They be changeable and oft moved:
Things sometime allowed be now reproved;
And after this shall things uprise
That men set now but at little price.