THESES
,
OR
Generall
rules
drawne
by
Art
,
from
the
line
of
Nature
,
tried
by
the
touchstone
of
infallible
experience
,
and
applied
as
obseruances
to
these
present
times
;
hauing
reference
to
the
fiue
Sences
(
proper
subiects
)
to
which
they
are
restrained
.
Of
Seeing
.
1.
ESSAY
.
THough
the
eye
of
my
bodie
allude
to
the
eye
of
my
soule
,
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1
Sence
.
Of
Seeing
.
yet
is
the
eye
of
my
soule
darkned
by
the
eye
of
my
bodie
;
where
sence
inclines
to
concupiscence
,
affection
to
affectation
:
and
that
part
(
the
curious
modell
of
the
eye
)
which
ought
of
it selfe
to
be
a
directrice
to
all
other
Sences
,
becomes
the
principall
organ
of
error
to
the
affections
:
there
is
a
motiue
of
thankfulnes
in
the
eye
of
man
,
more
than
in
the
eye
of
any
other
creature
;
a
muscle
which
lifteth
the
eye
vpward
,
whereas
others
be
more
depressed
,
bending
downeward
.
Why
should
man
then
fix
the
eye
of
his
delight
on
the
creature
,
hauing
his
eye
made
to
looke
vp
to
his
Creator
?
The
eye
of
our
bodie
,
is
like
the
orbe
of
the
world
;
it
moueth
in
the
head
,
as
the
Sunne
in
the
firmament
;
take
away
the
Sunne
,
and
there
is
darknes
;
by
the
depriuation
of
the
eye
,
there
ensueth
blindnes
.
Conceits
by
nature
ripest
,
are
euer
wandringst
:
and
the
eye
of
all
parts
most
eminent
,
is
to
obiects
of
all
kindes
most
extended
:
though
I
gaze
,
till
mine
eye
be
dazled
,
yet
is
the
desire
of
mine
eye
neuer
satisfied
:
as
the
eye
of
all
other
Sences
is
most
needfull
,
so
of
all
others
it
is
most
hurtfull
:
it
findes
an
obiect
of
affection
pretending
Loue
,
when
her
ayme
is
cleane
contrary
,
peruerted
by
lust
;
there
is
no
passage
more
easie
for
the
entry
of
vice
than
by
the
cranie
of
the
eye
:
there
shee
hath
first
acceptance
,
facilest
entrance
,
and
assuredst
continuance
.
She
hath
first
acceptance
,
because
by
the
eye
first
entertained
:
facilest
entrance
,
because
of
all
others
easiest
to
be
induced
:
and
assuredst
continuance
,
because
once
perswaded
,
not
to
be
by
any
motiue
afterwards
restrained
.
There
is
nothing
so
litle
,
that
hath
such
diuersitie
of
operations
attending
it
;
being
moued
by
the
obiect
that
it
lookes
vpon
,
to
loue
or
hate
.
Passions
of
the
minde
receiue
their
greatest
impression
by
the
eye
of
the
bodie
;
and
soonest
are
they
allayed
,
when
the
eye
is
most
temperate
.
If
the
eye
chance
to
be
restrained
,
and
want
an
obiect
outwardly
,
it
makes
it self
a
mirror
represented
inwardly
,
and
sometimes
Narcissus-like
doates
for
want
of
a
substance
,
on
an
imaginarie
shadow
:
it
is
iealous
,
and
that
is
the
cause
,
it
is
euer
prying
into
others
secrets
.
He
is
a
wise
man
,
that
carries
his
eyes
in
his
head
,
making
them
his
Sentinels
:
but
he
is
foolish
,
that
sends
them
out
like
spies
,
to
betray
his
soule
to
the
obiects
of
vanitie
.
I
haue
heard
some
wish
,
that
some
space
before
their
death
,
they
might
be
depriued
of
their
sight
,
inferring
that
the
motions
of
the
Soule
were
aptest
for
inward
contemplation
,
when
the
eye
of
the
bodie
was
least
conuersant
in
outward
delectations
.
It
is
true
;
but
why
should
the
principallst
motiue
and
organ
of
thanks-giuing
be
an
occasion
to
the
minde
of
erring
?
I
haue
eyes
to
direct
me
by
obiects
outwardly
mouing
,
to
the
affections
of
the
soule
inwardly
working
.
It
is
against
reason
,
that
the
greater
light
should
be
extinguished
by
the
lesser
;
the
eye
of
the
soule
,
by
the
eye
of
the
bodie
.
A
candle
burnes
the
darkest
,
when
the
Sun
beames
shut
out
the
brightest
:
so
should
the
eye
of
the
bodie
subiect
her
light
to
the
soules
beauty
;
that
as
the
Sunne
cheeres
and
renewes
by
his
milde
aspect
,
cleeres
and
purifies
by
his
more
piercing
reflex
;
so
the
eye
of
the
soule
might
cheere
the
bodie
(
if
deiected
)
renew
her
(
if
decayed
)
and
purifie
her
maleuolent
affections
(
if
corrupted
.
)
Lastly
,
as
the
eye
is
the
bodies
guide
,
it
should
not
be
made
a
blinde
guide
;
it
should
lead
vs
,
and
not
in
our
straitings
,
leaue
vs
:
as
it
chalkes
vs
out
our
way
here
vpon
earth
,
so
it
should
cheere
vs
in
our
convoy
vnto
heauen
.
Of
Hearing
.
2.
ESSAY
.
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2
Sence
.
Of
Hearing
.
HEARING
is
the
organ
of
vnderstanding
;
by
it
we
conceiue
,
by
the
memorie
we
conserue
,
and
by
our
iudgement
wee
revolue
;
as
maine
riuers
haue
their
confluence
,
by
small
streames
,
so
knowledg
her
essence
by
the
accent
of
the
eare
.
As
our
eare
can
best
iudge
of
sounds
,
so
hath
it
a
distinct
power
to
sound
into
the
centre
of
the
heart
.
It
is
open
to
receiue
,
ministring
matter
sufficient
for
the
minde
to
digest
;
some
things
it
relisheth
pleasantly
,
apprehending
them
with
a
kinde
of
enforced
delight
:
some
things
it
distastes
,
and
those
it
either
egesteth
,
as
friuolous
,
or
as
a
subiect
of
merriment
meerly
ridiculous
.
In
affaires
conferring
delight
,
the
voluptuous
man
hath
an
excellent
eare
;
in
matters
of
profit
,
the
worldly-minded
man
is
attentiue
;
and
in
state-deportments
the
Politician
is
retentiue
.
The
eare
is
best
delighted
,
when
any
thing
is
treated
on
,
which
the
minde
fancieth
:
and
it
is
as
soone
cloyed
,
when
the
minde
is
not
satisfied
with
the
subiect
whereof
it
treateth
.
As
a
salue
faithfully
applied
,
oportunately
ministred
,
and
successiuely
continued
,
affords
comfort
to
the
Patient
;
so
good
instructions
deliuered
by
the
mouth
,
receiued
by
the
eare
,
and
applyed
to
the
heart
,
will
in
time
proue
motiues
to
the
most
impoenitent
.
They
say
,
the
obiect
of
the
eare
,
to
wit
,
Melodie
,
is
the
soueraing'st
preseruatiue
against
Melancholy
;
which
opinion
is
true
,
if
grounded
on
the
melodie
of
the
heart
:
for
externally
sounding
accents
,
though
they
allay
the
passion
for
an
instant
,
the
note
leaues
such
an
impression
,
as
the
succeeding
discontent
takes
away
the
mirth
that
was
conceiued
for
the
present
.
The
eare
is
an
edifying
sence
,
conveying
the
fruit
of
either
morall
or
diuine
discourse
to
the
imagination
,
and
conferring
with
iudgment
,
whether
that
which
it
hath
heard
,
seeme
to
deserue
approbation
.
A
judicious
and
impartiall
eare
obserues
not
so
much
who
speakes
,
as
what
is
spoken
;
it
admires
not
the
externall
habit
with
the
garish
vulgar
,
but
the
force
of
reasons
,
with
what
likelyhood
produced
.
If
Herod
speake
,
hauing
a
garment
glittering
like
the
sunne
,
the
light-headed
multitude
will
reuerence
Herod
,
and
make
him
a
deitie
,
not
so
much
for
his
speech
,
for
that
is
common
,
as
for
his
apparell
,
to
them
an
especiall
motiue
of
admiration
.
Such
as
these
(
the
common
sort
I
meane
)
haue
their
eares
in
their
eyes
:
whatsoeuer
they
heare
spoken
,
if
they
approue
not
of
the
person
,
it
skils
not
;
such
a
neere
affinitie
haue
the
eare
and
the
eye
in
the
vulgar
.
A
discreet
eare
seasons
the
vnderstanding
,
marshals
the
rest
of
the
sences
wandring
,
renewes
the
minde
,
preparing
her
to
all
difficulties
,
cheeres
the
affections
,
fortifying
them
against
all
oppositions
▪
those
be
the
best
Forts
,
and
impregnablest
,
whose
seats
,
most
opposed
to
danger
,
stand
in
resistance
against
all
hostile
incursions
,
brauely
bearing
themselues
with
honour
,
in
the
imminencie
of
danger
.
Such
be
the
eares
,
they
are
planted
in
the
high-rode-street
,
and
exposed
to
a
world
of
incursions
;
Scandall
,
than
which
nothing
more
swift
,
nothing
more
frequent
shoots
her
arrowes
,
detracting
by
aspersion
from
the
excellentest
modell
of
perfection
:
yet
a
resolued
eare
(
like
an
other
Antomedon
)
tempers
the
heat
of
her
passion
,
by
recourse
had
to
herselfe
and
the
sinceritie
of
her
owne
reputation
.
There
is
no
discord
so
harsh
to
a
good
eare
,
as
the
discord
of
the
affections
;
when
they
mutine
one
against
another
;
for
shee
heares
how
a
kingdome
diuided
cannot
stand
.
I
heare
many
things
I
would
not
heare
,
yet
being
enforced
to
heare
them
,
I
meane
to
make
this
vse
of
them
;
that
hearing
what
moueth
detestation
to
me
in
an
other
,
I
may
be
cautioned
not
to
represent
that
to
an
other
in
my selfe
.
As
the
Martin
will
not
build
but
in
faire
houses
:
so
a
good
eare
will
not
entertaine
any
thing
with
an
approued
iudgment
,
but
what
is
faire
in
it selfe
,
and
confers
an
equall
benefit
vnto
others
.
As
of
all
vertues
none
more
eminent
than
Iustice
;
so
no
sence
of
all
others
more
accommodate
than
Hearing
vnto
Iustice
.
It
is
an
excellent
commendation
,
which
the
Historian
giueth
to
that
princely
Monarch
and
father
to
the
worlds
sole
Monarch
,
Philip
of
Macedon
;
that
after
hearing
of
the
Plaintffe
,
he
would
euer
keepe
one
eare
open
for
the
Defendant
;
a
prerogatiue
princely
and
worthy
the
management
of
her
affaires
,
that
is
princesse
of
all
vertues
.
But
as
best
things
peruerted
,
proue
the
worst
;
so
fares
it
in
Attention
;
many
haue
eares
,
who
Mydas-like
are
depressed
to
earths
obiects
:
erect
them
how
can
they
,
hauing
their
attention
fixed
on
the
basest
of
subiects
?
with
how
prepared
an
eare
come
these
to
the
prediction
of
a
scarce
Summer
?
how
apt
these
be
to
heare
report
of
a
young
scape-thrift
,
ready
to
vnstrip
himselfe
of
a
faire
inheritance
vpon
any
termes
?
how
vnworthy
tidings
these
be
for
so
diuine
an
Herald
?
The
Eare
is
one
of
the
actiuest
&
laborioust
faculties
of
the
soule
:
pitty
then
it
is
that
the
soule
should
be
by
her
intangled
,
or
by
her
meanes
to
such
base
subiects
enthralled
,
being
for
the
succour
of
the
soule
principally
ordained
.
I
haue
thought
long
time
with
my selfe
,
how
I
should
imploy
this
Sence
best
for
my
soules
aduantage
:
wherein
I
tooke
a
suruey
of
all
those
subiects
,
to
which
this
peculiar
sence
of
Hearing
was
especiallest
extended
;
and
I
found
the
Eare
much
delighted
with
Musicke
;
but
finding
it
but
an
aërie
accent
,
breathed
and
expired
in
one
instant
,
I
thought
there
was
no
abiding
for
my
attentiue
Sence
;
fitter
to
be
employed
in
a
delight
more
permanent
.
Presently
I
made
recourse
to
the
acts
of
Princes
,
and
gaue
my
Eare
to
the
discourse
of
fore-past
exploits
:
Subiects
I
found
well
deseruing
my
attention
,
mouing
me
to
imitation
,
and
eying
my
own
weaknesse
with
their
puissance
,
forcing
me
to
admiration
.
But
retyring
to
my selfe
with
this
expostulatorie
discourse
;
Where
be
those
eminent
and
memorable
Heroës
,
whose
acts
I
haue
heard
recounted
?
where
those
victorious
Princes
,
whose
names
yet
remaine
to
posteritie
recorded
?
and
hearing
no
other
answer
,
saue
that
they
once
were
,
and
now
are
not
,
I
wayned
my
eare
from
such
a
subiect
,
as
onely
had
power
to
giue
vnto
the
memorable
a
name
,
but
no
essentiall
being
.
From
hence
trauersing
my
ground
,
I
descended
(
a
descent
I
may
terme
it
,
being
a
studie
of
lesse
height
,
though
of
more
profit
)
to
the
discourse
of
the
Lawes
:
where
I
found
many
things
in
their
owne
nature
worthily
approued
,
by
the
Prescription
of
time
,
and
Proscription
of
conscience
to
be
strangely
depraued
:
here
me
thought
,
I
saw
the
Poets
Arachne
,
spinning
webs
of
so
different
a
warpe
,
that
great
Flies
might
easily
breake
out
,
while
litle
ones
suffered
,
strange
vnctions
able
to
cast
Iustice
on
an
Euphuus
slumber
;
motions
made
to
moue
commotions
twixt
party
and
party
.
Here
was
no
employment
for
my
Sence
,
desiring
rather
a
direction
in
her
way
to
eternitie
,
than
to
haue
partiall-guilt
corruption
her
best
Solicitor
in
this
vale
of
misery
.
Whilest
I
was
thus
roving
,
seeking
for
a
Pylot
to
giue
free
and
safe
waftage
to
my
vnharbored
Sence
,
at
last
after
many
tempestuous
occurrences
,
my
afflicted
mindes
perturbations
,
I
fixt
anchor
,
and
by
the
direction
of
Reason
,
got
what
I
sought
for
,
a
quiet
harbour
.
And
where
may
I
limit
or
how
confine
the
straying
circle
,
of
many
perplexed
and
confused
thoughts
wherewith
I
am
surprized
,
within
so
blest
a
period
?
Not
by
the
appetite
,
for
that
slaues
the
best
of
man
to
vnworthiest
ends
:
nor
by
the
obedience
of
my
owne
proper
will
,
for
that
I
found
perverted
by
ayming
at
indirect
obiects
:
nor
by
ambition
,
which
alwaies
(
as
Pindarus
defined
her
,
was
accompanied
with
danger
in
assaying
,
impatience
in
prosecuting
,
and
an
opposition
of
expectance
in
atchieuing
:
nor
by
the
Vsurers
Calender
,
for
there
is
Auarice
,
that
decrepit
infirmitie
of
old
age
haling
,
many
a
poore-prodigall
Wittall
cursing
,
and
an
inward
corasiue
,
worse
than
any
outward
affliction
,
tormenting
:
Nor
by
the
Courtiers
fawning
,
where
times
be
obserued
,
fashions
imitated
,
good-cloths
admired
,
and
the
onely-generous
qualitie
is
to
be
phantasticall-idle
:
Nor
by
the
country-Farmers
engrossing
,
where
many
a
poore
Orphans
teare
accusing
,
many
a
desolate
widowes
complaint
contesting
,
and
the
hunger
staru'd
soule
witnessing
,
make
him
of
all
others
most
wretched
,
in
that
his
Nabal-securitie
makes
him
obdurate
.
These
are
not
guides
to
lead
my
directing
Sence
to
her
harbour
;
she
is
not
for
earth
;
her
Musicke
is
mixt
with
too
many
discords
.
The
worlds
harmonie
to
a
good
Christian
eare
,
may
be
compared
to
that
of
Archabius
the
trumpeter
,
who
had
more
giuen
him
to
cease
than
to
sound
:
so
harsh
is
the
sound
of
this
world
in
the
eare
of
a
diuinely-affected
soule
.
A
good
eare
will
not
say
,
as
the
powerfull
auditor
,
or
incorrigible
sinner
,
saith
to
his
Preacher
;
Speake
to
vs
pleasing
things
,
speake
to
vs
pleasing
things
:
for
these
must
haue
Orphuus
melodie
,
whom
the
Cyconian
women
tore
in
peeces
,
because
with
his
musicke
he
corrupted
and
effeminated
their
men
.
These
are
not
like
those
Deuils
,
whereof
Guydo
reporteth
,
that
cannot
abide
Musicke
:
these
are
contrary
Deuils
,
for
they
delight
in
nothing
but
the
musicke
of
Flatterie
.
These
obiects
are
not
made
to
harbour
me
;
my
pitch
is
higher
,
my
thoughts
more
vnbounded
,
my
eare
more
arrected
,
and
the
consideration
of
mine
owne
imbecillitie
more
apparent
:
it
is
heauen
she
aymes
at
;
the
Angels
,
with
which
shee
would
consort
,
and
that
melodie
of
the
superior
powers
,
which
yeeldeth
to
her
eare
the
absolutest
concord
;
shee
shall
sound
forth
therefore
(
tuning
her
voyce
by
her
eare
)
the
vnworthinesse
of
earths
affections
,
compared
to
that
excellencie
of
reall
delights
planted
aboue
.
First
,
shall
be
that
delight
,
which
depriued
the
first
Angell
of
his
eternall
delight
,
to
wit
,
Pride
;
whereby
we
become
like
Cinnamon-tree
,
whose
rinde
is
better
than
all
the
bodie
.
Hence
is
it
we
desire
to
reforme
the
workmanship
of
God
,
becomming
polishers
of
nature
,
garnishers
of
corruption
,
and
proud
of
our
shame
.
And
how
should
we
thinke
,
that
God
will
respect
vs
,
who
haue
disfigured
his
owne
similitude
,
and
so
disguised
our selues
as
he
can
hardly
know
vs
?
There
is
no
workman
,
that
regardeth
or
esteemeth
his
owne
workmanship
after
it
is
translated
and
transposed
by
others
;
and
wee
becomming
creatures
of
our
owne
making
,
shadowing
natiue
modestie
with
a
dissembling
blush
,
seeme
to
translate
that
amiable
forme
and
proportion
,
which
was
giuen
vs
by
our
Creator
,
to
an
vgly
and
promiscuous
habit
,
extracted
like
Flaccus
crow
,
from
the
phantasticke
invention
of
all
countries
.
The
ancient
law
obserued
,
that
such
as
had
a
yellow
locke
vpon
their
leprous
parts
,
were
not
to
consort
with
other
people
;
though
we
want
that
yellow
locke
,
the
apparent
token
of
leprosie
,
yet
we
haue
a
yellow
band
,
and
other
running
sores
of
vanitie
.
Far
be
this
vice
from
the
mansion
of
my
soule
,
lest
her
speedy
surprisall
,
depriue
me
of
all
:
and
euer
may
the
consideration
of
my
owne
weaknesse
,
restraine
me
from
the
least
conceit
of
aspiring
arrogance
.
Next
of
pleasure
,
shall
be
sensuall
delights
,
the
vaine
obeying
of
our
owne
affections
,
the
soules
bane
,
the
bodies
vlcer
,
and
the
Deuils
watch
bell
.
We
are
rocked
asleepe
,
and
sit
dandled
on
the
knee
of
an
impudent
strumpet
;
as
Babels
subversion
proceeded
from
the
height
of
her
sinne
;
so
this
linke
of
impietie
,
by
which
death
and
ruine
is
haled
along
to
vs
,
promiseth
subuersion
to
the
possessor
,
the
best
reward
her
serpentine
embraces
,
adulterate
affections
,
and
obsequious
delights
can
propose
to
her
attendants
.
Shall
my
eare
be
intangled
with
her
soules
staine
?
or
prostitute
her
attention
to
so
odious
a
subiect
?
shall
my
Sence
of
Direction
tend
to
my
subversion
?
or
the
bodies
instructresse
(
like
a
blinde
guide
)
throw
her
headlong
to
confusion
?
No
,
I
will
not
engage
so
excellent
an
hostage
as
my
soule
,
for
the
bitter-sweet
of
a
repenting
pleasure
.
Reason
tells
me
,
that
pleasure
merits
onely
that
title
,
when
it
is
relished
with
vertue
;
nor
can
sensualitie
satiate
the
delight
of
the
intellectuall
part
,
when
it
is
confined
to
immerited
respects
.
This
I
will
make
my
position
,
in
the
bent
of
my
resolution
;
I
meane
onely
so
far
to
obey
my
delights
,
as
the
after-hope
of
my
soule
may
not
be
abridged
,
the
future
ioy
in
the
expectance
of
soueraigne
happinesse
,
impayred
:
but
that
my
Sence
to
reason
subiected
,
may
in
the
sweet
concord
of
an
inward
contemplation
drawne
from
her
creator
,
apprehend
an
exceeding
pleasure
,
to
haue
done
any
thing
pleasing
to
her
maker
.
Can
I
finde
in
rich
coffers
(
the
misers
idols
)
any
true
obiect
to
plant
this
excellent
organ
?
ô
no
,
the
corruption
of
coine
is
the
generation
of
an
vsurer
,
or
a
lowsie
begger
.
For
the
first
,
I
loue
my
soule
too
wel
,
for
so
meane
&
base
a
traffick
to
hazard
a
gem
so
incomparable
:
heau'n
is
the
Tabernacle
I
desire
to
dwell
in
,
but
so
far
is
that
Mansion
from
the
conceit
of
our
English
Iew
,
or
oppressing
Vsurer
,
as
he
chuseth
rather
to
liue
in
the
tents
of
Kedar
with
the
depraued
issue
of
Dathan
,
than
by
hauing
Lazarus
scrip
,
to
be
carried
after
to
Abrahams
bosome
.
Rightly
was
his
experience
grounded
,
who
said
;
that
the
multitude
of
Physicians
and
Lawyers
are
the
signes
of
a
distempered
state
;
but
the
number
of
Vsurers
and
their
factors
,
is
the
argument
of
a
fatall
disease
raigning
:
For
the
second
,
to
wit
,
Beggery
;
I
know
not
what
to
thinke
on
't
:
It
is
a
beneficiall
trade
,
where
impudence
marshals
it
:
but
a
shamefast
beggar
(
saith
Homer
)
neuer
yet
could
liue
on
his
profession
.
I
could
wish
a
more
temperate
harbour
;
neither
too
rich
,
lest
the
fulnes
of
my
estate
make
me
insolent
;
nor
too
poore
,
lest
the
consideration
of
my
want
,
force
me
to
some
course
exorbitant
.
Pauperis
est
(
saith
the
Poet
)
numerare
pecus
:
but
boni
est
(
saith
Dauid
)
numerare
dies
:
it
shall
be
my
arithmeticke
,
my
golden
number
.
But
stay
,
let
me
reduce
my
thoghts
,
and
in
the
consideration
of
my
distempred
and
indisposed
affections
,
propound
to
my selfe
a
forme
which
I
may
obserue
,
a
line
by
which
I
may
direct
my
course
,
and
a
centre
,
where
I
may
end
my
distance
;
than
a
Caueat
which
may
restraine
me
,
an
obseruance
to
conduct
me
,
and
a
reason
drawne
from
an
inconvenience
to
divert
me
.
and
thus
I
expostulate
;
why
would
I
not
be
rich
?
why
no
extortioner
?
why
no
oppressor
?
why
no
biting
vsurer
?
Rich
I
would
not
be
,
lest
I
should
admire
my
owne
fortunes
,
and
after
admiration
fall
to
idolatrize
,
and
then
where
should
I
plant
my
future
expectance
?
it
is
hard
for
a
Cammell
to
goe
through
the
eye
of
a
needle
,
and
more
difficult
for
a
gold-adoring
Mammonist
to
enter
heauen
.
Extort
I
would
not
,
for
I
know
there
be
vialls
of
wrath
ready
to
be
powred
downe
on
the
Extortioner
:
and
though
the
wicked
for
a
while
flourish
like
the
greene
Bay-tree
,
time
will
come
,
when
his
place
is
not
to
be
found
.
Oppresse
I
cannot
,
when
I
heare
the
Orphans
teare
,
the
widdowes
curse
,
the
poore
mans
prayer
,
the
hunger-strau'd
soule
:
for
I
know
the
orphans
teares
will
be
botled
,
the
widdowes
curse
effected
,
the
poore
mans
praier
receiued
,
&
the
hunger-staru'd
soule
reuenged
.
Vse
my
money
,
but
vsure
it
I
will
not
:
ten
at
hundred
shall
not
depriue
mee
of
ten
hundred
times
more
glory
,
to
purchase
here
a
litle
treasure
subiect
to
corruption
,
and
transitorie
.
Quòd
foenorari
,
est
hominem
occidere
,
to
play
Vsurer
,
is
to
play
the
murtherer
,
saith
the
Orator
Cicero
:
Melodie
of
heauen
.
Of
Touching
.
3.
ESSAY
.
THis
facultie
of
all
others
is
most
indiuiduate
;
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3
Sense
.
Of
Touching
it
inheres
in
the
subsistence
of
man
,
and
cannot
be
separated
or
taken
away
without
the
detriment
or
vtter
decay
rather
,
of
the
subiect
wherein
it
is
:
it
may
therefore
be
called
the
liuing
Sence
,
though
in
diuers
diseases
&
occurrences
also
oft-times
befalling
,
the
subiect
wherin
it
is
,
may
be
depriued
of
it
;
as
we
read
of
Athenagoras
of
Argus
,
who
neuer
felt
any
paine
,
when
stung
by
a
Scorpion
.
This
Sence
hath
a
certaine
affinitie
with
the
essence
of
man
,
and
therefore
should
be
employed
in
such
things
,
as
confer
to
the
glory
of
that
Essence
:
many
abuse
it
,
who
belulled
with
the
lethargie
of
sin
and
securitie
,
neuer
turne
their
eye
to
a
serious
contemplation
of
the
supreme
glory
,
or
a
consideration
of
their
owne
frailtie
;
they
know
not
how
Gods
deferring
is
the
more
to
infer
;
how
hells
torments
were
no
torments
,
if
invention
might
conceit
them
.
These
are
they
that
are
depriued
of
the
spirituall
vse
of
this
Sence
;
crying
with
the
sluggard
,
yet
a
litle
,
and
yet
a
litle
;
turning
in
their
bed
like
a
dore
on
her
hinges
;
their
Delay
like
a
pulley
draweth
on
them
vengance
,
like
a
mighty
engine
,
razeth
downe
the
fortresse
of
their
soule
,
and
like
a
consuming
winde
,
or
violent
tempest
,
breaketh
downe
that
faire
Cedar
which
was
planted
for
the
heauenly
Libanon
.
When
neither
the
white
flagg
,
nor
the
red
,
which
Tamberlaine
aduanced
at
the
siege
of
any
Citie
,
would
be
accepted
of
,
the
blacke
flagg
was
set
vp
,
which
signified
there
was
no
mercy
to
be
looked
for
.
It
is
strange
that
man
endewed
with
reason
,
the
ornament
of
the
minde
,
should
become
so
blinded
with
a
terrestriall
rest
(
which
indeed
is
no
rest
,
but
a
torment
)
as
to
forget
his
owne
composition
;
being
made
of
no
better
temper
than
clay
,
and
as
a
vessell
in
the
hand
of
the
Potter
.
Far
more
wisely
did
Agathocles
that
prince
of
Sicilie
,
who
commanded
his
Image
to
be
made
with
the
head
,
armes
,
and
bodie
of
brasse
,
but
the
leggs
of
earth
,
to
intimate
of
how
weake
and
infirme
a
ground
,
his
imperiall
person
subsisted
.
Weake
indeed
,
and
of
as
weake
accomplishment
:
for
what
can
man
doe
,
wherein
he
may
glory
?
or
attribute
the
least
of
so
exquisite
a
worke
to
his
cunning
?
if
we
glory
in
any
thing
,
it
is
our
shame
,
which
is
no
glory
,
but
a
reproch
;
for
who
,
but
such
as
haue
a
fore-head
glazed
with
impudencie
,
will
triumph
in
their
owne
defects
,
or
boast
of
their
owne
imperfections
?
doth
the
Peacocke
glory
in
his
foule
feete
?
doth
he
not
hang
downe
the
taile
when
he
lookes
vpon
them
?
doth
the
Bucke
,
hauing
befiltht
himselfe
with
the
female
,
lift
vp
his
horns
,
&
walke
proudly
to
the
lawnes
?
ô
no
;
he
so
hateth
himselfe
,
by
reason
of
the
stench
of
his
commixture
,
that
all
drooping
and
languishing
into
some
solitary
ditch
,
he
with
drawes
himselfe
and
takes
soile
,
and
batheth
till
such
time
,
as
there
fall
a
great
shower
of
raine
,
when
,
being
throughly
washed
and
cleansed
,
he
posteth
backe
to
his
foode
.
If
such
apprehension
of
shame
appeare
in
brute
beasts
,
what
should
his
be
,
that
is
made
Lord
and
gouernour
of
all
beasts
?
is
this
liuinge
sence
,
this
vitall
faculty
,
this
indiuiduate
propertie
made
a
rubb
in
our
way
to
immortality
?
Doth
that
by
which
we
liue
,
cut
from
vs
all
means
of
liuing
hereafter
?
miserable
then
is
our
Sence
,
when
without
all
sence
of
sinne
,
we
become
depriued
of
the
sence
of
glory
.
This
Sence
of
Touch
may
be
reduced
to
those
three
obiects
,
wherein
our
vnderstanding
is
summarily
emploied
:
the
Intelligible
,
the
Irascible
,
and
the
Concupiscible
.
The
Intelligible
,
whereby
we
apprehend
the
end
of
our
creation
,
whereby
we
iudge
of
causes
and
events
,
touching
with
the
apprehensiue
hand
of
iudgement
,
what
may
concerne
vs
,
and
the
state
wherein
we
are
interested
.
The
Irascible
,
when
stirred
vp
with
ire
or
indignation
,
we
prosecute
reuenge
,
not
suffering
the
least
disgrace
without
an
intended
requitall
.
The
Concupiscible
,
when
in
an
ambitious
desire
of
honour
or
estate
,
or
lustfull
satisfaction
of
our
owne
illimited
affections
,
we
couet
this
or
that
,
ardent
in
pursuing
,
and
least
contented
,
when
obteining
that
we
haue
pursued
the
vnderstanding
if
rightly
seated
,
like
a
wise
Pylot
steres
the
ship
,
saues
her
from
splitting
,
mannaging
all
things
with
a
prouident
respect
had
,
of
what
may
come
after
.
No
Syren
can
tempt
this
wise
and
subtile
Vlisses
:
though
the
sea
looke
neuer
so
faire
,
this
wise
and
temperate
mariner
is
suspicious
of
it
,
knowing
,
Where
the
Sea
lookes
the
whitest
,
oftimes
the
periloust
rocks
,
and
ineuitablest
shelfs
are
seated
.
She
sinks
,
plumms
,
and
tryes
the
shaldes
,
whether
apt
for
nauigation
or
noe
:
in
briefe
she
doth
nought
without
serious
premeditation
,
&
fore-thinks
of
the
meane
,
ere
she
attaine
the
end
.
She
affects
not
curiosity
either
in
words
,
habit
,
or
manners
;
yet
vertuously
curious
how
to
expresse
herselfe
truely
honourable
in
all
deportments
,
without
aspersion
of
scandall
.
She
will
not
disguise
herselfe
in
an
vnhonest
couer
,
but
affecting
Plainenesse
,
teacheth
the
same
rule
and
precept
to
her
followers
,
which
Iesu
the
sonne
of
Syrach
taught
:
Ne
accipias
faciem
aduersus
faciem
tuam
:
not
to
be
dooble
faced
,
but
with
sincere
plainenesse
,
such
as
thou
art
,
such
do
thou
seeme
.
A
rule
far
more
accomodate
to
the
course
of
vertue
,
and
more
directly
leading
to
the
seate
of
glory
,
then
all
the
pollicies
which
euer
Machauell
yet
inuented
,
or
the
dissembling
appearances
of
all
obseruing
Timists
.
Though
Numa
Pompilius
in
Rome
kept
the
people
in
awe
,
and
subiected
them
to
what
tirannous
lawes
he
pleased
,
vnder
pretence
of
conference
with
Aegeria
;
Minos
in
Athens
,
vnder
colour
he
was
inspired
in
a
certaine
hollow
caue
by
Iupiter
;
and
Pallas
in
a
counterfeite
habit
,
deceaued
Claudius
,
in
the
adoption
of
Nero.
This
deuine
essence
of
the
soule
,
(
the
vnderstanding
part
)
will
assume
no
other
forme
then
as
she
is
:
knowing
her
perfection
cannot
be
made
more
accomplished
by
anie
borrowed
colours
.
She
vnderstands
her selfe
to
be
composed
of
a
more
deuine
element
,
then
to
subiect
her
will
to
vnworthy
ends
;
for
she
knowes
,
that
as
the
Sence
is
conuersant
in
outward
things
,
she
is
seated
in
inward
things
,
not
directed
by
the
eye
of
the
Body
,
which
is
many
times
deceued
,
but
by
the
eie
of
the
Soule
,
which
alwaies
aimeth
at
one
certaine
scope
,
to
wit
,
immortality
,
She
considereth
the
ends
,
which
mortality
aimes
at
;
honour
,
ample
territories
,
great
possessions
,
popular
respect
,
and
long
life
,
to
enioy
these
without
disturbance
,
and
she
makes
vse
of
these
with
a
penetrating
iudgment
,
apprehending
wherto
the
ends
of
these
externallie-seeming
goods
confer
.
Honour
(
saith
she
)
is
quickly
fading
,
and
an
aspiring
spirit
,
like
the
loftie
Cedar
,
is
euer
subiect
to
most
danger
;
when
like
iacks
in
a
virginall
,
or
nailes
in
a
wheele
,
the
fall
of
one
is
the
rising
of
another
.
ample
teritories
and
great
possessions
(
saith
she
)
are
more
then
nature
requireth
;
she
is
content
with
a
competent
;
and
that
competency
reduced
to
a
very
narrow
scantling
,
when
of
all
our
drosse
,
estate
,
tresure
and
possessions
,
going
downe
into
the
earth
,
nothing
shall
you
take
with
you
:
you
shall
carrie
no
more
hence
,
Nisi
parua
quod
vrna
capit
,
but
a
coffin
,
and
a
winding
sheete
.
When
Saladine
that
puissant
emperor
of
Persia
,
with
many
victorious
and
successiue
battails
,
had
extended
the
limits
of
his
Empire
,
and
through
the
happinesse
of
his
warrs
being
neuer
in
any
one
pitcht
field
vanquished
,
become
the
sole
terror
of
the
Easterne
part
,
at
last
fell
mortally
sicke
,
and
perceiuing
how
there
was
no
way
but
one
with
him
,
called
his
Chiefetaine
,
and
commanded
him
(
hauing
bin
chiefe
Leader
in
all
those
prosperous
warres
,
which
the
Emperor
had
atchieued
)
to
take
his
shrowding-sheet
,
and
to
hang
it
vpon
a
staffe
in
manner
of
a
banneret
,
and
with
it
,
to
proclaime
in
the
streets
of
Damascus
,
This
is
all
that
Saladine
,
the
Emperor
of
Persia
,
hath
left
of
his
many
conquests
,
this
is
all
he
hath
left
of
all
his
victories
.
Long
life
(
saith
shee
)
is
not
worth
desiring
,
since
it
giues
but
increase
to
a
multitude
of
sorrowes
;
she
prefers
a
good
life
,
before
a
long
life
,
and
esteemes
that
life
best
beyond
all
comparison
,
which
is
exercised
in
the
vse
of
her
creation
.
Shee
concludes
with
the
Philosopher
,
Optimum
est
aut
non
omnino
nasci
,
aut
quàm
cito
mori
;
making
life
the
Theatre
of
shame
if
abused
,
but
the
eminent
passage
from
a
pilgrimage
to
a
permanent
Citie
,
if
rightly
employed
.
To
be
briefe
,
she
meditates
of
nought
,
affecteth
nought
,
entertaineth
nought
with
a
free
will
,
and
a
pure
consecrated
desire
,
but
what
tastes
of
the
spirit
,
hauing
her
eare
barracadoed
against
the
insinuating
desires
of
euery
seducing
appetite
;
shee
is
not
of
the
world
,
though
in
the
world
;
nor
can
shee
loue
any
thing
within
the
worlds
circumference
,
in
regard
,
the
world
hath
her
limits
,
but
shee
not
to
be
confined
.
The
Irascible
is
attended
alwaies
vpon
by
Reuenge
:
for
the
obiect
of
the
wrathfull
facultie
is
honour
and
aduantage
,
and
if
this
cease
,
straight-waies
courage
and
stomach
decay
,
so
as
the
least
argument
of
distast
,
like
another
Silla
stirrs
her
blood
,
and
makes
vp
a
Centaures
banquet
.
This
Facultie
is
alwaies
as
ready
to
apprehend
an
occasion
of
punishing
(
yea
before
it
is
offered
)
as
to
obserue
the
meanes
of
executing
,
when
the
occasion
is
ministred
.
She
will
not
say
with
that
noble
Venetian
Duke
;
It
is
sufiicient
for
a
discreet
Prince
,
to
haue
power
to
reuenge
,
that
his
enemies
may
haue
cause
to
feare
him
.
No
,
meditation
vpon
reuenge
is
the
onely
prayer-booke
,
that
this
vnbounded
passion
vseth
.
Yet
may
this
part
rightly
tempered
include
in
it
an
excellent
good
:
for
Anger
is
not
alwaies
vnto
sinne
:
whence
it
is
said
,
Be
angry
,
but
sinne
not
.
Wee
may
be
angry
through
zeale
,
and
the
feruencie
we
beare
to
the
Gospell
:
Christ
was
angry
,
when
he
whipped
the
buyers
and
sellers
out
of
the
Temple
:
he
was
angry
,
when
his
Disciples
contended
for
prioritie
;
he
was
angry
at
the
incredulitie
of
the
Gentiles
,
the
obduracie
of
the
Iewes
;
yea
he
was
angry
at
the
barren
fig-tree
,
when
it
brought
out
no
fruit
,
and
therefore
cursed
it
,
shadowing
thereby
the
fruitlesse
synagogue
.
O
may
my
soule
,
if
euer
shee
be
angry
,
feele
this
passion
in
the
feruent
loue
shee
beares
to
her
Creator
:
may
her
anger
be
against
her selfe
,
in
the
wofull
remembrance
of
her
sins
;
that
her
anger
may
breed
a
detestation
,
detestation
a
reconciliation
to
her
Sauiour
.
But
for
such
as
with
the
Beare
cannot
drinke
,
but
they
must
bite
the
water
,
far
may
my
soule
be
diuided
from
their
dwelling
:
I
will
be
angry
,
but
commit
no
sin
,
for
the
God
of
Sion
hath
prescribed
mee
a
forme
,
to
be
angry
for
the
zeale
of
Gods
house
,
wherin
is
no
sin
.
The
Concupiscible
is
as
the
rest
,
of
it selfe
indifferent
;
and
as
a
line
in
a
circle
,
equally
tending
to
either
part
of
good
or
euill
:
yet
so
depraued
is
man
become
,
that
Medea-like
,
he
is
euer
more
prompt
to
take
the
worse
rather
than
the
better
:
here
the
couetous
miser
couets
to
engrosse
an
huge
estate
to
himselfe
,
making
his
purse
the
diuels
mouth
,
and
with
his
hydroptick
conscience
,
though
euer
purchasing
,
yet
euer
coueting
.
Here
the
ambitious
man
displaies
his
own
humor
to
the
eye
of
the
world
,
of
whom
I
may
say
,
as
was
once
said
of
one
puffed
vp
with
the
like
spirit
:
Quod
habere
non
vult
est
valde
bonum
,
quod
esse
non
vult
,
hoc
est
bonum
:
that
is
good
which
he
desires
not
to
haue
,
that
is
good
which
he
would
not
haue
come
to
passe
;
so
exorbitant
is
the
desire
of
the
ambitious
,
as
what
he
desires
is
nothing
lesse
then
vertuous
:
here
the
Merchant
aymes
at
an
exceeding
gaine
in
trafficke
;
he
sliceth
the
seas
,
opposeth
himselfe
to
all
dangers
,
all
distempratures
of
winde
and
weather
,
euer
vsing
this
concupiscible
part
,
desiring
a
happy
fraught
for
his
aduenture
.
Here
the
Warriours
desire
is
confined
,
to
gaine
by
the
spoile
of
an
other
.
euen
the
basest
mechanicke
offices
be
conuersant
in
this
facultie
,
ayming
at
some
especiall
end
,
whereto
their
labors
be
directed
.
To
couet
things
temporarie
,
planting
our
affections
on
them
,
is
discrepant
from
the
right
vse
of
this
excellent
facultie
:
there
is
a
good
couetousnes
,
and
it
is
heauenly
;
there
is
a
good
theft
,
and
it
is
heauenly
;
there
is
a
good
ambition
,
and
it
is
heauenly
:
The
good
and
godly
couetous
couet
not
with
Demas
,
nor
Magus
,
nor
Demetrius
;
they
couet
righteousnes
,
sobrietie
,
temperance
,
yea
all
vertues
which
confer
to
humane
perfection
;
there
is
but
one
pearle
of
esteeme
,
and
to
purchase
it
,
they
sell
all
that
they
haue
;
this
is
a
happy
couetousnesse
,
a
glorious
merchandise
:
the
good
and
godly
thiefe
cares
not
for
embezling
earthly
treasure
;
for
he
knowes
mothes
will
corrupt
it
,
rust
will
consume
it
,
and
continuance
of
time
will
deface
it
;
it
is
that
immortall
treasure
which
he
would
steale
,
for
he
obserues
how
it
is
subiect
to
no
alteration
,
but
continues
in
the
same
state
euer
.
Againe
,
he
reads
,
the
kingdom
of
heauen
suffers
violence
,
and
rather
then
he
will
loose
it
,
with
all
violence
he
meanes
to
pursue
it
.
The
good
and
godly
ambitious
ayme
not
at
worldly
honour
,
but
as
a
subiect
incomparably
aboue
all
externall
seeming
happinesse
:
for
they
consider
how
it
is
better
to
be
a
doore-keeper
in
the
Lords
house
,
than
to
be
conversant
with
Princes
.
Happy
theefe
,
whose
theft
is
heauen
;
blessed
couetousnesse
,
to
couet
heauen
;
glorious
ambition
to
aspire
to
heauen
;
may
this
Theft
be
my
soules
discipline
;
this
Couetousnesse
her
exercise
;
this
Ambition
her
prize
:
so
like
the
good
Theefe
,
may
shee
be
crowned
,
with
the
godly-couetous
Zacheus
rewarded
,
and
with
the
heauenly-aspiring
soule
exalted
.
How
happy
shall
I
be
in
this
Sence
(
the
life
of
humane
essence
)
if
by
vsing
these
three
faculties
of
my
soule
sincerely
,
I
shall
at
last
attaine
to
the
state
of
glory
?
yet
how
much
is
this
Sence
,
especially
conuersant
in
these
three
subiects
,
perverted
,
and
violently
wrested
from
her
own
nature
?
where
such
as
desire
to
touch
the
Arke
,
make
this
Sence
the
instrument
of
their
fall
:
others
Gehezai-like
,
whose
beating
pulse
will
not
forgo
the
touch
of
gold
,
though
they
purchase
it
by
a
leprosie
.
O
how
many
fall
by
this
Sence
of
life
,
making
it
their
sence
of
death
?
Sodoms
apples
were
but
touched
,
and
to
dust
and
ashes
they
were
reduced
:
the
fairest
of
all
our
vanities
be
but
Sodoms
apples
,
they
cannot
endure
the
touch
,
for
they
are
painted
and
adulterate
.
Far
be
my
Sence
estranged
from
so
prophane
a
subiect
:
Vertue
,
as
it
needs
no
colour
to
garnish
it
,
so
can
it
endure
the
Touch
,
and
neere
be
changed
.
It
is
shee
that
shall
attend
my
Sence
,
so
as
touching
her
intellectually
,
my
soule
by
so
sweet
an
apprehension
,
may
be
incorporate
in
her
indiuidually
.
Here
is
my
liuing
Sence
well
satisfied
,
and
in
this
harbour
planted
,
she
will
neuer
desire
to
be
remoued
:
for
affliction
is
ended
,
discontent
cheered
,
and
a
perfect
rest
,
without
interruption
,
by
her
that
is
the
true
essence
of
delight
,
proposed
.
Of
Tasting
.
4.
ESSAY
.
THis
Sence
makes
mee
weeppe
ere
I
speake
of
her
;
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4
Sence
.
Of
Tasting
.
sith
hence
came
our
greefe
,
hence
our
miserie
:
when
I
represent
her
before
my
eyes
,
my
eyes
become
blinded
with
weeping
,
remembring
my
grandame
Eue
,
how
soone
she
was
induced
to
taste
that
shee
ought
not
.
Hence
doe
I
imagine
(
imagination
is
the
end
of
man
)
how
pure
I
had
bin
,
if
this
one
Sence
had
not
corrupted
my
pristine
innocencie
:
apples
are
suspicious
to
me
,
being
the
first
that
depraued
me
.
I
will
rather
distaste
mine
owne
palate
to
giue
true
rellish
to
my
soules
appetite
,
than
by
satisfying
the
first
,
corrupt
the
puritie
of
the
latter
.
By
the
ministerie
of
this
Sence
,
I
apprehend
the
vniuersal
delights
of
this
world
,
and
as
in
the
Palate
,
so
finde
I
in
them
a
distinct
operation
.
Many
things
hot
in
the
mouth
,
are
cold
in
the
stomacke
:
such
are
wordly
pleasures
:
hot
they
are
in
the
first
pursuite
or
assault
,
and
eagerly
are
they
followed
:
but
in
the
stomacke
,
that
is
,
when
digested
and
rightly
pondered
,
how
cold
are
those
Pleasures
,
being
attended
on
by
remorse
,
and
obserued
by
repentance
.
Againe
,
hence
doe
I
gather
the
frailty
and
breuity
of
all
earthly
pleasures
?
Whatsoeuer
ministers
singular'st
content
vnto
our
appetite
,
is
no
longer
satisfieing
then
in
the
palate
;
for
after
going
into
the
stomach
,
that
content
is
done
.
So
delights
momentany
,
and
limitarie
to
an
instant
,
may
for
the
present
yeild
a
satisfaction
,
but
how
soone
be
these
ioyes
extinguished
,
how
soone
forgotten
?
This
Sence
cautions
me
of
two
Sects
,
the
Epicure
and
Pithagorist
,
the
first
by
too
much
exceeding
,
the
latter
by
too
much
restraining
;
the
Epicure
puts
his
mony
in
his
belly
,
as
the
Miser
doth
his
belly
in
his
purse
:
but
the
Pithagorist
neither
cares
for
belly
nor
purse
,
scrupulously
abstayning
from
that
which
was
ordained
for
his
vse
.
The
fiue
Sences
(
saith
one
)
be
our
greatest
sleepers
;
yet
I
may
affirme
that
this
Sence
neuer
sleepeth
;
for
there
is
nothing
seemingly-sencelesse
,
which
she
apprehends
not
either
with
free
taste
or
distaste
.
Of
all
others
,
this
Sence
produceth
the
diuerst
qualities
:
whence
it
is
we
say
,
Like
lips
,
like
lettice
:
where
this
facultie
,
either
by
an
indisposition
of
the
bodie
,
or
a
distinct
operation
in
the
subiect
,
showes
this
pleasing
and
acceptable
to
one
,
which
is
noysome
and
different
to
an
other
.
This
Sence
must
haue
the
bodie
and
minde
prepared
,
before
shee
can
rightly
show
her
owne
power
;
she
admits
of
no
distemper
,
suffers
no
restraint
:
whence
it
is
,
that
we
finde
by
experience
,
where
the
bodie
is
not
equally
disposed
,
this
facultie
hath
much
of
her
operation
impaired
.
The
best
taste
is
to
distaste
sin
,
and
the
worst
taste
is
to
affect
that
,
which
confers
to
the
soulea
distaste
of
all
tastes
inherent
in
all
subiects
,
none
lesse
distinguishing
than
the
hungry-mans
taste
:
which
may
appeare
in
those
miserable
famines
of
Samaria
and
Ierusalem
;
ratts
,
mice
,
weasels
,
and
scorpions
were
no
common
mens
iunkets
;
where
motherly
loue
renounced
her
name
,
and
became
the
ruine
of
that
shee
should
cherish
;
as
the
Matron
Myriam
,
who
constrained
for
her
liues
supportance
(
though
shee
had
but
one
sonne
)
killed
and
rosted
him
.
Hence
comes
it
,
that
necessitie
hath
no
law
,
nor
hunger
needs
no
sawce
.
Let
my
Taste
be
directed
by
reason
,
and
not
by
sence
.
Reason
may
enlighten
her
,
and
make
her
distinguish
of
desires
;
but
Sence
perplexeth
her
,
and
subiects
the
better
part
to
a
slauish
appetite
.
Many
haue
exceeded
in
the
vse
of
this
Sence
,
but
few
restrained
their
desires
with
moderation
.
More
Cleopatra's
than
Cornelia's
,
more
Vitellij
than
Vticae
,
more
Sileni
than
Salustij
:
ancient
and
moderne
replenish
vs
with
stories
of
this
nature
;
where
violent
ends
euer
attended
the
immoderation
of
Princes
,
but
healthfull
liues
,
and
ioyfull
periods
summ'd
vp
the
dayes
of
the
temperate
.
The
Venetians
giue
vs
instance
of
these
in
themselues
;
amongst
which
there
appeares
one
more
memorable
:
Domenico
Syluio
his
Duchesse
,
was
so
delicate
a
woman
,
as
she
would
haue
dew
gathered
to
make
her
Baine
withall
,
with
many
other
curious
perfumes
and
tricks
;
yet
before
her
death
her
flesh
did
rot
,
so
as
no
creature
could
come
neere
her
.
May
my
Taste
be
seasoned
with
no
such
delicacie
:
let
my
affection
rather
disclaime
herselfe
,
than
vndo
my
soule
by
intemperate
subiects
.
I
will
not
care
so
much
to
taste
what
I
loue
,
as
what
I
hate
;
for
I
know
my selfe
more
subiect
to
surfet
in
the
one
,
than
in
the
other
.
I
haue
tasted
most
of
inferior
delights
,
yet
in
a
generall
suruey
of
all
my
pleasures
,
I
cannot
chuse
but
weepe
,
to
remember
how
those
delights
which
I
affected
,
produce
no
other
fruit
but
Repentance
.
The
taste
of
vice
to
a
mortified
affection
,
is
like
sweet
meats
to
him
that
is
in
an
ague
:
shee
is
distastfull
,
and
becomes
more
odious
,
in
that
shee
cloaths
delight
with
an
habit
of
wantonnesse
.
I
will
chuse
with
holy
Hierome
,
to
build
me
a
cell
in
the
desart
,
to
liue
out
of
the
heat
of
concupiscence
,
rather
than
by
liuing
in
the
eye
of
the
world
,
enthral
my
reasonable
part
to
the
appetite
of
Sence
.
Taste
ingenders
delight
:
I
will
not
taste
euery
thing
I
like
,
lest
late
repentance
force
me
to
distaste
that
which
I
liked
.
I
will
fore-see
the
end
,
ere
I
approue
of
the
means
,
that
grounding
on
a
golden
meane
,
I
may
attaine
a
glorious
end
.
No
tempting
delight
shall
feede
my
appetite
:
for
as
preuention
is
the
life
of
policie
;
so
temptation
,
if
consented
to
,
is
the
passage
to
miserie
.
Fowles
of
the
ayre
,
though
neuer
so
empty-stomackt
,
flie
not
for
foode
into
open
pit-falls
:
Quae
nimis
apparent
retia
,
vitat
avis
.
My
soule
shall
imitate
the
bird
,
that
she
may
escape
(
like
the
bird
)
out
of
the
hand
of
the
Fowler
.
How
happy
were
I
,
if
I
would
taste
nothing
but
what
ministers
content
to
the
minde
,
sustayning
nature
,
but
not
oppressing
her
,
feeding
,
but
not
pampering
her
,
cheering
,
but
not
cramming
her
.
I
haue
tasted
many
liquors
,
yet
none
like
the
brinie
current
of
mine
eyes
:
teares
are
best
extinguishers
of
sin
,
preparatiues
to
remorce
,
motiues
to
true
contrition
:
precious
Elixir
may
thou
euer
be
my
drinke
in
the
time
of
my
pilgrimage
,
and
quench
my
thirst
of
sin
with
a
desire
of
an
heauenly
inheritance
.
As
the
Nurse
layeth
wormwood
or
aloes
on
her
pap
,
to
waine
her
childe
from
sucking
,
so
will
I
sprinkle
some
bitter
thing
vpon
such
things
as
I
affect
,
that
my
delight
may
be
restrained
.
How
full
of
comfort
am
I
,
when
my
taste
is
directed
to
a
right
end
?
and
how
directed
,
when
it
is
besotted
with
vanities
?
How
far
better
were
it
,
to
liue
temperate
,
taste
all
things
as
indifferent
,
and
conclude
our
dayes
in
quiet
,
than
to
haue
Diues
doom
,
Nabals
doale
,
or
Balthazars
fall
?
how
far
better
were
it
to
liue
like
the
Hermit
in
the
desert
,
then
like
the
sensuall
Libertine
in
the
world
so
dissolute
?
what
is
it
to
feed
lusciously
,
fare
daintely
,
tast
all
things
with
full
satiety
,
when
our
fare
shal
be
reduced
to
famine
,
our
luscious
feeding
to
Soule-staruing
,
and
our
Satiety
here
on
earth
,
to
our
penury
for
euer
in
hell
?
it
is
better
to
distribute
to
those
that
craue
,
vse
temperance
in
what
we
haue
,
&
make
our
posteritie
true
heyres
of
what
we
leaue
,
than
to
cry
in
midst
of
an
eternall
flame
,
for
one
small
drop
to
quench
our
thirst
,
and
not
be
heard
;
for
one
crum
,
and
not
be
satisfied
;
for
one
minutes
ease
,
and
not
released
.
Taste
may
my
soule
no
such
dainties
as
may
starue
her
;
delighted
be
my
soule
,
but
with
no
such
vanities
as
may
corrupt
her
;
reioyce
may
my
soule
,
but
in
no
other
subiect
,
no
other
obiect
,
yea
her
only
maker
.
Soe
in
the
tast
of
this
life
,
shall
I
remember
my
yeres
with
bitternesse
of
heart
:
that
my
life
which
is
reckned
not
by
yeres
,
but
Howres
,
not
how
many
,
but
how
good
,
may
be
as
the
Tast
of
sweete
smelling
odors
,
in
the
nose-thrills
of
her
Sauiour
;
there
is
no
odour
like
it
,
no
perfume
to
be
compared
to
it
;
it
is
a
saving
sauour
;
a
pretious
odour
;
and
the
Saints
honour
.
Happy
Sence
that
is
thus
saincted
;
comfortable
taste
that
is
thus
renewed
;
and
blessed
soule
that
is
thus
invited
;
Taste
and
see
how
sweet
the
Lord
is
;
sweet
in
his
mercies
,
sweet
in
his
promises
,
and
sweet
in
his
performance
.
And
such
is
the
spirituall
sweetnes
,
which
euery
devout
soule
conceiueth
in
the
contemplation
of
eternitie
,
whose
ioy
is
not
in
the
tents
of
Kedar
,
but
in
the
bowels
of
her
Sauiour
;
not
with
the
inhabitants
of
Moloc
,
but
the
glorious
seed
of
Isaac
:
these
haue
their
taste
in
the
greene
and
flourishing
pastures
of
Gods
word
;
distasting
the
slesh-pots
of
Aegypt
,
and
relishing
onely
the
manna
of
heauenly
Canaan
.
Pleasures
which
are
earthly
,
they
neither
long
for
in
expecting
,
nor
loue
when
enioying
.
They
haue
found
obstruction
in
the
Sences
corporall
,
but
free
passage
in
the
Sences
spirituall
.
They
compare
worldly-tasting
men
to
those
wilde
asses
,
which
snift
the
winde
;
their
desires
extend
onely
to
be
thought
good
,
dis-esteeming
the
excellencie
of
reall
goodnesse
,
which
maketh
man
truly
happy
.
They
obserue
foure
sorts
of
men
in
the
world
discouered
by
the
eye
of
wisdome
:
Some
are
wise
,
but
seeme
not
so
;
some
seeme
so
,
but
are
not
so
;
some
neither
are
nor
seeme
;
some
both
are
and
seeme
:
the
last
,
these
onely
partake
;
for
as
their
essence
concurrs
with
their
appearance
,
so
scorne
they
to
expresse
more
in
semblance
,
than
they
are
in
essence
;
if
there
were
no
God
,
yet
these
men
would
be
good
:
and
for
sin
,
though
they
wist
(
to
vse
Seneca's
words
)
that
neither
God
nor
man
knew
it
,
yet
would
they
hate
it
.
O
my
taste
be
thus
seasoned
,
my
palate
thus
relished
,
my
affections
thus
marshalled
,
my
whole
pilgrim-course
thus
managed
,
that
my
Taste
may
distaste
earth
,
rellish
heauen
,
&
after
her
dissolution
from
earth
,
enioy
her
mansion
in
heauen
.
Of
Smelling
.
5.
ESSAY
.
SO
prouident
hath
that
great
workeman
bin
of
all
his
creatures
,
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5
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5
Sence
.
Of
Smelling
.
as
no
delight
euen
in
this
Tabernacle
of
earth
,
is
wanting
to
make
him
more
accomplished
:
and
though
the
fiue
Sences
(
as
that
deuout
Barnard
obserueth
)
be
those
fiue
gates
,
by
which
the
world
doth
besiege
vs
,
the
Deuill
doth
tempt
vs
,
and
the
flesh
ensnare
vs
;
yet
in
euery
one
of
these
,
if
rightly
employed
,
is
there
a
peculiar
good
and
benefit
redounding
to
the
comfort
of
the
soule
,
no
lesse
than
to
the
auaile
and
vtilitie
of
the
bodie
.
For
euen
by
the
Smell
,
as
by
the
conduit
,
by
which
is
conveyed
vnto
vs
the
dilated
fountaine
of
Gods
mercie
,
doe
we
apprehend
all
varieties
of
flowers
,
sootes
,
sweetes
:
which
moued
the
Philosopher
to
terme
this
Sence
,
the
Harbinger
of
the
Spring
.
Some
are
of
opinion
,
that
this
peculiar
Sence
,
is
an
occasion
of
more
danger
to
the
body
than
benefit
,
in
that
it
receiues
crude
and
vnholesome
vapours
,
foggie
and
corrupt
exhalations
,
being
subiect
to
any
infection
;
it
is
true
:
but
what
especiall
delights
confers
it
for
one
of
these
inconveniences
;
cheering
the
whole
bodie
with
the
sweetest
odours
,
giuing
libertie
to
the
vitall
powers
,
which
otherwise
would
be
imprisoned
,
delight
to
her
fellow-Sences
,
which
else
would
be
dulled
,
and
the
sweet
breathing
ayre
,
which
by
her
is
reciued
:
all
these
(
as
so
many
arguments
of
consequence
)
bring
vs
to
a
more
exact
acknowledgment
of
this
Sences
excellencie
.
The
Smelling
is
termed
the
vnnecessariest
of
all
other
Sences
,
yet
may
it
be
employed
in
cases
of
necessitie
;
witnesse
Democritus
,
who
against
the
celebration
of
the
feast
Buthysia
,
fasted
nine
dayes
,
sustayning
nature
onely
with
the
smell
of
hot
bread
.
This
Sence
of
mine
shall
not
be
subiected
to
outward
delicacies
:
Let
the
Courtier
smell
of
perfumes
,
the
sleeke-fac'd
Lady
of
her
paintings
,
I
will
follow
the
smell
of
my
Sauiours
oyntments
:
how
should
I
be
induced
,
following
the
direction
of
reason
,
by
such
soule-bewitching
vanities
,
which
rather
peruert
the
refined
lustre
of
the
minde
,
than
adde
the
least
of
perfection
to
so
excellent
an
essence
?
No
,
let
Pigmalion
dote
on
his
owne
picture
,
Narcissus
on
his
shape
,
Niobe
on
her
numerous
progenie
;
my
Taste
,
shall
be
to
taste
how
sweet
the
Lord
is
;
my
Touch
,
the
apprehension
of
his
loue
;
my
sight
,
the
contemplation
of
his
glory
;
my
eare
,
to
accent
his
praise
;
my
smell
,
to
repose
in
the
faire
and
pleasant
pastures
of
his
word
.
O
comfort
truly
styled
one
;
in
that
my
soule
transported
aboue
herselfe
,
vnites
her selfe
to
be
ioyned
to
her
Redeemer
.
The
Gardens
of
the
Hesperides
warded
and
guarded
by
those
three
daughters
of
Atlas
,
were
pleasant
;
the
Gardens
of
Lucullus
fragrant
;
the
Groue
of
Ida
eminent
;
yet
not
comparable
to
those
exquisite
pleasures
,
which
the
diuine
pastures
comprehend
;
there
is
that
hedged
Garden
,
that
sealed
Well
,
that
Bethesda
,
that
Eden
,
that
Syloe
;
here
may
the
delight
of
euery
Sence
be
renewed
;
the
thirstie
satisfied
,
the
hungry
filled
,
the
sicke
cured
,
the
labourer
cheered
,
and
the
exquisite
mirrour
of
all
perfection
;
torrent
of
euer-flowing
bounties
,
Iessaes
branch
,
Aarons
rod
,
and
that
flowrie
garden
of
Engaddi
represented
.
There
is
mel
in
ore
,
melos
in
aure
,
iubilus
in
corde
;
honie
to
the
taste
,
melodie
to
the
eare
,
and
harmonie
to
the
heart
;
honie
which
breedes
no
loathing
,
melodie
which
is
neuer
discording
,
harmonie
euer
agreeing
.
This
it
is
to
be
ioyned
to
an
heau'nly
spouse
,
sending
from
Paradice
pomgranats
,
with
the
fruits
of
apples
;
Cypresse
,
Nard
,
Nard
and
Saffron
,
mountaine
of
eternal
spices
.
FINIS
.
ORNATISSIMO
ET
LECTISSIMO
VIRO
,
I.
B.
de
L
:
EQVITI
AVRATO
,
PVBLICAE
PACIS
IVRISQVE
STVDIOSISSIMO
.
Pariterque
H.
B.
FILIO
INTER
SVPERSTITES
ORTV
MAXIMO
,
TALI
PATRE
NATO
DIGNISSIMO
,
INDOLIS
OPTIMAE
,
SPEI
AMPLISSIMAE
,
MENTIS
TENACISSIMAE
.
RICHARD
BRATHWAYT
HANC
DETRACTIONIS
NARRATIVN
CVLAM
,
IN
GRATAM
ANIMI
MEMORIAM
(
INVITA
QUORUNDAM
INVIDIA
:
)
candide
,
condite
,
intime
,
integre
D.
D.
D.
DETRACTION
.
DEtraction
is
a
sin
,
deriued
from
him
,
who
first
seduced
woman
to
sin
:
shee
is
conuersant
in
extenuating
of
vertues
,
detracting
from
the
good
,
and
spying
occasion
how
to
derogate
from
his
worth
,
which
is
most
deseruingly
eminent
:
shee
is
called
by
the
sententious
Lipsius
,
a
priuy
guilefull
wounding
of
the
name
,
by
these
two
instruments
,
Pen
and
Tongue
:
she
is
termed
by
that
diuine
Philosopher
,
a
secret
vndermining
thiefe
,
that
breaketh
into
the
precious
cabbinet
of
all
morall
vertues
,
not
to
possesse
them
,
but
corrupt
them
,
not
to
enioy
them
,
but
detract
from
them
:
shee
is
harbored
in
male-contents
,
respectiuely
entertained
by
Nouelists
,
an
inquisitiue
obseruer
of
state-affaires
,
and
a
serious
agent
in
ciuill
diuisions
:
she
is
a
great
enemie
to
peace
,
yet
expects
small
benefit
by
warre
,
neuer
contented
so
long
as
she
sees
deseruing
men
honoured
:
shee
is
amongst
men
as
pernicious
,
as
to
God
odious
,
being
a
profest
foe
to
none
more
than
such
as
be
zealous
of
God
.
Saturne
is
said
to
haue
predominancie
ouer
her
,
Idlenesse
is
the
foster-mother
of
her
,
and
Enuie
claimeth
an
especiall
prerogatiue
in
her
.
It
is
strange
to
see
how
her
censures
be
euer
grounded
on
ignorance
in
matters
of
knowledge
,
where
publike
or
priuate
imputation
vseth
to
be
the
maine
scope
of
her
invention
.
Rightly
was
shee
compared
to
the
venemous
Tarantula
bred
in
the
region
of
Apulia
,
whose
stinging
was
not
to
be
cured
by
ought
but
Musicke
,
to
wit
,
the
melodie
of
a
sincere
and
patient
minde
,
prepared
to
endure
whatsoeuer
she
shall
inflict
,
yet
able
to
wipe
of
,
whatsoeuer
she
can
asperse
.
As
it
is
the
propertie
of
a
friend
to
conceiue
well
,
to
defend
,
and
speake
well
of
those
labours
we
compose
,
or
actions
we
performe
(
saith
Lucilius
)
:
so
is
it
the
vse
of
a
discontented
and
malignant
nature
,
to
depraue
the
best
by
misconstruction
,
euer
ayming
at
the
worst
:
much
like
the
Toade
,
that
may
not
endure
to
smell
the
sweet
sauour
of
the
Vine
,
when
it
flourisheth
.
Whence
I
may
iustly
assume
a
particular
complaint
,
hauing
got
the
name
of
a
Detractor
,
which
I
neuer
merited
.
But
well
doe
I
perceiue
whence
I
gained
that
title
,
traduced
not
deserued
,
being
by
malice
suggested
,
or
on
misconstruction
(
the
indirectest
path
to
probable
opinion
)
grounded
.
For
Construction
is
the
moulder
of
Detraction
:
and
impossible
is
it
,
that
so
many
different
mindes
should
iumpe
in
one
censure
;
for
particular
vices
enforce
an
application
to
our selues
,
what
was
meant
in
generalitie
.
So
as
nothing
can
be
writ
in
how
temperate
a
style
soeuer
,
but
some
personall
distast
may
be
occasioned
contrary
to
the
minde
of
the
Author
,
yet
sorting
with
their
owne
vicious
humour
:
whereas
it
would
rellish
more
of
true
wisdome
,
to
reforme
that
in
our selues
,
which
giues
occasion
of
reproofe
vnto
others
,
then
publikely
to
discouer
our
owne
defects
,
by
applying
that
to
our selues
,
which
perchance
,
had
as
neere
,
if
not
neerer
affinitie
to
others
.
And
herein
was
Vespasian
commendable
,
who
apprehensiue
enough
of
offence
,
and
powerfull
enough
to
reuenge
,
could
wisely
forbeare
to
be
captious
in
the
one
,
or
violent
in
the
other
.
As
for
popular
opinions
,
which
haue
their
foundation
on
no
other
ground
than
erring
Repentance
,
I
appeale
from
them
to
a
firmer
and
faithfuller
testimonie
,
that
is
,
my
owne
conscience
,
which
can
say
thus
much
for
me
in
lieu
of
so
many
obiections
:
Non
habeo
in
me
,
quod
testetur
contra
me
:
so
sincere
were
my
purposes
from
the
beginning
,
as
they
euer
aymed
at
a
more
generous
and
glorious
marke
,
than
to
stoupe
to
such
basenes
,
as
personall
calumniation
,
the
infallible
note
of
an
ignoble
and
vnworthy
disposition
.
Albeit
more
apparant
it
is
than
light
:
vt
Belluae
sunt
humanae
,
ita
homines
belluini
;
whose
depraued
actions
should
be
glanced
at
,
whereby
shame
might
reclaime
them
,
seeing
themselues
brought
forth
naked
to
the
world
,
or
the
examples
of
others
deterre
them
,
whose
fearefull
ends
were
occasioned
vpon
like
meanes
.
And
such
as
these
be
as
necessarie
fautors
and
supporters
of
vertue
,
and
her
declining
soueraigntie
,
as
those
cherishers
and
professors
of
vice
be
principall
causes
of
vertues
decrease
:
yea
those
be
they
,
which
that
regall
patron
and
patterne
of
iustice
,
Aristides
,
termed
the
Centinels
of
his
kingdome
,
because
they
rowsed
and
raised
his
people
from
the
secure
sleepe
of
ryot
and
excesse
,
perswading
them
to
imployments
more
generous
and
manly
,
than
to
expose
so
precious
a
treasure
as
Time
to
sensuall
effeminacie
.
Amongst
these
(
I
confesse
it
)
I
may
be
ranked
,
nor
is
this
Ranke
vnworthy
the
approbation
of
the
best
:
for
my
ayme
hath
euer
bin
(
so
farre
as
the
small
portion
of
my
abilitie
extended
)
to
propose
a
way
as
accommodate
,
to
the
course
of
vertue
in
a
generall
obseruance
,
as
particular
practise
:
endeauouring
to
instance
in
my selfe
by
example
,
what
my
Workes
proposed
by
instruction
.
Wherein
,
if
at
any
time
I
failed
,
(
as
what
man
liuing
may
not
at
sometimes
faile
,
if
not
fall
)
so
vnsained
and
vrgent
was
my
desire
of
redeeming
the
time
I
lost
,
as
I
surceased
not
to
labour
till
I
regain'd
what
I
lost
.
Yea
,
so
farre
haue
my
thoughts
euer
beene
from
excusing
or
extenuating
my
imperfections
(
which
haue
beene
euer
before
mine
eyes
)
as
I
made
that
diuinely-morall
instruction
of
Epictetus
,
my
entirest
Councellour
:
who
wils
mee
to
denie
the
sinnes
mine
enemy
taxes
me
with
,
but
to
reproue
his
ignorance
,
in
that
,
being
vnacquainted
with
the
infinitie
of
my
crimes
(
which
minister
no
lesse
occasion
of
feares
then
teares
)
he
layes
onely
two
or
three
to
my
charge
,
whereas
,
indeed
I
am
guilty
of
a
million
.
But
for
that
other
ranke
,
whose
oyly
tongues
can
smooth
the
errours
of
the
vicious
,
aswell
as
smother
the
deseruing
parts
of
the
vertuous
,
I
asmuch
loath
the
gaine
of
their
trafficke
,
as
I
hate
their
trade
.
For
the
world
shall
not
hire
me
to
vtter
one
word
to
their
praise
,
which
depraue
the
world
,
nor
the
eminentst
rewards
force
mee
to
detract
,
where
vertue
bids
me
commend
.
For
so
small
is
the
content
I
reape
on
earth
,
as
I
see
nothing
in
it
of
that
worth
,
which
might
moue
mee
to
Flattery
:
or
of
that
daring
command
,
to
force
mee
to
dispraise
what
is
good
,
hauing
a
prepared
soule
within
me
.
Briefly
,
as
I
detest
these
base
creepers
,
so
will
I
seeke
to
auoide
the
daungerous
company
of
detractours
,
since
the
former
,
as
they
imply
spirits
ignoble
and
depressed
,
so
the
latter
inferre
troubled
minds
,
and
such
as
are
discontented
.
Long
time
therefore
haue
I
resolued
to
sconce
my selfe
betwixt
these
two
,
for
who
so
obserueth
not
a
meane
is
in
danger
of
being
split
by
one
of
these
two
.
But
to
returne
to
the
nature
of
these
Detractors
,
which
Pindarus
calls
men
of
vncurbed
mouths
,
they
are
euer
itching
after
newes
,
which
by
an
vncharitable
glosse
,
they
labour
so
to
peruert
,
as
they
may
redound
to
the
imputation
of
some
personall
agent
interrested
in
those
affaires
.
They
are
subtill
interpreters
to
the
worst
sence
:
for
(
Spider-like
)
they
sucke
poyson
out
of
the
holesomest
flowers
.
As
euery
age
is
infected
with
their
poison
,
so
no
age
from
them
,
can
plead
exemption
.
Where
nature
her selfe
shall
be
reuiled
by
them
,
being
shee
that
first
produced
them
.
One
findes
fault
with
nature
,
and
taxeth
her
of
indiscretion
,
for
setting
the
Bulls
hornes
rather
on
his
head
then
his
backe
,
being
the
stronger
part
.
An
other
,
that
she
should
place
both
the
eyes
before
,
whereas
prouidence
would
haue
set
one
behinde
,
and
an
other
before
,
to
arme
man
against
danger
aswell
behinde
,
as
before
.
Yea
,
euen
those
Orators
,
and
Pleaders
for
the
prerogatiue
of
nature
,
haue
beene
oftimes
seene
to
detract
from
her
Soueraignty
:
as
the
sensuall
Epicure
,
whose
absurd
opinion
was
,
that
there
was
indeed
a
Superiour
power
,
which
had
commaund
ouer
the
inferiour
Creatures
:
Yet
was
that
Power
but
an
idle
God
,
louing
his
rest
and
quiet
,
and
retyring
himselfe
from
the
care
of
man
or
his
affaires
;
giuing
him
free
scope
and
liberty
to
doe
what
he
list
,
and
reposing
the
Supreame
happinesse
of
a
Deity
in
rest
.
To
confirme
which
palpable
opinion
,
some
irreligious
Epicures
of
our
time
,
for
the
better
establishing
their
doctrine
of
security
,
haue
produced
,
or
rather
most
impiously
traduced
that
portion
of
sacred
Scripture
,
Requieuit
Dominus
in
septimo
die
super
omnia
quae
patrarat
.
So
generally
pernicious
is
this
poison
of
the
world
,
as
it
aymes
not
onely
at
inferiour
Subiects
,
but
euen
at
the
transcendent
power
of
the
Almighty
,
piercing
(
that
I
may
vse
Homers
words
)
the
spheare
of
Heauen
,
&
wounding
Iupiter
himselfe
.
These
be
those
Aspes
tongs
,
which
poyson
our
good
names
;
Those
Spiders
,
which
with
an
art
full
of
secret
admiration
,
bring
webs
out
of
their
bodies
to
intangle
vs
poore
Flies
in
their
snares
;
Those
spreading
tetters
which
eate
into
our
reputation
;
Those
Suck-blouds
which
exhaust
the
pith
and
marrow
of
our
Soules
;
They
are
those
Canker-wormes
,
which
euer
browze
on
the
tenderest
and
sweetest
blossomes
of
our
vertues
.
In
briefe
,
whatsoeuer
is
opposed
to
good
,
that
are
they
,
aspersing
the
foulest
blemishes
,
on
men
of
approuedst
deseruings
.
True
it
is
,
that
nothing
is
more
swift
than
Calumnie
,
for
shee
is
euer
flying
;
more
eager
,
for
she
is
euer
assailing
;
more
cautelous
,
being
euer
prying
;
more
tyrannous
,
being
euer
raging
,
or
more
remorcelesse
,
being
euer
deuouring
.
In
a
well-gouerned
state
,
this
Axiom
holds
euer
impregnable
;
Eadem
est
foelicitas
vnius
hominis
&
totius
ciuitatis
:
but
how
far
shee
is
estranged
from
that
felicitie
,
may
appeare
by
the
hate
shee
beares
to
euery
good
man
within
the
Citie
;
professing
for
faith
,
fraud
;
mixing
deceit
with
fairest
pretences
of
affection
;
conversing
with
purpose
to
traduce
,
importunate
in
the
pursuit
of
acquaintance
,
which
she
makes
as
notorious
by
her
report
,
as
if
they
were
Prodigies
in
nature
,
by
their
life
.
Shee
cannot
endure
to
entertaine
such
into
the
lists
of
her
discourse
,
as
affect
a
reserued
silence
:
for
those
cannot
yeeld
her
argument
of
talke
,
because
they
are
not
talkers
.
Those
which
Catiline-like
,
will
promise
much
and
doe
litle
,
rellish
better
in
her
palate
,
than
such
,
as
Iugurth-like
,
will
speake
litle
but
doe
much
.
Thus
far
in
expression
of
her
nature
,
I
will
now
touch
the
place
of
her
abode
.
For
the
place
of
her
abode
,
it
is
harder
to
finde
where
she
is
not
,
than
where
she
is
;
in
diuers
villages
,
as
obscure
,
as
time
could
make
them
,
haue
I
liued
,
and
I
haue
euer
noted
one
Mother
Trattles
,
newes-carrier
to
all
her
neighbor-gossips
within
the
parish
:
One
that
had
art
to
tell
a
tale
with
winks
and
nods
:
yea
so
excellent
were
these
old-trots
in
invention
,
as
they
could
make
one
and
the
selfe-same
tale
,
told
in
disgrace
of
one
neighbour
to
another
,
with
a
litle
alteration
,
as
pleasing
to
the
latter
,
as
the
former
.
It
pleased
therefore
the
Spartan
Orator
,
to
call
them
brands
,
because
raisers
of
ciuill
differences
and
heart-burnes
one
with
another
.
Brands
indeed
,
as
well
to
publike
states
as
priuate
families
;
whose
many
ruines
will
witnesse
,
that
though
the
wound
be
healed
,
the
scar
remaines
still
,
harboring
that
Viper
within
them
,
that
preyed
on
them
;
so
miserable
was
their
fate
to
cherish
her
which
occasioned
their
fall
.
Rightly
did
he
say
,
that
termed
them
Antipodes
to
all
good
men
,
because
they
walke
alwaies
in
a
path
opposite
to
the
trace
of
vertue
,
being
as
indirect
in
their
courses
,
as
vncharitable
in
their
censures
.
For
iudgment
,
they
as
much
disclaime
it
,
as
those
that
are
profest
enemies
vnto
it
;
so
much
for
conceit
they
thinke
onely
requisite
,
as
may
detract
from
merit
,
and
adde
to
disgrace
.
The
Athenian
tearmed
them
Owles
,
haters
of
light
,
Bats
,
recreants
to
their
owne
,
Scarabees
,
euer
feeding
on
vlcerous
flesh
;
aptly
displaying
their
natures
,
by
these
borrowed
names
.
But
for
their
place
of
being
,
as
they
euer
loue
to
insinuate
into
the
acquaintance
of
the
eminentst
persons
,
so
they
make
them
the
vsualst
subiects
of
their
discourse
:
wherein
they
vse
to
compare
their
Actions
and
parts
with
their
Progenitors
,
whose
vertues
they
make
as
transcendent
,
as
they
disvalue
the
commendable
qualities
of
those
now
present
:
and
which
is
more
remarkeable
,
though
they
be
altogether
ignorant
of
what
their
Ancestours
did
,
yet
expresse
they
their
actions
,
in
dispraise
of
their
successours
,
as
by
ocular
experience
they
knew
what
they
did
.
Farre
bee
my
thoughts
estraunged
from
conuersing
or
commercing
with
these
men
;
yea
,
may
I
rather
not
speake
,
then
detract
from
the
vertues
of
the
least
eminent
by
speaking
.
I
haue
euer
wished
,
that
my
speeches
might
tend
rather
to
edification
of
some
,
then
imputation
to
any
.
For
so
free
haue
my
intentions
beene
from
publike
or
priuate
Calumnie
,
as
my
inuention
(
euer
grounded
on
a
probable
truth
)
hath
euer
seated
and
setled
it selfe
,
on
the
serious
commending
of
goodnesse
,
with
a
modest
improuing
of
what
was
vicious
.
Yea
,
I
may
safely
auow
(
out
of
a
sincere
confidence
within
me
)
that
I
neare
saw
the
man
,
who
could
worthily
taxe
me
in
this
kinde
:
indeede
Poesie
,
which
one
of
the
Fathers
is
pleased
to
terme
vinum
daemonum
,
not
because
it
cheeres
but
charmes
Sinne
,
may
seeme
sometimes
to
Satyrize
,
when
it
is
personall
application
,
not
the
Authours
intention
which
makes
his
Poeme
a
Satyre
:
rightly
therefore
was
that
resolue
of
the
Greeke
Poet
grounded
:
At
him
my
Satyre
aimes
,
Whose
application
claimes
,
That
it
to
him
was
sent
Howseuer
it
was
ment
.
and
that
againe
of
the
golden
Moralist
:
Satyres
are
like
to
Images
in
wax
,
Taxing
such
men
whose
guilt
themselues
doth
tax
.
for
my
part
,
I
haue
bin
euer
so
religious
an
obseruant
of
my
friend
,
as
I
wish
rather
not
to
liue
,
than
by
my
lines
to
loose
any
mans
loue
:
especially
when
I
esteeme
(
with
that
diuine
Sage
)
my
friends
life
,
my
best
of
humane
glory
,
and
his
good
name
the
essentiallst
part
of
his
life
;
but
wonder
I
cannot
chuse
(
for
else
should
I
wonder
at
my
owne
stupiditie
)
how
any
should
harbour
the
least
conceit
of
an
intended
Detraction
by
me
or
by
my
Labours
,
vnlesse
my
title
of
Deuill
imply
so
much
,
which
may
seeme
to
haue
affinitie
with
that
which
the
Greekes
terme
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
Detraction
:
but
I
hope
,
the
iudicious
,
whose
censures
haue
not
their
dependence
on
titles
but
essences
,
types
but
truths
,
are
resolued
of
the
remotenesse
of
my
thoughts
from
such
an
vngenerous
condition
;
meane
time
,
as
the
intentions
of
my
soule
are
grounded
on
a
more
setled
foundation
,
than
the
opinion
of
that
monster-multitude
,
so
shall
my
studies
euer
be
directed
for
the
satisfactorie
delight
and
profit
of
the
generous
.
I
am
now
drawing
from
the
world
,
heauens
forbid
,
that
I
should
proue
such
a
seruile
obseruer
of
the
world
,
as
to
prize
her
Fauours
before
my
fortunes
in
an
other
world
.
In
briefe
,
as
I
am
now
learning
how
to
number
my
dayes
,
so
will
I
take
a
strict
account
of
the
expence
of
my
howres
,
that
my
dayes
well
numbred
,
may
bring
me
to
the
length
of
dayes
neuer
to
be
summed
;
that
my
howres
well
expended
,
may
bring
me
to
ioyes
in
that
last
howre
,
neuer
to
be
ended
:
so
shall
those
vertues
which
I
haue
in
others
admired
moue
me
to
imitation
,
those
vices
which
I
haue
obserued
in
others
,
enforce
in
me
a
detestation
.
Male
de
me
loquuntur
sed
mali
,
mouerer
si
de
me
M.
Cato
,
si
Lelius
sapiens
,
si
duo
Scipiones
ista
loquerentur
,
nunc
malis
displicere
laudari
est
.
Seneca
ad
Galion
:
de
remed:
fortuit
:
FINIS
.
RESOLVES
.
I
Offered
before
the
sacrifice
of
my
teares
;
now
remaines
the
prosecution
of
my
Resolues
:
that
as
the
first
were
symbols
and
signalls
of
my
conuersion
and
contrition
,
so
the
latter
might
be
persuasiue
motiues
of
my
firmer
resolution
.
Dry
be
those
teares
of
repentance
,
which
are
not
seconded
by
a
zealous
continuance
;
sith
the
perfection
of
vertue
is
perseuerance
;
and
fruitlesse
is
that
zeale
,
which
like
the
seede
in
the
parable
,
is
either
by
the
thornie
cares
of
the
world
choaked
,
by
the
heat
of
persecution
parched
,
or
by
stonie
impenitencie
and
obduracie
withered
:
I
will
therefore
by
the
power
of
him
that
made
me
,
so
forme
my
Resolution
,
that
I
may
finde
a
comfortable
friend
in
the
day
of
my
dissolution
;
so
shall
the
howre
of
my
death
be
my
convoy
to
life
,
my
Exit
a
conduct
to
a
more
glorious
intrat
,
my
farewell
on
earth
to
my
welfare
in
heauen
;
reaping
for
what
I
sowed
in
teares
,
in
a
plenteous
haruest
of
ioyes
.
Thus
therefore
I
addresse
my
Resolues
,
which
I
wish
may
be
with
like
feruor
receiued
,
as
they
were
composed
,
ministring
no
lesse
matter
of
consolation
to
the
devout
Reader
,
then
they
did
of
mortification
to
the
penitent
Author
.
I
resolue
to
fix
mine
eye
(
more
intentiuely
)
vpon
my
image
,
that
my
forme
may
put
me
in
minde
of
my
former
.
I
haue
conversed
too
long
with
the
world
:
I
will
fall
from
discourse
to
contemplation
;
from
talking
with
the
world
,
to
contemplate
him
that
made
the
world
.
I
will
no
longer
put
my
candle
vnder
a
bushell
,
shrowding
my
soules
lustre
with
my
bodies
couer
,
but
will
display
the
eminence
of
the
one
,
by
the
basenes
of
the
other
.
Since
it
is
not
granted
to
man
to
loue
and
to
be
wise
,
willingly
will
I
incurre
the
opinion
of
vnwise
,
to
gaine
the
loue
of
him
,
that
is
solely
wise
.
The
most
precious
things
haue
euer
the
most
pernicious
keepers
;
which
I
found
too
true
,
when
I
made
my
bodie
my
soules
guardian
:
I
will
henceforth
esteeme
more
highly
of
such
a
treasure
,
than
to
commit
it
to
the
trust
of
a
Traytor
.
I
haue
obserued
two
Solstices
in
the
Sunnes
motion
,
but
none
in
times
revolution
;
I
will
redeeme
therefore
my
time
while
opportunitie
is
offred
,
for
being
past
shee
is
not
to
be
recalled
.
I
haue
seene
young
mens
loue
end
in
lust
,
old
mens
in
dotage
;
if
ere
I
plant
my
affection
,
I
will
so
waine
my selfe
from
the
first
,
that
my
chast
youth
may
exempt
me
from
the
latter
.
Elegantly
expressed
was
that
conceit
of
the
Emperor
:
Fortune
hath
somewhat
of
the
nature
of
a
woman
,
that
if
she
be
too
much
wooed
,
shee
is
the
farther
of
:
I
will
thinke
it
therefore
the
best
of
fortune
,
neither
to
be
allured
by
her
fawne
,
nor
deiected
by
her
frowne
:
for
our
indifferencie
towards
fortune
makes
vs
most
fortunate
.
Excellent
was
that
soueraigntie
or
regencie
of
Fortune
,
attributed
by
Liuie
to
Cato
Maior
:
In
whom
(
saith
he
)
there
appeared
such
abilitie
both
for
constancie
of
minde
,
and
maturitie
of
wit
,
as
in
what
place
soeuer
he
bore
himselfe
,
he
seemed
to
be
the
moulder
and
maker
of
his
owne
fortune
:
but
I
desire
no
such
transcendencie
;
more
haue
fallen
through
the
height
of
successe
,
than
for
the
want
of
meanes
:
This
is
my
wish
,
to
enioy
no
other
meanes
,
than
my
Sauiour
,
who
makes
meanes
for
me
to
his
Father
.
I
haue
wondred
at
the
strict
accounts
betwixt
man
and
man
,
while
Man
the
image
of
his
Creator
,
forgets
his
accounts
due
to
God
by
man
:
I
resolue
therefore
to
make
the
Euening
the
summer
vp
of
the
day
and
morning
;
that
my
daily
Memorandums
may
direct
me
in
my
reckning
,
when
I
shall
come
to
be
accomptant
for
my
dispensing
.
In
my
childhood
I
wished
time
after
time
to
please
my
waggish
fancie
;
now
is
my
wish
extended
to
the
length
of
time
,
resoluing
to
liue
to
my
fathers
glory
.
It
grieues
mee
when
I
call
to
minde
,
how
those
many
howres
of
vanitie
,
which
did
once
delight
me
,
shall
be
produced
as
so
many
witnesses
,
to
condemne
me
;
yet
am
I
cheered
with
this
Resolue
,
that
He
,
who
moued
me
to
this
remorce
for
my
sin
,
will
not
suffer
me
to
make
relapse
into
sin
,
nor
will
pronounce
the
iudgment
of
death
on
me
for
my
former
sin
.
Grieuous
sinnes
require
grieuous
sighes
;
I
will
passe
therefore
the
remainder
of
my
time
,
in
lamenting
,
as
I
spent
the
prime
of
my
time
in
transgressing
;
so
shall
my
teares
witnesse
my
contrition
,
my
retire
from
the
world
my
conuersion
,
that
in
both
,
I
may
adde
to
my
soules
glory
,
by
wayning
my
bodie
from
the
conceit
of
her
beauty
.
Ech
thing
we
see
in
her
kinde
and
nature
;
yet
man
by
sin
a
priuitiue
,
degenerates
from
his
nature
primitiue
;
opposing
himselfe
,
by
transgressing
his
law
that
made
him
for
himselfe
.
I
haue
heard
many
call
this
life
a
Pilgrimage
;
yet
did
they
liue
in
it
,
as
if
it
had
bin
the
sole
hope
of
their
inheritance
:
I
resolue
therefore
to
take
in
hand
the
actiue
part
,
and
leaue
the
discursiue
;
doe
before
I
speake
,
practise
mortification
before
I
prattle
of
it
:
so
shall
my
discourse
be
powerfull
,
subsisting
in
the
worke
not
word
,
not
externall
or
for
fashion
,
but
in
essence
and
operation
.
I
haue
oftentimes
entred
into
discourse
with
my selfe
,
making
the
scope
thereof
venite
&
abite
:
I
contemplated
withall
,
the
happinesse
of
those
fiue
Virgins
receiued
,
the
miserie
of
those
fiue
reiected
:
reasoning
with
my selfe
what
this
should
meane
;
and
I
found
that
no
entry
was
admitted
,
where
the
oyle
of
grace
was
not
infused
,
and
that
the
heauenly
Bridegroome
will
be
by
vs
watchfully
attended
,
ere
we
be
by
him
gloriously
receiued
.
I
resolued
therefore
,
to
prepare
a
Wedding
garment
to
adorne
me
,
a
Lampe
full
of
oyle
to
lighten
me
,
and
a
trustie
friend
to
direct
me
;
the
garment
of
humilitie
,
the
oyle
of
charitie
,
and
my
friendly
conscience
within
me
.
I
haue
wondred
at
some
mens
humors
,
whose
chiefest
discourse
was
euer
bent
on
their
owne
commendations
;
for
my
part
,
the
knowledge
of
mine
owne
imperfections
inioynes
me
silence
,
considering
how
far
I
am
short
of
that
I
should
be
,
how
exceeding
in
that
which
is
not
required
of
me
;
I
haue
resolued
therefore
by
the
scale
of
humilitie
,
to
ascend
to
the
throne
of
glory
,
making
the
acknowledgment
of
my
defects
,
my
directest
path
for
the
attayning
of
perfection
.
As
the
completest
follie
appeares
in
too
much
complement
,
so
the
best
of
wisdome
is
to
be
least
popularly
wise
;
where
opinion
makes
vs
proud
,
whil'st
priuacie
in
knowledge
makes
vs
onely
knowne
to
our selues
,
and
no
otherwise
.
I
haue
found
oft-times
the
excellentest
parts
shrowded
in
the
meanest
and
vnhansomest
couers
;
which
I
can
instance
in
nothing
better
,
than
in
the
diuine
essence
of
the
soule
,
couered
with
the
garment
of
flesh
.
Honour
is
a
faire
baite
,
but
a
sincere
disposition
will
not
assume
it
before
shee
deserue
it
.
The
best
of
honour
is
to
acknowledge
our selues
vnworthy
of
Him
,
to
whom
is
ascribed
all
honour
;
nor
can
we
better
expresse
our
worth
,
than
by
confessing
our
own
shame
.
Purposes
and
Resolues
may
be
compared
to
Pauls
planting
and
Apollo's
watering
,
but
their
disposes
to
the
blessing
of
God
.
I
haue
resolued
in
reflexion
to
my
houre-glasse
,
considering
times
preciousnes
with
his
swiftnes
,
to
vie
teares
with
her
graines
of
sand
;
that
my
teares
might
(
in
some
measure
)
wash
away
the
heap
of
those
sins
,
which
are
multiplyed
like
the
sands
.
Earth
as
a
globe
in
the
ayre
,
the
soule
as
a
Diamond
in
lead
,
reason
as
a
queene
in
her
throne
;
in
the
first
we
moue
and
are
moued
;
in
the
second
we
shine
,
yet
is
our
splendor
by
our
bodies
couer
,
obscured
,
by
the
last
we
are
distinguished
from
beasts
,
yet
by
her
abuse
we
become
worse
than
beasts
.
If
Caesar
(
saith
Machauell
)
had
beene
ouerthrowne
,
he
would
haue
beene
more
odious
then
euer
was
Catiline
;
so
strangely
doth
th'
euent
make
indirectest
actions
glorious
:
but
successe
doth
not
euer
argue
a
direct
cause
;
for
the
morning-flourish
of
the
wicked
shuts
vp
their
Euening
in
a
sullen
discontent
;
I
will
therefore
so
direct
the
meane
that
I
may
attaine
the
end
:
that
an
equall
relation
of
one
to
the
other
,
may
produce
a
necessary
successe
in
both
.
I
haue
wondred
why
the
Thracian
being
a
Pagan
should
lament
his
birth
like
a
Christian
;
when
we
that
are
Christians
laugh
at
our
birth
,
but
pule
at
our
death
,
like
Pagans
.
As
wee
enter
the
world
with
a
shrike
,
so
we
leaue
it
with
a
sigh
;
the
first
implyes
what
place
of
miserie
wee
are
entring
;
the
other
shewes
with
what
griefe
we
leaue
the
world
in
our
departing
.
I
haue
considered
with
what
tranquillity
and
peace
of
conscience
,
a
soule
sequestred
from
the
world
taketh
her
farewell
of
earth
;
she
finds
no
obiects
to
distract
her
,
shee
sees
no
friends
that
can
with-drawe
her
from
her
approaching
dissolution
;
all
seeme
as
in
a
calme
sea
;
whilest
a
soule
plunged
in
worldly
cares
,
grieues
to
leaue
what
shee
did
so
exceedingly
loue
.
O
may
my
soule
so
contemne
the
world
,
as
she
may
addresse
her selfe
for
a
future
world
:
so
extend
her
hopes
aboue
earth
,
as
she
may
raigne
with
her
Sauiour
after
Earth
.
As
the
vale
best
discouereth
the
hil
;
so
a
humble
outside
best
displaieth
a
glorious
soule
;
Vanity
becommeth
not
a
wise-man
,
much-lesse
him
that
should
be
only
wise
to
saluation
.
I
had
neuer
the
fate
to
admire
titles
,
nor
hope
to
rise
by
fauning
on
greatnesse
;
Heauen
grant
I
may
so
follow
him
that
is
onely
great
,
that
the
choyce
of
his
attendance
may
purchase
mee
a
place
of
perpetuall
residence
.
Age
cannot
alter
habite
,
nor
aër
condition
;
I
doe
wish
my
age
may
be
so
well
tempered
,
that
I
may
get
that
habite
of
vertue
,
which
cannot
be
depraued
,
those
internally-beautifying
qualities
of
the
minde
,
which
may
not
be
corrupted
.
That
is
the
choycest
pleasure
,
which
hath
onely
relation
to
vertue
;
others
may
haue
appearance
but
no
essence
:
for
bitter
is
the
fruite
of
that
pleasure
,
which
is
attended
on
by
Repentance
.
There
is
no
Bulwarke
so
impregnable
as
a
spotlesse
soule
;
for
shee
can
oppose
all
hostilitie
inward
,
where
the
other
is
onely
for
outward
:
as
there
is
a
continuall
feast
to
him
that
enioyeth
her
,
so
there
is
securitie
to
him
that
is
attended
by
her
.
Length
of
daies
is
not
in
this
vale
of
teares
,
for
few
be
they
and
full
of
misery
;
but
in
the
Tabernacle
of
Syon
there
is
length
of
time
without
transition
,
and
accomplished
yeares
without
conclusion
.
I
haue
collected
that
there
is
a
Reward
for
the
good
,
as
reuenge
for
the
wicked
,
after
this
life
;
because
the
Sunne
shineth
aswell
on
the
wicked
as
the
good
in
this
life
.
I
haue
resolued
therefore
,
that
as
the
temporary
Sunne
cheeres
mee
with
his
heate
,
so
to
dispose
of
my
Actions
,
that
by
his
operation
which
workes
in
mee
,
I
may
bee
exalted
by
the
Sunne
of
righteousnesse
,
being
made
pertaker
of
his
glory
.
When
I
behold
the
Dew
fall
on
the
grasse
,
by
which
it
is
nourished
;
I
presently
recollect
how
happy
that
soule
is
,
which
is
watered
by
the
Dew
of
Gods
grace
,
by
which
it
is
onely
renewed
,
and
in
her
affliction
comforted
.
It
is
strange
that
Man
in
his
trauaile
,
should
so
often
measure
his
graue
,
yet
be
forgetfull
of
his
end
;
seuen
foote
is
his
dimension
,
yet
man
liueth
in
that
securitie
,
as
if
that
small
scantling
had
a
perpetuall
extension
.
Making
ech
day
an
abstract
of
my
life
,
I
finde
by
bitter
experience
(
yet
hopefull
repentance
)
that
I
haue
spent
my
morning
in
wantonnesse
;
now
my
resolue
is
,
to
redeme
my
morning
idling
with
my
mid-dayes
labouring
,
that
I
may
receiue
my
penny
in
the
euening
.
As
the
Sun
shines
the
brightest
at
his
setting
,
so
should
man
at
his
departing
;
it
is
the
euening
crownes
the
day
;
happy
Soule
that
shall
be
crowned
,
when
her
Euening
is
approached
.
Flatterie
is
not
alwaies
to
praise
in
presence
,
for
incurre
we
may
that
name
by
praising
in
absence
;
that
is
,
when
either
the
vertue
is
absent
,
or
the
occasion
;
as
for
vertue
,
shee
can
neither
be
ouer-prizd
,
nor
ouerpraisd
:
I
will
hate
therefore
to
insinuate
,
where
Vertue
is
not
resident
;
nor
can
he
be
a
Parasite
,
that
is
her
attendant
.
I
finde
seuerall
perturbations
,
to
which
I
am
exposed
,
diuers
infirmities
,
to
which
naturally
I
am
subiected
;
I
would
not
follow
the
indiscretion
of
Empyricks
,
which
minister
the
same
medicines
to
all
Patients
:
as
my
griefes
be
sundry
,
proceeding
from
diuers
meanes
,
so
must
my
receits
be
sundry
,
if
I
meane
to
cure
the
effects
.
I
will
vse
therefore
corrasiues
to
eat
away
the
hard
and
dead
skin
of
impenitence
,
Lenitiues
to
renew
and
cherish
my
tender
skin
,
lest
I
fall
to
despaire
,
through
too
much
weaknes
.
I
am
almost
of
Copernicus
opinion
,
who
in
his
Theorie
supposed
,
that
the
Earth
did
moue
;
it
moues
man
indeed
to
moue
vnlike
himselfe
,
becomming
in
his
motion
forgetfull
of
his
first
Mouer
:
I
resolue
therefore
,
as
many
lines
tend
to
one
Centre
,
so
to
ayme
all
my
soules
motions
to
the
glory
of
my
maker
;
that
earths
motion
may
by
no
meanes
draw
me
from
him
,
who
first
gaue
me
motion
to
serue
him
.
I
haue
sometimes
wished
an
end
of
my
miserie
,
lest
miserie
should
cause
my
end
;
but
I
found
how
foolish
I
was
to
wish
for
an
end
of
that
,
which
can
no
way
possible
,
haue
an
end
before
my
end
;
for
miserie
is
an
inseparable
companion
to
man
,
so
long
as
he
is
man
,
for
ceasing
to
be
miserable
he
becommeth
an
Angell
and
no
man
.
He
that
falls
from
diuine
contemplation
,
to
take
content
in
the
world
,
is
as
he
,
that
after
he
hath
bin
fed
with
meat
of
Angels
,
falls
afterward
to
delight
in
Swines
meat
:
sensuall
desires
shall
not
captiuate
my
reason
to
the
soueraigntie
of
Sence
:
I
resolue
so
to
liue
,
that
dying
I
may
liue
;
for
this
life
as
it
is
a
death
,
so
death
to
the
good
is
an
aduantage
of
life
.
True
it
is
,
which
Democritus
saith
:
Truth
lyeth
hid
in
certaine
deepe
mines
or
caues
;
yet
being
daughter
to
time
,
she
will
be
at
last
discouered
,
after
she
hath
bin
so
long
depressed
:
neuer
,
neuer
;
Truth
loues
to
be
retired
from
the
world
,
because
shee
sees
that
her
fauourites
be
few
in
the
world
;
and
rather
will
she
liue
a
stale
virgin
,
than
bestow
herselfe
of
such
as
will
but
make
a
stale
of
her
.
Mans
life
is
a
globe
of
examples
,
a
shadow
of
imitation
,
where
the
latter
day
is
euer
scholer
to
the
former
:
I
wish
no
further
knowledge
than
to
be
a
perfect
scholer
in
Christ-crosse
row
;
for
there
(
as
in
a
mirrour
)
shall
I
behold
Gods
mercie
,
mans
miserie
;
his
miserie
in
falling
,
Gods
mercy
in
raising
;
matter
of
thanksgiuing
in
man
to
God
,
argument
of
affection
in
God
to
man
.
Long
is
it
since
I
purposed
my
conversion
;
but
yet
a
litle
and
then
a
litle
,
makes
to
morrow
as
far
from
conversion
as
was
yesterday
:
I
collect
hence
,
how
powerfullst
Resolues
produce
oft-times
the
poorest
effects
:
henceforth
therefore
I
intend
not
to
put
off
till
to
morrow
by
idling
to
day
,
lest
I
neuer
liue
to
repent
on
to
morrow
,
being
call'd
on
to
day
.
I
haue
run
a
great
part
of
my
race
,
&
am
out-stripped
by
all
in
the
course
of
vertue
;
what
remaines
,
but
that
I
should
now
strip
my selfe
of
this
heauy
garment
with
which
I
am
ouer-loaded
,
that
I
may
put
on
the
heauenly
garment
,
with
which
those
happy
runners
(
the
Saints
)
are
adorned
.
He
that
failes
in
his
course
,
cannot
obtaine
the
goale
;
and
soone
brethlesse
am
I
,
vnlesse
the
Lord
infuse
his
diuine
breath
in
me
:
I
will
therefore
run
and
pray
;
run
that
I
may
obteine
,
pray
that
I
cease
not
to
run
till
I
obteyne
.
I
haue
found
how
soone
affliction
alters
the
countenance
of
adulterate
friendship
;
I
haue
a
litle
taste
of
it
,
and
experience
bids
me
make
this
vse
of
it
:
Though
one
Swallow
make
no
summer
,
yet
one
mans
summer
makes
many
Swallowes
:
I
will
seeke
therfore
to
gaine
friends
after
time
,
since
most
of
these
worldly
friends
are
but
obseruers
of
time
.
Pittie
it
is
,
I
heare
some
say
,
such
a
braue
spirit
should
want
;
but
what
a
wittall
was
he
,
that
through
his
owne
follie
should
enforce
his
own
want
with
others
pittie
?
Enuie
is
better
than
pitty
,
in
estate
not
in
honour
:
for
the
decrease
of
honor
as
she
is
enuied
before
her
fall
,
yeelds
argument
of
pitty
,
so
is
shee
oft-times
restored
by
being
generally
pittied
,
where
estate
,
as
she
was
an
obiect
of
enuie
,
so
piteously
complayning
shee
remaines
the
same
poore
,
without
altering
.
I
will
not
,
like
another
Herodicus
,
doe
nothing
all
my
life
long
,
but
intend
my
health
;
for
why
should
I
bestow
more
care
on
the
case
than
on
the
instrument
within
the
case
,
on
the
bodie
,
than
the
soule
?
No
,
I
will
reserue
that
moderate
care
for
the
health
of
my
bodie
,
that
like
a
good
instrument
,
it
may
euer
yeeld
cheerfull
musick
to
the
eare
of
my
soule
;
so
shall
my
soule
,
by
the
ministerie
of
my
bodie
,
conforme
her-selfe
in
obedience
to
him
,
that
made
the
soule
to
enlighten
the
bodie
.
It
is
strange
to
know
what
an
impression
of
loue
,
absence
breeds
in
the
Louer
;
I
wish
the
like
effect
in
the
absence
of
my
soule
from
her
Creator
:
she
is
here
diuided
by
the
vaile
of
her
flesh
,
may
shee
be
more
firmely
vnited
to
him
in
spirit
;
she
is
here
a
prisoner
,
may
her
desires
pierce
through
these
walls
of
earth
,
and
expresse
their
feruencie
to
the
God
of
heauen
:
shee
is
here
a
pilgrim
,
may
her
skrip
be
humilitie
,
her
weede
sanctitie
,
her
staffe
charitie
,
and
her
foode
the
nourishing
milke
of
the
word
:
shee
is
an
exile
,
may
shee
hasten
to
her
natiue
country
,
cherefully
leauing
this
vale
of
misery
:
shee
is
an
Orphan
,
may
she
addresse
her-selfe
thither
,
where
raignes
the
Widdowes
iudge
,
and
Orphans
father
.
Abide
here
(
ô
my
soule
)
let
this
be
thy
retreit
;
cheere
thy
spirit
(
ô
my
soule
)
with
this
eternall
receit
;
he
it
is
that
from
perills
past
hath
preserued
thee
,
in
perills
present
hath
armed
thee
,
against
perills
to
come
hath
fore-warned
thee
.
He
it
is
invites
thee
fore-slowing
,
expects
thee
opposing
,
recalls
thee
straying
,
and
embraces
thee
returning
.
He
it
is
that
protects
thee
resting
,
assists
thee
labouring
,
exhorts
thee
fighting
,
and
crownes
thee
vanquishing
:
fore-slow
not
therfore
since
he
invites
thee
,
oppose
him
not
since
he
expects
thee
,
stray
no
farther
since
he
recalls
thee
,
but
returne
with
speed
,
that
he
may
embrace
thee
.
Rest
thou
mayst
with
ioy
being
so
protected
,
labour
in
hope
being
so
assisted
,
fight
with
courage
being
so
excited
,
and
vanquish
with
comfort
being
to
be
crowned
.
We
must
passe
through
a
wildernesse
to
Canaan
;
this
wildernesse
is
the
wide
world
:
ô
may
my
soule
neuer
murmur
,
though
hunger
should
annoy
her
,
thirst
afflict
her
,
all
perturbations
enclose
her
:
yea
,
let
her
rather
say
with
Iob
;
I
beleeue
that
my
Redeemer
liueth
,
and
that
with
these
eyes
I
shall
see
him
:
happie
eyes
that
are
made
contemplators
of
such
exceeding
glory
;
ô
may
my
eyes
grow
dim
with
weeping
,
to
be
afterwards
partakers
of
so
glorious
a
vision
!
I
resolue
now
to
bid
farewell
to
the
world
,
before
I
leaue
it
,
that
being
in
it
,
I
may
not
be
of
it
:
there
is
no
affinitie
betweene
the
citizens
of
Mammon
and
Syon
,
I
will
fall
by
a
loathing
of
the
one
,
to
an
vnfained
louing
of
the
other
,
that
in
contempt
of
this
world
,
I
may
make
my
account
more
free
in
the
world
to
come
.
I
will
make
the
worlds
follie
my
chiefest
policie
;
soule-wise
without
desire
of
sole-wise
or
self-wise
:
may
humilitie
henceforth
conduct
me
;
for
conceit
of
knowledge
through
an
opinionate
arrogance
,
hath
made
me
(
many
times
)
glory
in
my
owne
ignorance
.
I
had
rather
be
imprisoned
in
the
flesh
,
then
by
the
flesh
;
for
so
I
bee
freed
in
minde
I
little
care
though
I
be
imprisoned
in
body
:
since
restraint
of
the
one
,
enlargeth
the
Libertie
of
the
other
;
whether
therefore
at
freedome
or
restrained
,
I
resolue
so
to
liue
,
that
my
conscience
may
be
a
Testimonie
how
I
haue
liued
;
making
in
Prison
better
vse
of
my
grace
,
then
the
Curtezan
of
her
Glasse
:
for
there
will
I
note
the
blemishes
of
my
soule
,
while
she
the
spots
and
moles
in
her
face
;
there
shall
I
learne
how
to
liue
,
how
to
die
for
my
Creator
;
while
she
how
to
loue
,
how
to
dye
her
colour
different
,
from
what
was
giuen
her
by
her
Maker
.
Hee
that
seeks
to
preuent
that
which
cannot
be
auoyded
,
flies
into
Adams
groue
to
sconce
himselfe
from
Gods
iudgment
:
I
finde
this
approued
,
when
I
labour
to
be
exempted
from
the
stroke
of
Death
,
which
can
by
no
meanes
be
preuented
,
whose
doome
as
it
is
certaine
,
so
is
his
date
vncertaine
;
knocke
he
will
,
but
at
what
time
I
know
not
:
I
will
therefore
so
set
all
things
in
order
before
he
come
,
that
he
may
finde
me
prouided
when
he
comes
.
I
would
be
loth
to
be
taken
napping
,
I
will
therefore
so
addresse
my selfe
euery
houre
,
that
I
may
cheerfully
embrace
death
in
my
last
houre
;
receiuing
him
not
with
feare
,
as
a
guest
that
will
be
of
necessitie
harboured
,
but
with
a
friendly
wellcome
,
as
one
,
by
whom
I
shall
be
to
a
secure
harbour
conducted
.
Death
,
as
he
is
importunate
,
so
is
he
iminent
;
fearefull
to
the
rich
,
but
cheerefull
to
the
poore
:
for
affliction
breeds
a
loathing
in
liuing
,
an
accomplished
content
in
dying
;
knowing
that
there
is
an
end
of
miserie
apportioned
by
Death
,
which
was
not
granted
to
man
during
life
.
I
wish
so
to
liue
,
that
my
life
may
be
an
argument
that
I
did
liue
;
sith
life
without
employment
(
the
essence
of
mans
life
)
hath
more
affinitie
with
death
than
life
.
As
my
God
is
Alpha
and
Omega
,
being
my
Alpha
begun
in
the
kingdome
of
grace
,
so
he
will
be
my
Omega
,
accomplished
in
the
kingdom
of
glory
:
the
last
day
of
my
liuing
,
the
first
day
of
my
raigning
,
the
houre
of
my
bodies
discention
into
earth
,
the
houre
of
my
soules
ascention
into
heauen
.
FINIS
.
THE
AVTHORS
OPINION
OF
MARRIAGE
:
Deliuered
in
a
satisfying
Character
to
his
friend
.
SIR
,
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Character
as
I
am
no
Timon
,
so
am
I
no
marriage-affecting
Libertine
:
I
will
labour
therefore
to
satisfie
your
demands
exactly
,
making
experience
my
directresse
,
whose
late
familiaritie
hath
instructed
me
in
this
positiue
Doctrine
.
As
it
repenteth
me
not
to
know
it
now
,
so
it
litle
repenteth
me
not
to
haue
knowne
it
before
now
:
for
as
the
present
estate
adds
to
my
content
,
so
my
former
want
perhaps
kept
me
from
discontent
:
I
perceiue
no
such
thing
as
bondage
in
marriage
,
onely
a
restraint
from
Batchler-sensualitie
,
which
merits
not
the
name
of
seruitude
but
libertie
.
Vpon
consideration
had
of
two
estates
,
I
account
mariage
concurring
neerer
with
perfection
,
and
I
ground
my
opinion
vpon
no
worse
probabilitie
,
than
the
Arithmeticians
maxime
,
Numbers
haue
their
beginning
but
not
perfection
from
vnities
;
yet
exclude
I
not
these
two
indiuidually
vnited
,
from
that
incomparable
effect
of
marriage
,
vnitie
.
Content
I
finde
more
accomplished
where
mindes
are
consorting
;
for
singlenesse
includes
rather
the
condition
of
an
Anchorite
,
than
of
one
affecting
societie
:
This
better
for
procreation
,
That
for
contemplation
.
There
is
no
felicitie
(
if
earth
may
be
said
to
enioy
it
)
like
a
fellow-helper
,
&
no
fellow-helper
equall
to
a
faithfull
bosom-friend
:
I
am
neither
for
committing
secrets
nor
concealing
them
,
till
I
finde
an
aptnesse
to
conceale
,
or
faith
to
reserue
.
I
finde
Mysogenes
opinion
grosse
and
erroneous
,
touching
the
secrecie
of
a
woman
,
a
faithfull
wife
cannot
chuse
but
be
a
good
Secretarie
.
Shee
makes
her
husbands
reputation
her
principall
subiect
,
and
chuseth
rather
to
dye
,
than
it
should
dye
.
Her
acquaintance
is
not
popular
,
nor
craues
shee
rather
to
be
seene
what
she
weares
,
than
to
be
knowne
what
shee
is
.
Vertue
is
her
best
habit
,
and
her
garnish
is
beholden
more
to
Nature
than
Art
:
shee
affects
no
colours
,
doing
well
without
pretence
of
glory
,
affecting
what
is
good
without
desire
of
applause
.
I
haue
bin
in
a
strange
error
,
and
it
much
repents
me
of
it
,
where
imagination
suggested
to
me
,
wedlocke
could
not
be
without
some
aspersion
of
lust
;
for
I
perceiue
the
sanctitie
and
puritie
of
the
rite
,
adds
more
to
content
than
the
outward
delight
;
it
relisheth
more
of
the
Spirit
than
the
flesh
;
he
that
feeles
an
other
effect
in
marriage
,
he
is
more
brutish
than
reasonable
.
The
best
purchase
is
a
good
wife
,
and
the
worst
is
her
contrary
:
I
haue
commended
Arminius
opinion
,
and
haue
long
embraced
it
,
whose
conceit
was
so
much
remoued
from
the
affection
of
marriage
,
as
he
censured
him
dead
to
earths-comforts
,
that
tooke
himselfe
to
any
other
bed-fellow
,
than
his
owne
minde
to
converse
with
;
but
I
exclaime
now
vpon
that
heresie
:
I
finde
my
minde
strengthned
by
conference
,
and
that
proceeds
with
best
grace
and
consonance
from
a
faithfull
mate
:
I
will
not
trust
her
with
my
bodie
,
whom
I
dare
not
make
partner
of
my
minde
?
and
though
the
excellencie
of
the
one
,
surpasse
the
frailtie
of
the
other
,
yet
will
I
not
commend
the
one
where
I
dare
not
commit
the
other
.
For
frailtie
of
Sexes
,
I
conceiue
how
apt
man
is
to
iudge
sinisterly
of
the
weaker
vessell
,
and
I
impute
it
either
to
a
want
of
Braines
,
in
that
they
cannot
diue
into
the
excellencie
of
so
pure
and
exquisite
a
composition
,
or
some
hard
hap
they
haue
had
in
making
choice
of
such
infirme
creatures
.
I
haue
found
one
,
though
weake
by
condition
,
yet
firme
in
her
affection
;
making
her
resolues
so
vndoubtedly
approued
by
him
she
loues
,
as
she
hath
vowed
to
engrosse
her
loue
to
none
saue
him
she
onely
loues
:
her
content
is
so
setled
,
as
she
scornes
to
haue
it
diuided
,
for
she
knowes
that
a
heart
diuided
cannot
liue
.
She
professeth
her selfe
to
be
,
not
where
shee
liues
but
where
she
loues
,
and
the
Adamant
which
drawes
her
to
affection
,
is
the
perswaded
ground
she
intertaines
of
her
husbands
disposition
,
which
is
too
choice
to
be
popular
,
and
too
relenting
not
to
be
wonne
;
as
meere
protestations
were
not
of
force
to
winne
her
,
so
flatterie
was
too
palpable
a
suter
to
woe
her
.
Content
is
worth
a
kingdome
,
and
my
kingdome
is
my
owne
familie
,
where
I
make
euery
day
my
account
,
casting
vp
in
the
euening
what
I
did
in
the
day
:
I
thinke
my
day
well
bestowed
,
if
employed
in
the
seruice
of
my
Creator
,
and
my
conclusion
is
this
:
I
will
be
none
of
that
familie
,
which
is
not
carefull
of
promoting
Gods
glory
.
Marriage-melodie
should
haue
no
concurrence
with
diuisions
;
though
Musique
be
graced
by
it
,
marriage
distasts
it
:
I
haue
wondred
how
two
distinct
bodies
can
be
so
inseparably
vnited
,
and
I
perceiue
the
strange
and
indeed
vnsearchable
effects
of
marriage
,
which
consists
not
so
much
in
the
ioyning
hands
,
as
hearts
.
There
is
a
sympathie
equally
working
,
equally
mouing
in
the
parties
louing
;
nor
is
it
beauty
,
or
any
externall
motiue
so
much
enchaineth
,
as
a
sacred-secret
infusion
,
conceiued
by
an
holy
and
heauenly
influence
induceth
.
I
haue
heard
how
that
,
Lycosthen
:
in
Apotheg
:
When
the
Hawthorne
springs
,
and
the
Cuckow
sings
,
Actaeons
head
with
hornets
rings
:
it
is
true
indeed
,
ielousie
is
such
a
self-consuming
vermin
,
as
it
neuer
rests
day
nor
night
,
from
feeding
her
suspitious
head
with
fruitlesse
and
friuolous
doubts
;
but
I
would
not
haue
one
subiect
to
this
miserable
phrensie
,
betake
himselfe
to
such
fuell
of
Ielousie
as
a
woman
:
for
my
part
as
I
was
neuer
capable
of
such
vaine
suspect
,
so
conclude
I
euer
,
I
had
rather
be
one
and
thinke
me
none
,
than
be
none
and
thinke
me
one
,
contenting
my selfe
with
a
generall
fate
,
rather
than
incurre
disquiet
by
my
owne
default
:
which
,
that
glory
of
Graece
,
Homer
in
Telemach
:
in
Odiss
.
the
euer-liuing
Homer
seemes
wittily
to
glance
at
in
the
person
of
Telemachus
:
Babe
saith
my
Dade
,
but
he
may
say
amisse
,
For
ought
that
I
know
,
I
am
none
of
his
;
Yet
I
reply
with
Dade
,
but
that
's
all
one
,
I
may
mistake
my
Syre
,
and
he
his
Sonne
.
There
is
no
order
so
ancient
nor
more
maligned
:
honour
hath
many
times
correspondence
with
her
,
and
forraine
Marchants
may
be
confident
,
their
Pinnace
is
entitled
to
many
Factors
;
Stratta
Iulia
had
neuer
more
Brothels
in
her
,
then
shee
hath
clamorous
Suters
attending
on
her
:
yet
what
cannot
resolued
patience
beare
?
my
Aduice
is
to
him
,
whose
suspition
hath
already
pronounced
him
horne-mad
,
to
make
vse
of
Ithacus
counsell
to
Andromache
,
in
behalfe
of
her
tender
infant
Astyanax
.
Conceale
him
,
that
's
the
best
meanes
to
saue
him
.
Oft-times
iealousie
publisheth
mans
shame
,
more
then
the
occasion
of
his
shame
.
A
wise-man
will
rather
conceaue
and
conceale
,
then
disclose
his
conceit
to
others
report
:
The
best
of
reputation
is
grounded
on
opinion
free
from
Suspition
,
and
he
is
an
egregious
Wittall
,
that
loues
to
watch
oportunity
to
adde
to
his
discontent
:
my
eyes
are
no
such
Sentinalls
:
charity
bids
me
iudge
the
best
,
and
I
wil
rather
expound
my
Wiues
secret
parly
some
instructions
of
huswifery
,
then
motiues
of
peruerted
Liberty
;
I
haue
somtimes
wondred
at
the
folly
of
Hans
Caruiles
dreame
,
applying
to
my selfe
the
vse
,
that
I
might
better
auoyde
the
end
,
where
euery
fained
and
imagainarie
conceit
argues
an
Apparancie
of
act
,
but
I
doubt
not
such
Bugbeares
,
they
are
terrors
to
Suspicious
heads
,
Scarcrowes
to
addle
Braines
:
Beautie
shall
neuer
be
such
an
Idoll
as
to
enforce
my
Adoration
,
or
so
bewitching
a
Hagge
as
to
enthrall
me
to
Suspicion
;
As
a
safe
conscience
is
a
perpetuall
friend
to
sticke
neere
vs
,
a
continuall
feast
to
cheare
vs
,
and
a
Brasen
wall
to
shield
vs
:
so
is
a
faithfull
Bosome-friend
the
Louingst
companion
,
the
dearest
minion
,
and
the
indiuidualst
Vnion
;
a
Companion
to
refresh
vs
,
a
Minion
to
delight
vs
,
and
such
an
Vnion
as
will
inseparably
ioyne
vs
.
I
little
weigh
the
Woman-haters
of
our
Age
,
whose
subiect
is
euer
in
dispraise
of
woman
,
they
shew
the
vnworthinesse
of
their
Nature
in
Satyrizing
vpon
the
weaker
.
As
chastity
is
rare
and
incomparable
,
Marriage-state
hath
beene
euer
deemed
honourable
.
He
that
will
not
marrie
&
will
not
withdraw
his
eyes
from
vanity
,
let
him
burne
;
Such
obiects
are
either
Subiects
of
loue
or
lust
;
if
of
Loue
,
then
happy
is
the
Louer
,
if
of
lust
,
miserable
is
the
beholder
.
I
remember
that
noble
Matrons
Motto
,
Where
thou
art
Caius
,
I
am
Caia
:
and
I
make
no
question
of
the
like
choyce
.
I
haue
read
of
diuers
women
,
who
as
they
were
delightfull
to
their
Husbands
in
bed
&
boord
,
so
added
they
delight
to
the
labouring
Inuentions
of
their
braine
.
Such
a
one
enioyed
Cato
in
his
Portia
,
Seneca
in
his
Paulina
,
Mar.
Antonie
in
his
Octauia
:
yea
,
the
best
labours
haue
beene
illustrated
,
if
not
originally
composed
by
married
women
,
witnesse
those
diuine
Poems
reduced
to
Centons
by
Theodosia
daughter
to
the
Emperour
Theodosius
,
the
royall
compositions
of
Lucane
,
the
sententious
measures
of
Ennius
,
the
tragicke
odes
of
Aristobulus
,
which
labours
(
though
they
retaine
the
names
of
these
Authors
)
were
reuised
and
refined
by
Women
.
I
perceiue
the
wisest
may
erre
,
and
Salomon
himselfe
may
faile
in
his
iudgement
,
making
this
Interrogation
,
But
as
for
a
good
women
where
is
she
to
be
found
?
but
his
question
imported
rather
a
difficulty
then
an
Impossibility
:
which
hee
had
some
cause
to
speake
,
seeing
women
were
the
cause
of
his
Idolatry
;
A
Goodman
must
of
necessity
make
his
wife
of
like
quality
:
She
is
casten
in
his
mould
,
let
him
blame
himselfe
then
if
she
be
not
good
.
Beautie
is
one
of
the
least
motiues
to
fancy
,
who
more
admires
a
smooth
skin
than
a
sound
minde
,
may
gaine
content
in
his
wiues
prime
,
but
shall
loose
it
in
her
age
:
I
care
not
how
poore
her
outside
be
,
so
her
inside
be
pure
.
I
neuer
set
my
affection
on
Marriage
to
strengthen
me
with
friendship
,
my
ayme
was
the
woman
,
and
the
grounds
of
my
loue
were
her
minds
indowments
:
I
sought
not
in
her
what
the
Gallant
seeks
in
his
,
a
minc'd
speech
,
a
ginger
pace
,
or
a
drawing
eye
;
I
found
her
speech
able
to
deliuer
her
meaning
,
her
pace
quicke
enough
in
her
employing
,
and
her
eye
too
modest
to
loue
gadding
.
A
good
wife
is
the
best
portion
;
nor
consists
this
her
goodnesse
onely
in
proportion
:
she
that
is
onely
outward
faire
,
deserues
more
to
be
loathed
than
loued
,
despised
than
preased
:
A
case
beautifies
the
instrument
,
but
adds
nothing
to
her
accent
;
and
goodnesse
is
more
continuate
than
beauty
.
I
could
neuer
approue
of
that
shape
which
deriues
her
beauty
from
the
shop
;
there
is
an
innate
decencie
that
better
becomes
vs
,
and
aboue
all
comparison
doth
better
grace
vs
:
It
is
not
toyes
,
tyres
,
dressings
,
but
a
personall
comelinesse
adds
honor
to
our
clothing
.
I
haue
much
admired
at
mans
follie
,
whose
commendations
onely
extend
to
what
they
weare
,
not
what
they
are
.
I
will
neuer
tye
my selfe
to
such
impertinences
,
nor
can
with
iudgement
esteeme
the
rinde
for
comely
,
where
the
pith
relisheth
corruptly
:
It
is
not
worth
our
praise
,
to
say
,
such
an
one
is
faire
,
that
is
no
qualitie
but
an
adiunct
;
giue
me
one
good
,
I
much
weigh
not
any
other
attribute
,
for
Good
is
a
better
attribute
than
Faire
.
As
I
haue
chosen
,
so
I
repent
me
not
of
my
choice
:
I
haue
planted
my
resolution
thus
,
nor
hope
I
to
alter
it
:
The
strange
woman
shall
not
allure
me
,
nor
the
Courts-idol
,
a
painted
face
inveagle
me
;
I
am
now
for
one
,
and
that
one
is
all
:
me
thinks
Marriage
,
as
it
is
a
type
betwixt
Christ
&
his
Church
,
the
state
politike
&
her
head
;
so
it
is
a
neerer
combining
of
the
bodie
to
the
soule
:
The
Soule
hath
promised
for
the
bodie
,
that
shee
shall
not
make
her selfe
a
Cage
of
vncleane
birds
,
nor
prostitute
her-self
to
many
;
and
the
Bodie
hath
so
tyed
her
by
plighting
her
faith
by
her
hand
,
that
shee
will
inviolably
performe
what
her
Soule
hath
promised
,
Sr
,
God
send
you
ioy
.
A
Shrow
[
2
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2
Character
.
IS
a
continuall
dropping
,
whose
actiuitie
consists
principally
in
the
volubilitie
of
an
infatigable
tongue
;
her
father
was
a
common
Barretter
,
and
her
mothers
sole
note
(
being
the
voice
of
her
vocation
)
eccoed
,
New
wainflete
Oysters
;
in
her
sleepe
when
shee
is
barr'd
from
scolding
,
shee
falls
to
a
terrible
vaine
of
snoring
,
and
fomes
at
mouth
,
as
if
she
were
possessed
,
or
shrudely
rid
by
the
Night-mare
:
shee
is
most
out
of
her
element
,
when
most
at
quiet
,
and
concludes
ioyntly
with
the
Arithmetician
,
that
vnities
are
to
be
excluded
from
numbers
:
Her
progenie
is
but
smal
,
yet
all
hopefull
to
be
interested
in
some
clamorous
offices
;
for
her
eldest
itcheth
after
Bellman
,
her
next
after
Cryer
,
and
her
daughters
scorn
to
degenerate
,
vowing
to
bring
the
aunciently-erected
Cuckstoole
into
request
:
shee
frets
like
gum'd
Grogram
,
but
for
weare
she
is
Sempiternum
.
Shee
goes
weekly
a
catterwauling
,
where
shee
spoiles
their
spice-cup'd
gossiping
with
her
tarttongued
calletting
:
she
is
a
Bee
in
a
box
,
for
she
is
euer
buzzing
:
her
eyes
,
though
they
be
no
matches
,
for
she
squints
hatefully
,
are
more
firing
than
any
matches
:
she
is
a
hot
shot
,
for
she
goes
euer
charg'd
:
she
hath
an
excellent
gift
for
memorie
,
and
can
run
diuision
vpon
relation
of
iniuries
.
In
some
thing
she
is
praise-worthy
,
for
shee
hates
complement
,
and
grins
when
she
heares
any
one
commended
,
much
more
flattered
:
all
the
phrensies
in
Bedlam
cannot
put
her
downe
for
humors
.
If
shee
be
married
,
she
makes
her
husbands
patience
a
fit
subiect
to
work
vpon
,
where
his
miserable
eares
are
deafed
with
her
incessant
clamour
.
she
is
neuer
pleasd
,
for
being
pleasd
she
were
not
her selfe
,
whose
choysest
Musique
is
euer
to
be
out
a
tune
:
a
nest
of
wasps
and
hornets
are
not
comparable
to
her
for
spite
,
nor
may
equall
her
in
splene
;
and
in
this
they
principally
differ
,
she
hath
her
sting
in
her
tongue
,
they
in
their
tayle
.
she
is
monstrously
vnsociable
,
and
grounds
the
reason
of
her
distast
vpon
others
approbation
.
when
shee
hath
none
to
exercise
her
furie
on
,
she
mumbles
ouer
some
dogg'd
Pater-noster
to
her self
,
as
if
she
were
conjuring
:
her
signe
is
euer
in
Cancer
,
and
hates
Patience
left
it
should
bastardize
her
blood
.
shee
is
euer
suspicious
of
others
thoughts
,
and
therefore
answers
for
her selfe
before
she
needs
.
were
she
as
strong
in
power
as
will
,
she
would
commit
more
insolencies
with
her
tongue
,
than
euer
Nero
did
tyrannies
with
his
sword
.
Silence
shee
hates
as
her
sexes
scandall
,
and
reprou'd
for
her
distemper
,
her
answer
is
,
The
worme
will
turne
againe
.
Happy
were
her
husband
if
shee
were
wormes-meat
,
but
her
hope
is
to
out-weare
her
winding-sheete
:
when
shee
comes
in
companie
,
all
cry
God
blesse
them
,
as
if
they
heard
thunder
;
she
omits
no
time
,
spares
no
person
,
obserues
no
state
,
but
wounds
with
her
tongue
,
terming
it
her
sole
defensiue
instrument
.
Great
ones
she
as
much
disvalues
,
as
shee
contemnes
inferiors
,
yet
neither
shall
slip
her
,
for
she
neuer
saw
that
creature
,
which
might
not
giue
her
argument
to
vent
her
impatience
;
her
reading
is
but
small
,
yet
when
she
heares
of
Stentors
tongue
,
shee
would
giue
her
Dowrie
for
such
a
cimball
.
she
somtimes
counterfeits
grauitie
,
but
her
ferret
eyes
and
hooke
nose
display
her
for
an
hypocrite
.
Her
tongue
neuer
findes
vacation
but
in
Church
,
which
time
giues
her
occasion
to
commence
some
new
brawle
.
Her
tongue
is
as
glibberie
as
an
Eele
,
all
the
Posts
in
the
Kings
high
roade
cannot
equall
her
for
speed
;
marie
truth
is
,
she
enterfears
dangerously
.
shee
weares
her
clothes
negligently
,
of
set
purpose
to
moue
her
husband
to
taxe
her
for
her
sluttishnes
,
whose
reproofe
she
retorts
with
haile-shot
,
and
pellets
him
with
words
as
disgracefull
as
she
is
fulsom
.
By
this
time
she
hath
formald
a
paire
of
high
corke
shoes
to
heighten
her
dwarfish
proportion
,
purposely
intended
to
beard
her
husband
.
In
her
infancie
she
was
tongue-tyed
,
but
by
an
expert
Artist
,
the
string
being
cut
,
she
euer
after
vowed
neuer
to
loose
the
facultie
of
her
vtterance
by
discontinuance
.
she
hath
seriously
protested
to
make
her
husband
run
mad
,
but
he
is
a
foole
then
.
she
claimes
some
priuiledge
in
his
Bretches
,
and
that
is
th'
efficient
cause
of
a
breach
betwixt
them
.
It
may
be
she
is
honest
,
but
if
her
dogd
humor
would
giue
her
leaue
,
I
am
perswaded
shee
would
enter
parlie
with
a
knaue
in
a
corner
:
being
(
as
she
is
)
a
very
Crab
,
if
shee
affect
any
pleasures
,
they
must
be
backward
.
she
resembles
the
Raile
,
and
her
name
concurrs
with
her
nature
.
shee
condemnes
no
act
so
much
,
as
that
of
Hypemnestra
,
who
procured
her
husbands
safetie
,
while
all
the
rest
practised
their
deaths
.
shee
approues
of
no
ancient
soueraigntie
,
but
that
of
Amazon
,
where
the
gouernment
was
feminine
:
and
for
the
Salique
law
,
she
hath
already
repeald
it
,
as
expresly
preiudiciall
to
their
sex
.
Her
tongue-feuer
is
quotidian
,
for
it
is
euer
shaking
:
her
nature
is
so
far
out
of
temper
,
as
shee
hath
vowed
to
be
phrenticke
euer
.
she
maintaines
this
,
that
fancie
is
a
phrensie
,
and
Loue
such
a
painted
Idoll
,
as
she
will
rather
burne
,
than
tye
her selfe
to
such
a
fopperie
.
I
would
see
that
Saint
,
which
shee
would
not
incense
,
a
man
of
that
temper
,
whom
she
will
not
nettle
.
There
is
no
bird
which
she
lesse
resembles
than
the
Doue
,
for
she
is
all
gall
.
Saturne
hath
sole
predominance
ouer
her
,
dis-affecting
nothing
more
than
affabilitie
.
she
can
be
merry
by
times
,
but
then
especially
,
when
her
husband
is
malecontent
.
she
liues
of
litle
sleepe
,
and
seldome
sleeps
but
dreames
,
and
awakes
laughing
,
relating
how
in
her
sleepe
she
beat
her
husband
.
The
Crocodyles
teares
are
not
by
halfe
so
mortally
dangerous
,
making
euer
her
hatefull
teares
assured
harbingers
of
reuenge
.
she
weeps
because
she
may
not
effect
what
she
would
,
tuning
all
the
day
a
hellish
discord
,
best
sorting
with
her
serpentine
subtiltie
.
she
willingly
entertaines
her
owne
dislike
,
to
infer
her
husbands
distast
;
which
she
apprehends
with
ioy
,
and
obserues
with
a
continuate
delight
.
she
rewards
the
Sexton
liberally
in
her
husbands
presence
,
onely
adding
,
a
day
will
come
.
she
presseth
him
to
make
his
will
,
perswading
him
he
cannot
liue
long
,
albeit
he
finde
no
such
fault
with
himselfe
.
she
would
make
an
excellent
Hawke
,
for
she
is
euer
sharpe
.
shee
vowes
Temperance
is
none
of
the
cardinall
vertues
;
and
that
too
much
sufferance
may
make
the
bleare-eyed
world
esteeme
such
an
on
a
Saint
,
whose
recreant
Patience
deserues
rather
the
title
of
Sot
.
she
may
seeme
to
haue
some
allusion
to
the
Pismire
,
wheresoeuer
she
is
,
she
brings
smarting
,
and
in
Prouidence
too
,
for
the
shrow
is
euer
scraping
.
Her
tongue
would
make
a
singular
Scarcrow
,
for
it
is
euer
ratling
:
in
her
discontent
(
as
when
is
she
out
of
that
humor
?
)
her
only
dolefull
song
is
Lachrimae
,
which
she
vsually
sings
in
any
consort
.
Her
complexion
is
sallow
,
of
constitution
strong
,
yet
is
her
bodie
incomparably
weake
to
her
will
,
which
can
finde
no
period
,
till
death
be
her
Herald
,
to
whose
comfortable
arrest
I
bequeath
her
.
FINIS
.