Characters
VPON
ESSAIES
MORALL
,
AND
Diuine
,
WRITTEN
For
those
good
Spirits
,
that
will
take
them
▪
in
good
part
,
AND
Make
vse
of
them
to
good
purpose
.
LONDON
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by
Edw.
Griffin
,
for
Iohn
Gwillim
,
and
are
to
be
sold
at
his
shop
in
Britaines-Burse
.
1615.
TO
THE
HOnorable
,
and
my
much
worthy
honored
,
truly
learned
,
and
Iudicious
Knight
,
Sr
Francis
Bacon
,
his
Maᵗⁱᵉˢ
Generall
,
Increase
of
honor
,
health
,
and
eternall
happinesse
.
WORTHY
Knight
,
I
haue
read
of
many
Essaies
,
and
a
kinde
of
Charactering
of
them
,
by
such
,
as
when
I
lookt
into
the
forme
,
or
nature
of
their
writing
,
I
haue
beene
of
the
conceit
,
that
they
were
but
Imitators
of
your
breaking
the
ice
to
their
inuentions
;
which
,
how
short
they
fall
of
your
worth
,
I
had
rather
thinke
then
speake
,
though
Truth
neede
not
blush
at
her
blame
:
Now
,
for
my selfe
vnworthy
to
touch
neere
the
Rocke
of
those
Diamonds
,
or
to
speake
in
their
praise
,
who
so
farre
exceede
the
power
of
my
capacitie
,
vouchsafe
me
leaue
yet
,
I
beseech
you
,
among
those
Apes
that
would
counterfet
the
actions
of
men
,
to
play
the
like
part
with
learning
,
and
as
a
Monkey
,
that
would
make
a
face
like
a
Man
,
and
cannot
,
so
to
write
like
a
Scholler
,
and
am
not
:
and
thus
not
daring
to
aduenture
the
Print
,
vnder
your
Patronage
,
without
your
fauourable
allowance
,
in
the
deuoted
seruice
of
my
bounden
duty
,
I
leaue
these
poore
Trauells
of
my
Spirit
,
to
the
perusing
of
your
pleasing
leasure
,
with
the
further
fruites
of
my
humble
affection
,
to
the
happie
employment
of
your
honorable
pleasure
.
At
your
seruice
in
all
humblenesse
NICH
:
BRETON
.
To
the
Reader
.
READ
what
you
list
,
and
vnderstand
what
you
can
:
Characters
are
not
euery
mans
construction
,
though
they
be
writ
in
our
mother
tongue
:
and
what
I
haue
written
,
being
of
no
other
nature
,
if
they
fit
not
your
humor
,
they
may
please
a
better
:
I
make
no
comparison
,
because
I
know
you
not
,
but
if
you
will
vouchsafe
to
looke
into
them
,
it
may
bee
you
may
finde
something
in
them
;
their
natures
are
diuers
,
as
you
may
see
,
if
your
eyes
bee
open
,
and
if
you
can
make
vse
of
them
to
good
purpose
,
your
wits
may
prooue
the
better
:
In
briefe
,
fearing
the
foole
will
bee
put
vpon
me
,
for
being
too
busie
with
matters
too
farre
aboue
my
vnderstanding
,
I
will
leaue
my
imperfection
to
pardon
,
or
correction
,
and
my
labour
to
their
liking
,
that
will
not
thinke
ill
of
a
well
meaning
:
and
so
rest
Your
well-willing
friend
,
N.B.
WHo
reads
this
Booke
with
a
iudicious
eye
,
Will
in
true
Iudgment
,
true
discretion
try
,
Where
words
and
matter
close
and
sweetly
coucht
,
Doe
shew
how
truth
,
wit
,
art
,
and
nature
toucht
.
What
need
more
words
these
Characters
to
praise
,
They
are
the
true
charactering
of
Essaies
.
I.R.
IN
words
of
worth
,
to
speake
of
these
Essayes
Let
this
suffice
,
the
worke
it selfe
will
prayse
.
C.N.
SOme
haue
an
humor
,
that
to
discommend
They
know
themselues
,
they
know
not
how
to
mend
.
Other
correct
,
what
they
doe
thinke
amisse
:
While
in
their
owne
conceit
the
error
is
.
But
true
iudicious
wits
,
and
honest
mindes
,
Will
giue
their
censure
in
some
better
kindes
:
And
say
but
truth
,
that
cannot
be
mistooke
:
Wit
hath
well
labour
de
learning
in
this
Booke
.
R.B.
Ad
Authorem
.
HE
that
shall
read
thy
characters
(
Nic:
Breton
)
And
weigh
them
well
;
must
say
they
are
well
written
.
They
taste
the
lampe
:
much
reading
,
obseruation
,
Art
,
matter
,
wit
,
all
worthy
commendation
.
Some
weaue
their
lines
of
such
a
slender
thred
,
They
will
not
last
so
long
,
as
to
be
read
.
Thou
hast
so
spunne
,
so
weau'd
;
thy
words
,
thy
lines
They
please
vs
most
being
viewd
,
a
hundred
times
.
W.D.
In
laudem
operis
.
WOrds
are
the
pensils
,
whereby
drawne
we
finde
The
picture
of
the
inward
man
,
the
minde
.
Such
thoughts
,
such
words
;
such
words
,
such
is
the
man
.
Say
;
is
this
Spirit
a
Plebeyan
?
That
like
the
singing
Larke
doth
mount
so
high
,
We
cannot
reach
them
with
an
earthly
eye
.
W.P.
WHile
I
Essay
to
character
this
Booke
,
And
th●se
charactered
Essayes
o'relooke
:
I
herein
finde
few
words
,
great
worth
involve
:
A
Lip●o●
stile
,
terse
Phrase
:
and
so
resolve
,
That
as
a
Stone
's
best
valu'd
,
and
best
prised
,
When
best
in
knowne
:
So
this
,
when
best
revised
I.B.
Wisedome
.
WISEDOME
is
a
working
Grace
in
the
Soules
of
the
Elect
:
by
whom
the
Spirit
is
made
capable
of
those
secrets
,
that
neither
Nature
,
nor
Reason
,
is
able
to
comprehend
:
who
,
by
a
powerfull
vertue
,
She
hath
from
the
diuine
Essence
,
worketh
in
all
things
,
according
to
the
will
of
the
Almighty
:
and
,
being
,
before
beginning
,
shall
exceede
Time
,
in
an
eternall
proceeding
:
She
is
a
Light
,
in
the
Intellectuall
part
,
by
which
Reason
is
led
to
direct
the
Sences
in
their
due
Course
,
and
Nature
is
preserued
from
Subiecting
her selfe
to
Imperfection
:
in
the
Creation
,
Shee
was
of
Councell
with
the
Trinitie
,
in
the
pleasing
of
the
Deity
,
in
the
Redemption
,
the
Inuenter
of
Mercy
,
for
,
the
preseruation
of
the
Elect
,
and
in
the
Glorification
,
the
Treasurer
of
life
,
for
the
reward
of
the
faithfull
,
who
,
hauing
committed
to
her
Care
,
the
cariage
of
the
whole
Motion
,
finding
the
disposition
of
earth
in
all
the
Children
of
her
Wombe
,
by
such
a
Measure
,
as
she
findes
fitting
their
qualitie
,
she
giues
them
either
the
grace
of
Nature
,
or
the
glory
of
Reason
:
While
being
the
Mother
of
the
Graces
,
Shee
giues
them
that
holy
Instruction
,
that
,
in
the
knowledge
of
the
highest
Loue
,
thorough
the
pathes
of
Vertue
,
makes
a
passage
to
Heauen
:
Learning
hath
from
her
,
that
knowledge
without
the
which
,
all
knowledge
,
is
meere
Ignorance
:
while
,
onely
,
in
the
Grace
of
Truth
,
is
seene
the
Glorie
of
vnderstanding
:
Knowledge
hath
from
Her
that
Learning
,
whereby
,
she
is
taught
the
direction
of
her
Loue
,
in
the
way
of
life
:
Vnderstanding
hath
from
her
that
Knowledge
,
that
keepes
Conceit
,
alwaies
in
the
Spirits
comfort
:
and
Judgement
,
from
Vnderstanding
,
that
Rule
of
Iustice
,
that
by
the
euen
waight
of
Impartiality
,
shewes
the
hand
of
Heauen
in
the
heart
of
Humanitie
:
in
the
Heauens
,
She
keepes
the
Angels
in
their
orders
,
teacheth
them
the
Natures
of
their
Offices
,
and
emploies
them
in
the
seruice
of
their
Creator
:
in
the
Firmament
,
She
walkes
among
the
Starres
,
sets
,
and
keepes
them
,
in
their
places
,
courses
,
and
operations
,
at
her
pleasure
,
She
ecclipseth
the
light
,
and
,
in
a
Moment
,
leaues
not
a
Clowde
in
the
●kie
:
in
Her
Thunders
,
and
Lightenings
she
shewes
the
Terror
of
the
Highest
Wrath
,
and
in
Her
temperate
Calmes
,
the
patience
of
his
Mercy
:
in
her
frostie
Winters
,
she
shewes
the
weaknes
of
Nature
,
and
in
her
Sunny
Springs
,
the
Recouery
of
Her
health
:
in
the
Louers
of
this
world
liues
no
part
of
her
purenesse
,
but
,
with
Her
beloued
She
makes
a
Heauen
vpon
Earth
:
in
the
King
,
she
shewes
her
Grace
,
in
his
Councell
her
Care
,
and
,
in
his
State
,
her
Strength
:
in
the
Souldior
,
she
shewes
Vertue
,
the
truest
Valor
,
in
the
Lawier
,
Truth
,
the
Honor
of
his
Plea
,
in
the
Merchant
,
Conscience
,
the
wealth
of
his
Soule
,
and
in
the
Church-man
Charity
,
the
true
fruit
of
his
Deuotion
:
She
liues
in
the
World
,
but
,
not
the
worlds
Loue
,
for
the
Worldes
vnworthinesse
,
is
not
capable
of
her
worth
:
Shee
receiueth
Mammon
,
as
a
gift
from
his
Maker
,
and
makes
him
serue
her
vse
to
his
Glory
:
She
giues
Honor
,
Grace
in
Bounty
,
and
,
manageth
wit
,
by
the
Care
of
discretion
:
She
shewes
the
Necessity
of
difference
,
and
,
wherein
is
the
happinesse
of
Vnitie
:
Shee
puts
her
Labor
,
to
prouidence
,
her
hope
,
to
patience
,
her
life
,
to
her
Loue
,
and
her
Loue
,
to
her
Lord
:
with
whom
,
as
chiefe
Secretary
of
his
secrets
,
she
writes
his
will
to
the
World
,
and
as
high
Steward
of
his
Courts
,
she
keepes
Account
of
all
his
Tenaunts
:
in
Sum
,
so
great
is
her
Grace
in
the
Heauens
,
as
giues
her
Glory
aboue
the
Earth
,
and
so
,
Infinite
,
are
her
Excellencies
,
in
all
the
Course
of
her
Action
,
and
,
so
Glorious
are
the
Notes
of
her
Incomprehensible
Nature
,
that
,
I
will
thus
onely
Conclude
,
farre
short
of
her
Commendation
:
She
is
Gods
Loue
,
and
his
Angells
Light
,
his
Seruants
,
Grace
,
and
His
Beloueds
Glory
.
Learning
.
LEarning
is
the
life
of
Reason
,
and
the
Light
of
Nature
,
where
,
Time
,
Order
,
and
Measure
,
square
out
the
true
Course
of
Knowledge
;
where
,
Discretion
,
in
the
Temper
of
Passion
,
brings
experience
to
the
best
fruite
of
Affection
:
while
,
both
,
the
Theoricke
,
and
the
Practicke
,
labour
in
the
life
of
Iudgement
,
till
,
the
perfection
of
Art
,
shew
the
Honor
of
vnderstanding
:
She
is
the
keie
of
knowledge
,
that
vnlocketh
the
Cabinet
of
Conceit
,
wherein
are
laide
vp
the
Labours
of
Vertue
,
for
the
vse
of
the
Schollers
of
Wisedome
:
where
euery
gratious
Spirit
may
finde
matter
enough
worthy
of
the
Record
of
the
best
Memory
:
She
is
the
Nurse
of
Nature
,
with
that
Milke
of
Reason
,
that
,
would
make
a
Childe
of
Grace
,
neuer
lie
from
the
Dugge
:
Shee
is
the
Schoole-mistris
of
Witte
,
and
the
gentle
Gouernor
of
Will
,
when
,
the
Delight
of
vnderstanding
,
giues
the
Comfort
of
Study
:
She
is
vnpleasing
to
none
that
knowes
her
,
and
vnprofitable
,
to
none
that
loues
her
:
She
feares
not
to
Wet
her
feete
,
to
Wade
thorough
the
Waters
of
Comfort
,
but
,
comes
not
neere
the
Seas
of
Iniquitie
,
where
,
folly
drownes
Affection
,
in
the
delight
of
Vanity
:
She
opens
her
Treasures
to
the
Trauailers
in
Vertue
,
but
,
keepes
them
close
from
the
Eies
of
Idlenesse
:
She
makes
the
King
Gratious
,
and
his
Councell
,
Iudicious
,
his
Clergie
,
Deuout
,
and
,
his
Kingdome
,
prosperous
:
She
giues
Honor
to
Vertue
,
Grace
,
to
Honor
,
Reward
,
to
Labor
,
and
,
Loue
,
to
Truth
:
She
is
the
Messenger
of
Wisedome
,
to
the
mindes
of
the
Vertuous
,
and
,
the
Way
to
Honor
,
in
the
Spirits
of
the
Gratious
:
She
is
the
Store-house
of
Vnderstanding
,
where
the
Affection
of
Grace
,
can
not
want
Instruction
of
goodnesse
,
while
,
in
the
Rules
of
her
directions
,
Reason
is
neuer
out
of
square
:
She
is
the
Exercise
of
Wit
,
in
the
application
of
Knowledge
,
and
the
preseruer
of
the
vnderstanding
,
in
the
practise
of
Memory
:
In
briefe
,
she
makes
Age
honorable
,
and
,
youth
Admirable
:
the
vertuous
,
wise
,
and
the
wise
,
gracious
:
Hir
Libraries
are
infinite
,
hir
lessons
without
number
,
hir
instruction
,
without
comparison
,
and
hir
Schollers
without
equalitie
:
In
briefe
,
finding
it
a
laborinth
,
to
go
through
the
grounds
of
hir
praise
:
Let
this
suffice
,
that
in
all
Ages
shee
hath
been
,
and
euer
will
be
,
the
Darling
of
wisdome
,
the
delight
of
wit
,
the
study
of
vertue
,
and
the
stay
of
knowledge
.
Knowledge
.
KNowledge
is
a
Collection
of
vnderstanding
,
gathered
in
the
grounds
of
Learning
,
by
the
instruction
of
Wisdome
:
Shee
is
the
exercise
of
Memory
,
in
the
actions
of
the
Minde
,
and
the
imployer
of
the
Senses
,
in
the
will
of
the
Spirit
:
shee
is
the
Notary
of
Time
,
and
the
tryer
of
Truth
,
and
the
labour
of
the
Spirit
in
the
loue
of
Vertue
:
shee
is
the
pleasure
of
wit
,
and
the
paradise
of
Reason
,
where
Conceit
gathereth
the
sweet
of
Vnderstanding
.
She
is
the
Kings
councellor
,
&
the
Councells
grace
,
Youths
guarde
,
and
Ages
glory
:
It
is
free
from
doubts
,
and
feares
no
danger
,
while
the
care
of
Prouidence
cuts
off
the
cause
of
Repentance
:
shee
is
the
enemy
of
Idlenesse
,
and
the
maintayner
of
Labour
,
in
the
care
of
credit
,
and
pleasure
of
profit
:
shee
needs
no
aduice
in
the
Resolution
of
Action
,
while
Experience
in
obseruation
,
findes
perfection
infallible
:
It
cleares
Errors
,
and
cannot
be
deceiued
,
corrects
Impuritie
,
and
will
not
bee
corrupted
:
Shee
hath
a
wide
eare
,
and
a
close
mouth
,
a
pure
eye
,
and
a
perfect
heart
:
It
is
begotten
by
Grace
,
bred
by
Vertue
,
brought
vp
by
Learning
,
and
maintainde
by
Loue
:
shee
conuerseth
with
the
best
capacities
,
and
communicates
with
the
soundest
Iudgments
,
dwells
with
the
diuinest
Natures
,
and
loues
the
most
patient
dispositions
:
Hir
hope
is
a
kind
of
Assurance
,
hir
faith
a
continuall
expectation
,
hir
loue
an
apprehension
of
Ioy
,
and
hir
life
the
light
of
Eternitie
:
Hir
labours
are
infinite
,
hir
wayes
are
vnsearcheable
,
hir
Graces
incomparable
,
and
hir
Excellencies
inexplicable
:
and
therefore
,
being
so
little
acquainted
with
hir
worth
,
as
makes
me
blush
at
my
vnworthinesse
,
to
speake
in
the
least
of
hir
praise
:
I
will
onely
leaue
hir
aduancement
to
Vertue
,
hir
honour
to
Wisdome
,
hir
grace
to
Truth
,
and
to
Eternitie
;
his
glory
.
Practise
.
PRactise
,
is
the
Motion
of
the
Spirit
,
where
the
Sences
are
all
set
to
worke
in
their
Natures
,
where
,
in
the
fittest
employment
of
Time
,
Reason
maketh
the
best
vse
of
vnderstanding
:
Shee
is
the
Continuance
of
knowledge
in
the
Ease
of
Memory
,
and
,
the
Honor
of
Resolution
in
the
effect
of
Iudgment
.
Shee
plants
the
Spring
,
and
reapes
the
Haruest
,
makes
labour
sweet
,
and
patience
,
comfortable
:
Shee
hath
a
foot
on
the
earth
,
but
,
an
eye
at
heauen
,
where
the
prayer
of
faith
findes
the
felicitie
of
the
Soule
:
in
the
fruit
of
Charity
,
she
shewes
the
nature
of
Devotion
,
and
in
the
Mercy
of
Iustice
,
the
Glory
of
gouernment
.
Shee
giues
Time
honour
,
in
the
fruit
of
Action
,
and
Reason
,
grace
,
in
the
application
of
knowledge
:
She
takes
the
height
of
the
Sunne
,
walkes
about
the
world
,
sounds
the
depth
of
the
Sea
,
and
makes
her
passage
thorough
the
waters
.
She
is
ready
for
all
occasions
,
attendeth
all
persons
,
works
with
all
instruments
,
and
finisheth
all
actions
:
Shee
takes
Invention
for
her
teacher
,
makes
time
,
her
seruant
,
method
her
direction
,
and
place
her
habitation
:
Shee
hath
a
wakefull
eye
,
and
a
working
braine
,
which
fits
the
members
of
the
body
,
to
the
seruice
of
the
spirit
:
Shee
is
the
Physitians
agent
,
and
the
Apothecaries
benefactor
,
the
Chirurgions
wealth
,
and
the
Patients
,
patience
:
Shee
brings
time
,
to
labor
,
and
care
,
to
contentment
:
learning
to
knowledge
,
and
vertue
to
honour
:
in
Idlenesse
shee
hath
no
pleasure
,
nor
acquaintance
with
Ignorance
,
but
in
Industry
,
is
her
delight
,
and
in
vnderstanding
,
her
grace
:
Shee
hath
a
passage
thorough
all
the
Predicaments
,
shee
hath
a
hand
in
all
the
Artes
,
a
property
in
all
professions
,
and
a
qualitie
in
all
conditions
:
in
briefe
,
so
many
are
the
varieties
of
the
manners
of
her
proceedings
,
as
makes
me
fearefull
to
follow
her
too
farre
in
obseruation
,
lest
,
being
neuer
able
to
come
neere
the
height
of
hir
commendation
,
I
be
inforced
,
as
I
am
,
to
leaue
hir
wholy
to
admiration
.
Patience
.
PAtience
is
a
kind
of
heauenly
Tenure
,
whereby
the
Soule
is
held
in
possession
,
and
a
sweet
temper
in
the
Spirit
,
which
restraineth
nature
from
exceeding
reason
in
passion
.
Hir
hand
keeps
time
in
his
right
course
,
and
hir
eye
pierceth
into
the
depth
of
vnderstanding
:
Shee
attendeth
wisdome
in
all
hir
works
,
and
proportioneth
time
,
to
the
necessitie
of
matter
:
Shee
is
the
poyson
of
Sorrow
in
the
hope
of
Comfort
,
and
the
paradise
of
conceit
in
the
ioy
of
peace
:
Hir
tongue
speakes
seldome
,
but
to
purpose
,
and
hir
foot
goeth
slowly
,
but
surely
:
Shee
is
the
imitator
of
the
Incomprehensible
in
his
passage
to
perfection
,
and
a
seruant
of
his
will
in
the
mappe
of
his
workmanship
:
in
Confusion
,
Shee
hath
no
operation
,
while
she
only
●arieth
hir
conceit
,
with
the
consideration
of
experience
:
Shee
trauailes
farre
,
and
is
neuer
weary
;
and
giues
ouer
no
worke
,
but
to
better
a
beginning
:
Shee
makes
the
King
mercifull
,
and
the
Subiect
loyall
,
Honour
gracious
,
and
,
Wisdome
glorious
:
Shee
pacifieth
wrath
,
and
puts
off
reuenge
,
and
,
in
the
humilitie
of
charitie
,
shewes
the
nature
of
Grace
:
Shee
is
beloued
of
the
Highest
,
and
imbraced
of
the
wisest
,
honoured
with
the
worthiest
,
and
graced
with
the
best
:
Shee
makes
imprisonment
,
Liberty
,
when
the
minde
goeth
thorough
the
world
,
and
in
sicknesse
findes
health
,
where
death
is
the
way
to
life
:
Shee
is
an
Enemie
to
passion
,
and
knowes
no
Purgatory
;
thinkes
fortune
a
fiction
,
and
builds
onely
vpon
Prouidence
:
Shee
is
the
sick-mans
Salue
,
and
the
whole
mans
preseruer
:
the
Wise-mans
staffe
,
and
the
goodmans
Guide
:
In
summe
,
not
to
wade
too
farre
in
hir
worthinesse
,
lest
I
be
drownd
in
the
depth
of
wonder
,
I
will
thus
end
,
in
hir
endlesse
Honour
:
Shee
is
the
grace
of
Christ
,
and
the
vertue
of
Christianitie
,
the
praise
of
Goodnesse
,
and
the
preseruer
of
the
world
.
Loue
.
LOve
is
the
life
of
Nature
,
and
the
ioy
of
Reason
,
in
the
Spirit
of
Grace
;
where
vertue
drawing
affection
,
the
concord
of
Sense
,
makes
an
vnion
vnseparable
in
the
diuine
apprehension
of
the
ioy
of
Election
,
it
is
a
rauishment
of
the
Soule
,
in
the
delight
of
the
Spirit
:
which
,
being
caried
aboue
it selfe
,
into
inexplicable
comfort
,
feeles
that
heauenly
sicknesse
,
that
is
better
than
the
worlds
health
,
when
the
wisest
of
men
,
in
the
swounding
delight
of
his
sacred
Inspiration
,
could
thus
vtter
the
sweetnesse
of
his
passion
:
My
Soule
is
sicke
of
Loue
.
It
is
a
healthfull
sicknesse
in
the
Soule
,
a
pleasing
passion
in
the
Heart
,
a
contentiue
labour
in
the
Minde
,
and
a
peacefull
trouble
of
the
Senses
:
it
alters
natures
in
contrarieties
,
when
difficultie
is
made
easie
,
paine
,
made
a
pleasure
,
pouerty
,
riches
,
and
imprisonment
,
liberty
:
for
the
content
of
conceit
,
which
regards
not
to
be
an
abiect
,
in
being
subiect
,
but
to
an
obiect
:
it
reioyceth
in
truth
,
and
knowes
no
inconstancie
,
it
is
free
from
Ielousie
,
and
feareth
no
fortune
:
it
breakes
the
rule
of
Arithmericke
,
by
confounding
of
number
,
where
the
coniunction
of
thoughts
make
one
minde
in
two
bodies
,
where
neither
figure
,
nor
cipher
,
can
make
diuision
of
vnion
:
it
simpathies
with
life
,
and
participates
with
light
,
when
the
eye
of
the
minde
,
sees
the
ioy
of
the
heart
:
it
is
a
predominat
power
,
which
endures
no
equalitie
,
and
yet
,
communicates
with
reason
,
in
the
rules
of
Concord
:
it
breeds
safety
in
a
King
,
and
peace
,
in
a
kingdome
,
Nations
vnitie
,
and
Natures
gladnesse
:
It
sings
in
labour
,
in
the
ioy
of
hope
,
and
makes
a
paradise
in
reward
of
desert
:
it
pleads
but
mercy
,
in
the
iustice
of
the
Almighty
;
and
but
mutuall
Amitie
,
in
the
nature
of
Humanitie
:
In
summe
,
hauing
no
Eagles
eye
,
to
looke
vpon
the
Sunne
,
and
fearing
to
looke
too
high
,
for
feare
of
a
chip
in
mine
eye
,
I
will
in
these
few
words
,
speake
in
praise
of
this
peerelesse
vertue
:
Loue
is
the
grace
of
nature
,
and
the
glory
of
reason
,
the
blessing
of
God
,
and
the
comfort
of
the
world
.
Peace
.
PEACE
,
is
a
Calme
in
Conceit
,
where
the
Senses
take
pleasure
,
in
the
rest
of
the
Spirit
:
It
is
Natures
holy
day
after
Reasons
labour
,
and
Wisdoms
musique
in
the
Concords
of
the
minde
:
It
is
a
blessing
of
Grace
,
a
bounty
of
Mercy
,
a
proofe
of
Loue
,
and
,
a
preseruer
of
life
:
It
holds
no
Arguments
,
knowes
no
quarrells
,
is
an
enemie
to
sedition
,
and
a
continuance
of
Amitie
:
It
is
the
root
of
plenty
,
the
Tree
of
pleasure
,
the
fruit
of
Loue
,
and
the
sweetnesse
of
life
:
It
is
like
the
still
Night
,
where
all
things
are
at
rest
,
and
the
quiet
sleep
,
where
dreams
are
not
troublesome
:
or
the
resolued
point
,
in
the
perfection
of
knowledge
,
where
no
cares
,
nor
doubts
make
controuersies
in
opinion
:
it
needs
no
watch
,
where
is
no
feare
of
Enemy
,
nor
Sollicitor
of
Causes
,
where
Agreements
are
concluded
:
It
is
the
intent
of
Law
,
and
the
fruit
of
Iustice
:
the
end
of
Warre
,
and
the
beginning
of
Wealth
:
It
is
a
grace
in
a
Court
,
and
a
glory
in
a
Kingdom
,
a
blessing
in
a
Family
,
and
a
happinesse
in
a
Common-wealth
:
It
fills
the
rich
mans
cofers
,
and
feeds
the
poore
mans
labour
:
It
is
the
Wise-mans
study
,
and
the
Good-mans
ioy
:
who
loue
it
,
are
gracious
,
who
make
it
,
are
blessed
,
who
keep
it
are
happy
,
and
who
breake
it
,
are
miserable
:
It
hath
no
dwelling
with
Idolatry
,
nor
friendship
with
falshood
,
for
hir
life
is
in
Truth
,
and
in
hir
,
all
is
Amen
.
But
lest
in
the
Iustice
of
Peace
,
I
may
rather
be
reprooued
for
my
Ignorance
of
hir
worth
,
then
thought
worthy
to
speake
in
hir
prayse
,
with
this
only
Conclusion
,
in
the
commendation
of
Peace
,
I
will
draw
to
an
end
,
and
hold
my
peace
:
It
was
a
message
of
Ioy
at
the
birth
of
Christ
,
a
song
of
Ioy
,
at
the
imbracement
of
Christ
,
an
assurance
of
Ioy
,
at
the
death
of
Christ
,
and
shall
be
the
fulnesse
of
Ioy
,
at
the
comming
of
Christ
.
Warre
.
WARRE
is
a
scourge
of
the
wrath
of
God
,
which
by
famine
,
fire
,
or
sword
,
humbleth
the
spirits
of
the
Repentant
,
tryeth
the
patience
of
the
Faithfull
,
and
hardneth
the
hearts
of
the
vngodly
:
it
is
the
misery
of
Time
,
and
the
terror
of
Nature
,
the
dispeopling
of
the
Earth
,
and
the
ruine
of
hir
Beauty
:
Hir
life
,
is
Action
,
hir
food
;
Bloud
,
hir
honour
,
Valor
,
and
hir
ioy
,
Conquest
.
Shee
is
Valors
exercise
,
and
Honors
aduenture
,
Reasons
trouble
,
and
Peaces
enemy
:
shee
is
the
stout
mans
loue
,
and
the
weake
mans
feare
,
the
poore
mans
toile
,
and
the
rich
mans
plague
:
shee
is
the
Armourers
Benefactor
,
and
the
Chirurgions
agent
,
the
Cowards
ague
,
and
the
Desperats
ouerthrow
:
she
is
the
wish
of
Enuy
,
the
plague
of
them
that
wish
hir
,
the
shipwracke
of
life
,
and
the
agent
for
death
;
The
best
of
hir
is
,
that
shee
is
the
seasoner
of
the
body
,
and
the
manager
of
the
minde
,
for
the
induring
of
labor
,
in
the
resolution
of
action
:
shee
thunders
in
the
Aire
,
rips
vp
the
Earth
,
cuts
thorough
the
Seas
,
and
consumes
with
the
fire
:
shee
is
indeed
the
inuention
of
Malice
,
the
worke
of
Mischiefe
,
the
musique
of
Hell
,
and
the
daunce
of
the
Deuill
:
she
makes
the
end
of
Youth
vntimely
,
and
of
Age
wretched
,
the
Cities
sacke
,
and
the
Countries
beggery
:
shee
is
the
Captaines
pride
,
and
the
Captiues
sorrow
,
the
throat
of
bloud
,
and
the
graue
of
flesh
:
shee
is
the
woe
of
the
world
,
the
punishment
of
sinne
,
the
passage
of
danger
,
and
,
the
Messenger
of
destruction
:
she
is
the
wise
mans
warning
,
and
the
fooles
paiment
,
the
godly
mans
griefe
,
and
,
the
wicked
mans
game
:
In
summe
,
so
many
are
her
woundes
,
so
mortall
her
cures
,
so
daungerous
her
course
,
and
,
so
deuilish
her
deuises
,
that
,
I
will
wade
no
further
in
her
riuers
of
bloud
,
but
,
only
,
thus
conclude
in
her
description
:
she
is
Gods
curse
,
and
Mans
misery
,
hells
Practise
,
and
earthes
Hell
.
Valor
.
VAlor
is
a
Vertue
in
the
spirit
,
which
keepes
the
flesh
in
subiection
:
Resolues
without
feare
,
and
trauailes
without
fainting
:
she
vowes
no
villany
,
nor
,
breakes
;
her
fidelity
,
she
is
patient
in
captiuity
,
and
pittifull
in
conquest
:
Her
gaine
is
honor
,
and
,
desert
her
meane
,
fortune
her
skorne
,
and
folly
,
her
hate
:
wisedome
is
her
guide
,
and
conquest
her
grace
,
clemency
,
her
praise
,
and
humilitie
,
her
Glory
:
she
is
youthes
ornament
,
and
ages
honor
;
natures
blessing
,
and
Vertue
;
loue
:
Her
life
is
resolution
,
&
her
loue
,
victory
,
her
triumph
,
truth
,
and
her
fame
,
vertue
:
Her
armes
are
from
antiquitie
,
and
,
her
cote
,
full
of
honor
,
where
,
the
title
of
grace
,
hath
her
Herauldry
from
heauen
she
makes
a
walke
of
warre
,
and
a
sport
of
danger
,
an
ease
,
of
labour
,
and
a
lest
,
of
death
:
she
makes
famine
,
but
abstinence
,
want
,
but
,
a
patience
,
sickenesse
,
but
a
purge
,
and
death
,
a
puffe
:
she
is
the
Mainteiner
of
●arre
,
the
Generall
of
an
army
,
●he
terror
of
an
Enemy
,
and
the
●ory
of
a
campe
:
she
is
the
No●lenesse
of
the
minde
,
and
the
●●rength
of
the
Body
,
the
li●e
of
●ope
,
and
the
death
of
feare
▪
with
〈◊〉
handfull
of
men
,
shee
ouer●hrowes
a
multitude
,
and
with
a
●daine
amazement
,
she
discom●tes
a
Campe
:
she
is
the
reuenge
●f
wrong
,
and
the
defence
of
●ight
,
Religions
Champion
,
and
,
●ertues
choise
:
In
briefe
,
let
this
●uffice
in
her
commendation
:
she
●rengthened
Dauid
,
and
conque●ed
Goliah
,
she
ouerthrowes
her
●nemies
,
and
conquers
her selfe
.
Resolution
.
REsolution
is
the
Honoure●
Valor
,
in
the
quarrell
of
Ve●tue
,
for
the
defence
of
Right
,
an●
Redresse
of
Wrong
:
She
,
beate●
the
March
,
pitcheth
the
Battaile
plants
the
Ordinance
,
and
Maintaines
the
fight
:
Her
Eare
is
stop●
from
Disswasions
,
her
Eie
aim●●
only
at
Honor
,
her
hand
takes
the
Sword
of
Valor
,
and
her
heart
thinkes
of
nothing
,
but
victory●
Shee
giues
the
Charge
,
makes
the
Stand
,
Assaults
the
fort
,
and
enters
the
Breach
:
Shee
breakes
the
Pikes
,
faceth
the
Shot
,
dampes
the
Souldior
,
and
defeates
the
Army
:
Shee
looseth
no
time
,
slippes
no
Occasion
,
dreads
no
danger
,
and
,
Cares
for
no
force
;
●he
is
Valors
life
,
and
vertues
●oue
,
Iustice
Honor
,
and
,
Mer●ies
Glorie
:
Shee
beates
downe
Castles
,
fires
Shippes
,
Wades
●●orough
the
Sea
,
and
Walkes
●●orough
the
World
:
She
makes
●isedome
,
her
Guide
,
and
Will
,
●er
Seruant
,
Reason
,
her
Compa●ion
,
and
Honor
,
her
Mistris
:
●he
is
a
Blessing
in
Nature
,
and
a
●eauty
,
in
Reason
,
a
Grace
in
In●ention
,
and
,
a
Glory
in
Action
:
●he
studies
no
plots
,
when
her
●latforme
is
set
downe
,
and
defers
●o
time
,
when
her
houre
is
pre●xed
:
Shee
standes
vpon
no
●elpes
,
when
she
knowes
her
own
●orce
,
and
in
the
Execution
of
her
●ill
,
she
is
a
Rocke
Irremoueable
:
●he
is
the
Kings
Will
,
without
Contradiction
,
and
the
Iudges
●oome
,
without
Exception
,
the
●chollers
profession
,
without
Al●eration
,
and
the
Souldiers
Honor
without
Comparison
:
In
Summ●
so
many
are
the
groundes
of
he●
Grace
,
and
the
iust
Causes
of
he●
Commendation
,
that
,
Leauin●
her
worth
,
to
the
discription
〈◊〉
better
wits
,
I
will
in
these
few
wordes
,
conclude
my
Conceit●
her
.
She
is
the
stoutnesse
of
th●
heart
,
and
the
strength
of
th●
minde
,
a
gift
of
God
,
and
,
th●
glory
of
the
World
.
Honor.
.
HOnor
is
a
Title
of
Grace
giuen
by
the
spirit
of
Vertue
,
to
the
desert
of
Valor
,
in
th●
defence
of
Truth
:
it
is
wronged
in
basenesse
,
and
abused
in
vn●worthinesse
,
endangered
in
wantonnesse
,
and
lost
in
wickednes●
It
nourisheth
Art
,
and
crownet●
Wit
,
graceth
Learning
,
and
glorifieth
Wisedome
:
in
the
Herauldry
of
Heauen
,
it
hath
the
richest
Cote
,
being
,
in
Nature
Allied
,
vnto
all
the
houses
of
Grace
,
which
in
the
Heauen
of
heauens
,
attend
the
King
of
kings
:
Her
Escucheon
is
a
heart
,
in
which
,
in
the
shield
of
faith
,
she
beares
on
the
Anckor
of
Hope
,
the
Helmit
of
Saluation
:
she
quarters
with
Wisedome
in
the
Resolution
of
Valor
,
and
in
the
line
of
Charitie
,
she
is
of
the
House
of
Iustice
:
Her
Supporters
are
Time
,
and
Patience
,
her
Mantle
,
Truth
,
and
her
crest
,
Christ
treading
vpon
the
Globe
of
the
world
:
her
Imprese
,
Corona
mea
,
Christus
:
In
briefe
,
finding
her
state
so
high
,
that
I
am
not
able
to
climbe
vnto
the
praise
of
her
perfection
,
I
will
leaue
her
Royalty
to
the
Register
of
most
Princely
spirits
,
and
in
my
humble
hearts
thus
only
deliuer
my
opinion
of
her
:
She
is
Vertues
due
,
and
Graces
gift
,
Valors
wealth
,
and
Reasons
ioy
.
Truth
.
TRuth
is
the
Glory
of
time
,
and
the
daughter
of
Eternity
:
a
Title
of
the
highest
Grace
,
and
,
a
Note
of
a
diuine
Nature
:
she
is
the
life
of
Religion
,
the
light
of
Loue
,
the
Grace
of
Wit
,
and
the
Crowne
of
Wisedome
,
she
is
the
Beauty
of
Valor
,
the
brightnesse
of
honor
,
the
blessing
of
reason
,
and
the
ioy
of
faith
:
her
truth
is
pure
gold
,
her
Time
,
is
right
pretious
,
her
word
is
most
gratious
,
and
her
will
,
is
most
glorious
:
Her
Essence
is
in
God
,
and
,
her
dwelling
with
his
seruants
,
her
will
in
his
wisedome
,
and
her
worke
,
to
his
Glory
:
she
is
honored
in
loue
,
and
graced
in
constancie
,
in
patience
admired
,
and
in
charity
,
beloued
she
is
the
Angels
worshippe
,
the
Virgins
fame
,
the
Saints
blisse
,
and
the
Martirs
crowne
:
she
is
the
Kings
Greatnesse
,
and
his
Councels
,
Goodnesse
,
his
subiects
Peace
,
and
his
kingdomes
Praise
:
she
is
the
life
of
learning
,
and
the
light
of
the
Law
,
the
honor
of
Trade
,
and
the
grace
of
labor
:
she
hath
a
pure
Eye
,
a
plaine
hand
,
a
piercing
wit
and
a
perfect
heart
:
she
is
wisedomes
walke
in
the
way
of
holinesse
,
and
takes
vp
her
rest
,
but
,
in
the
resolution
of
goodnes
:
Her
tongue
neuer
trippes
,
her
heart
neuer
faintes
,
her
hand
neuer
failes
,
and
her
faith
,
neuer
feares
:
her
Church
is
without
schisme
,
her
City
without
fraude
,
her
Court
,
without
Vanity
,
and
her
kingdome
,
without
Villany
:
In
summe
,
so
infinite
is
her
Excellence
,
in
the
construction
of
all
sence
,
that
I
will
thus
only
conclude
in
the
wonder
of
her
worth
:
she
is
the
Nature
of
perfection
,
in
the
perfection
of
Nature
,
where
God
,
in
Christ
,
shewes
the
glory
of
Christianity
.
Time
.
TIme
is
a
continuall
Motion
,
which
from
the
highest
Moouer
,
hath
his
operation
in
all
the
subiects
of
Nature
,
according
to
their
qualitie
,
or
disposition
:
He
is
in
proportion
,
like
a
Circle
,
wherein
,
hee
walketh
with
an
euen
passage
,
to
the
point
of
his
prefixed
place
:
Hee
attendeth
none
,
and
yet
is
a
servant
to
all
;
he
is
best
emploied
by
wisedome
,
and
,
most
abused
,
by
folly
:
He
carrieth
both
the
sworde
and
the
scepter
,
for
the
vse
both
of
Iustice
,
and
Mercie
:
He
is
present
in
all
Inuention
,
and
,
can
not
be
spared
from
Action
:
He
is
the
Treasury
of
Graces
in
the
Memory
of
the
wise
,
and
,
bringes
them
forth
to
the
world
,
vpon
Necessity
of
their
vse
:
He
openeth
the
windowes
of
Heauen
,
to
giue
Light
vnto
the
Earth
,
and
,
spreades
the
cloake
of
the
Night
to
couer
the
Rest
of
labor
:
He
closeth
the
Eie
of
Nature
,
and
waketh
the
spirit
of
Reason
,
he
trauelleth
thorough
the
minde
,
and
is
visible
,
but
,
to
the
Eie
of
Vnderstanding
:
He
is
swifter
then
the
winde
,
and
yet
,
as
still
,
as
a
Stone
,
pretious
in
his
right
vse
,
but
,
perilous
in
the
contrarie
:
He
is
soone
founde
of
the
carefull
Soule
,
and
quickly
mist
in
the
want
of
his
comfort
,
he
is
soone
lost
in
the
lacke
of
Emploiment
,
and
not
to
be
recouered
without
a
world
of
Endeuour
:
he
is
the
true
mans
peace
,
and
the
Theeues
perdition
,
the
good
mans
blessing
,
and
the
wicked
mans
curse
:
He
is
knowne
to
be
,
but
,
his
being
vnknowne
,
but
only
in
his
being
,
in
a
being
aboue
knowledge
:
he
is
a
Riddle
not
to
be
read
,
but
in
the
circumstance
of
description
,
his
name
,
better
knowne
then
his
nature
,
and
hee
that
maketh
best
vse
of
him
,
hath
the
best
vnderstanding
so
him
:
he
is
like
the
study
of
the
Philosophers
stone
,
where
,
a
man
may
see
wonders
,
and
yet
short
of
his
Expectation
:
shee
is
at
the
Inuention
of
warre
,
Armes
the
Souldier
,
Maintaines
the
quarrell
,
and
makes
the
Peace
:
Hee
is
the
Courtiers
Play-fellow
,
and
,
the
Souldiers
Schole-master
,
the
Lawyers
Gaine
,
and
the
Merchantes
,
Hope
:
His
life
,
is
Motion
,
and
his
loue
Action
,
his
honor
,
Patience
,
and
his
glory
,
perfection
:
He
masketh
Modestie
and
blusheth
Virginitie
,
honoreth
Humilitie
,
and
graceth
,
Charitie
:
In
Summe
,
finding
it
a
world
to
walke
thorough
the
wonder
of
his
Worth
,
I
will
thus
briefely
deliuer
,
what
I
finde
truely
of
him
:
Hee
is
the
Agent
of
the
Liuing
,
and
the
Register
of
the
dead
,
the
direction
of
God
,
and
a
great
Worke-master
in
the
world
.
Death
.
DEATH
is
an
ordinance
of
God
,
for
the
subiecting
of
the
world
,
which
is
limited
his
time
for
the
correction
of
Pride
;
in
his
substance
,
he
is
nothing
,
being
but
onely
a
depriuation
,
and
in
his
true
description
,
a
name
without
a
nature
:
He
is
seene
,
but
in
a
picture
:
heard
,
but
in
a
tale
:
feared
,
but
in
a
passion
:
and
felt
,
but
in
a
pinch
:
He
is
a
terror
,
but
to
the
wicked
,
and
a
skar-crow
,
but
to
the
foolish
:
but
to
the
wise
,
a
way
of
comfort
,
and
to
the
godly
,
the
gate
of
life
:
He
is
the
case
of
paine
,
and
the
end
of
sorrow
,
the
liberty
of
the
imprisoned
,
and
the
ioy
of
the
faithfull
:
it
is
both
the
wound
of
sinne
,
and
the
wages
of
sinne
,
the
Sinners
feare
,
and
the
Sinners
doom
.
He
is
the
Sextons
agent
,
and
the
Hangmans
reuenue
,
the
rich
mans
dirge
,
and
the
Mourners
merry-day
.
Hee
is
a
course
of
time
,
but
vncertaine
,
till
hee
come
,
and
welcome
but
to
such
,
as
are
weary
of
their
liues
:
It
is
a
message
from
the
Physitian
,
when
the
Patient
is
past
cure
,
and
if
the
writ
be
well
made
,
it
is
a
supra
sedeas
for
all
diseases
:
It
is
the
heauens
stroke
,
and
the
earths
Steward
,
the
follower
of
sicknesse
,
and
the
forerunner
to
Hell
.
In
summe
,
hauing
no
pleasure
to
ponder
too
much
of
the
power
of
it
,
I
will
thus
conclude
my
opinion
of
it
▪
It
is
a
stinge
of
sinne
,
and
the
terror
of
the
wicked
,
the
crowne
of
the
Godly
,
the
staire
of
vengeance
,
and
a
stratagem
of
the
Deuill
.
Faith
.
FAITH
is
the
hand
of
the
soule
,
which
layeth
hold
of
the
promises
of
Christ
in
the
mercy
of
the
Almighty
:
Shee
hath
a
bright
eye
,
and
a
holy
eare
,
a
cleare
heart
,
and
a
sure
foot
:
shee
is
the
strength
of
Hope
,
the
trust
of
Truth
,
the
honour
of
Amitie
,
and
the
ioy
of
Loue
:
shee
is
rare
among
the
sonnes
of
men
,
and
hardly
found
among
the
daughters
of
weomen
;
but
among
the
sonnes
of
God
,
she
is
a
conueyance
of
their
inheritance
,
and
among
the
daughters
of
Grace
,
she
is
the
assurance
of
their
portions
.
Hir
dwelling
is
in
the
Church
of
God
,
hir
conuersation
with
the
Saints
of
God
,
her
delight
with
the
beloued
of
God
,
and
her
life
is
in
the
loue
of
God
:
shee
knowes
no
falshood
,
distrusts
no
Truth
,
breakes
no
promise
,
and
coines
no
excuse
,
but
as
bright
as
the
Sunne
,
as
swift
as
the
winde
,
as
sure
as
the
rocke
,
and
as
pure
as
the
gold
,
she
lookes
towards
heauen
,
but
liues
in
the
world
,
in
the
soules
of
the
Elect
,
to
the
glory
of
Election
:
she
was
wounded
in
Paradise
,
by
a
dart
of
the
Deuill
,
and
healed
of
her
hurt
,
by
the
death
of
Christ
Iesus
:
shee
is
the
poore
mans
credit
,
and
the
rich
mans
praise
,
the
wisemans
care
,
and
the
good
mans
cognizance
.
In
summe
,
finding
her
worth
,
in
words
hardly
to
be
expressed
,
I
will
in
these
few
words
onely
deliuer
my
opinion
of
her
:
Shee
is
Gods
blessing
,
and
mans
blisse
,
reasons
comfort
,
and
vertues
glory
.
Feare
.
FEARE
is
a
fruit
of
sinne
,
which
droue
the
first
Father
of
our
flesh
,
from
the
presence
of
God
,
and
hath
bred
an
imperfection
in
a
number
of
the
worse
part
of
his
posteritie
:
It
is
the
disgrace
of
nature
,
the
foile
of
reason
,
the
maime
of
wit
,
and
the
slur
of
vnderstanding
:
It
is
the
palsie
of
the
Spirit
,
where
the
Soule
wanteth
faith
,
and
the
badge
of
a
Coward
,
that
cannot
abide
the
sight
of
a
sword
:
It
is
weaknesse
in
nature
,
and
a
wound
in
patience
,
the
death
of
hope
,
and
the
entrance
into
despaire
:
It
is
childrens
awe
,
and
fooles
amazement
,
a
worme
in
conscience
,
and
a
curse
to
wickednesse
.
In
briefe
,
it
makes
the
Coward
stagger
,
the
Lyer
stammer
,
the
Thiefe
stumble
,
and
the
Traitor
start
:
It
is
a
blot
in
Armes
,
a
blur
in
Honour
,
the
shame
of
a
Souldier
,
and
the
defeat
of
an
Army
.
FINIS
▪