Nocturnall
Lucubrations
:
OR
MEDITATIONS
Divine
and
Morall
.
LEARNING
is
like
Scanderbegs
Sword
,
either
good
or
bad
according
to
him
that
hath
it
:
an
excellent
weapon
if
well
used
,
otherwise
like
a
sharp
razor
in
the
hand
of
a
child
.
Where
impossibilities
are
apparent
,
it
is
indiscretion
to
nourish
hopes
.
The
gentle
hand
of
Patience
in
the
strongest
streames
of
Adversitie
,
makes
our
afflictions
sweet
and
easie
.
Gloriosius
est
injuriam
tacendo
fugere
,
quàm
respondendo
superare
.
Patience
out-faceth
the
lowring
front
of
the
most
dismall
fate
.
To
insult
over
misery
is
the
undoubted
character
of
barbarous
inhumanity
.
To
incurre
Gods
displeasure
for
mans
favour
,
is
for
a
man
to
kill
himselfe
to
avoid
a
hurt
.
Roaring
oblations
with
sighing
tears
fetcht
from
a
faithfull
spring
,
are
onely
able
to
penetrate
the
everlasting
gates
.
Good
rewards
in
the
end
,
never
faile
to
crown
the
end
of
a
well
prosecuted
good
.
Though
the
waies
of
vertue
seeme
rough
and
craggie
,
yet
they
reach
to
heaven
,
and
in
the
end
invest
humanity
in
the
bright
robes
of
immortality
.
Tendit
in
ardua
virtus
.
Humility
is
a
grace
it selfe
,
and
a
spotlesse
vessel
to
entertain
all
other
graces
.
As
the
ball
rebounds
according
to
the
force
wherewith
it
was
throwne
;
so
the
more
violent
the
afflictions
of
a
good
man
are
,
the
higher
mount
his
thoughts
.
A
good
conscience
seats
the
mind
in
a
rich
throne
of
endlesse
quiet
;
but
horror
waits
upon
the
clogging
burden
of
a
guilty
soule
.
Face
commendation
sets
a
foole
in
the
chaire
of
ostentation
;
but
dies
the
cheek
of
wisdome
a
scarlet
blush
.
The
richest
treasure
mortall
times
afford
,
is
the
spotlesse
garment
of
an
untainted
reputation
.
Quando
actùm
est
de
nomine
,
actum
est
de
homine
.
Nature
hath
too
slow
a
foot
,
closely
to
follow
the
heeles
of
Religion
;
and
t
is
too
hard
a
task
for
dull
flesh
clogg'd
with
corruption
,
to
wing
with
the
high
flying
quill
of
the
heavenly
soule
.
Sorrow
for
ills
past
brings
back
mans
frailty
to
its
first
innocence
.
Majestie
is
like
Lightning
,
it
never
hurts
but
where
it
finds
resistance
.
Man
is
a
Ship
laden
with
riches
,
the
world
's
the
sea
,
heaven
the
intended
haven
:
hell
sends
out
his
Pirats
to
rob
him
,
sometimes
indevours
to
run
him
upon
the
rocks
of
his
ruine
,
but
yet
heavens
eye
guards
him
:
His
soule
is
the
Pilot
,
which
through
various
seas
of
time
and
fortune
,
brings
him
to
the
long
desired
Port
of
his
endlesse
quiet
.
I
have
read
of
the
Hart
,
in
the
time
of
his
liberty
and
jollity
,
of
all
creatures
will
not
come
neare
a
man
;
but
when
hee
is
hunted
by
the
dogs
,
he
will
fly
for
succour
to
the
next
man
he
meets
:
So
it
is
with
man
;
Prosperity
cannot
ingender
so
high
a
timpanie
of
pride
,
but
miserie
can
abate
it
.
Halcyon
dayes
make
a
man
forget
both
God
and
himselfe
:
but
afflictions
make
us
runne
to
seeke
GOD
early
.
To
master
a
mans
self
is
more
than
to
conquer
a
world
;
for
he
that
conquered
the
world
,
could
not
master
himselfe
.
The
malitious
thirst
of
revenge
out
of
a
flinty
cowardize
strikes
the
hot
fire
of
manlike
unmanly
valour
.
The
falling
of
a
house
is
more
perillous
than
the
rising
of
a
flood
.
Evils
foreseene
are
halfe
cured
;
but
mishap
comming
with
the
sudden
thunderclap
of
inexpectation
,
scares
the
mindes
faculties
,
from
all
consideration
of
wise
prevention
.
Learning
is
the
onely
precious
jewell
of
immortality
;
it
well
becomes
the
outward
frame
,
and
with
immortall
glory
decks
and
adornes
the
never
dying
part
.
Non
habet
inimicum
praeter
ignorantem
.
The
most
transcendent
offenders
transgresse
not
so
much
against
the
rules
of
humanity
,
as
doe
the
black
monsters
of
prodigious
ingratitude
.
Happy
,
thrice
happy
were
mans
condition
,
could
hee
but
ransome
home
the
lamentable
losse
of
that
pristin
command
over
his
intemperate
passions
.
Man
is
the
Embleme
of
miserie
,
the
subject
of
sorrow
,
and
the
object
of
pitty
;
and
so
will
be
so
long
as
hee
wanders
up
and
downe
in
the
gloomie
fenn
of
this
weeping
wildernesse
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
Successe
seldome
fails
to
crowne
the
enterprise
according
to
the
integrity
of
the
cause
.
All
men
wear
not
one
habit
of
the
minde
,
nor
are
all
dispositions
cloth'd
alike
with
natures
habiliments
.
Posterity
may
well
be
called
the
eternity
of
life
:
he
may
be
said
never
to
die
,
whose
name
the
eternall
providence
never
fails
to
underprop
with
the
lasting
pillars
of
a
numerous
issue
.
There
is
not
halfe
so
much
danger
in
the
desperate
sword
of
a
known
foe
,
as
in
the
smooth
insinuations
of
a
pretended
friend
.
Unwise
is
that
man
that
will
be
either
dejected
or
exalted
with
the
frownes
or
smiles
of
various
fortune
.
Mortalls
must
subscribe
to
whatsoever
is
writ
in
the
adamantine
tables
of
the
eternall
providence
.
Quic
quid
patimur
venit
ab
alto
.
Seneca
:
The
greatest
canker
that
can
be
to
love
,
is
the
bosome
nursing
of
a
concealed
grudge
.
Reason
at
first
produceth
opinion
;
but
afterwards
an
ill
received
opinion
may
seduce
the
very
soule
of
reason
.
Strange
is
the
nature
of
an
ill
opinion
:
it
stands
fast
when
it
is
once
set
,
though
grounded
upon
nothing
.
Miraculous
is
that
water
that
scowres
away
the
seeming
dirt
from
the
object
of
an
ill
conceit
.
Let
thy
desires
have
the
length
and
breadth
of
reason
,
&
at
length
thou
shalt
have
the
breadth
of
thy
desires
.
That
man
is
commonly
of
a
good
nature
,
whose
tongue
is
the
true
Herald
to
his
thoughts
.
A
prejudicate
opinion
makes
the
judgement
looke
asquint
,
and
the
most
injurious
informer
is
an
ill
conceit
,
because
it
is
ever
ready
to
blemish
the
beauty
of
the
best
intended
action
.
In
the
clearest
sunshine
of
faire
prosperity
,
we
are
subject
to
the
boystrous
stormes
of
gloomie
adversity
.
He
that
alwayes
observes
the
censuring
murmur
of
idle
people
,
shall
never
let
the
suspected
blush
depart
from
his
cheeke
.
A
malevolent
mind
is
like
a
boystrous
sea
tumbling
in
the
swelling
billowes
of
indignation
,
till
dire
revenge
sets
it
in
a
conceited
liberty
,
and
never
till
then
is
it
lockt
in
the
griping
gins
of
soule
tormenting
captivity
.
Devilish
is
that
disposition
,
which
to
wait
an
opportunity
of
revenge
,
will
seeme
,
to
rake
up
its
malice
in
the
cinders
of
oblivion
;
but
when
the
time
serves
will
not
stick
to
give
fire
to
the
whole
heap
of
its
hell-bred
mischiefe
.
It
is
a
prodigious
thing
to
see
a
devilish
disposition
put
on
a
godly
face
,
and
loathed
basenesse
cloath'd
with
a
scarfe
of
unstained
purity
.
The
Suns
eye
never
saw
the
man
that
lived
not
under
the
controuling
hand
of
Fate
.
Many
gaze
on
the
glorious
out-side
of
a
Princes
diadem
,
but
few
consider
the
tempestuous
affaires
that
doe
environ
it
.
Hope
of
remedy
,
and
continuance
of
griefe
,
should
be
both
of
one
length
:
when
hope
of
remedy
is
past
,
grief
should
make
an
end
.
Too
much
to
lament
a
misery
,
is
the
next
way
to
draw
on
a
remedilesse
mischiefe
.
Bootlesse
griefe
hurts
a
mans
selfe
:
but
patience
makes
a
jest
of
an
injury
.
Hee
that
is
indebted
to
Grief
,
let
him
borrow
of
Patience
,
and
he
shall
soone
be
out
of
debt
.
Patience
rides
it
out
in
the
most
boysterous
stormes
of
adversity
,
and
is
armour
of
proofe
against
the
thick
flying
bullets
of
the
most
malicious
assaults
.
Where
the
scale
of
sensuality
waighs
down
that
of
reason
,
the
basenes
of
our
nature
conducts
us
to
most
preposterous
conclusions
.
It
is
a
madnesse
to
be
much
affected
with
vanity
:
for
though
in
youth
we
neither
doe
nor
will
consider
it
,
yet
in
the
end
the
winter
of
age
comes
,
and
with
the
besome
of
time
sweeps
away
the
summer
of
our
youthfull
follies
.
Quicquid
Sol
oriens
,
quicquid
&
occidens
,
Novit
,
caeruleis
Oceanus
fretis
,
Quicquid
vel
veniens
,
vel
fugiens
lavat
,
Aetas
Pegaseo
corripiet
gradu
.
Senec.
in
Troade
.
Opinion
is
the
soveraigne
mistresse
,
or
rather
the
sole
Midwife
of
either
good
or
bad
effects
.
It
is
not
fit
for
an●
man
though
never
so
miserable
to
despair
of
his
own
future
good
hap
:
for
many
are
the
events
that
lie
in
the
teeming
wombe
of
Time
.
Ill
words
bewray
foule
thoughts
:
but
sweet
behaviour
is
the
index
of
a
vertuous
mind
.
Praecipitis
linguae
comes
est
poenitentia
.
Labour
in
good
things
is
sweet
in
the
issue
;
but
pleasure
in
evill
things
turns
to
a
torment
.
Faire
words
without
good
deeds
to
a
man
in
misery
,
are
like
a
saddle
of
gold
clapt
upon
the
back
of
a
gall'd
horse
.
A
foolish
man
in
wealth
and
authority
,
is
like
a
weake
timberd
house
with
too
pondrous
a
roofe
.
Heaven
without
earth
is
perfect
but
earth
without
heaven
is
but
the
porch
of
hell
.
There
are
no
riches
like
to
the
sweetnesse
of
content
,
nor
no
poverty
comparable
to
the
want
of
patience
.
I
have
read
of
the
Hart
,
that
he
weeps
every
yeare
for
the
shedding
of
his
head
,
though
the
loosing
of
the
old
be
the
way
to
make
roome
for
a
better
:
So
is
it
with
worldlings
,
they
weep
to
part
with
any
thing
here
,
though
it
be
for
never
so
great
a
treasure
hereafter
:
though
no
lesse
a
matter
than
the
eternall
joyes
of
heaven
crown
the
end
of
faith
and
good
works
,
yet
that
,
i
,
vende
totum
quod
habes
,
&
redde
pauperibus
,
is
such
a
durus
sermo
,
that
it
makes
them
block
up
their
eares
against
the
wisest
Charmer
.
The
Hart
likewise
when
he
sees
himself
taken
by
the
hounds
,
or
other
devise
,
will
shed
teares
,
thinking
thereby
to
intenerate
the
hearts
of
the
hunters
,
and
move
them
to
pitty
,
or
else
because
he
sees
himselfe
irrecoverably
catcht
:
So
every
true
penitent
,
whens
hee
sees
himselfe
overtaken
by
the
wiles
of
Satan
,
should
never
stop
his
tears
,
till
he
sees
his
owne
blessed
recoverie
out
of
the
clawes
of
the
devill
:
for
he
that
is
on
high
,
keeps
our
tears
in
his
bottle
,
and
though
his
tender
mercy
will
not
presse
upon
a
broken
heart
,
yet
he
is
alwayes
pleased
to
see
a
sorrowfull
soule
baptize
himself
in
the
trickling
drops
of
repentant
dew
.
He
that
consults
with
his
body
for
the
saving
of
his
soule
,
shall
never
bring
it
to
heaven
.
If
we
hope
to
reape
in
joy
,
we
must
sow
in
teares
.
He
that
stands
up
against
the
vices
of
great
Ones
,
had
need
to
be
treble
guarded
with
Law
,
Friends
,
and
Authority
.
The
longer
we
live
,
the
more
misery
we
endure
:
life
is
like
a
span
forc'd
from
a
gouty
hand
,
the
more
the
hand
is
extented
,
the
more
paine
it
suffers
.
Supposed
goodnesse
,
by
the
blab
of
time
,
will
have
her
close
basenesse
set
upon
the
scaffold
of
publique
shame
.
The
fierce
flash
of
too
violent
fire
,
soon
burns
out
it selfe
.
The
old
proverb
saith
,
Faire
and
softly
goes
far
:
but
he
that
spurs
too
fast
,
tires
betimes
.
It
is
a
wise
mans
part
in
a
case
of
extremity
,
with
patience
to
swallow
down
the
bitter
potion
of
indignity
.
Harsh
reproof
is
like
a
violent
storme
,
soone
washt
down
the
channell
:
but
friendly
admonitions
,
like
a
small
showre
,
pierce
deep
,
and
bring
forth
better
reformation
.
A
wise
man
will
digest
with
patience
the
sad
tidings
of
calamity
,
when
a
foole
by
grumbling
at
a
crosse
,
hurts
himselfe
.
Life
is
a
continuall
march
towards
the
grave
,
and
a
dangerous
sailing
towards
death
through
the
bellowing
waves
of
a
troublesome
world
.
Labitur
omnis
homo
,
momento
extinguimur
uno
,
Namque
oleo
lampas
deficiente
perit
.
Within
the
very
crown
that
adornes
the
sacred
temples
of
a
King
,
death
hath
his
lurking
den
.
Pallida
mors
aequo
pulsat
pede
Pauperum
tabernas
,
regumque
turres
.
Horat.
A
willing
mind
is
able
to
steer
a
man
against
the
streame
of
the
strongest
impediments
.
Neither
the
shot
of
Accident
,
nor
dart
of
Chance
,
penetrates
the
impregnable
walls
of
a
resolved
Patience
.
Love
,
when
his
links
are
once
crackt
,
turns
to
the
so
wrest
and
most
dismall
Hate
.
Sordid
manners
in
a
comely
feature
are
like
black
clouds
in
a
faire
sky
.
Outward
perfection
without
inward
goodnesse
,
sets
but
the
blacker
die
upon
the
minds
deformity
.
If
the
hand
of
Omnipotency
should
please
to
try
us
with
all
manner
of
affliction
,
to
lock
us
in
the
griping
gins
of
misery
,
to
steep
us
in
the
dregs
of
poverty
,
to
rain
down
shame
and
defamation
on
our
heads
;
we
are
to
fly
onely
in
this
depth
of
extremity
,
to
the
safe
sanctuarie
of
faith
&
a
good
conscience
,
which
turne
the
bitter
waters
of
affliction
into
the
sweet
Nectar
of
never
dying
comfort
.
Goodness
with
a
smiling
patience
shakes
off
the
dust
that
is
throwne
in
the
face
of
her
despised
fortune
.
Teares
and
smiles
are
not
alwaies
the
badges
of
grief
and
patience
.
There
is
no
anger
or
sorow
like
to
that
which
boyls
with
a
constrained
silence
.
Thoughts
tending
to
ambition
,
are
alwayes
wont
to
plot
unlikely
wonders
.
It
is
the
easiest
thing
in
the
world
to
be
invective
;
and
amongst
all
sorts
of
men
,
none
are
so
quick
at
censuring
as
the
ignorant
:
hee
will
still
give
the
first
lash
,
whilst
himself
is
at
the
best
but
a
lump
of
ignorance
,
a
pretender
to
learning
,
&
his
head
stuft
full
of
nothing
but
titles
of
books
:
for
if
hee
be
questioned
beyond
the
Epistle
Dedicatory
,
he
is
presently
like
an
Aegyptian
valley
in
the
latter
end
of
Iune
.
From
an
immaculate
Fountaine
(
by
reason
of
an
ill
passage
)
may
proceed
unwholesome
and
corrupt
water
.
A
Tradesman
had
need
to
be
a
good
husband
;
for
it
is
somewhat
a
difficult
task
in
these
times
,
for
a
man
with
his
nailes
or
bare
hands
to
teare
himselfe
a
passage
through
the
flinty
waies
of
this
hard
world
.
I
commend
a
man
that
will
draw
like
a
horse
,
but
not
him
that
wil
carry
every
thing
that
is
put
upon
him
like
an
asse
.
Sacred
learning
is
Wisdomes
prudent
Queene
;
studied
arts
are
degrees
unto
some
wished
ends
,
and
steps
whereby
wee
ascend
the
high
top
of
our
hopes
and
thoughts
.
An
ill
beginning
is
commonly
the
prodigious
sign
of
a
dismall
end
.
Anger
makes
the
tongue
bewray
the
most
secret
thoughts
.
The
top
of
honour
is
a
narrow
plot
of
ground
,
where
if
a
man
tread
but
one
carelesse
step
,
downe
he
tumbles
into
the
jaws
of
ruine
.
The
darkest
clouds
of
misery
or
affliction
,
cannot
over-shadow
the
bright
shining
luster
of
a
cleare
conscience
.
The
onely
way
to
wash
off
the
guilt
from
a
spotted
conscience
,
is
to
lay
open
her
bosome-crimes
to
the
worlds
broad
eye
.
Ill
newes
flyes
with
Eagles
wings
,
but
leaden
waights
are
wont
to
clog
the
heeles
of
gladsome
tidings
.
Inconsiderate
desires
rashly
fulfill'd
,
are
able
to
set
the
world
in
an
unquenchable
combustion
.
He
that
wanders
too
farre
into
the
wildernesse
of
this
world
,
cannot
when
hee
please
creep
back
to
the
lodge
of
safety
.
It
is
not
in
the
power
of
man
when
he
please
to
tread
the
happy
steps
of
heavenly
repentance
.
He
that
desires
a
good
,
and
suspects
his
right
to
it
,
is
bold
and
turbulent
in
the
pursuit
,
whilst
the
man
that
's
conscious
to
himselfe
of
good
,
rests
happily
content
till
time
crowne
with
the
guerdon
of
a
patient
expectation
.
Time
,
Patience
,
and
Industry
,
are
the
three
grand
Masters
of
the
world
:
they
bring
a
man
to
the
end
of
his
desires
,
when
a
turbulent
murmur
oftentimes
jerks
him
out
of
the
way
to
his
proposed
ends
.
The
best
complement
is
but
a
kind
of
a
hansome
foolerie
;
&
crooching
feats
are
so
far
from
testifying
the
hearts
inward
loyalty
,
that
they
carry
in
their
front
the
lineaments
of
flattery
.
As
it
is
a
sorrowfull
thing
when
a
mans
means
is
too
low
for
his
parts
,
so
is
it
a
preposterous
sight
to
see
a
man
whose
mind
is
too
big
for
his
fortune
.
There
is
not
a
more
lamentable
spectacle
than
to
see
a
man
of
parts
in
misery
,
especially
if
the
fault
be
not
in
himselfe
:
The
worst
sight
in
the
world
is
a
rich
Dunce
and
a
poore
Schooller
.
The
more
actions
of
depth
are
preconsidered
,
the
worse
sometimes
they
are
performed
.
The
spurs
of
necessity
are
almost
able
to
put
a
nimble
spirit
into
the
senslesse
body
of
a
dead
stock
.
It
is
Love
that
makes
the
Eternall
Mercy
to
beare
so
much
the
foule
crimes
of
transgressing
humanity
.
Sea
,
nor
land
,
nor
gates
of
brasse
,
are
able
to
withstand
the
indefatigable
hand
of
a
willing
mind
.
So
violent
is
the
beastly
passion
of
inordinate
lust
,
that
it
subjects
a
man
to
base
thoughts
,
perturbs
his
Spirit
,
and
never
leaves
him
till
it
hurrie
him
headlong
into
the
chambers
of
death
.
Patience
is
the
best
Midwife
to
a
disastrous
misfortune
.
Beauty
is
but
a
vaine
thing
,
though
nere
so
rich
:
for
in
the
fairest
woman
it
is
but
skin
deep
:
under
the
skin
there
is
no
more
than
ordinary
.
If
a
man
be
not
so
happy
as
he
desires
,
let
this
be
his
comfort
,
that
he
is
not
so
wretched
as
he
deserves
.
The
only
reason
why
some
men
have
not
what
they
desire
,
is
because
their
desires
are
not
grounded
upon
reason
.
It
is
better
to
be
well
deserving
without
praise
,
than
to
live
by
the
aire
of
undeserved
commendation
.
Happy
is
man
that
his
time
is
but
short
,
because
it
is
miserable
.
Happy
are
those
miseries
that
terminate
in
joy
,
happy
those
joyes
that
know
no
end
,
and
happy
is
his
joyfull
end
whose
dissolution
is
eternall
joy
.
As
he
that
climbes
is
in
danger
of
falling
,
so
is
he
that
lies
on
the
ground
subject
to
be
trampled
on
by
every
peasant
:
hee
is
in
the
happiest
condition
,
that
moves
in
the
middle
region
of
the
world
,
considering
that
as
want
is
a
misery
,
abundance
is
but
a
trouble
.
Medio
tutissimus
ibis
.
Ovid.
Meta.
As
Contemplation
altogether
without
Action
is
idlenesse
,
so
constant
Action
altogether
without
Contemplation
is
too
bestiall
.
Wise
is
that
man
that
steres
an
even
course
betwixt
the
Scylla
&
Charibdis
of
this
world
,
prodigality
and
covetousnesse
;
that
on
the
one
side
will
not
lavishly
consume
Gods
blessings
,
nor
on
the
other
side
embrace
covetousnesse
,
knowing
that
riches
at
the
best
are
but
necessary
impediments
.
As
the
smart
of
the
wound
is
recompenced
by
the
cure
of
the
body
,
so
the
punishment
of
the
body
is
sweetned
by
the
health
of
the
soule
.
He
that
hath
a
friend
,
and
sees
him
out
of
the
way
,
and
labours
not
by
timely
counsell
to
call
back
his
wandring
steps
,
renders
himself
unworthy
of
so
rare
a
blessing
.
He
that
snufs
at
friendly
reprehension
,
and
can
better
relish
the
oyle
of
flattery
,
makes
himselfe
the
pittiful
abstract
of
too
late
repenting
folly
.
Not
to
speake
what
a
man
knowes
,
is
sometimes
discretion
;
but
to
speak
,
and
not
to
know
,
is
alwayes
folly
,
sometimes
dishonesty
.
Audi
,
vide
,
tace
,
si
tu
vis
vivere
pace
.
As
it
is
more
honour
to
teach
than
to
be
taught
,
so
it
is
lesse
shame
to
learn
than
to
be
ignorant
.
We
should
all
follow
the
world
,
as
a
Serving-man
followeth
his
Master
and
a
stranger
;
whilst
they
goe
together
,
he
followes
them
both
;
but
when
the
stranger
leaves
his
Master
,
he
leaves
the
stranger
,
and
followeth
his
Master
:
So
should
we
follow
the
world
:
as
long
as
the
world
goes
with
God
,
wee
should
follow
them
both
;
but
when
the
world
leaves
God
,
we
should
leave
the
world
,
and
with
prepared
hearts
follow
our
Master
God
.
Disce
mori
,
nec
te
ludat
spes
vana
salutis
,
Nam
nescis
statuant
quem
tibi
fata
diem
.
As
there
is
a
misery
in
want
,
so
there
is
a
danger
in
excesse
:
a
man
may
as
soon
die
of
a
surfet
,
as
of
hunger
.
It
is
good
for
a
man
to
have
praise
when
he
deserves
it
;
but
it
is
better
to
deserve
praise
when
hee
hath
it
.
Honour
is
like
a
Palace
with
a
low
door
,
into
the
which
no
man
can
enter
but
he
must
first
stoop
.
The
staffe
of
mans
comfort
is
Hope
;
which
once
broke
,
bids
a
finall
farewell
to
the
most
sweetned
cogitations
.
The
most
lasting
comfort
is
this
sweet
companion
Hope
;
which
once
departed
,
makes
poore
man
either
desperately
to
plunge
himselfe
into
the
gulfe
of
horror
and
despaire
,
or
with
sighing
tears
to
spend
the
remainder
of
his
pilgrimage
in
the
mournfull
valley
of
discontent
.
God
hath
an
infinite
number
both
of
sacred
and
secret
wayes
as
well
to
punish
as
to
pardon
.
As
the
eye
of
Gods
providence
protects
the
just
,
so
the
bright
raies
of
his
divinity
pierce
the
darke
and
secret
caverns
of
the
most
hellish
intendments
.
Our
breasts
&
actions
are
as
transparent
to
his
eye
,
as
his
Decrees
are
invisible
to
ours
.
Though
a
plot
of
malice
be
never
so
cunningly
contrived
,
a
twinkling
of
Gods
eye
is
able
both
to
detect
and
punish
it
.
He
that
sailes
by
the
star
of
Vertue
,
shall
in
time
land
himselfe
upon
the
shore
of
Honour
.
Affections
founded
on
Vertue
,
have
happy
ends
;
but
built
on
lust
and
vice
,
begin
pleasantly
,
but
terminate
in
misery
.
It
is
a
base
thing
to
erect
Trophees
of
Honor
to
our selves
upon
the
ruines
of
anothers
reputation
.
High
time
it
is
to
flee
vanity
,
when
the
drum
of
age
beats
a
quick
march
towards
the
silent
grave
.
It
is
for
the
most
part
but
lost
labour
to
bend
a
mans
force
against
the
streame
of
anothers
affections
.
Justice
is
the
soule
of
a
Common-wealth
:
for
as
a
Body
without
a
Soule
soone
stinks
,
and
is
noisome
;
so
a
Common-wealth
without
Iustice
,
quickly
turns
to
a
lump
of
corruption
.
There
are
certaine
Springs
,
that
when
the
Sun
shineth
hottest
,
they
are
coldest
:
at
midnight
when
the
Sunne
is
gone
,
they
are
then
hottest
:
So
it
is
with
Man
,
his
zeal
is
coldest
in
the
Sun-shine
of
prosperity
;
but
in
the
gloomie
dayes
of
dark
adversity
,
begins
to
gather
heat
.
It
is
said
of
the
Sea
Elephant
,
that
sometimes
he
will
come
ashore
,
and
sleep
amongst
the
rocks
;
where
as
soone
as
he
is
espyed
,
the
people
surround
him
with
nets
&
gins
to
take
him
;
which
done
,
they
awake
him
,
who
as
soone
as
he
is
awake
,
leaps
with
a
violent
rush
,
thinking
to
leap
again
into
the
Sea
,
but
cannot
.
So
it
is
with
those
,
who
stragling
out
of
the
waies
of
piety
,
oftentimes
fall
asleep
in
sinne
,
which
(
when
by
death
,
or
sicknesse
they
are
awakened
)
think
presently
to
rush
into
heaven
,
or
upon
the
instant
to
leap
into
the
paths
of
Repentance
,
but
then
it
is
too
late
;
for
they
are
oftentimes
catcht
as
surely
,
as
suddenly
;
like
the
foole
in
the
Gospell
,
that
had
laid
up
goods
for
many
yeares
.
We
should
tast
worldly
pleasures
running
▪
like
the
Aegyptian
dogs
upon
the
banks
of
Nile
;
for
as
they
,
if
they
stand
to
drink
long
in
a
place
,
are
in
danger
of
that
Serpent
the
Crocodile
;
so
are
those
that
stay
to
take
full
draughts
of
worldly
pleasures
,
in
danger
of
that
serpent
the
Devill
.
It
is
a
bootlesse
thing
to
indevour
the
reformation
or
conversion
of
a
perverse
man
:
there
is
no
medling
with
him
that
loves
to
be
transported
with
the
streame
of
his
owne
opinions
.
Heaven
is
the
admired
instrument
of
the
glorious
God
;
by
the
influence
whereof
he
rules
and
governes
the
great
masse
of
this
corruptible
world
.
It
is
said
of
those
quagmires
of
honey
,
which
some
say
to
be
in
Muscovia
,
that
there
are
gins
&
snares
set
about
them
,
by
which
the
Beare
(
which
out
of
a
love
to
the
hony
frequenteth
those
places
)
is
oftentimes
catcht
,
and
thereby
constrained
to
forfeit
his
life
,
by
pleasing
the
curiosity
of
his
taste
.
Nocet
empta
dolore
voluptas
The
sweetnesse
of
sin
is
the
death
of
the
soule
.
The
pleasures
of
sin
carry
a
faire
shew
;
but
as
the
shadow
of
the
richest
colour
,
yea
of
scarlet
it selfe
is
alwaies
black
;
so
be
the
colours
of
sin
nere
so
glorious
,
its
shadow
is
black
and
hellish
;
though
in
taste
it
be
wondrous
pleasant
,
yet
in
digestion
it
is
bitter
as
wormwood
:
the
deadly
Arsenicke
of
the
soul
,
and
the
bane
of
all
our
happinesse
,
against
which
no
Antidote
prevailes
,
but
the
precious
bloud
of
the
Immaculate
Lamb
Christ
Iesus
.
It
is
not
good
to
be
alwayes
busied
in
the
toilsome
shop
of
Action
;
that
man
hath
but
an
earthly
soul
,
which
maugre
the
importunity
of
the
greatest
businesse
,
wil
not
sometimes
sequester
himselfe
into
the
withdrawing
chamber
of
Meditation
.
Credulity
is
oftentimes
the
dreame
of
fooles
,
the
drunkards
ape
,
and
the
blind
nurse
of
dangerous
security
.
Bonaventure
tels
us
,
that
the
damned
shall
weep
more
teares
in
hell
,
than
there
is
water
in
the
sea
;
because
the
water
of
the
sea
is
finite
,
but
the
teares
shall
be
wept
in
hell
are
infinite
,
never
ceasing
as
long
as
God
is
God
.
Men
are
not
rich
or
poore
according
to
what
they
possesse
,
but
to
what
they
desire
;
the
onely
rich
man
is
he
that
with
content
enjoys
a
competencie
.
Mensa
minuscula
Pace
referta
,
Melior
divitiis
Lite
repletis
.
Miserable
is
he
that
chooseth
a
wife
either
for
by
or
base
respects
;
but
happy
is
that
mariage
when
the
soule
is
matcht
as
well
as
the
body
.
Wise
is
he
that
shapes
his
expences
by
his
means
,
and
cuts
the
wings
of
his
desires
in
pleasure
,
that
they
mount
not
above
the
flight
of
his
fortunes
.
Nothing
more
unsatiable
than
mens
desires
;
he
that
is
poor
would
be
rich
,
he
that
is
rich
would
be
a
gentleman
,
a
gentleman
would
be
a
nobleman
,
a
noble
man
would
be
a
King
,
a
King
would
be
the
Monarch
of
the
world
,
and
he
that
was
so
,
wept
,
because
there
was
no
more
to
conquer
.
Heu
quòd
mortali
non
unus
sufficit
orbis
!
It
is
not
want
makes
men
poore
,
nor
abundance
renders
them
rich
;
the
rich
man
may
say
of
himselfe
,
as
Narcissus
said
when
he
saw
his
owne
beauty
in
the
water
,
which
made
him
fall
in
love
with
himselfe
,
Inopem
me
copia
fecit
,
Ovid.
Meta.
—
quid
gentibus
auri
Nunquam
extincta
sitis
?
As
there
are
no
better
rules
than
good
examples
,
so
there
is
nothing
more
pernitiously
dangerous
than
bad
.
Longum
iter
per
praecepta
,
breve
per
exemplum
.
It
is
good
for
a
man
to
be
industrious
in
his
youth
,
and
to
know
that
if
by
honest
labour
hee
accomplish
any
good
thing
,
the
labour
is
soon
past
,
but
the
good
remaines
to
his
comfort
;
and
if
for
his
pleasure
he
doe
any
thing
that
is
ill
,
the
pleasure
is
gone
in
a
moment
,
but
the
evill
remaines
to
his
torment
▪
Impia
sub
dulci
melle
venena
latent
.
Ovid.
de
Pont.
The
strongest
argument
of
a
wise
man
is
to
be
a
good
husband
of
his
time
;
for
amongst
all
the
things
that
God
created
,
there
is
nothing
more
precious
Tempora
labuntur
,
tacitisque
senescimus
annis
,
Et
fugiunt
fraeno
non
remorante
dies
.
Lent
is
a
time
of
fasting
;
but
the
soules
great
festivall
:
for
the
pampering
of
the
body
is
the
starving
of
the
soule
;
and
when
we
macerate
the
body
,
we
make
the
soule
a
feast
:
if
depressio
carnis
leade
not
the
way
,
elevatio
mentis
will
never
move
.
There
is
a
creature
,
saith
Plinie
,
in
the
North
parts
of
Sweden
called
a
Ierfe
,
of
so
ravenous
and
devouring
a
nature
,
that
though
his
belly
be
nere
so
full
,
he
is
not
satisfied
;
he
will
eate
till
by
his
fulnesse
he
is
scarce
able
to
goe
,
and
then
run
to
the
trees
that
grow
neare
together
,
and
there
by
forcing
his
body
through
,
disgorgeth
himselfe
,
purposely
to
repaire
his
stomack
for
a
fresh
prey
:
those
that
are
minded
to
take
him
,
throw
a
carkas
in
his
way
,
and
then
observe
the
trees
that
he
runs
to
when
he
is
full
,
when
they
once
perceive
him
fast
betwixt
the
trees
,
they
run
to
him
,
and
kill
him
.
So
it
fares
with
those
that
never
think
of
any
thing
but
how
to
please
their
senses
,
which
the
devill
observing
,
throws
divers
temptations
before
their
eyes
,
which
they
never
suspecting
are
oftentimes
confounded
in
the
very
act
of
sin
.
Of
all
other
things
necessity
hath
the
largest
patent
:
maugre
the
greatest
commands
,
necessity
wil
first
be
observed
.
To
husband
well
a
small
talent
is
the
onely
way
to
mount
a
low
fortune
.
To
be
too
full
of
complement
is
ridiculous
:
to
be
altogether
without
it
,
rusticity
.
Of
all
conditions
the
most
lamentable
is
that
of
ignorance
:
an
ignorant
man
is
like
one
of
those
that
live
directly
under
the
North
or
South
Pole
,
with
whom
it
is
alwaies
night
.
The
onely
way
to
be
rid
of
a
domineering
vice
,
is
to
avoid
all
occasions
thereto
tending
.
Prosperity
cast
at
the
feet
of
the
wicked
,
is
like
a
rich
carpet
cast
over
the
mouth
of
a
bottomlesse
pit
,
which
allures
the
feet
of
the
ungodly
,
along
the
path
of
security
,
into
that
bottomlesse
tophet
of
eternall
misery
.
A
ruinous
end
attends
a
riotous
life
.
Well
were
it
for
the
drunkard
,
as
he
hath
liv'd
like
a
beast
,
if
he
could
so
die
.
If
the
world
did
but
truely
consider
that
there
is
a
Tophet
prepared
for
the
wicked
,
it
would
rather
run
mad
through
feare
and
despaire
,
than
thus
wallow
in
dreadful
security
.
The
rich
may
offend
more
for
want
of
charity
,
than
the
poore
in
stealing
things
necessary
.
He
that
rectifies
a
crooked
stick
,
bends
it
the
contrary
way
;
so
must
he
that
would
reforme
a
vice
,
learne
to
affect
its
meere
contrary
,
and
in
time
hee
shall
see
the
springing
blossomes
of
a
happy
reformation
.
It
is
dangerous
in
holy
things
to
make
Reason
the
touchstone
:
hee
that
disputeth
too
much
with
God
about
things
not
revealed
,
all
the
honour
he
gets
,
is
but
to
goe
to
hell
more
learnedly
than
the
rest
.
It
is
good
to
be
pius
pulsator
,
for
then
the
more
importunate
,
the
more
pleasing
;
but
a
temerarius
scrutator
may
be
more
bold
than
welcome
.
He
that
would
hit
the
mark
he
aimes
at
,
must
wink
with
one
eye
:
Heaven
is
the
mark
,
he
that
would
hit
it
,
must
wink
with
the
eye
of
Reason
,
that
hee
may
see
better
with
that
of
Faith
.
Action
is
the
crown
of
Vertue
,
Perseverance
the
crown
of
Action
,
Sufferance
the
crown
of
Perseverance
,
a
good
cause
the
crown
of
Sufferance
,
and
a
crown
of
Glory
the
crowne
of
a
good
cause
.
Esto
fidelis
usque
ad
mortem
,
&
dabo
tibi
coronam
vitae
.
FINIS
.