HERACLITVS
TEARES
:
OR
,
THE
MISERY
OF
HVMANE
LIFE
.
WITH
The
vanity
and
inconstancie
of
worldly
things
.
IF
we
doe
but
seriously
consider
this
besotted
World
,
how
like
a
turbulent
torrent
it
is
ouerflowne
with
all
sorts
of
impertinent
and
importunate
affaires
,
which
cut
our
time
into
a
thousand
pieces
,
wee
shall
finde
,
that
each
of
them
takes
from
vs
one
part
of
our
life
,
leauing
vs
no
time
but
that
which
wee
gaine
by
theft
;
subtracting
some
houres
for
to
examine
our selues
in
secret
,
and
to
entertain
our
mind
with
religious
thoughts
.
These
solitary
meditations
haue
sufficient
in
them
to
employ
our
wits
.
For
the
first
Subiect
which
doth
present
it selfe
to
our
perusall
,
is
a
consideration
of
the
vanity
and
misery
of
humane
life
,
not
for
to
molest
vs
any
way
,
while
we
are
in
it
,
but
to
prepare
our selues
to
depart
well
out
of
it
.
No
man
can
aspire
as
hee
ought
to
the
future
life
,
which
doth
not
contemne
this
present
,
neither
can
any
man
contemne
this
present
,
which
doth
not
well
know
it
:
and
the
way
truely
to
know
it
,
is
to
remoue
it
farre
from
vs
,
to
withdraw
it
from
our
heart
,
and
to
banish
it
from
our
affection
;
For
worldly
goods
beeing
neere
at
hand
,
doe
both
dazell
the
Minde
,
and
distract
the
Iudgement
.
But
let
vs
first
enquire
,
before
we
proceede
,
of
some
one
that
hath
passed
this
way
.
King
Salomon
in
the
beginning
of
Ecclesiastes
,
entring
into
that
meditation
doth
write
,
that
vanity
is
most
vaine
,
all
is
vanity
.
That
great
and
mighty
King
,
who
had
riches
without
example
;
peace
,
without
trouble
;
glory
,
without
enuy
:
who
was
obeyed
of
his
Subiects
,
respected
of
his
Neighbors
,
and
raigned
forty
yeeres
,
which
was
a
sufficient
time
to
content
his
minde
,
in
sumptuous
buildings
,
in
multitude
of
Horses
,
in
all
variety
of
studies
and
Sciences
,
who
had
trauersed
his
spirits
through
all
the
secrets
of
Nature
,
euen
from
the
Cedar
vnto
the
Hysop
.
Neuerthelesse
,
in
the
conclusion
of
all
,
considering
how
these
sweets
are
confected
with
bitternesse
,
how
there
is
little
constancie
in
these
things
,
how
there
is
small
content
in
all
this
trauell
,
hee
makes
this
the
cloze
of
all
his
actions
,
That
all
is
vanity
and
affliction
of
spirit
But
before
that
Solomon
had
proued
these
things
,
Psalme
,
Truely
euery
man
is
nothing
but
vanity
,
he
walketh
in
a
vaine
shadow
,
and
disquieteth
himselfe
in
vaine
:
hee
heapeth
vp
riches
,
and
knoweth
not
who
shall
gather
them
.
Let
vs
therefore
,
according
to
the
rules
of
such
excellent
men
,
enter
into
that
meditation
,
and
taking
that
Instrument
out
of
their
hands
,
make
an
Anatomie
of
our selues
.
There
is
no
discourse
more
serious
,
then
that
which
treateth
of
vanity
:
Nor
contemplation
more
high
,
then
to
reason
of
our
owne
infirmities
:
seeing
by
that
meanes
man
mainteining
himselfe
,
is
eleuated
aboue
himselfe
.
This
vanity
linked
with
misery
,
is
to
be
considered
:
First
,
in
the
Nature
of
man
.
Secondly
,
in
his
actions
.
And
thirdly
,
in
his
thoughts
and
desires
.
CHAP.
I.
The
vanitie
and
miserie
of
the
Nature
of
Man
.
MAN
being
the
image
of
God
,
and
the
chiefe
worke
of
Nature
,
is
miserable
euen
in
his
originall
:
For
the
most
noble
of
them
,
yea
,
if
he
be
the
sonne
of
an
Emperor
,
doth
receiue
his
forme
betweene
the
two
excrements
of
nature
,
and
there
hee
is
nourished
for
a
time
with
the
most
impure
bloud
of
all
:
hee
is
there
subiect
to
be
bruised
by
the
least
fall
of
his
Mother
.
His
birth
is
shamefull
,
insomuch
that
women
blush
to
bee
publiquely
seene
in
child-bed
.
The
beasts
and
birds
are
brought
into
the
world
,
either
couered
with
haire
,
feathers
,
or
wooll
;
not
so
much
as
the
seedes
and
corne
of
the
ground
,
but
nature
hath
cloathed
them
with
eares
and
huskes
,
man
onely
excepted
:
for
hee
being
once
come
from
his
mothers
wombe
,
seemeth
no
other
thing
then
the
similitude
of
a
poore
worme
,
that
commeth
creeping
out
of
the
earth
,
his
cloathing
is
bloud
onely
,
wherein
he
is
bathed
and
couered
,
which
signifieth
no
other
thing
but
the
image
and
figure
of
sinne
.
The
beginning
of
his
life
is
with
sorrow
:
for
at
comming
into
the
world
,
weepings
and
wailings
doe
accompany
him
,
which
are
as
messengers
and
fore-shewers
of
his
calamities
to
come
;
the
which
because
hee
cannot
expresse
in
words
,
he
witnesseth
by
teares
.
Hee
is
borne
immoueable
,
and
tumbleth
into
his
owne
filth
.
Other
liuing
creatures
are
no
sooner
out
of
the
wombe
,
but
they
fall
on
their
feete
and
are
ready
to
goe
;
nor
out
of
the
shell
,
but
they
runne
for
meate
.
The
worme
(
be
hee
neuer
so
little
)
as
soone
as
nature
hath
brought
him
out
of
the
earth
,
beginneth
to
crawle
and
creepe
,
and
to
seeke
for
foode
:
The
little
Chicken
,
as
soone
as
hee
is
out
of
the
shell
,
is
found
cleane
,
&
runneth
after
the
Hen
,
knowing
when
he
is
called
:
hee
picketh
and
eateth
▪
hee
feareth
the
Kite
,
and
flyeth
danger
,
being
guided
onely
by
nature
.
But
behold
,
Man
,
so
soone
as
hee
is
come
into
the
world
,
is
like
vnto
a
little
Monster
,
and
a
lumpe
of
flesh
,
which
will
let
himselfe
bee
eaten
of
other
beasts
,
if
he
be
not
seene
into
;
and
dye
for
hunger
,
before
he
can
finde
his
mothers
brest
,
and
will
as
soone
eate
poison
as
good
meat
,
and
handle
hot
iron
,
before
hee
can
discerne
the
good
from
the
euill
.
Thus
Man
beeing
brought
into
this
miserable
world
,
and
plunged
in
the
gulph
of
miseries
,
he
then
requireth
to
haue
nourishment
,
and
cloathing
,
to
comfort
the
infirmity
of
his
nature
;
but
behold
,
he
is
subiect
vnto
such
necessitie
,
that
hee
is
glad
to
gaine
it
with
the
sweate
of
his
browes
:
Whereas
other
liuing
creatures
do
finde
all
things
readie
prepared
for
them
,
Man
onely
hath
need
of
habiliments
;
for
he
that
is
the
most
noble
in
the
world
,
is
ashamed
to
shew
his
nakednesse
,
and
therefore
hideth
himself
vnder
the
spoiles
of
other
creatures
.
Hee
is
subiect
to
more
maladies
then
all
the
beasts
together
;
to
which
the
obscurest
fogges
or
euening
dewe
doe
no
hurt
.
They
neuer
bleed
at
the
nose
,
although
they
goe
alwayes
declining
towards
the
earth
.
They
are
ignorant
what
the
Catarre
,
Calcull
,
and
diuers
sorts
of
Agues
meane
.
Man
onely
is
capable
to
discerne
these
differences
,
and
to
feele
their
effects
;
for
if
there
be
any
beasts
which
are
more
afflicted
with
diseases
,
they
are
such
as
liue
limited
within
the
precinct
of
some
house
,
and
so
receiue
it
by
contagion
.
But
some
will
obiect
that
Man
hath
reason
aboue
the
beasts
:
which
is
indeed
the
reason
of
his
torment
,
in
winning
him
to
practise
dangerous
and
pernitious
designes
;
to
bee
subtle
in
contentions
,
to
ioyne
himselfe
into
other
mens
affaires
,
and
being
once
satisfied
,
to
stirre
vp
an
artificiall
appetite
,
and
a
desire
to
drinke
without
thirst
.
I
am
ignorant
what
the
reason
is
,
but
we
are
much
more
sensible
of
ill
then
good
;
and
that
griefes
doe
more
disturbe
vs
,
then
pleasures
can
content
vs
.
Scarce
can
we
thinke
of
an
absolute
health
,
but
some
torment
or
other
doth
presently
possesse
vs
,
as
the
Tooth-ach
,
or
paine
in
the
fingers
end
.
One
drop
of
gall
,
will
distaste
a
whole
vessell
of
sweets
.
How
much
then
of
happy
fortunes
is
required
to
digest
one
affliction
?
CHAP.
II.
The
vanity
and
inconstancy
of
Man
in
his
actions
.
MAn
being
borne
so
poore
and
base
into
this
world
,
how
many
yeeres
steale
from
him
,
Therefore
you
may
see
by
the
peruersitie
of
your
children
,
the
image
of
your
corruption
.
Wee
haue
already
discoursed
what
perils
and
dangers
man
hath
at
his
first
comming
into
the
world
,
and
in
his
infancie
.
Now
therefore
let
vs
consider
what
he
is
when
he
is
sprung
vp
,
Marcus
Aurelius
)
doe
there
plant
their
siege
.
O
how
many
persons
in
this
age
are
corrupted
with
too
much
pleasure
,
lulling
themselues
asleepe
,
in
the
lap
of
such
as
seeke
to
strangle
them
!
O
traitrous
Dalilah
,
which
seekest
by
thy
inticing
flatteries
,
to
deliuer
vs
to
an
enemie
,
farre
worse
then
the
Philistims
,
which
is
the
Diuell
himselfe
!
Such
pleasures
are
like
vnto
guilded
pils
,
which
vnder
their
externall
beauty
include
bitternesse
.
They
are
also
like
vnto
fresh
Riuers
,
that
end
their
course
in
the
Sea
,
losing
their
sweet
rellish
in
an
ocean
of
saltnes
.
True
zeale
cannot
flourish
vnder
so
nice
and
delicate
a
gouernment
;
nor
can
the
perfect
knowledge
of
God
(
which
is
a
celestiall
gift
)
be
subiected
to
the
belly
,
it
cannot
remaine
amongst
swine
;
that
habitation
is
onely
agreeable
to
the
diuell
,
who
,
by
the
permission
of
Iesus
Christ
,
hauing
entred
into
a
Herd
of
swine
,
compelled
them
to
runne
headlong
to
their
owne
ruine
:
and
who
(
as
it
is
recorded
in
the
holy
Writ
)
nourisheth
prodigall
children
with
the
husks
of
pleasures
,
in
stead
of
their
parents
bread
.
It
behooueth
the
Husbandman
,
when
the
trees
are
yong
,
If
Ely
was
grieuously
punished
with
his
children
,
for
that
hee
did
not
so
sharpely
chastice
them
,
as
their
offences
did
require
,
what
shall
become
of
those
fathers
and
mothers
,
which
in
stead
of
correcters
,
are
the
childrens
corrupters
?
Such
Parents
may
well
bee
compared
to
Apes
,
which
kill
their
yong
ones
by
too
much
clasping
them
between
their
armes
,
and
keeping
them
so
deare
;
and
this
is
the
cause
that
so
many
fall
into
the
hands
of
the
Hangman
,
which
is
to
them
reformer
and
correcter
.
Many
there
bee
,
that
in
stead
of
giuing
good
exhortations
to
their
Family
,
doe
shew
them
first
themselues
naughty
and
wicked
examples
.
For
the
first
commandement
that
they
giue
them
how
to
liue
well
,
is
to
blaspheme
,
sweare
,
exercise
gluttony
and
drunkennesse
,
to
spoile
the
substance
of
their
youth
;
to
bee
fornicators
,
and
to
kisse
women
and
maidens
in
their
presence
.
There
bee
also
many
mothers
heere
that
learne
their
Daughters
to
Dance
,
to
vse
Rhetorick
termes
,
to
haunt
companies
,
to
scoffe
and
flout
,
to
paint
and
colour
their
faces
,
to
decke
their
fingers
with
Rings
,
and
their
necks
with
Iewels
,
as
though
they
were
Iewel-sellers
,
pretending
to
keepe
a
shop
:
but
in
the
end
it
will
happen
to
them
,
as
it
did
to
the
Prophet
Dauid
,
2.
King
.
13.
&
15.
whose
sinne
was
punished
in
his
children
,
which
were
most
of
them
so
wicked
,
that
the
one
of
them
defloured
his
owne
Sister
,
and
the
other
killed
his
Brother
,
and
afterwards
sought
the
death
of
his
owne
Father
,
and
chased
him
out
of
his
Kingdome
.
The
ancient
Philosophers
maintained
this
argument
,
that
all
sinnes
committed
in
this
world
,
were
punished
in
the
World
to
come
,
except
the
sinne
that
Man
committed
in
the
bringing
vp
of
his
children
,
and
for
that
hee
suffereth
punishment
in
this
world
:
for
the
father
can
giue
nothing
to
his
child
,
but
fraile
and
mortall
flesh
,
by
the
corruption
whereof
,
the
life
taketh
end
;
but
by
good
learning
and
knowledge
,
eternall
praise
&
memory
is
gotten
.
Therefore
to
conclude
,
if
children
haue
been
in
great
misery
,
being
nourished
with
spotted
milke
,
yet
the
misery
doubleth
in
those
that
should
cause
them
to
bee
instructed
:
for
the
food
of
the
body
is
more
vile
then
the
food
of
the
soule
.
CHAP.
III.
Of
Mans
ripe
Age.
HAuing
finished
this
our
second
discourse
,
Man
is
growne
to
his
full
perfection
both
of
strength
and
discretion
,
and
his
heat
being
allayed
by
age
,
behold
other
vanities
which
attend
on
him
,
although
not
altogether
so
violently
scorching
,
yet
more
opinionated
and
troublesome
,
for
hee
entreth
into
deeper
cogitations
and
trauell
in
the
spirit
.
It
is
requisit
therefore
that
hee
frequent
publike
places
,
that
he
haunt
the
company
of
those
that
are
touchstones
,
for
to
know
the
good
from
euill
.
If
he
be
come
of
a
great
and
Noble
stocke
,
hee
must
make
many
enterprises
of
Warre
,
put
himselfe
in
perils
,
hazzard
his
life
,
and
shead
his
bloud
,
to
die
in
the
way
of
Honour
,
or
else
hee
shall
bee
reputed
a
dastardly
Coward
,
and
vtterly
despised
of
all
men
.
If
hee
be
of
base
estate
,
and
that
hee
be
called
to
the
knowledge
of
Arts
,
Sciences
,
and
needfull
trades
;
yet
for
all
that
,
he
runneth
into
a
thousand
dangers
,
trauailes
,
paines
and
troubles
,
as
well
of
the
body
as
of
the
soule
,
hee
toileth
day
and
night
,
and
sweateth
water
and
bloud
,
to
get
a
maintenance
during
his
life
,
and
oftentimes
it
is
seene
,
that
what
paines
soeuer
man
taketh
for
his
liuing
,
yet
it
is
scant
sufficient
to
serue
his
necessitie
.
Let
him
be
of
any
Vocation
or
Calling
whatsoeuer
,
there
come
vnto
him
irremoueable
cares
,
domesticke
troubles
,
or
the
knowledge
of
husbandry
,
or
contentions
in
Law
,
or
the
labour
of
painfull
Mechanick
Arts
;
all
to
the
end
that
he
may
get
somwhat
for
his
children
,
who
sucking
from
him
(
it
may
be
)
all
that
he
hath
,
is
onely
requited
with
ingratitude
and
reproch
.
These
infelicities
are
the
occasion
that
man
is
alwayes
wearied
with
the
things
present
,
desiring
onely
things
to
come
,
and
continually
endeuouring
to
catch
at
somewhat
that
is
already
escaped
;
whereas
if
by
chance
they
obtaine
it
,
it
dissolueth
to
nothing
,
as
it
is
in
their
hands
,
or
if
they
enioy
it
,
yeelds
no
contentment
,
nor
doth
any
wise
appease
their
feare
,
or
satisfie
their
desire
.
It
is
not
therefore
without
cause
that
M.
Aurelius
was
wont
to
say
(
when
hee
considered
the
misery
of
mankinde
)
I
mused
in
my
mind
,
said
he
,
whether
there
might
bee
found
in
any
age
,
a
man
that
could
vaunt
,
that
in
all
his
life-time
he
neuer
tasted
aduersitie
:
and
assuredly
if
there
might
bee
such
a
one
found
,
he
would
be
such
a
fearfull
monster
vpon
earth
,
that
all
liuing
things
would
bee
amazed
to
behold
him
.
Then
he
concluded
after
this
sort
,
saying
;
And
in
the
end
I
found
my
owne
thoughts
true
;
for
hee
that
was
yesterday
rich
,
was
to
day
poore
;
hee
that
was
yesterday
in
health
,
was
to
day
sicke
;
he
that
laughed
yesterday
,
did
to
day
weepe
:
he
that
was
yesterday
in
prosperitie
,
was
to
day
in
aduersitie
;
and
he
that
was
yesterday
aliue
,
was
to
day
dead
.
But
let
vs
now
returne
to
our
former
matter
,
and
set
downe
our
discourses
in
order
.
What
liuing
man
is
he
in
al
the
world
,
that
hath
giuen
himselfe
to
any
Science
,
or
otherwise
to
liue
,
but
that
at
one
time
or
other
hee
disliked
of
his
owne
profession
,
and
is
weary
thereof
?
And
for
the
better
vnderstanding
of
the
same
,
we
will
particularly
discourse
the
miseries
and
troublesome
liues
of
all
the
principall
estates
,
liuing
vpon
the
bosome
of
the
sinfull
earth
.
Searching
into
all
estates
of
men
,
we
shall
finde
that
aboue
all
other
mortall
creatures
,
Kings
are
most
liberally
prouided
for
:
for
what
maketh
man
appeare
more
happy
in
this
world
,
then
Goods
,
Honors
,
Dignities
and
Rule
;
licence
to
doe
good
or
euill
,
without
controulement
,
power
to
exercise
liberalitie
,
and
all
kinde
of
pleasure
,
as
well
of
the
body
,
as
of
the
minde
:
all
that
may
be
wished
for
,
to
the
contentation
of
Man
,
either
in
varietie
of
meates
,
magnificence
in
seruice
,
or
in
vestures
,
to
raise
at
their
pleasure
the
meanest
man
to
high
place
,
and
with
a
frowne
disgrace
the
mightiest
?
All
which
is
continually
at
a
Princes
command
:
there
is
nothing
that
may
please
the
memory
,
or
flatter
the
desires
of
the
flesh
,
but
is
prepared
for
them
euen
from
their
cradles
,
onely
to
make
their
liues
more
happy
and
full
of
felicitie
.
But
now
if
wee
iudge
of
their
liues
vprightly
,
and
weigh
them
in
a
true
ballance
,
wee
shall
finde
,
that
the
selfe-same
things
that
make
them
happy
in
this
world
,
are
the
very
instruments
of
vice
,
and
the
cause
of
greater
sorrowes
:
for
what
auaile
their
costly
ornaments
,
honorable
seruices
,
and
delicate
meates
,
when
that
they
are
in
continuall
feare
to
bee
poisoned
,
wrong
seduced
,
and
often
beguiled
by
their
seruitors
?
Haue
wee
not
had
experience
thereof
many
times
?
Doe
not
Histories
report
that
some
men
haue
beene
poisoned
with
Pages
,
and
with
the
smoake
of
Torches
?
Wee
may
reade
likewise
of
certaine
Emperours
that
durst
not
lye
downe
to
rest
in
the
night
,
before
they
had
caused
their
beds
to
be
lyen
in
,
and
all
the
corners
of
their
chambers
to
bee
searched
,
lest
they
should
bee
strangled
or
murthered
in
their
sleepes
.
Others
that
would
not
permit
any
Barbers
to
touch
their
faces
,
for
feare
that
in
trimming
of
their
heads
or
beards
,
they
would
cut
their
throats
:
and
yet
to
this
day
they
are
in
such
feare
,
that
they
dare
not
put
meat
into
their
mouthes
,
before
their
taster
haue
tasted
thereof
.
What
felicity
can
a
Prince
or
King
haue
,
But
now
touching
the
vnhappy
states
of
wicked
Princes
,
vnto
whom
three
kindes
of
people
are
most
agreeable
and
familiar
.
The
first
are
flatterers
,
which
be
the
chiefe
enemies
to
all
vertue
,
and
they
that
impoison
their
soules
with
a
poison
so
pestiferous
,
that
it
is
contagious
to
all
the
world
:
their
Princes
folly
,
they
call
Prudence
;
their
crueltie
,
Iustice
;
their
wantonnesse
,
Loue
;
their
fornications
,
Pleasures
and
pastimes
:
if
they
be
couetous
,
they
call
it
good
husbandry
;
if
they
be
prodigall
,
they
call
it
liberalitie
.
So
that
there
is
no
vice
in
a
Prince
,
but
they
cloake
it
vnder
the
shadow
of
some
vertue
.
The
second
sort
are
such
,
who
neuer
rest
night
,
The
third
and
last
sort
are
such
,
that
vnder
the
cloake
of
kindnesse
and
honestie
(
counterfetting
good
men
)
haue
alwaies
their
eyes
fixed
vpon
other
mens
liuings
,
and
make
themselues
reformers
of
Vices
.
They
inuent
wicked
&
false
deuices
,
not
only
how
to
get
other
mens
goods
,
but
oftentimes
their
liues
,
who
before
God
are
most
innocent
.
Behold
,
heere
you
may
well
see
the
manifold
miseries
that
compasse
Scepters
,
and
States
of
Princes
:
Heere
are
the
thornes
that
they
receiue
,
in
recompence
of
their
brightnesse
and
royall
dignity
,
which
ought
like
a
Lampe
to
giue
light
to
all
the
world
:
but
when
it
is
eclipsed
or
darkened
with
any
vice
,
it
is
more
reproachfull
in
them
then
in
any
other
priuate
person
whatsoeuer
:
for
they
sinne
not
onely
in
the
fault
which
they
commit
,
but
also
by
the
example
which
they
giue
.
The
aboundance
of
honours
&
pleasures
that
Princes
enioy
,
serueth
as
a
bait
to
induce
them
to
euill
,
and
are
the
very
matches
to
giue
fire
to
vice
.
If
we
consider
the
estate
of
the
Assyrians
,
Persians
,
Grecians
&
Egyptians
,
we
shall
finde
more
of
them
wicked
then
good
.
If
we
consider
what
the
Romane
Emperours
were
,
(
which
hath
been
the
most
flourishing
Common-wealth
in
the
world
)
wee
shall
finde
them
so
ouercome
with
vices
,
and
all
kinde
of
cruelties
,
that
I
doe
almost
abhortre
to
speake
of
their
corrupt
and
defiled
liues
.
What
was
the
estate
of
their
Common-wealth
,
before
that
Scilla
and
Marius
did
murmure
against
it
;
before
that
Cataline
and
Catulla
did
perturbe
it
;
before
that
Caesar
and
Pompey
did
slander
it
;
before
that
Augustus
and
Marcus
Antonius
did
destroy
it
;
before
that
Tiberius
and
Caligula
did
defame
it
;
before
that
Domitian
and
Nero
did
depraue
it
?
For
although
they
made
it
rich
with
many
Kingdomes
,
yet
were
the
vices
they
brought
with
them
,
greater
then
the
Kingdomes
they
gained
.
For
their
goods
and
riches
are
consumed
,
yet
their
vices
remaine
vnto
this
day
.
What
memory
remaineth
of
Romulus
that
founded
the
Citie
of
Rome
?
Of
Numa
Pompilius
that
erected
the
Capitoll
?
Of
Aurus
Marius
,
that
compassed
it
with
walles
?
Did
not
they
shew
what
felicity
remaineth
in
high
estates
,
who
are
more
subiect
to
the
assaults
of
Fortune
,
then
any
other
earthly
creature
?
For
many
times
the
thred
of
life
breaketh
,
when
they
thinke
least
of
death
,
and
then
the
infamy
of
those
that
bee
wicked
,
remaineth
written
in
Histories
,
for
a
perpetuall
memorie
thereof
.
The
which
thing
all
estates
ought
more
to
regard
a
thousand
times
,
then
the
tongue
that
speaketh
euill
,
which
can
but
shame
the
liuing
:
but
booke
record
a
perpetuall
infamie
for
euer
:
which
thing
beeing
duely
considered
of
by
many
Emperours
&
Kings
in
times
past
,
forsooke
their
Scepters
,
and
Royall
Empires
,
and
betooke
them
to
an
obscure
life
,
resting
better
contented
with
a
little
in
quiet
,
then
to
enioy
with
full
saile
the
crooked
honors
of
the
world
.
CHAP.
IIII.
The
life
of
Courtiers
.
BVt
aboue
other
vanities
and
miseries
which
corruption
doth
continually
attend
,
there
doth
appeare
in
Princes
Courts
a
certaine
Noble
captiuitie
,
where
,
vnder
the
colour
of
Greatnesse
,
is
the
highest
Seruitude
,
and
those
gilded
chaines
that
fetter
mens
minds
.
He
which
will
liue
heere
,
must
alwayes
be
masked
,
and
prepared
in
one
houre
to
conuert
himselfe
into
twenty
seuerall
shapes
,
to
entertaine
many
seruants
,
but
no
friends
.
Their
innocency
is
accounted
meere
simplicitie
;
and
to
affirme
any
thing
,
is
to
disproue
the
same
.
There
are
two
sorts
of
people
in
the
Court
which
hate
one
the
other
,
each
knowing
of
it
:
notwithstanding
,
there
is
alwayes
an
emulation
betwixt
them
,
which
should
first
attempt
any
point
of
Honour
,
to
doe
the
other
seruice
,
and
bee
the
last
that
should
end
it
.
But
such
ridiculous
complements
are
like
vnto
Anticke
actions
.
Enuy
,
which
doth
supplant
and
deceiue
his
neighbour
,
or
that
doth
snarle
in
secret
,
is
there
perpetually
,
and
to
appease
it
,
there
is
no
way
but
by
miserie
.
Vices
and
degenerate
actions
,
are
esteemed
among
Courtiers
,
as
precepts
and
part
of
their
composition
.
Not
to
bee
corrupted
by
them
,
there
requireth
more
faith
then
a
graine
of
Mustard-seed
.
As
Crowes
build
their
nest
among
the
highest
boughes
,
so
doth
the
diuell
among
the
highest
of
men
,
where
spreading
his
wings
,
he
clocketh
for
his
little
ones
,
There
be
some
kinde
of
Courtiers
so
subtill
and
crafty
,
that
they
doe
play
as
the
Fisherman
,
who
as
soone
as
he
hath
gotten
any
thing
in
his
Net
,
giueth
ouer
the
Court
,
and
goeth
his
way
.
Other
some
there
be
that
play
all
out
:
and
other
that
remaine
vntill
they
become
wondrous
rich
,
and
in
the
end
they
are
made
to
restore
all
backe
againe
.
There
are
also
others
that
doe
nothing
but
inuent
meanes
to
inlarge
their
owne
treasures
,
and
become
wealthy
with
spoiling
poore
people
.
Princes
doe
by
them
many
times
as
wee
doe
by
our
hogges
;
wee
let
them
fatten
,
to
the
end
we
may
eate
them
afterwards
:
so
likewise
are
they
suffered
many
times
to
enrich
themselues
,
to
be
disposed
afterwards
when
they
are
fat
:
and
one
that
is
new
come
,
oftentimes
is
preferred
in
their
places
.
By
this
you
may
see
,
that
Courtiers
oftentimes
doe
sell
their
liberty
,
to
become
rich
,
for
they
must
obey
all
commandements
;
they
must
frame
themselues
to
laugh
when
the
Prince
laugheth
,
to
weepe
when
hee
weepeth
,
approue
that
which
hee
approueth
,
and
condemne
that
which
he
condemneth
.
They
must
alter
and
change
their
natures
to
bee
seuere
,
with
those
that
are
seuere
;
sorrowfull
,
with
those
that
are
sorrowfull
,
and
in
a
manner
transforme
themselues
,
according
to
the
nature
of
him
whom
they
will
please
,
or
else
they
shall
get
nothing
.
To
bee
briefe
,
they
must
frame
themselues
according
to
his
manners
&
nature
,
and
yet
many
times
one
little
offence
stayneth
all
the
seruice
they
haue
done
in
the
life
before
.
Many
in
Princes
Courts
put
off
their
caps
to
them
,
whom
they
would
gladly
see
cut
shorter
by
the
head
,
and
often
bow
their
knees
to
do
them
reuerence
,
whom
they
wish
had
broken
their
neckes
.
Here
you
may
see
the
life
of
a
great
number
of
vicious
Courtiers
,
which
is
no
life
,
but
rather
a
lingring
death
:
heere
you
may
see
wherein
their
Youth
is
imployed
,
CHAP.
V.
The
life
of
Magistrates
and
wicked
Iudges
.
NOw
our
discourse
of
Courtiers
being
past
,
First
,
knowing
that
all
the
actions
of
Magistrates
passe
before
the
eyes
of
the
common
people
,
whose
iudgements
in
matters
of
State
be
but
simple
,
yet
haue
they
a
certaine
smell
or
sauour
to
know
the
good
from
euill
.
Wherefore
those
that
be
Iudges
and
Magistrates
,
be
subiect
(
as
in
a
Play
)
to
bee
hissed
at
,
and
chased
away
with
shame
and
confusion
.
For
the
haire-brain'd
people
which
is
compared
to
a
Monster
with
many
heads
,
are
mutable
,
vncertaine
,
fraudulent
,
apt
to
wrath
and
mutinie
,
ready
to
praise
or
dispraise
,
without
wisedome
or
discretion
,
variable
in
their
talke
,
vnlearned
and
obstinate
.
Therefore
it
behooueth
that
the
life
of
a
Iudge
or
Magistrate
bee
sincere
and
vertuous
.
For
as
he
iudgeth
openly
,
so
shall
hee
be
iudged
of
the
people
seuerally
,
If
that
great
Oratour
Demosthenes
were
aliue
,
hee
could
say
some-what
,
who
after
he
had
a
long
time
been
a
iust
and
faithfull
Gouernour
of
the
Common-wealth
of
Athens
,
was
in
the
end
without
cause
vniustly
banished
.
Moses
and
many
other
holy
men
haue
so
many
times
tasted
the
fury
of
the
common
people
,
that
if
they
were
this
day
liuing
,
they
would
powre
out
most
grieuous
complaints
against
them
.
Now
wee
haue
shewed
and
set
forth
the
miseries
that
proceede
from
common
people
;
so
,
must
wee
in
like
sort
put
into
the
ballance
the
errours
and
corruptions
that
are
found
in
wicked
Iudges
;
of
the
which
sort
,
some
are
corrupted
with
feare
:
for
such
feare
they
haue
,
that
rather
then
they
will
displease
a
Prince
or
a
great
Lord
,
will
violate
Iustice
,
like
Pilate
that
condemned
Christ
,
for
feare
that
hee
had
to
displease
the
Emperour
Tiberius
.
Other
Magistrates
are
corrupted
by
loue
,
as
was
Herod
,
who
for
to
please
the
foolish
loue
of
a
Damsell
that
danced
,
condemned
Saint
Iohn
Baptist
,
although
that
hee
knew
that
hee
was
iust
and
innocent
.
Some
are
many
times
corrupted
by
hatred
,
as
was
the
chiefe
Priest
that
condemned
Saint
Paul
to
bee
stoned
to
death
,
though
he
deserued
it
not
.
Some
Magistrates
are
corrupted
by
siluer
and
gold
,
and
other
gifts
&
presents
,
as
were
the
children
of
the
Prophet
Samuel
:
and
this
disease
is
so
contagious
,
that
I
feare
(
at
this
day
)
many
are
infected
with
it
.
They
all
loue
rewards
(
saith
the
Prophet
)
they
all
looke
for
gifts
:
they
doe
not
right
to
the
Orphane
,
and
the
Widdowes
complaint
commeth
not
before
them
.
And
in
another
place
,
Woe
be
to
you
that
are
corrupted
by
money
,
by
hatred
or
loue
;
and
which
iudge
the
good
to
be
euill
,
and
the
euill
good
;
making
the
light
darknesse
,
and
the
darknesse
light
.
Woe
bee
to
you
that
haue
not
respects
to
the
secrets
of
things
,
but
to
the
deserts
of
men
:
that
regard
not
equity
,
but
gifts
that
are
giuen
;
that
regard
not
Iustice
▪
but
money
.
You
are
diligent
in
rich
mens
causes
,
but
you
deferre
the
cause
of
the
poore
:
you
are
to
them
most
cruell
&
rigorous
Iudges
,
but
vnto
the
rich
,
kinde
and
tractable
.
The
Prophet
Ieremy
cryeth
out
against
wicked
Iudges
,
and
saith
they
are
magnified
and
become
rich
:
they
haue
left
the
Orphanes
,
and
haue
not
done
Iustice
for
the
poore
;
Shall
not
I
therefore
punish
these
things
,
saith
the
Lord
,
and
my
soule
take
vengeance
on
such
manner
of
people
?
Heere
also
the
sentence
that
S.
Iames
pronounceth
against
them
at
the
day
of
Iudgement
:
You
haue
condemned
and
killed
the
iust
:
you
haue
liued
in
wantonnesse
in
this
world
,
and
taken
your
ease
:
Now
therefore
(
saith
the
Lord
of
Hosts
)
weepe
and
howle
in
your
wretchednesse
that
shall
come
vpon
you
,
your
garments
are
moth-eaten
,
your
gold
and
siluer
is
cankered
,
and
the
rust
thereof
shall
be
a
witnesse
against
you
,
and
it
shall
eate
your
flesh
as
it
were
fire
;
for
the
complaints
of
the
poore
are
ascended
vpto
my
Throne
.
These
are
the
complaints
that
the
Prophets
and
Apostles
made
against
wicked
Iudges
and
Magistrates
:
and
likewise
the
Censures
that
our
good
God
hath
thundered
against
them
.
CHAP.
VI.
Of
Mans
estate
being
in
wedlocke
.
MAny
hold
,
there
is
no
ioy
nor
pleasure
in
the
world
,
which
may
bee
compared
to
marriage
:
for
,
say
they
,
there
is
such
fellowship
betweene
the
parties
coupled
,
that
they
seeme
two
mindes
to
be
transformed
into
one
;
and
likewise
that
both
their
good
fortune
and
bad
is
common
to
them
both
,
their
cares
to
be
equall
,
and
their
ioyes
equall
:
and
to
be
briefe
,
that
all
things
are
in
common
betweene
them
two
.
Truely
if
wee
account
it
pleasure
to
commit
our
secrets
to
our
friends
and
neighbors
;
how
much
greater
is
the
ioy
,
when
we
may
discouer
our
thoughts
to
her
that
is
ioyned
to
vs
,
by
such
a
knot
of
affinitie
,
that
we
put
as
much
trust
in
her
,
as
in
our selues
,
make
her
whole
treasurer
,
or
faithfull
keeper
of
the
secrets
of
our
minde
?
What
greater
witnesse
of
feruent
loue
,
and
vndissolueable
amity
can
there
be
,
then
to
forsake
Father
,
Mother
,
Sister
and
Brother
,
and
generally
all
their
kinred
,
till
they
become
enemy
to
themselues
,
for
to
follow
a
Husband
,
that
doth
honour
and
reuerence
her
;
and
hauing
all
other
things
in
disdaine
,
she
only
cleaueth
to
him
?
If
he
be
rich
,
she
keepeth
his
goods
;
if
he
be
poore
,
she
is
companion
with
him
in
pouertie
;
if
he
be
in
prosperitie
,
his
felicitie
is
redoubled
in
her
:
if
he
be
in
aduersitie
,
hee
beareth
but
the
one
halfe
of
the
griefe
;
and
furthermore
she
comforteth
him
,
assisteth
and
serueth
him
.
If
a
man
will
remaine
solitary
in
his
house
,
his
wife
keepeth
him
company
:
If
he
will
goe
into
the
fields
,
she
conducteth
him
with
her
eye
,
so
farre
as
she
can
see
him
;
she
desireth
and
honoureth
him
:
being
absent
,
shee
complaineth
,
and
sigheth
and
wisheth
his
company
:
being
come
home
,
he
is
welcommed
and
receiued
with
the
best
shew
and
tokens
of
loue
.
And
for
to
speake
truth
,
it
seemeth
that
a
Wife
is
a
gift
from
heauen
,
granted
to
a
man
,
as
well
for
the
contentation
of
Youth
,
as
the
rest
and
solace
of
Age.
Nature
can
giue
vs
but
one
Father
,
and
one
Mother
,
but
marriage
presenteth
many
in
our
children
,
the
which
doe
reuerence
and
honour
vs
,
and
are
more
deare
vnto
vs
then
our
own
selues
(
for
being
yong
,
they
prattle
,
play
,
laugh
,
and
shew
vs
many
pretty
toyes
:
they
prepare
vs
an
infinite
number
of
pleasures
;
and
it
seemeth
they
are
giuen
vs
by
nature
,
to
passe
away
part
of
our
miserable
life
.
If
wee
be
afflicted
with
age
,
they
shew
the
duty
of
children
,
cloze
vp
our
eies
,
&
bring
vs
to
the
earth
from
whence
we
came
.
They
are
our
bones
,
our
flesh
&
bloud
:
for
in
seeing
them
,
we
see
our selues
.
The
father
beholding
his
children
,
may
be
well
assured
that
he
seeth
his
liuely
youth
renued
in
their
faces
,
in
whom
wee
are
almost
regenerate
and
borne
againe
.
Many
are
the
ioyes
&
sweet
pleasures
in
mariage
,
which
for
breuities
sake
,
I
omit
&
passe
ouer
.
But
if
we
doe
well
consider
it
,
and
weigh
it
in
a
iust
ballance
,
we
shall
finde
that
amongst
these
Roses
,
are
many
Thornes
growing
;
and
amongst
these
sweet
showres
of
raine
,
there
falleth
much
Hayle
.
But
with
reuerence
now
I
craue
pardon
of
all
vertuous
Ladies
and
Noble
women
,
that
with
patience
I
may
discouer
my
intent
;
and
that
my
presumption
may
not
gaine
the
least
frowne
from
their
chaste
browes
:
for
to
the
vicious
I
speake
,
and
not
to
them
whose
brests
harbour
the
liberall
Fountaines
of
vertue
and
wisedome
.
The
Athenians
being
a
people
much
commended
for
their
prudence
and
wisedome
,
seeing
that
Husbands
and
Wiues
could
not
agree
,
because
of
an
infinite
number
of
dissentions
that
chanced
,
were
constrained
to
ordaine
certaine
Magistrates
in
their
countrey
,
whom
they
called
Reconcilers
of
the
married
ones
:
the
office
of
whom
was
to
set
agreement
betweene
the
Husband
and
the
Wife
.
The
Spartanes
and
Romanes
had
also
such
like
lawes
and
orders
amongst
them
:
so
great
was
the
insolence
and
rashnesse
of
some
women
towards
their
Husbands
.
In
this
age
there
are
but
few
,
I
thinke
,
can
beare
patiently
the
charges
of
marriage
,
or
can
endure
the
vnbridled
rage
of
some
women
:
and
to
speake
truth
without
flatterie
,
if
thou
takest
her
rich
,
thou
makest
thy selfe
a
bond-slaue
;
for
thinking
to
marry
thine
equall
,
thou
marriest
a
commanding
Mistris
.
If
thou
takest
her
foule
,
thou
canst
not
loue
her
;
if
thou
takest
her
faire
,
it
is
an
Image
at
thy
gate
to
bring
thee
company
.
Beauty
is
a
Tower
that
is
assailed
of
all
the
world
,
and
therefore
it
is
a
hard
thing
to
keepe
that
,
when
euery
one
seeketh
to
haue
the
key
.
This
is
the
conclusion
,
riches
causeth
a
woman
to
bee
proud
,
beauty
maketh
her
suspected
,
and
hard-fauourednes
causeth
her
to
be
hated
.
Therefore
Diponares
hauing
tasted
the
Martyrdomes
of
marriage
,
said
,
that
there
were
but
2.
good
dayes
in
all
the
life
of
marriage
;
whereof
the
one
was
the
wedding
day
,
vpon
which
is
made
good
cheere
,
the
Bride
fresh
and
faire
,
and
of
all
pleasures
,
the
beginning
is
most
delectable
.
The
other
good
day
is
,
when
the
woman
dyeth
:
for
then
the
Husband
is
out
of
bondage
and
thraldome
.
Yet
for
all
this
,
a
woman
is
to
a
man
a
necessary
euill
,
and
one
whom
hee
cannot
well
liue
without
;
seeing
that
there
is
nothing
more
hard
to
find
in
this
world
then
a
good
woman
,
a
good
Mule
,
&
a
good
Goat
,
being
three
vnhappy
beasts
.
And
to
conclude
,
there
is
nothing
more
piercing
then
her
outragious
words
;
more
to
bee
feared
then
her
boldnesse
;
more
cruell
then
her
malice
,
nor
more
dangerous
then
her
fury
:
besides
many
hurtfull
discommodities
of
their
Huswifery
.
CHAP.
VII
.
The
vanity
and
inconstancie
of
women
.
THe
most
part
of
women
are
vaine
;
that
man
could
not
make
one
haire
white
or
blacke
,
nor
adde
one
cubite
to
his
stature
.
Make
but
a
collection
of
the
time
that
a
curious
woman
doth
spend
through
al
her
life
,
in
dressing
her selfe
,
and
you
shall
find
that
it
is
more
then
a
fourth
part
of
her
age
.
This
curiosity
hath
some
affinity
with
seruitude
,
who
amongst
them
will
apply
so
much
time
in
doing
good
works
:
and
how
commeth
it
to
passe
,
that
those
habits
which
were
giuen
vnto
man
for
to
hide
his
sinne
,
are
now
conuerted
into
to
sinne
it selfe
?
What
is
the
occasion
that
that
,
which
God
hath
ordained
to
couer
mans
shame
,
serues
now
to
set
forth
his
glory
?
That
that
,
which
was
an
argument
of
humilitie
,
is
now
become
the
matter
of
pride
?
There
is
nothing
so
contrarie
to
the
will
and
glory
of
God
,
as
that
vaine
vanity
:
for
a
woman
that
hindreth
the
going
of
her
owne
feete
,
by
wearing
such
nice
and
high
Pantofles
:
how
can
she
fly
away
into
a
strange
Countrey
for
Gods
cause
?
A
flesh
that
is
so
delicate
,
how
can
it
endure
to
take
rest
,
being
imprisoned
for
the
testimonie
of
the
Diuine
Gospell
?
A
woman
which
by
reason
of
her
painting
,
cannot
tolerate
the
heat
of
the
Sunne
;
how
can
shee
endure
the
fire
for
the
Word
of
God
?
Obserue
our
Preparations
to
suffer
afflictions
,
and
peruse
our
Apprentiship
to
martyrdom
,
and
in
the
end
you
will
finde
that
Salomon
hath
not
seene
such
things
in
his
time
,
and
that
the
vanity
of
vanities
which
he
speakes
of
,
is
inferiour
to
the
vanitie
of
this
age
.
But
let
such
beware
,
that
the
same
happen
not
to
them
,
which
the
Prophets
write
against
the
women
of
Ierusalem
;
who
reproued
their
pride
,
their
vnshamefac't
lookes
,
their
rowling
eies
,
their
attire
,
Chaines
,
Iewels
,
Bracelets
,
and
other
their
vaine-glorious
fashions
.
It
will
happen
to
you
(
saith
the
Lord
of
Hosts
)
that
in
stead
of
perfumes
,
you
shall
haue
stinke
;
in
stead
of
haire
,
baldnes
,
and
the
fairest
young
men
among
you
,
shall
passe
through
the
edge
of
the
Sword
,
and
the
strongest
shall
be
slaine
,
and
perish
in
the
warres
.
CHAP.
VIII
.
Of
Couetousnesse
.
BVt
of
all
the
miseries
that
happen
to
Man
in
this
world
,
these
hereafter
following
,
are
the
greatest
.
And
first
,
let
vs
consider
of
Couetousnesse
,
wherewith
many
men
are
so
farre
ouercome
,
that
they
will
hazard
their
life
to
win
a
little
money
;
that
is
,
to
lose
their
beeing
,
for
to
gaine
the
meanes
to
bee
:
which
misse
the
end
to
obtaine
the
accessories
;
as
he
which
selleth
his
Sword
to
buy
a
sheath
;
or
his
Horse
,
to
haue
some
prouender
;
and
to
gaine
worldly
pelfe
,
not
to
serue
his
occasions
,
but
rather
for
himselfe
to
serue
it
;
to
haue
riches
as
one
hath
a
Feauer
,
which
doth
more
possesse
the
grieued
,
than
the
grieued
it
.
To
bee
like
vnto
a
greedy
dogs
,
which
lying
vpon
hay
,
&
not
eating
it
himselfe
,
will
snarle
if
any
other
commeth
neere
vnto
it
.
O
miserable
people
,
that
liue
poorely
,
to
dye
rich
!
that
are
most
couetous
in
their
declining
age
,
which
is
to
prouide
for
a
tedious
iourney
,
when
it
is
euen
finished
.
But
a
man
that
feareth
God
,
for
to
auoid
so
great
an
inconuenience
,
will
consider
in
himselfe
,
what
is
the
worth
and
estimation
of
such
drosse
:
and
will
conceipt
,
that
these
things
are
oft
giuen
to
wicked
men
,
as
seducers
of
mindes
from
true
piety
,
and
the
diuine
knowledge
of
the
Almighty
;
who
sheweth
vs
what
estimation
wee
should
haue
of
riches
,
in
giuing
largely
to
the
wicked
;
within
whose
brests
it
doth
fall
,
as
a
purse
into
a
stinking
priuy
.
Iesus
Christ
doth
giue
vs
an
example
what
repute
is
to
be
had
of
it
,
in
committing
his
purse
to
Iudas
,
when
as
he
gaue
his
holy
Spirit
to
his
faithfull
Apostles
.
And
if
hee
had
thought
wealth
to
haue
beene
the
true
felicitie
,
no
doubt
he
would
haue
gathered
it
more
abundantly
:
but
hee
had
not
so
much
,
where
to
lay
his
head
on
.
He
hath
willed
vs
to
loue
pouerty
by
his
example
:
And
the
great
King
of
the
World
will
despise
all
things
,
that
shall
entice
vs
to
affect
the
contrary
.
A
little
wealth
will
suffice
vs
to
liue
well
,
and
lesse
to
dye
happily
.
Who
euer
saw
the
sinne
of
couetousnes
more
deepely
rooted
in
the
world
,
then
at
this
day
?
for
all
the
Cities
,
Prouinces
,
and
Kingdomes
of
the
earth
,
be
very
shops
and
store-houses
of
Couetousnesse
and
auarice
.
This
is
the
world
which
the
Prophets
did
fore-shew
,
that
men
ioyne
house
to
house
,
and
land
to
land
,
as
though
themselues
would
alone
dwell
vpon
the
earth
.
Couetousnesse
is
the
well-spring
of
miseries
:
This
grieuous
sinne
is
growne
so
familiar
among
men
,
that
many
liue
without
mercy
,
in
such
sort
,
that
now
wee
may
see
the
streets
full
of
poore
beggers
,
naked
and
cold
with
pouerty
;
with
an
infinite
number
of
banished
women
,
driuen
out
of
their
Countries
,
bearing
their
children
in
their
armes
;
wanting
that
which
couetous
men
hoord
vp
with
such
cares
,
that
they
rather
make
it
their
god
,
and
will
rather
let
a
poore
body
dye
at
their
gates
,
then
refresh
him
with
food
.
Therefore
let
vs
now
leaue
these
wicked
men
,
The
time
is
now
come
,
that
the
whole
earth
is
nothing
but
a
very
place
of
the
Enuious
:
a
vice
which
is
the
oldest
of
al
vices
,
and
hath
bin
vsed
in
the
worlds
infancy
:
The
experience
thereof
,
was
approued
in
the
first
Age
,
in
Adam
and
the
Serpent
,
in
Abel
and
Cain
,
in
Iacob
and
Esau
,
in
Ioseph
and
his
Brethren
,
in
Saul
and
Dauid
,
in
Haman
and
Mardocheus
,
the
which
pursued
not
one
another
for
their
riches
,
but
for
the
enuy
that
the
one
bore
to
another
.
But
all
this
is
nothing
to
the
enuy
which
is
vsed
amongst
men
at
this
day
:
which
wicked
vice
not
onely
raigneth
among
the
common
sort
,
but
also
amongst
the
higher
:
for
when
they
are
mounted
to
the
top
of
Fortunes
wheele
,
and
thinke
peaceably
to
enioy
the
fauour
of
Princes
;
behold
,
suddenly
the
enuy
of
some
other
conspires
against
them
,
and
causeth
them
to
bee
disdained
and
cast
out
of
fauuor
.
Therefore
I
thinke
there
is
no
other
meanes
to
auoid
Enuy
,
then
to
auoid
Dignity
and
Rule
:
The
reason
is
,
that
we
are
the
children
of
Enuie
,
and
he
that
leaueth
most
goods
,
leaueth
most
enuy
.
For
this
cause
,
Much
like
vnto
this
is
Ambition
,
which
is
an
extreme
desire
to
aspire
to
honour
and
greatnesse
.
After
an
innocent
trauell
,
sleepe
seemeth
pleasing
in
a
bed
of
straw
.
CHAP.
IX
.
Of
petty-fogging
strifes
,
and
Law-contentions
.
BVt
now
behold
another
sort
of
vanitie
,
which
doth
much
vexe
&
trouble
man
;
A
roaring
,
crying
,
and
turbulent
vanity
,
which
is
armed
with
stings
,
and
couered
with
subtilty
,
which
imployeth
all
the
best
part
of
mans
life
in
petty-fogging
strifes
,
CHAP.
X.
Of
Philosophy
,
and
the
knowledge
of
diuers
tongues
.
IN
this
moderne
time
,
Learning
is
onely
reputed
to
be
the
knowledge
of
Languages
,
and
those
that
are
learned
,
doe
busie
themselues
to
finde
out
how
the
Romish
women
did
speake
two
thousand
yeeres
since
:
how
the
ancient
Romanes
did
apparell
themselues
:
how
people
did
then
affect
Comedies
,
and
to
refine
some
Latine
or
Greeke
words
,
that
are
now
growne
out
of
vse
by
antiquitie
.
This
kinde
of
course
is
to
vse
a
golden
Scepter
for
to
take
vp
dung
,
to
imploy
the
vnderstanding
,
which
ought
to
flourish
in
one
,
to
some
base
occupation
,
and
to
make
a
feast
of
nothing
but
sawce
.
For
the
knowledge
of
these
things
,
is
onely
profitable
to
season
,
no
way
good
to
nourish
.
Also
there
are
some
,
that
when
they
haue
attained
old
age
,
doe
then
search
for
words
,
when
they
should
haue
the
things
.
Philosophy
and
the
Sciences
haue
many
things
not
onely
more
high
,
but
also
harder
:
like
vnto
Pine-Apples
in
the
highest
part
of
a
Pine-tree
,
which
many
seeking
to
obtaine
,
doe
fall
in
climing
for
them
;
whereas
others
doe
breake
their
teeth
,
that
striue
to
open
them
.
Such
is
this
learning
,
that
as
it
indueth
a
man
with
much
knowledge
;
so
also
it
addeth
vnto
him
more
care
and
trouble
of
minde
.
For
Salomon
saith
,
that
hee
that
doth
augment
his
knowledge
,
doth
but
increase
his
sorrow
.
Ignorance
is
neuer
without
some
commoditie
:
And
in
conclusion
,
when
we
haue
gotten
all
the
precepts
of
this
knowledge
,
it
extends
it selfe
not
farre
,
and
is
of
small
vse
.
For
Man
cannot
by
all
his
Philosophy
,
attaine
to
the
perfect
knowledge
of
a
small
fly
,
or
garden
Lettice
,
much
lesse
of
his
owne
composition
.
We
desire
to
trauerse
our
spirits
through
all
things
,
One
drop
of
wisedome
,
guided
by
the
feare
of
God
,
is
more
worth
then
all
humane
learning
.
For
what
doth
it
profit
a
Lawyer
in
taking
paines
,
to
gaine
the
processe
of
another
,
if
hee
himselfe
be
at
variance
with
God
?
What
commodity
reapeth
a
Physician
,
to
iudge
of
another
mans
health
,
if
hee
himselfe
bee
not
as
yet
resolued
to
feele
the
pulse
of
his
owne
conscience
?
What
good
is
it
to
any
that
haue
learned
the
ancient
Histories
,
if
they
be
ignorant
of
those
things
that
passe
in
this
time
?
Or
to
haue
learned
by
Astronomie
the
motions
and
influences
of
heauen
,
if
they
know
not
the
means
how
to
come
thither
?
CHAP.
XI
.
Of
Ciuill
vertues
and
Pilgrims
.
THere
bee
some
that
vndertake
long
tedious
voyages
,
gaining
many
Oasts
,
but
few
friends
,
promising
to
learne
much
in
their
iourney
,
when
as
oftentimes
they
returne
more
foolish
then
they
went
;
and
perchance
hauing
circuited
the
earth
,
doe
sorrowfully
bequeath
their
body
to
it
,
for
a
conclusion
to
their
perfected
resolutions
,
as
flyes
when
they
haue
passed
many
times
round
about
the
Candle
,
at
length
enter
into
the
flame
,
after
they
haue
seene
so
much
land
there
,
onely
require
a
handfull
for
to
couer
them
.
With
this
vanity
are
they
iustly
afflicted
,
which
make
long
Voyages
towards
some
Saint
,
for
to
desire
that
they
may
get
children
,
when
it
may
be
,
at
their
returne
,
some
officious
neighbour
hath
discharged
them
of
that
care
.
Yet
some
againe
,
perchance
,
wil
say
,
that
our
Ciuill
Vertues
haue
some
things
that
are
of
more
consequence
.
But
heere
out
of
this
also
doth
bud
another
vanity
,
seeing
that
those
vertues
haue
no
mention
but
by
Vices
:
for
Choller
giues
an
edge
to
Valor
;
Cowardize
doth
make
a
man
to
bee
more
circumspect
and
wary
;
Ambition
,
Auarice
,
and
Enuy
,
are
as
stings
to
studie
and
industry
.
This
solitary
humour
in
many
,
doth
proceede
from
a
brutish
conceit
;
in
others
,
from
a
weake
spirit
,
vncapable
of
humane
societie
;
in
others
,
from
an
ambition
to
bee
remarkeable
for
some
extraordinarie
profession
,
and
in
others
out
of
discontent-and
enuy
,
that
they
are
wearied
in
swimming
against
the
current
of
this
worldly
streame
;
and
in
hauing
receiued
all
things
still
contrarie
to
their
desire
.
Notwithstanding
,
I
doe
not
doubt
,
but
that
there
bee
some
which
doe
imbrace
this
sort
of
solitary
life
,
to
banish
themselues
from
the
vices
of
this
world
,
and
to
serue
God
with
more
liberty
.
But
such
are
much
deceiued
,
who
willing
to
forsake
the
world
,
doe
returne
farther
into
it
by
other
meanes
,
and
are
assaulted
by
worse
temptations
:
for
then
passionate
griefes
,
curious
cogitations
,
peeuish
idlenesse
,
Hypochondriacall
humours
,
despaire
,
presumption
,
and
selfe-admiration
,
doe
insensibly
glide
into
mens
spirits
,
vnder
the
profession
of
an
extraordinary
sanctity
;
all
which
doe
render
the
spirit
discontented
of
an
insolent
melancholy
,
and
presumptuous
deuotion
,
which
oftentimes
degenerateth
into
madnes
,
and
want
of
sense
.
I
know
well
,
that
the
opinion
of
Aristotle
,
in
the
beginning
of
his
Politiques
is
true
,
that
hee
which
is
of
a
solitarie
disposition
,
is
either
of
a
most
diuine
,
or
very
base
spirit
,
because
that
he
doth
estrange
himselfe
from
all
society
,
either
for
that
hee
hath
vertues
more
then
humane
;
or
that
hee
is
so
contemptible
,
and
meane
,
in
respect
of
Man
,
that
he
is
vnworthy
to
approach
neere
him
.
But
let
him
know
which
doth
affect
solitarinesse
,
because
he
doth
surpasse
all
men
in
vnderstanding
and
vertue
,
that
he
ought
to
repell
that
humour
,
and
to
condescend
by
humilitie
and
meekenesse
,
to
the
imperfections
of
others
,
labouring
for
the
good
of
the
Church
or
Common
Wealth
,
either
by
word
or
worke
:
For
what
are
all
those
perfections
more
then
shaddowes
,
and
obscure
traces
of
those
perfections
that
are
in
Iesus
Christ
;
CHAP.
XI
.
Of
old
and
decrepit
age
.
BVt
in
the
meane
time
that
man
is
busied
about
al
these
vaine
conceits
,
while
he
is
pushing
time
with
his
shoulder
,
endeauouring
nothing
all
dayes
of
his
life
,
but
to
rise
,
and
to
goe
to
bed
,
to
apparell
himselfe
,
and
to
make
himselfe
vnready
,
to
fill
his
belly
,
and
to
euacuate
his
stomacke
:
which
is
no
more
then
a
circle
of
the
selfe
same
importuning
occupations
;
much
like
vnto
a
Millers
horse
,
that
alwaies
treads
one
compasse
.
While
he
is
thus
busied
with
such
occasions
,
behold
,
old
age
stealingly
arriueth
,
to
which
few
doe
attaine
,
and
all
desire
:
But
if
any
doe
peraduenture
gaine
that
time
they
desire
,
to
haue
it
prolonged
to
the
vtmost
;
this
age
(
being
as
Grapes
which
haue
lost
their
iuyce
,
and
as
the
sincke
of
mans
life
)
is
without
question
,
the
most
vnhappy
for
those
men
that
are
worldly
,
as
no
the
contrary
it
is
most
blessed
for
such
as
are
godly
:
For
worldly
men
in
this
age
are
doubly
possest
with
way
wardnes
;
their
feare
and
distrust
doth
increase
,
their
iudgement
waxeth
weake
,
&
begins
to
diminish
:
Wherefore
we
do
wrongfully
call
a
melancholy
humor
,
wisedome
;
a
dis-abilitie
,
sobriety
;
because
old
age
leaueth
not
pleasure
,
but
pleasure
leaueth
it
.
And
therefore
he
doth
vndeseruedly
complaine
,
that
the
time
and
manners
of
men
are
changed
into
worse
,
while
nothing
is
changed
but
himselfe
:
for
in
his
youth
all
things
pleased
him
,
if
they
were
neuer
so
bad
;
in
his
old
age
,
all
things
dislike
him
,
if
they
were
neuer
so
good
:
Like
vnto
those
which
being
in
a
Ship
,
thinke
that
the
banks
moue
,
when
it
is
onely
themselues
.
It
is
also
a
vice
incident
to
this
Age
,
to
speake
much
,
because
they
are
no
more
able
to
performe
any
thing
;
and
that
they
also
thinke
themselues
most
fit
to
propose
precepts
to
youth
,
and
to
declare
things
of
time
long
since
:
Like
vnto
a
declining
State
,
as
that
of
the
Romane
Empire
,
where
there
are
many
talkers
,
but
few
valiant
,
&
not
much
different
from
the
aged
time
of
the
world
,
where
are
many
curious
disputers
,
but
few
of
the
true
Religion
.
In
this
Age
also
,
doth
increase
the
loue
of
wealth
;
and
earthly
cares
doe
summon
new
forces
against
man
,
he
waxeth
all
gray
,
and
euery
thing
in
him
beginneth
to
wither
,
onely
his
vices
excepted
.
That
auncient
man
,
of
whom
the
Apostle
maketh
often
mention
,
beeing
ready
to
dote
,
waxeth
not
old
in
worldly
age
,
but
then
he
is
in
full
vigour
:
He
therefore
feareth
approching
death
,
and
holdeth
his
life
like
vnto
an
Eele
,
which
slideth
away
.
But
now
that
age
is
come
,
and
the
time
that
he
ought
to
rest
;
his
griefes
and
dolours
are
renewed
,
the
heart
afflicted
,
the
braine
troubled
,
the
face
withered
,
the
body
crooked
,
the
sight
dimmed
,
the
hayres
falne
,
and
the
teeth
rotten
;
and
to
be
short
,
the
body
is
as
it
were
,
asimilitude
of
death
:
yet
doth
he
prepare
himselfe
least
,
to
gaine
the
future
blisse
;
and
though
many
times
death
takes
for
a
gage
one
part
or
other
of
his
body
,
as
an
arme
,
an
eye
,
or
a
legge
,
to
serue
for
an
aduertisement
that
he
will
shortly
fetch
the
rest
,
yet
he
is
so
affianced
to
the
earth
,
that
he
is
vnwilling
to
goe
to
it
,
when
nothing
remaineth
in
him
,
but
euill
.
CHAP.
XIII
.
Of
DEATH
.
THus
after
Man
hath
sorrowed
all
his
dayes
,
What
a
dreadfull
sight
is
it
,
to
see
him
lying
in
his
bed
that
is
oppressed
with
the
paines
of
Death
?
What
shaking
and
changing
of
all
the
bonds
of
nature
will
he
make
?
the
feete
will
become
cold
;
the
face
pale
;
the
eyes
hollow
;
the
lips
and
mouth
to
retire
;
the
hands
diminish
;
the
tongue
waxeth
blacke
;
the
teeth
doe
cloze
;
the
breath
faileth
;
the
cold
sweat
appeareth
by
the
violence
of
sicknes
.
All
which
is
a
certaine
token
that
nature
is
ouercome
.
But
now
when
it
commeth
to
the
last
gaspe
,
or
at
the
sorrowfull
departure
that
the
soule
maketh
from
his
habitation
,
all
the
bands
of
Nature
are
broken
.
Besides
,
when
the
Diuell
or
wicked
spirit
is
assured
of
our
end
,
what
furious
assaults
will
hee
make
against
our
soules
,
to
make
vs
despaire
of
Gods
mercy
?
It
is
the
houre
when
as
Satan
doth
his
power
to
striue
against
GOD
,
for
to
hinder
the
saluation
of
mankind
;
and
he
is
more
boisterous
in
these
latter
dayes
,
for
that
he
knoweth
that
his
time
is
but
short
,
and
that
the
end
of
his
kingdome
is
at
hand
,
and
therefore
he
is
the
more
enflamed
:
for
he
neuer
more
tormenteth
those
whom
he
doth
possesse
,
then
when
he
knoweth
that
he
must
depart
.
But
now
when
Man
hath
passed
the
bitter
anguish
of
Death
,
where
is
then
become
his
glories
?
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Nota.
This
is
weighty
to
be
obserued
,
not
ouely
of
the
poore
and
inferiour
persons
,
but
more
to
be
apprehended
with
feare
,
by
them
most
mighty
Soueraignes
and
greatest
men
of
this
world
,
that
they
may
not
build
their
happinesse
vpon
the
deceitfull
ground
of
their
riches
,
and
transitory
possessions
.
Where
are
his
pomps
and
triumphs
?
Where
is
his
Voluptuousnesse
and
Wantonnesse
?
Where
is
his
Maiestie
,
excellency
and
holinesse
?
They
are
vanished
as
the
shadow
,
and
it
is
chanced
to
them
,
as
to
the
garment
that
the
wormes
haue
eaten
;
or
as
the
wooll
that
the
moth
hath
deuoured
.
Let
vs
behold
Man
,
when
hee
is
in
the
graue
!
Who
euer
saw
a
Monster
more
hideous
then
the
dead
carkasse
of
Man
?
behold
his
excellency
,
Maiestie
and
Dignity
,
couered
with
a
lumpe
of
earth
.
Heere
you
may
see
him
that
was
cherished
,
reuerenced
,
and
honoured
,
euen
to
kisse
his
hands
and
feet
,
by
a
sodaine
mutation
,
become
a
creature
most
abominable
;
and
to
them
it
happeneth
as
Salomon
writeth
in
his
booke
of
Wisedome
;
What
hath
it
profited
(
saith
he
)
the
pride
and
great
aboundance
of
riches
?
All
these
things
are
passed
as
is
the
Arrow
shot
to
the
white
,
or
as
is
the
smoke
that
is
dispersed
with
the
winde
.
The
sole
memory
of
Death
,
Some
represent
Death
terrible
to
the
aspect
,
and
depriued
of
flesh
;
other
consider
it
with
compassion
,
mixt
with
dread
.
Some
particular
man
,
which
not
long
since
was
clad
in
Silke
,
and
shined
with
Diamonds
,
is
now
assaulted
with
troupes
of
Wormes
,
and
breathes
forth
intolerable
sents
,
while
that
his
heyre
doth
laugh
in
secret
,
and
enioyeth
the
fruit
of
all
his
labour
,
which
he
himselfe
neuer
enioyed
.
CHAP.
XIV
.
Of
the
terrible
Iudgement
Seat
of
God
.
BEing
dead
in
this
world
,
hee
must
then
appeare
before
the
Iudgement
Seat
of
God
,
with
such
a
terrour
to
those
that
consider
it
well
,
that
there
is
no
member
but
trembleth
.
It
is
the
Day
that
the
Lord
will
come
like
a
tempest
,
when
euery
ones
heart
shall
faile
them
,
and
all
the
world
shall
bee
astonied
:
for
euen
as
Lightning
which
riseth
from
the
East
,
and
extendeth
to
the
West
;
so
shall
the
comming
of
the
Sonne
of
Man
be
.
Tribulation
shal
then
be
so
extreme
and
great
,
as
the
like
hath
not
beene
seene
since
the
beginning
of
the
world
,
till
now
,
nor
euer
shal
be
the
like
:
The
Sunne
shall
be
darkened
,
and
the
Moone
shall
giue
no
more
light
:
the
Starres
shall
fall
from
Heauen
,
and
the
waues
of
the
Sea
shall
rage
,
&
men
shall
bee
amazed
with
feare
,
and
the
powers
of
Heauen
shall
moue
.
Woe
shall
be
in
those
dayes
to
them
that
are
with
child
,
and
to
them
that
giue
sucke
.
For
as
it
was
in
the
dayes
before
the
Flood
,
they
did
eate
&
drinke
,
marry
,
and
were
married
,
euen
vnto
the
day
that
Noah
entred
into
the
Arke
,
and
knew
nothing
till
the
Flood
came
,
and
tooke
them
all
away
:
So
shall
the
comming
of
the
Lord
be
;
and
then
all
kinreds
of
the
earth
shall
mourne
,
and
shall
hide
themselues
in
Dens
,
and
Caues
,
and
in
the
Mountaines
,
and
shall
say
vnto
them
,
Fall
vpon
vs
,
&
hide
vs
from
the
face
of
him
that
sitteth
vpon
the
Throne
.
Blow
out
the
Trumpet
,
saith
the
Prophet
Ioel
,
that
all
such
as
dwell
in
the
world
may
tremble
at
it
:
for
the
Day
of
the
Lord
commeth
,
and
is
hard
at
hand
;
a
darke
day
,
a
gloomy
day
;
yea
,
and
a
stormy
day
.
Before
him
shall
be
a
consuming
fire
,
and
behinde
him
,
a
burning
flame
.
Then
the
dead
that
are
in
the
graues
shall
rise
,
and
come
forth
;
the
bones
and
the
other
parts
shall
finde
out
their
ioynts
,
for
to
ioyne
againe
together
with
the
body
,
that
the
earth
hath
putrified
,
and
corrupted
.
All
those
that
the
Beasts
and
Birds
of
the
ayre
haue
deuoured
;
all
those
that
the
Sea
hath
swallowed
vp
;
all
those
that
are
vnvapoured
in
the
earth
,
and
all
those
that
the
fire
hath
consumed
,
shall
bee
reduced
and
brought
to
their
former
estate
.
All
the
bloud
that
Theeues
,
If
the
vaile
of
the
Temple
did
breake
with
the
Earthquake
,
It
is
the
dreadfull
houre
,
when
wicked
Monarkes
,
Kings
and
Princes
shall
giue
account
of
their
vnlawful
exactions
that
they
haue
made
vpon
their
Subiects
;
Let
vs
therefore
that
are
Christians
,
looke
to
our selues
,
and
take
heed
wee
bee
not
counted
vnder
the
iudgement
and
sentence
of
the
most
greatest
miseries
of
all
miseries
.
The
which
sentence
is
recited
in
the
25.
Chap.
of
S.
Mathew
,
where
it
is
said
;
Goe
yee
cursed
into
euerlasting
fire
.
CHAP.
XV.
Of
HELL
.
MAny
and
great
are
the
miseries
which
man
suffreth
in
this
world
,
but
yet
all
of
them
are
but
as
Roses
,
in
respect
of
the
Thorns
which
follow
:
for
the
vanity
and
trauaile
of
the
temporall
life
is
a
happinesse
,
in
regard
of
the
torments
of
eternall
death
,
which
doth
swallow
the
most
part
of
men
.
It
is
a
large
way
which
leadeth
to
perdition
,
and
few
doe
find
the
way
of
Saluation
.
Death
commeth
here
to
leuy
soules
for
Hell
,
and
doth
enroll
great
and
small
,
learned
,
and
ignorant
▪
rich
,
and
poore
;
yea
,
many
which
are
esteemed
holy
,
and
liue
couered
vnder
the
cloake
of
Hypocrisie
,
to
the
end
that
they
might
goe
to
Hell
with
the
lesse
noise
,
and
not
be
stayed
by
the
way
.
This
Hell
is
a
place
of
flames
,
and
yet
there
is
perpetuall
darknesse
,
where
soules
doe
waxe
old
,
and
yet
neuer
die
,
and
where
they
liue
,
continually
to
die
:
Where
they
burn
without
consuming
;
where
they
mourne
without
compassion
;
are
afflicted
without
repentance
;
where
torment
is
without
end
,
and
past
imagination
.
There
the
vnpappy
rich
man
,
This
precedent
discourse
hath
led
vs
through
all
ages
,
and
through
all
the
most
ordinary
conditions
of
humane
life
;
yet
in
this
voyage
,
we
haue
knowne
nothing
but
vanity
and
torment
of
spirit
:
And
it
hath
chiefely
appeared
,
when
we
haue
cast
our
eyes
vpon
the
diuine
prouidence
of
God
,
which
doth
from
the
highest
Heauens
view
all
the
actions
of
man
,
not
as
an
idle
spectator
,
but
as
a
wise
Conductor
,
and
iust
Iudge
:
And
there
from
aboue
,
he
laughes
at
the
designes
of
great
men
,
&
frustrateth
their
enterprises
,
destroyeth
their
tongues
&
spirits
of
Babylonian
builders
,
ruineth
their
greatnes
,
and
breaketh
their
Scepters
into
shiuers
;
teaching
man
that
he
is
nothing
but
dust
,
and
his
wisedome
but
meere
blindnes
,
to
the
end
that
hee
may
learne
to
contemne
the
world
,
and
transport
his
hopes
from
earth
to
heauen
;
&
that
hauing
seene
some
beames
of
this
terrestriall
splendour
,
which
vanisheth
as
Lightening
,
he
doth
say
with
S.
Peter
,
O
LORD
,
how
glorious
are
thy
workes
!
and
thy
thoughts
are
very
deepe
:
an
vnwise
man
knoweth
it
not
,
and
a
foole
doth
not
vnderstand
this
.
When
the
wicked
grow
as
the
grasse
,
and
all
the
workes
of
wickednes
doe
flourish
;
then
they
shall
be
destroyed
for
euer
.
It
behoueth
vs
,
heere
to
note
carefully
,
that
this
Psalme
is
intituled
,
A
Song
for
the
Sabbath
day
:
for
by
it
hee
doth
aduertise
vs
,
that
this
meditation
requireth
a
quiet
and
resting
spirit
,
which
beeing
restrained
from
the
presse
of
humane
actions
,
doth
retire
it selfe
into
the
House
of
God
;
according
to
that
which
hee
saith
in
the
73
Psalme
;
where
he
doth
confesse
,
that
the
prosperity
of
wicked
men
hath
offended
him
,
and
that
hee
could
hardly
digest
it
,
vntill
that
he
had
entred
into
the
Sanctuary
of
the
Almighty
,
and
considered
the
end
of
such
men
:
For
,
to
vnderstand
what
the
true
happinesse
is
,
and
to
vnmaske
himselfe
to
the
imaginary
felicitie
of
this
world
;
it
is
not
necessary
to
goe
to
Philosophicall
schooles
,
or
to
build
his
resolutions
vpon
the
opinion
of
the
Vulgar
,
but
to
enter
into
the
holy
House
of
God
▪
and
there
learne
what
the
difference
is
betweene
the
riches
which
he
scattereth
vpon
this
great
multitude
,
and
that
which
he
reserueth
for
his
little
ones
,
Let
vs
furthermore
consider
how
vaine
the
glory
of
man
is
,
Some
other
doe
glory
in
their
beauty
,
when
as
it
is
onely
a
superficiall
colour
,
which
couereth
the
bloud
,
bones
,
and
braines
,
hideous
things
to
see
.
It
is
also
a
thing
that
age
and
many
maladies
haue
power
to
deforme
.
Some
other
doth
glory
of
his
honour
and
greatnesse
,
when
indeed
he
is
possest
in
this
state
,
with
most
trouble
and
feare
,
and
lesse
liberty
:
besides
,
he
is
mounted
so
high
,
that
he
cannot
fall
but
with
breaking
of
his
owne
necke
.
Some
other
doth
glory
to
bee
more
drunke
then
his
companions
,
but
if
his
belly
bee
greater
in
capacitie
then
others
,
notwithstanding
it
will
neuer
exceed
a
Barrell
.
These
former
things
are
generall
;
for
vanities
and
miseries
are
common
to
all
men
,
since
that
sinne
hath
subiected
mankinde
to
them
.
But
notwithstanding
there
are
some
more
then
other
,
which
are
made
examples
of
extreme
misery
;
As
poore
beggers
,
which
are
constrained
through
necessitie
to
lye
vpon
the
bare
pauement
;
The
hundreth
part
of
humane
kinde
doth
imperiously
and
impiously
torment
the
rest
,
and
those
that
are
feeble
and
meane
,
serue
as
preyes
to
the
mighty
.
Amongst
the
Turkes
and
Pagans
,
which
possesse
three
parts
of
the
world
,
men
are
bought
and
sold
in
the
same
fashion
,
as
horses
in
a
Faire
:
for
the
buyer
,
marketh
their
fight
,
maketh
them
shew
their
teeth
,
and
feeleth
the
sinnewes
of
their
armes
and
legges
.
Great
Princes
keepe
millions
of
chained
Slaues
for
to
labour
,
in
making
of
Sugar
,
in
working
of
Mines
,
to
serue
in
Gallies
at
Sea
,
and
to
performe
such
kinde
of
seruilitie
,
that
Death
is
more
tolerable
to
them
then
this
kinde
of
life
.
There
are
certaine
people
,
which
haue
for
the
space
of
sixe
moneths
continuall
night
,
who
liue
in
Cauernes
,
and
in
the
extremity
of
the
extremest
degree
of
coldnesse
,
hauing
no
heat
to
comfort
them
,
but
onely
cruelty
.
Others
there
are
on
the
contrary
,
who
liue
amongst
Sands
,
continually
scorched
by
the
Sunne
,
a
countrey
barren
in
fruits
,
and
fertile
in
Serpents
and
Lyons
.
Our
climate
,
in
respect
of
such
intemperature
,
is
as
the
garden
of
Nature
,
where
God
hath
planted
most
wealth
and
riches
:
but
where
hee
hath
reaped
least
fruit
of
gracefull
actions
:
And
where
these
naturall
blessings
are
so
ill
husbanded
,
Now
that
we
haue
formally
and
superficially
represented
as
with
a
coale
the
vanity
and
misery
of
our
Nature
,
and
the
actions
of
Man
:
Let
vs
now
examine
his
thoughts
.
Dauid
in
the
94.
Psalme
saith
:
The
Lord
knoweth
the
thoughts
of
man
that
they
are
vanity
.
For
if
any
could
but
make
a
true
collection
of
his
thoughts
,
which
haue
only
passed
through
his
brain
in
one
day
:
the
confused
multitude
,
and
varietie
of
them
,
beeing
all
very
foolish
,
would
astonish
him
.
The
diuers
fictions
▪
and
strange
Ideas
that
Painters
conceit
in
respect
of
these
,
Some
one
againe
perceiuing
himselfe
destitute
of
company
,
and
being
very
pensiue
,
doth
aduise
with
himselfe
what
he
would
doe
if
he
were
a
King
:
There
if
our
best
actions
are
infected
with
idle
cogitations
;
how
much
moreouer
vnprofitable
houres
are
ill
spent
time
?
These
friuolous
thoughts
,
mixed
with
vaine
desire
,
and
a
like
ignorance
,
From
it
also
doth
it
proceed
,
Also
men
are
distracted
with
contrary
cogitations
.
One
complaineth
that
his
Wife
is
dead
.
Another
that
shee
will
not
dye
.
One
mourneth
for
the
losse
of
his
children
.
Another
that
hee
hath
some
that
be
very
wicked
.
One
disturbed
with
businesse
,
praiseth
domesticke
repose
,
and
that
opinion
of
Saul
,
who
did
rather
affect
to
liue
obscurely
in
the
basest
pouerty
,
then
to
bee
exalted
to
the
highest
Dignity
.
Another
being
excluded
from
publique
command
,
doth
notwithstanding
breake
his
own
necke
to
attaine
it
.
Euery
thing
doth
seeme
to
vs
beautifull
,
but
that
which
we
haue
;
and
nothing
delighteth
vs
,
but
that
which
wee
cannot
obtaine
.
Nothing
doth
so
much
reioyce
vs
,
as
the
hurt
of
another
man
:
of
some
decay
in
Fortune
wee
smile
;
but
it
grieueth
vs
to
see
him
receiue
any
Honour
.
In
this
vanity
of
thoughts
,
and
vncertainty
of
desires
,
doth
appeare
a
great
weakenesse
of
spirit
:
for
our
affections
are
swayed
more
by
gestures
,
and
externall
appearance
,
then
by
the
thing
it selfe
.
Like
vnto
some
Spectators
at
a
Tragedie
,
who
notwithstanding
that
they
know
the
argument
to
be
fabulous
,
&
nothing
concerning
them
,
doe
weepe
out
of
compassion
,
when
as
they
will
not
shead
a
teare
for
their
own
vnfained
griefes
.
Some
there
bee
also
that
hang
themselues
out
of
despaire
,
Some
others
haue
more
feare
of
a
Mouse
,
or
a
Hem
,
or
a
Toad
,
then
of
a
sword
;
certainely
such
peeuish
weakenesse
,
or
fantasticall
actions
doe
gouerne
our
imaginations
.
Truely
I
know
not
how
,
but
men
study
to
deceiue
themselues
.
Some
one
will
recite
a
tale
for
truth
,
which
hee
knoweth
to
be
most
false
,
and
that
so
often
,
and
with
so
great
assurance
,
that
himselfe
in
fine
doth
beleeue
it
.
A
Husband
that
knoweth
his
Wife
to
be
deformed
,
notwithstanding
,
because
shee
is
painted
and
disguized
,
will
begin
to
perswade
himselfe
that
shee
is
faire
,
and
shee
her selfe
will
beleeue
it
,
and
thinke
to
be
reputed
so
.
How
many
bee
there
which
beleeue
in
a
Religion
,
because
they
will
beleeue
it
,
which
contest
against
their
owne
sense
,
which
say
among
themselues
,
that
surely
is
absurd
,
and
not
agreeable
with
the
Scripture
,
I
will
haue
it
thus
,
and
will
beleeue
so
.
This
is
to
haue
a
constrained
beliefe
,
not
to
haue
his
will
subiected
to
Religion
,
but
Religion
to
his
will
.
The
infirmitie
of
mans
iudgement
doth
especially
shew
it selfe
in
Religion
:
for
what
he
thinketh
touching
the
seruice
of
God
,
doth
manifestly
appeare
by
his
exteriour
actions
.
In
matters
of
newes
wee
doe
sooner
beleeue
one
that
hath
seene
it
,
then
the
common
report
.
But
in
matters
of
Religion
it
is
contrarie
,
for
most
doe
follow
the
vulgar
opinion
,
which
is
as
much
as
to
maintaine
that
which
is
most
absurd
,
and
then
to
hide
himselfe
amongst
the
multitude
.
Obserue
many
other
things
,
As
to
cloath
in
Silke
and
Gold
the
images
of
men
;
while
that
a
poore
Begger
goeth
naked
,
which
is
the
Image
of
God
.
To
weare
a
Crosse
hanging
downe
vpon
the
belly
,
while
that
the
belly
is
an
enemy
to
the
Crosse
of
Christ
.
In
going
to
a
Bawdy-house
,
or
returning
from
some
wicked
fact
,
to
say
certaine
Pater-nosters
.
To
kneele
downe
at
the
boxe
which
keepeth
the
Host
,
when
it
returneth
empty
from
some
sicke
body
,
as
when
it
went
full
.
To
adore
the
Host
passing
by
a
little
boxe
,
and
not
to
respect
it
in
a
mans
bodie
,
which
is
come
newly
from
receiuing
it
.
To
make
their
Creator
with
words
,
To
bee
insolent
and
deboshed
one
day
before
Lent
;
and
the
next
day
following
to
bee
very
graue
and
sorrowfull
.
To
imploy
their
blessed
Beades
for
to
obtaine
remission
of
their
sinnes
.
After
the
death
of
any
great
Personage
,
to
cloath
with
blacke
the
Image
of
our
Lady
,
to
the
end
that
shee
may
participate
of
their
griefes
.
To
whip
themselues
in
publique
,
for
to
content
God
,
or
to
release
a
soule
out
of
Purgatory
.
In
honour
of
the
Saints
,
to
burne
Candles
in
the
midst
of
the
day
.
To
conclude
,
man
hath
forged
many
strange
things
in
his
braine
,
and
would
haue
God
to
approue
them
.
Nay
,
he
is
come
to
that
passe
,
that
hee
doth
assume
to
himselfe
the
distribution
of
Offices
in
Paradise
,
making
one
Protector
of
a
Countrey
,
another
a
healer
of
some
particular
disease
,
as
if
little
Ants
had
power
to
dispose
of
affaires
belonging
to
the
Crowne
of
France
.
This
is
also
a
vanity
of
vanities
,
and
an
extreme
imbecilitie
of
iudgement
.
Our selues
which
haue
the
true
Word
of
God
for
a
rule
to
frame
our
actions
by
,
are
not
exempted
:
and
our
folly
and
vanity
doth
mixe
it selfe
with
our
best
actions
.
For
in
our
ciuill
actions
,
if
we
haue
need
of
counsell
,
wee
presently
addresse
our selues
to
some
friends
.
But
in
matters
of
Gods
diuine
seruice
,
we
take
counsell
of
our
minds
,
and
concupiscences
,
which
are
our
domesticall
enemies
.
If
money
be
due
vnto
vs
from
one
,
we
had
rather
alwayes
haue
the
money
then
his
promise
:
in
celestiall
matters
it
is
contrary
.
For
the
holy
Gospell
is
an
obligation
,
by
which
God
hath
promised
vs
saluation
,
and
hath
sealed
it
with
the
bloud
of
his
Sonne
:
but
we
had
rather
keepe
the
obligation
,
then
receiue
the
paiment
,
Some
doe
record
in
the
Emperor
Honorius
,
a
great
simplicitie
,
and
childish
weakenesse
:
that
hauing
a
Hen
,
nominated
by
him
,
Rome
,
which
he
did
cherish
,
and
so
infinitely
affect
,
that
when
one
came
vnto
him
,
and
said
that
his
Rome
was
lost
,
he
answered
very
sorrowfully
,
Alas
!
she
was
here
but
euen
now
.
But
the
other
replying
,
said
,
And
it
please
your
Highnes
,
I
speak
not
of
a
Hen
,
but
of
your
Citie
of
Rome
,
which
hath
beene
surprized
,
and
sacked
by
Alario
Goth.
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A
Simile
worthy
of
obseruation
.
The
Emperor
hearing
this
,
was
somewhat
comforted
,
thinking
that
losse
to
bee
more
tolerable
.
Such
is
our
simplicitie
,
wee
will
not
suffer
one
to
touch
our
riches
,
but
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a
Wee
are
so
rooted
in
this
worlds
abomination
,
that
we
prefer
a
minute
of
worldly
pleasure
,
before
heauens
euerlasting
ioyes
,
incomprehensible
and
immutable
.
we
will
indure
any
to
entice
vs
to
Vice
;
to
seduce
vs
into
errour
,
and
to
poison
our
soules
.
It
is
a
great
folly
to
refuse
a
medicine
,
because
the
Physician
is
not
eloquent
:
Why
doe
wee
not
then
make
account
and
estimation
of
the
preaching
of
the
Gospell
,
if
the
Preacher
bee
not
eloquent
,
seeing
that
the
holy
Gospell
is
the
medicine
of
our
soules
?
Is
it
not
then
an
extreme
brutishnes
,
for
some
vicious
person
to
slighten
the
holy
Writ
,
because
it
is
not
adorned
with
Flowers
of
Rhetoricke
?
What
is
the
reason
then
,
that
the
Word
of
God
doth
please
vs
,
if
it
be
not
decked
with
Flowers
,
and
composed
with
Art
,
seeing
that
it
is
that
sacred
worke
,
and
Doctrine
of
Reconciliation
with
God
?
Wee
doe
not
receiue
willingly
the
correction
of
our
Parents
,
if
it
bee
not
very
milde
.
This
is
also
a
vanity
,
distaste
,
and
childish
humour
.
Touching
our
Iudgement
which
we
haue
of
others
,
either
in
esteeming
,
or
contemning
them
,
it
is
most
vaine
,
and
ridiculously
ignorant
.
For
if
there
be
a
question
about
burthens
,
wee
account
him
most
strong
,
which
can
carry
the
heauiest
.
On
the
contrary
,
about
quarrels
wee
esteeme
him
the
most
valiant
,
which
can
beare
nothing
;
attributing
force
and
valour
to
weakenesse
and
impatience
.
In
matters
of
ornament
,
we
doe
not
iudge
of
the
goodnesse
of
a
sword
,
by
the
beauty
of
a
scabberd
:
nor
of
the
metall
of
a
Horse
,
by
the
fairenesse
of
a
Bridle
and
Saddle
.
Some
labour
to
till
their
Gardens
,
and
other
grounds
,
and
by
it
winne
much
praise
;
when
as
themselues
are
barren
,
&
bring
forth
no
fruit
of
good
workes
.
Wee
are
much
vaine
and
childish
in
our
feares
,
as
in
any
other
thing
.
For
as
little
Infants
doe
play
with
fire
&
burne
themselues
,
but
feare
when
they
see
their
Father
comming
,
masked
with
a
frowning
countenance
towards
them
:
So
men
desiring
to
dally
with
pleasures
,
Also
man
doth
ingender
in
himselfe
either
foolish
or
pernicious
feares
.
Some
one
being
iealous
that
his
wife
doth
affect
others
,
endeuoureth
to
espy
and
search
out
that
which
he
feareth
to
finde
:
and
by
this
meanes
angreth
her
so
,
that
she
seeketh
to
be
reuenged
,
in
such
nature
which
hee
formerly
suspected
.
Some
other
fearing
to
liue
without
honour
,
committeth
such
things
as
subiect
his
body
to
some
cruell
torment
,
and
staineth
the
memory
of
him
with
perpetuall
infamy
.
Some
other
feareth
the
want
of
riches
,
Some
againe
feareth
he
shall
die
before
marriage
,
When
I
consider
what
humane
wisedome
is
,
I
finde
it
agreeable
to
the
industry
of
Moles
,
which
digge
vnder-ground
with
much
dexteritie
,
but
are
blind
when
they
come
into
the
Sunne
.
So
wee
haue
much
skill
in
earthly
affaires
,
to
sell
,
to
couenant
,
and
to
supplant
any
one
.
But
take
one
of
these
men
which
is
is
most
subtill
in
these
things
,
For
during
the
time
that
hee
doth
foresee
future
euents
,
and
alterations
of
estate
,
hee
is
ignorant
of
his
owne
destruction
:
while
that
he
discourseth
on
the
affaires
of
Kingdomes
,
hee
is
a
Slaue
to
the
Diuell
:
And
notwithstanding
that
blind
iudgement
of
his
,
dareth
contest
against
the
Euer-liuing
GOD
,
the
folly
and
foolishnesse
of
the
children
of
darknesse
,
against
the
Diuine
wisedome
of
the
Father
of
Light
;
and
the
discretion
of
man
,
against
the
Prouidence
of
the
Almighty
.
For
the
wicked
do
couer
themselues
with
silence
,
craft
,
and
dissimulation
:
Like
vnto
little
children
,
which
think
that
they
are
sufficiently
hidden
,
when
their
eyes
are
closed
;
Beleeuing
that
no
body
seeth
them
,
when
they
see
no
body
.
But
in
the
meane
time
,
God
perceiueth
them
both
naked
,
and
vncouered
;
yea
,
better
then
they
themselues
.
For
God
is
not
onely
all
hand
,
in
holding
and
conducting
the
whole
Vniuerse
:
but
also
all
eye
,
in
seeing
and
discerning
all
things
in
it
.
The
thickest
bodies
are
to
him
transparant
;
and
darknesse
it selfe
,
is
to
him
light
:
and
therefore
the
Prophet
Dauid
doth
iustly
reprehend
that
foolish
wisedome
in
the
94.
Psalme
,
where
he
saith
:
Vnderstand
ye
vnwise
among
the
people
,
and
ye
fooles
,
when
will
ye
be
wise
?
He
that
planted
the
eare
,
shall
he
not
heare
?
or
he
that
formed
the
eye
,
shall
he
not
see
?
Now
,
in
this
place
he
calleth
them
vnwise
,
not
which
are
fooles
,
and
run
vp
and
downe
the
streetes
:
nor
those
priuate
and
particular
men
,
which
are
without
Office
;
nor
the
heauy-spirited
Commons
;
but
such
as
are
crafty
,
and
manage
affaires
with
dexterity
,
thinking
by
their
sagacity
,
to
couer
themselues
from
the
wisedome
of
God
:
or
to
dazle
the
eyes
of
his
prouidence
sacred
:
Like
vnto
the
most
dangerous
Agues
,
which
are
vnder
the
appearance
of
Coldnesse
:
So
the
most
ridiculous
follie
,
is
that
which
lieth
vnder
the
appearance
of
wisedome
.
It
behoueth
also
the
Faithfull
to
exercise
his
meditation
,
and
to
be
a
spectator
of
the
actions
and
thoughts
of
men
,
and
of
all
the
vnprofitable
labours
of
his
life
:
For
it
is
in
humane
life
,
as
in
a
Faire
,
where
there
commeth
two
sorts
of
people
;
one
for
to
buy
and
sell
,
the
other
onely
to
see
.
Man
that
feareth
God
,
is
like
to
one
of
those
which
come
to
see
:
he
is
not
there
idle
,
and
to
search
nothing
,
but
to
contemplate
the
worke
of
God
,
and
humane
actions
.
But
he
may
say
(
when
he
hath
seene
all
the
delights
that
the
curious
vanity
of
men
can
shew
forth
)
O
how
many
things
are
there
in
this
world
,
which
I
haue
nothing
to
doe
withall
?
What
if
during
this
contemplation
,
some
one
doth
iustle
or
throng
vpon
him
,
or
if
one
cut
his
purse
,
that
it
doe
afflict
,
or
depriue
him
of
any
thing
?
All
that
such
a
one
will
doe
,
is
,
to
goe
out
of
that
company
;
and
knowing
himselfe
to
be
a
stranger
in
this
world
,
will
trauell
toward
his
Country
,
where
that
Celestiall
Habitation
is
;
pressing
alwaies
,
(
as
the
Apostle
saith
)
towards
the
marke
,
for
the
price
of
the
high
calling
of
God
,
in
Christ
Iesus
.
If
the
world
contemne
him
,
hee
will
contemne
that
contempt
,
as
knowing
himselfe
better
then
the
world
,
and
to
be
called
to
a
better
hope
:
Ecclesiastes
:
The
end
of
all
is
the
feare
of
God
,
and
the
keeping
of
his
Commandements
:
for
in
it
is
comprized
the
summe
of
mans
beeing
.
Now
therefore
after
all
this
meditation
,
let
vs
rest
our selues
vpon
these
two
Maxime's
and
Propositions
,
which
are
the
true
foundation
that
zeale
is
grounded
vpon
.
The
first
is
,
for
to
loue
God
,
it
behooueth
to
contemne
the
world
.
The
second
is
,
that
for
to
contemne
the
world
,
it
is
necessary
for
the
Faithful
to
know
his
own
worth
,
noblenesse
,
and
excellencie
of
vocation
.
The
first
Maxime
is
taken
out
of
S.
Iohn
,
in
his
first
Epistle
:
Loue
not
the
world
,
neither
the
things
that
are
in
the
world
:
If
any
man
loue
the
world
,
the
loue
of
the
Father
is
not
in
him
:
For
all
things
that
are
in
the
world
(
as
the
lust
of
the
flesh
,
the
lust
of
the
eyes
,
and
the
pride
of
life
)
is
not
of
the
Father
,
but
is
of
the
world
:
And
the
world
passeth
away
,
and
the
lust
thereof
;
but
he
that
fulfilleth
the
will
of
God
,
abideth
for
euer
.
Nothing
doth
so
farre
separate
vs
from
the
loue
of
God
,
as
our
affection
to
the
world
;
seeing
that
the
holy
Scripture
,
for
to
admonish
vs
,
doth
call
the
world
,
The
Kingdome
of
the
Diuell
.
But
as
the
Moone
hath
no
light
but
from
the
Sunne
;
so
,
our
soules
haue
not
any
light
,
but
by
the
regard
of
God
;
and
by
a
consequent
,
neither
more
nor
lesse
:
But
euen
as
the
Moone
doth
lose
her
light
,
when
she
is
hidden
within
the
shaddow
of
the
earth
;
so
also
doe
our
soules
lose
their
brightnesse
,
(
for
they
are
called
in
the
holy
Scriptures
,
The
children
of
light
)
when
they
molest
and
wrap
themselues
within
the
shadow
of
earthly
things
,
cares
and
worldly
concupiscences
:
which
wee
ought
to
tread
vnder
our
feete
,
according
to
the
example
of
the
Church
;
which
,
as
it
is
written
in
the
12.
of
the
Apocalypse
,
hath
vnder
her
feete
the
Moone
;
that
is
,
the
mutable
instabilitie
of
these
inferiour
things
.
To
this
purpose
Iesus
also
would
that
the
penny
should
bee
restored
to
Caesar
,
because
that
it
had
his
Image
on
it
.
Let
vs
therefore
then
giue
our selues
to
God
,
seeing
that
we
beare
his
owne
Image
.
But
the
inconuenience
is
,
that
wee
doe
often
abolish
the
Image
,
in
rubbing
it
against
the
earth
,
and
polluting
our
soules
with
worldly
thoughts
and
desires
.
That
wee
may
therefore
contemne
the
earth
,
and
all
that
the
world
doth
promise
,
it
requireth
that
wee
come
to
the
second
point
,
which
is
,
to
know
perfectly
what
the
worth
and
excellency
of
the
faithfull
is
.
For
when
as
men
by
an
vnfriendly
amity
,
and
cruell
well-willing
,
Was
it
not
for
the
loue
of
the
faithfull
,
that
the
world
was
framed
?
You
that
feare
God
,
and
trust
in
his
Sonne
,
know
,
that
it
is
you
that
vnderprop
the
world
,
and
that
nourish
the
wicked
in
it
.
Therefore
the
enemies
of
God
are
bound
in
obligation
to
you
.
For
hee
doth
conserue
the
world
out
of
a
respect
,
which
he
hath
towards
his
chosen
and
elect
,
whereof
some
are
mixed
among
the
euill
,
and
others
are
yet
vnborne
.
It
is
written
in
the
sixt
of
the
Apocalypse
;
That
GOD
doth
attend
,
vntill
our
fellow-seruants
be
accomplished
.
And
therefore
this
is
one
of
the
reasons
why
that
Christ
doth
call
the
faithfull
,
The
salt
of
the
earth
;
which
is
as
much
as
a
little
part
amongst
men
,
which
conserueth
the
rest
,
and
delayeth
their
destruction
.
For
God
conserueth
the
sinfull
,
because
of
the
good
,
to
the
end
that
they
should
serue
as
medicines
to
them
;
and
that
the
might
and
power
of
our
Aduersaries
might
serue
to
compell
vs
to
the
feare
of
God
,
and
to
trust
in
his
promises
.
Such
being
the
excellency
of
Gods
elect
aboue
the
rest
:
it
behooueth
vs
to
respect
the
pleasures
,
riches
,
and
greatnesse
of
the
world
,
as
things
that
are
most
ridiculous
,
and
as
the
painted
kingdomes
which
the
Diuell
shewed
vnto
Christ
.
Like
those
which
from
the
highest
part
of
the
Alpes
,
And
considering
from
thence
the
Palaces
of
Princes
,
hee
will
esteeme
them
as
habitations
of
Ants
,
and
the
turbulent
murmuring
of
men
,
as
the
buzzing
of
an
angry
swarme
of
Bees
,
and
contemplating
from
thence
,
what
things
are
most
great
and
apparant
in
the
earth
,
he
wil
say
,
The
vanity
of
vanities
,
all
is
vanity
.
That
holy
glory
will
not
hinder
Christian
humilitie
.
For
wee
knowing
the
worthinesse
of
our selues
,
doe
finde
our
dignity
in
Iesus
Christ
.
If
Repentance
doth
humble
vs
,
Faith
doth
exalt
vs
.
If
we
are
nothing
before
God
,
wee
are
somewhat
in
God
,
&
in
his
fatherly
affections
.
And
therefore
in
this
the
faithfull
are
contrary
to
worldly
men
:
for
they
doe
lift
their
eyes
to
heauen
by
too
much
pride
,
but
presse
downe
their
heart
on
the
earth
with
Auarice
and
Incontinency
:
whereas
the
godly
on
the
contrarie
,
hath
his
eyes
vpon
the
earth
by
humilitie
,
as
the
Publican
which
durst
not
lift
his
eyes
to
Heauen
,
but
hath
his
heart
in
Heauen
by
faith
and
hope
.
The
contempt
of
this
world
proceeds
not
out
of
a
loue
to
himselfe
,
but
out
of
a
true
affection
to
God
.
THE
MISERY
OF
MANS
FRAILE
AND
NATVRALL
INCLINATION
AND
Of
the
Wickednesse
and
Peruersenesse
that
now
raigneth
in
this
wretched
AGE
.
COnsidering
to
my selfe
the
miseries
of
Humane
condition
,
my
minde
and
spirit
is
so
confounded
with
diuersitie
of
thoughts
,
that
I
enter
(
as
it
were
)
into
a
Labyrinth
of
confusion
,
whose
issue
is
most
difficult
.
For
if
I
settle
my
considerations
vpon
Nature
,
humane
qualities
or
effects
,
those
three
obiects
do
so
obfuscate
my
powers
,
that
all
the
knowledge
that
I
can
gather
,
is
impossibilitie
neuer
to
attaine
to
the
perfect
knowledge
of
the
numberlesse
number
of
those
miseries
,
mis-haps
,
and
vanities
affected
,
as
inseparable
to
humane
kinde
;
and
to
that
end
doe
chalenge
all
the
most
profound
and
serious
sences
of
the
wisest
and
most
learned
men
,
And
which
is
more
,
If
we
will
see
the
body
of
this
Tree
,
we
must
breake
the
barke
of
our
condition
:
for
it
is
the
true
portraiture
of
our selues
,
and
so
wee
may
cleerely
apprehend
it
with
the
very
same
reason
;
considering
what
an
infinite
number
of
mis-haps
,
miseries
,
and
mischiefes
wee
are
subiect
vnto
in
this
transitorie
world
,
that
the
infinitie
of
them
is
impossible
to
be
related
:
for
if
examples
be
vaine
to
manifest
it
vnto
vs
by
comparison
,
our
imbecilitie
in
expressing
it
alone
,
may
be
in
some
fashion
eloquent
:
for
to
treate
some
part
thereof
,
and
that
wherewith
the
afflicted
are
most
comforted
,
is
,
through
the
assurance
they
haue
that
all
men
together
are
subiect
to
the
like
miseries
,
and
ill
fortunes
,
except
none
but
those
who
are
not
yet
borne
,
or
those
,
who
in
their
Cradle
ending
their
liues
,
finde
their
Sepulchres
:
otherwise
let
the
most
happy
and
the
most
contented
man
that
now
liueth
on
earth
gaine-say
it
,
alledging
this
for
his
reason
,
that
he
knowes
not
what
mis-haps
and
miseries
meane
,
and
that
in
so
sweet
ignorance
he
hath
passed
not
onely
the
spring
of
his
Youth
,
but
likewise
the
Summer
,
and
part
of
the
Winter
of
his
age
,
that
it
is
well
hitherto
,
but
it
is
without
consequence
,
times
past
can
conclude
nothing
of
the
future
;
and
though
it
seemeth
to
this
happy
man
,
that
although
crosses
,
troubles
,
tribulations
,
and
miseries
,
should
as
it
were
assault
him
in
the
end
of
his
race
,
time
should
bee
wanting
to
make
durable
and
lasting
the
griefe
of
his
euils
and
afflictions
:
Forasmuch
as
death
doth
alwaies
and
lawfully
succeed
old
age
,
which
should
hinder
and
interrupt
the
course
and
proceeding
thereof
:
but
to
that
I
will
truely
answer
without
many
needlesse
proofes
:
for
surety
that
his
last
day
onely
is
able
sufficiently
to
make
him
feele
and
haue
tryall
of
the
most
cruell
and
sensiblest
griefe
&
torments
,
wherewith
any
mortall
body
can
be
vexed
:
therefore
the
most
fortunate
man
that
is
,
cannot
account
himselfe
happy
,
but
at
the
end
of
his
racei
sith
oftentimes
before
an
hauen
Town
many
suffer
shipwracke
,
that
haue
escaped
miraculously
many
eminent
dangers
,
in
the
middest
of
Stormes
and
Tempests
.
But
to
proceed
further
,
But
to
returne
to
our
condition
:
to
make
it
appeare
vnto
you
all
together
wretched
&
miserable
;
we
must
consider
how
time
playes
with
it
;
somtimes
raising
vs
as
it
were
to
prosperity
,
&
in
a
moment
casting
vs
headlong
into
aduersitie
;
it
serueth
for
a
Marke
to
aime
and
leuell
at
,
and
an
habitation
and
lodging
of
all
euils
:
For
hope
deceiues
our
condition
;
vanity
flouts
it
;
ambition
mockes
it
;
vices
are
her
beloued
children
,
and
vertues
her
greatest
enemies
:
pleasure
cheates
her
;
the
flesh
tempts
her
;
riches
commands
her
,
as
her
Soueraigne
;
and
finally
,
the
Diuell
maintaines
a
continuall
warre
with
her
vntill
her
end
.
Let
vs
iudge
then
if
pride
and
arrogancy
become
vs
well
,
considering
all
these
our
infirmities
and
defaults
.
Wee
must
not
therefore
wonder
,
Can
the
Diuell
,
out
of
his
shape
of
fashions
,
lay
open
more
Antike-like
formes
then
are
forged
on
the
Anuill
of
mans
inuention
?
In
Court
,
the
Nobilitie
are
hardly
distinguisht
from
their
followers
.
In
Citie
,
the
Merchant
is
not
knowne
from
his
Factor
.
In
Countrey
,
the
Gentry
cannot
be
descryed
or
described
from
the
Rusticke
;
and
in
generall
,
the
body
publike
is
so
ouerspred
with
the
Leprosie
of
that
garish
Strumpet
,
Pride
,
as
there
is
scarce
any
difference
betweene
Countesse
and
Curtezan
;
Lady
,
and
Chamber-Maid
;
Mistresse
,
and
greasie
Kitchin
Wench
;
Gentleman
,
and
Mechanick
.
As
for
Knight
and
Taylor
,
there
goes
but
a
paire
of
Sheares
betwixt
them
.
How
many
mis-spend
and
profusely
lauish
their
fore-noones
houres
,
in
the
curious
pranking
of
their
sinne-polluted
bodies
!
but
how
few
reserue
one
poore
brace
of
minutes
,
wherein
to
prouide
spirituall
indewments
to
houze
their
naked
sinfull
soules
!
Neuer
was
the
Apophthegme
of
old
Byas
the
Philosopher
more
verified
,
then
in
these
our
franticke
times
.
Most
men
carry
their
wealth
about
with
them
,
not
as
Bias
did
,
in
learning
and
vertue
;
but
vpon
their
back
in
gorgeous
apparell
.
Women
doe
so
commonly
sophisticate
their
beauties
,
that
one
(
though
Linceus-sighted
)
can
hardly
iudge
,
whether
they
possesse
their
own
faces
,
or
no
?
and
,
which
is
more
than
most
lamentable
,
euery
snowy-headed
Matron
,
euery
toothlesse
Mumpsimus
,
that
one
may
see
the
sun
go
to
bed
thorow
the
furrowes
of
her
forehead
,
must
haue
her
box
of
odoriferous
Pomatum
,
and
glittering
Stibium
,
wherewithall
to
parget
,
white-lime
,
and
complectionate
her
rumpled
cheekes
,
till
she
lookes
as
smugge
as
an
hansome
painted
Close
stoole
,
or
rotten
poste
.
But
as
for
them
that
lap
vp
their
bodies
in
the
pleasant
mists
of
aromaticke
perfumes
,
let
them
withall
swallow
this
Pill
:
Within
a
sweet
and
ciuet
lurking
body
,
often
is
imprisoned
a
loathsome
stinking
soule
.
Murther
is
accounted
but
manly
reuenge
,
and
the
desperate
Stabber
cares
no
more
to
kill
a
man
,
then
to
cracke
a
Flea
.
Vsurie
and
Extortion
are
held
laudable
vocations
;
Couetousnesse
is
stiled
thrift
;
Luxury
and
whoredome
are
reputed
but
youthfull
trickes
:
And
as
for
Drunkennesse
,
why
that
's
a
tolerable
recreation
:
Doe
not
men
pursue
it
with
such
inordinate
affection
,
that
they
oft
neglect
their
functions
,
bid
farewell
to
that
domesticke
care
they
ought
to
entertaine
;
dislodge
that
humane
prouidence
which
should
be
shut
vp
in
the
Cabinet
of
their
reasonable
part
,
and
solely
prostitute
themselues
to
quotidian
carousing
,
till
their
breaths
smell
no
sweeter
then
a
Brewers
apron
,
whilest
their
families
are
wrung
and
grip't
in
the
clutches
of
pouerty
,
lockt
vp
,
and
imprisoned
from
those
necessarie
supplements
,
which
should
keepe
both
breath
and
body
together
at
vnion
?
This
is
a
worthy
Fathers
opinion
:
That
a
man
possessed
with
a
Diuell
,
may
be
thought
to
be
in
a
more
hopeful
state
then
a
Drunkard
:
for
albeit
that
he
be
possessed
,
yet
is
it
compulsiuely
,
and
against
his
will
;
but
the
Drunkard
wholly
adopts
and
dedicates
himselfe
,
with
all
the
powerfull
faculties
of
his
soule
,
voluntarily
to
the
seruice
of
Satan
.
S.
Augustine
likewise
describes
three
fearefull
properties
in
a
Drunkard
:
It
confounds
nature
,
saith
he
,
loseth
grace
,
and
consequently
,
incurres
Gods
wrathfull
indignation
to
be
powred
out
vpon
the
imbracer
thereof
.
Swearing
,
and
blaspheming
Gods
great
and
glorious
Name
,
is
reckoned
for
a
morall
vertue
,
the
grace
of
birth
and
honour
,
the
cognizance
of
an
high-bred
spirit
.
What
Christian
can
refraine
,
(
that
hath
any
sparke
of
Diuine
intellect
in
him
)
to
vnsluce
the
flood-gate
of
his
eyes
,
and
let
his
melting
heart
gush
through
with
teares
;
when
in
the
streets
he
shall
heare
little
Children
,
scarce
able
to
goe
,
or
speake
,
to
be
vnderstood
;
volley
foorth
most
fearefull
oathes
,
and
with
such
procliuitie
,
as
if
they
had
bin
tutored
in
their
mothers
wombes
;
whilest
their
parents
standing
by
,
offer
not
to
check
them
,
with
so
much
as
a
sowre
reproofe
;
but
seeming
rather
to
solace
themselues
in
their
Childrens
sinnes
,
and
delight
in
their
owne
damnations
:
like
those
who
dye
in
a
Sardinian
laughter
?
If
the
penall
Law
of
Lodovicus
were
put
in
practice
;
who
hearing
one
sweare
,
seared
vp
his
lips
with
an
hot
iron
)
scarce
ten
,
in
as
many
Parishes
,
but
would
be
glad
to
be
in
league
with
the
Apothicaries
lippe-salue
.
How
many
miraculous
Iudgements
hath
God
shot
out
against
the
blasphemers
of
his
sacred
Name
;
whose
instances
would
be
too
prolixious
?
What
sinne
can
be
more
damnable
,
&
yet
more
practised
?
None
can
sooner
plunge
the
soule
into
the
implacable
gulfe
of
perdition
,
and
yet
no
sinne
,
by
intentiue
endeuour
,
more
easie
to
be
cropt
off
,
and
weeded
vp
:
for
that
it
is
no
incidentall
issue
of
naturall
corruption
,
but
an
accidentall
monster
,
inegndred
of
corrupted
custome
.
A
learned
Father
confesseth
,
That
at
euery
other
word
he
once
vsed
to
sweare
,
but
at
length
,
endeuouring
to
locke
vp
the
doore
of
his
lips
,
to
set
watch
before
his
tongue
;
imploying
diuine
assistance
therein
,
and
entreating
moreouer
his
friends
to
smite
him
with
the
rod
of
reprehension
;
in
forty
daies
he
vtterly
lost
the
abusiue
vse
thereof
:
So
that
now
,
saith
he
,
nothing
is
more
easie
to
me
,
then
not
to
sweare
at
all
.
It
is
recorded
,
that
Lewis
the
7.
King
of
France
,
diuulged
an
Edict
,
that
whosoeuer
was
knowne
to
warr
against
heauen
with
oathes
,
should
be
branded
in
the
forehead
,
as
a
capitall
offender
:
Should
not
then
euery
Christian
labour
to
set
a
watch
before
his
mouth
,
&
keep
the
doore
of
his
lips
,
that
no
rebellious
words
salley
forth
against
his
Creator
?
If
not
for
feare
of
temporall
Iustice
,
yet
,
lest
the
God
of
Iustice
should
brand
his
soule
with
the
dreadfull
stigme
of
eternall
damnation
,
which
no
salue
can
heale
,
Haliacmons
Floud
wash
out
,
nor
length
of
time
weare
off
.
O
lamentable
▪
when
the
Turkes
and
Ethnicks
out-strip
vs
in
their
cloudy
and
ignorant
zeale
:
they
will
dispute
in
the
heart
of
their
highest
Streets
,
about
their
Alcoran
,
and
Mahometish
religion
,
with
holy
intended
deuotion
.
But
what
voice
is
heard
in
our
Streets
?
Nought
,
but
the
squeaking
out
of
those
obsceane
and
light
Iigges
,
stuft
with
loathsome
and
vnheard-of
ribauldry
,
suck't
from
the
poisonous
dugges
of
sinne-swelled
Theaters
;
controuersall
conferences
about
richest
beere
,
neatest
wine
,
or
strongest
Tobacho
,
wherein
to
drowne
their
soules
,
and
draw
meager
diseases
vpon
their
distempered
bodies
.
And
tell
them
moreouer
,
that
by
their
nocturnall
superfluities
,
and
insatiable
quaffings
,
they
set
but
feathers
in
Times
wings
,
and
(
as
a
worthy
home-bred
Author
saith
)
spurre
but
the
gallopping
horse
;
hasten
on
their
speedy
deaths
,
and
digge
their
owne
vntimely
graues
.
More
haue
recourse
to
playing
houses
,
then
to
praying
Houses
;
where
they
set
open
their
eares
and
eyes
,
to
sucke
vp
variety
of
abominations
,
bewitching
their
minds
with
extrauagant
thoughts
,
and
benumming
their
soules
with
insensibility
,
whereby
sinne
is
become
so
customary
to
them
,
as
,
that
to
sinne
,
with
them
is
deem'd
no
sinne
at
all
:
consonant
to
that
Theologicall
Maxime
;
The
custome
of
sinning
,
taketh
away
the
very
sense
and
feeling
of
sinne
.
And
semblable
to
Pythagoras
his
conceipt
of
the
Sphericall
harmony
:
Because
(
saith
he
)
we
euer
heare
it
,
wee
neuer
heare
it
.
Many
set
faire
out-side
colours
vpon
their
profession
of
religious
honesty
,
but
beeing
strictly
lookt
into
by
the
penetrating
eye
of
practise
and
performance
,
proue
seldome
di'de
in
graine
.
Some
glitter
like
gold
in
their
conuersation
,
but
put
once
to
the
Touch
,
are
found
but
counterfeit
Alcumy
.
Others
will
needs
seeme
a
substantiall
body
in
integrity
of
life
;
but
shaken
and
sifted
with
the
hand
of
tryall
,
become
but
an
Anatomy
of
bones
.
To
giue
almes
,
is
thought
but
a
phantasticall
ceremony
,
and
to
refresh
the
comfortlesse
Lazarus
,
is
deem'd
but
the
maintenance
of
idle
and
exorbitant
vagabounds
.
O
where
is
Charity
fled
?
Is
she
not
whipt
&
foysted
out
of
great
mens
Kitchens
,
glad
to
keepe
Sanctuary
in
straw-cloath'd
Cottages
?
Are
not
larger
beneuolences
often
distributed
at
the
doore
of
one
russet-clad
Farmer
,
then
at
ten
mighty
mens
Gates
?
The
Magnificoes
of
this
world
reare
vp
sumptuous
buildings
,
onely
for
shew
and
ostentation
;
whiffing
more
smoke
out
of
their
noses
then
their
chimneys
;
and
it
begets
more
wonder
to
see
them
shake
downe
their
bounty
into
the
poore
mans
lap
,
then
to
see
a
Court-Lady
vnpainted
,
or
to
finde
an
open-fisted
Lawyer
,
that
without
a
Bribe
will
faithfully
prosecute
his
Clients
cause
.
Notwithstanding
al
this
,
so
parcimonious
are
they
in
their
domesticke
prouision
,
that
not
a
Rat
of
any
good
education
,
but
scornes
to
keepe
house
with
them
.
In
those
golden
times
of
yore
,
Charitie
was
the
rich
mans
Idoll
:
for
they
did
emulate
each
other
in
supplying
the
Widdowes
want
;
in
comforting
the
Orphanes
misery
;
and
in
refreshing
the
Trauellers
wearinesse
.
And
it
was
their
earthly
Summum
bonum
,
to
be
open-hearted
and
handed
to
each
hungry
stranger
:
This
inscription
commonly
engraued
vpon
the
front
of
their
gates
:
O
gate
,
stand
ope
to
all
,
be
shut
to
none
.
But
in
these
our
moderne
dayes
,
they
can
cunningly
transpose
the
point
,
and
and
thus
peruert
the
sense
,
Stand
open
(
gate
)
to
none
,
be
shut
to
all
.
Doe
not
these
heauen-tempting
Nimrods
depopulate
and
leuell
with
the
ground
whole
townes
,
crowd
and
iustle
many
honest
and
ancient
Farmers
out
of
their
Demesne
,
deuastate
their
Possessions
,
and
expose
them
with
their
Wiues
,
Children
and
Families
,
to
be
Camerades
with
palefac'd
beggery
,
onely
to
lay
the
Basis
of
their
Babel-out-brauing
Palaces
,
abillimented
with
Punkish
out-sides
,
to
cheate
the
speedy
approaching
Traueller
of
his
hungry
hopes
,
as
Zeuxis
did
the
silly
Birds
with
his
liuely-limbed
Grapes
:
as
if
they
be
in-lined
with
quaint
garnishing
,
and
costly
furniture
,
&
beautified
with
curious
pencild
pieces
,
wheron
thy
eye
may
glut
it selfe
by
gazing
,
yet
perhaps
maist
thou
be
chap-faln
for
want
of
victuals
?
These
glittering
obiects
are
the
Medusas
that
inchant
the
violent
instigations
,
that
spurre
on
young
luxurious
heires
to
hurle
out
their
Angle
to
catch
their
fathers
liues
,
and
languishingly
to
long
,
till
they
see
their
mossie-bearded
Sires
topple
vp
their
heeles
into
their
graues
.
And
when
their
Fathers
surrender
vp
their
breathes
to
him
from
whom
it
was
first
diffused
:
then
doe
they
mourne
(
forsooth
)
though
ceremonially
,
not
for
that
they
are
dead
,
but
because
they
died
no
sooner
.
The
premisses
pre-considered
;
what
can
be
expected
then
,
but
an
imminent
desolation
,
or
conclusiue
dissolution
of
this
foolish
doting
world
,
since
vniuersally
it
is
but
an
indigested
Chaos
of
outragious
enormities
?
Religion
is
made
the
Canopy
to
shrowd
the
putrifaction
of
Hypocrisie
,
and
it
's
growne
the
highest
Maxime
in
mundane
policies
,
to
seeme
(
not
be
)
religious
:
equall-handed
Iustice
is
rush'd
aside
,
by
stubborne
authoritie
,
and
all
Morall
vertues
imbraced
in
their
contraries
.
How
long
then
(
most
milde
&
more
merciful
God
)
wilt
thou
forget
to
bee
iust
!
Oh
how
long
wilt
thou
shut
vp
the
vessels
of
thy
wrath
,
and
protract
reuenge
?
Art
thou
not
the
powerful
God
of
Iustice
?
how
canst
thou
then
be
any
thing
but
thy selfe
?
What
infinities
of
sinnes
are
shot
vp
to
Heauen
against
thee
?
Yet
still
and
still
thou
wooest
vs
with
the
heauenly
breath
of
thy
holy
Gospell
,
vncouering
those
inexpressible
wounds
thou
receiuedst
for
our
Redemption
from
sinne
,
and
Satan
,
that
we
might
with
pittifull
commiseration
behold
them
,
and
vncessantly
crying
out
vnto
vs
:
How
oft
(
O
my
deare
children
,
whom
I
haue
bought
with
the
price
of
my
most
precious
bloud
)
would
I
haue
gathered
you
together
,
euen
as
the
Hen
doth
her
Chickens
,
and
yet
,
nor
yet
,
you
will
not
be
collected
!
How
oft
hath
hee
thundered
and
knockt
at
the
doores
of
our
hearts
,
with
the
power
of
his
Spirit
,
to
wake
from
the
profound
Ecstasm
o
f
soule-killing
sinnes
!
yet
still
lye
we
snorting
on
the
bed
of
securitie
,
and
cannot
be
rowzed
.
How
often
,
O
how
often
hath
hee
out-stretched
his
all-sauing
hand
,
to
heaue
and
helpe
vs
out
of
the
slimie
mudde
of
our
impieties
!
yet
still
lye
we
groueling
and
ouer-whelmed
in
the
insensible
Lethargy
of
abominable
transgressions
.
How
many
warning-pieces
hath
he
discharged
vpon
vs
!
How
oft
hath
hee
displayed
his
milke-white
Ensignes
of
peace
vnto
vs
!
What
deuouring
plagues
;
what
fires
;
what
inundations
,
what
vnseasonable
Seasons
,
what
prodigeous
Births
,
what
vnnaturall
Meteors
,
what
malevolent
Coniunctions
,
what
ominous
apparitions
,
what
bloudy
assassinations
of
mighty
Kings
:
what
Rapes
,
what
Murthers
,
what
fraudulencies
betwixt
brother
and
brother
?
what
horrible
conspiracies
by
sonnes
against
fathers
?
All
these
sent
as
Heralds
against
vs
,
yet
will
wee
not
come
and
bee
reconciled
.
These
prodigious
precursions
,
or
precursiue
prodigies
,
should
deterre
each
humane
creature
from
spurning
against
his
Creator
.
These
pre-monitions
should
instruct
vs
,
that
Gods
dreadfull
vengeance
waits
at
our
dores
&
like
a
staru'd
Tiger
gapes
for
our
destruction
:
And
notwithstanding
he
doe
for
a
while
fore-slowe
to
let
fall
his
flaming
rod
of
fierie
indignation
vpon
vs
,
yet
is
the
Axe
already
laid
to
the
roote
of
the
tree
,
and
God
must
and
will
assuredly
come
to
iudgement
;
seeing
that
now
not
any
of
those
ancient
predictions
mystically
pointed
out
vnto
vs
,
in
the
soule-sauing
Writ
by
the
holy
Prophets
,
remaine
vnfinished
,
but
onely
the
finall
destruction
of
that
Romish
seuen-headed
Monster
,
together
with
the
recollection
of
the
vagabond
Iewes
,
into
the
sheepe-fold
of
Iesus
Christ
.
Doth
not
an
vncouth
terrour
seize
vpon
a
man
,
when
in
the
depth
or
noone
of
night
this
sudden
and
vnthought
of
out-cry
of
fire
,
fire
,
shall
fill
his
affrighted
eares
,
and
chase
him
out
of
his
soft
and
quiet
slumbers
;
whereat
skipping
from
his
easefull
bed
,
and
distractedly
gazing
through
the
Casement
,
shall
behold
his
owne
house
o're-spred
with
a
bright-burning
flame
,
and
himselfe
together
with
his
Wife
and
Children
,
seruants
goods
and
all
,
most
lyable
to
the
deuouring
rapacitie
of
imminent
danger
?
O
consider
then
,
wicked
man
,
how
thy
soule
will
be
beleaguered
with
anguish
and
horrour
,
when
in
that
last
and
terrible
Day
thou
shalt
behold
with
thy
mortall
eyes
,
the
Cataracts
of
heauen
,
vnsluced
,
and
hushing
showres
of
sulphurious
fires
disperse
themselues
through
all
the
corners
of
the
earth
and
aire
:
the
whole
Vniuerse
o're-canoped
with
a
remorselesse
flame
;
when
thou
shalt
see
the
great
and
glorious
Iudge
appeare
triumphantly
in
the
skies
,
whilest
mighty-winged
clouds
of
deuouring
flames
fly
before
him
,
as
Vshers
to
his
powerfull
and
terrible
Maiestie
,
attended
with
countlesse
multitudes
of
beautious
Angels
,
golden
winged
Cherubims
,
and
Seraphims
,
sounding
their
Trumpets
,
whose
clamorous
tongues
shall
affright
the
empty
ayre
,
and
cal
&
awake
the
drowzy
dead
from
their
darke
and
duskie
cabins
,
when
thou
shalt
see
the
dissipated
bones
of
all
mortals
since
the
Creation
(
concatenate
and
knit
in
their
proper
and
peculiar
form
)
amazedly
start
vp
,
&
in
numberles
troupes
flocke
together
,
all
turning
vp
their
wondring
eyes
,
to
gaze
vpon
their
high
and
mighty
Creator
.
Then
,
O
then
will
thy
conscience
recommemorate
afresh
thy
past
committed
sinnes
,
and
with
the
corroding
sting
of
guilt
,
will
stab
thorow
thy
perplexed
soule
.
Then
,
O
then
,
will
it
be
too
late
to
wish
the
Mountaines
to
fall
vpon
thee
;
for
they
themselues
for
feare
would
shrinke
into
their
Center
.
Alas
,
it
cannot
then
bee
auaileable
to
woo
the
waters
to
swallow
thee
,
for
they
would
bee
glad
to
disclaime
their
liquid
substance
,
and
be
reduced
to
a
nullity
.
What
will
it
boote
thee
then
to
intreat
the
earth
to
entombe
thee
in
her
dankish
wombe
,
when
shee
her selfe
will
struggle
to
remoue
from
her
locall
residence
,
and
to
fly
from
the
presence
of
the
great
Iudge
?
The
aire
cannot
muffle
thee
in
her
foggy
vastitie
:
for
that
wil
be
cleerely
refin'd
:
in
her
will
be
celestiall
flames
,
before
contaminated
with
humane
pollution
.
In
fine
,
how
will
thy
soule
tremblingly
howle
out
,
and
breake
forth
into
bitter
exclamations
,
when
thou
shalt
heare
that
definitiue
,
or
rather
infinitiue
sentence
denounced
against
thee
,
I
know
thee
not
,
Depart
and
goe
into
euerlasting
torment
,
whilest
Legions
of
diuels
,
with
horrid
vociferations
muster
about
thee
,
like
croking
Rauens
about
some
dead
carkasse
waiting
to
carry
thee
?
O
thou
Vsurer
,
and
thou
that
grindest
the
faces
of
the
poore
,
thy
gold
cannot
ransome
thee
.
Then
,
thou
mighty
man
that
rackest
the
Widdow
,
and
circumuentest
the
Orphane
of
his
successiue
right
,
thy
honour
cannot
priuiledge
thee
:
then
,
thou
murtherer
,
adulterer
,
and
blasphemer
,
thy
colourable
excuses
will
not
purge
thee
.
Then
,
O
thou
vncharitable
Churle
,
who
neuer
knewest
,
that
a
rich
man
treasures
vp
no
more
of
his
riches
,
then
that
he
contributes
in
Almes
.
Thou
that
neuer
imbracedst
the
counsell
of
that
reuerend
Father
,
who
cryes
,
Feede
him
that
dies
for
hunger
.
Whosoeuer
thou
art
that
canst
preserue
,
and
wilt
not
,
thou
standest
guilty
of
famishing
:
then
I
say
,
in
that
day
shalt
thou
pine
in
perdition
.
Then
,
O
thou
luxurious
Epicure
,
that
through
the
fiue
senses
,
which
are
the
Cinque-Ports
,
or
rather
sinner-ports
of
thy
soule
,
gulpest
downe
delightfull
sinne
like
water
,
they
will
bee
to
thee
like
the
Angels
bookes
,
sweet
in
thy
mouth
,
but
bitter
in
thy
bowels
.
Then
O
thou
gorbellied
Mammonist
,
that
pilest
vp
&
congestest
huge
masses
of
refulgent
earth
,
purchased
by
all
vnconscionable
courses
,
yet
carriest
nothing
with
thee
but
a
Coffin
and
a
winding
sheete
!
Thy
faire
pretences
will
be
like
Caracters
drawne
vpon
the
Sands
,
or
Arrowes
shot
vp
to
Heauen-ward
,
they
cannot
release
thee
from
Satans
inexpiable
seruitude
.
Then
O
thou
Canker-worme
of
Common-wealthes
;
thou
Monster
of
Man
;
thou
that
puttest
out
the
eye
of
Iustice
with
Bribes
,
or
so
closely
shutst
it
,
that
the
clamorous
cry
of
the
poore
mans
case
cannot
open
it
.
Thou
that
makest
the
Law
a
nose
of
Waxe
,
to
turne
and
fashion
it
to
thine
owne
priuate
end
,
to
the
vtter
disgrace
of
conscionable
Iustice
,
and
to
the
lamentable
subuersion
of
many
an
honest
and
vpright
cause
:
thy
quirkes
,
dilatory
demurres
,
conueyances
and
conniuences
cannot
acquit
thee
,
but
thou
shalt
be
remoued
with
a
Writ
,
into
the
lowest
and
darkest
dungeon
of
damnation
.
No
,
no
,
the
Lord
of
heauen
and
earth
(
who
is
good
in
infinitenesse
,
and
infinite
in
goodnesse
,
)
will
winnow
,
garble
and
fanne
his
corne
,
the
choyce
wheate
he
will
treasure
vp
in
the
garners
of
eternall
felicitie
;
but
the
Chaffe
and
Darnell
must
bee
burnt
with
vnquenchable
fire
.
There
must
you
languish
in
torments
vnrelaxable
;
there
must
you
fry
and
freeze
in
one
selfe-furnace
;
there
must
you
liue
in
implacable
and
tenebrous
fire
,
which
,
as
Austin
defines
,
shall
giue
no
light
to
comfort
you
.
Then
will
you
wish
(
though
then
too
late
)
that
you
had
beene
created
loathsome
Toades
,
or
abhorred
Serpents
,
that
your
miseries
might
haue
clozed
vp
with
your
liues
:
but
you
must
bee
dying
perpetually
,
yet
neuer
dye
,
and
which
enuirons
mee
with
a
trembling
(
terrour
)
when
you
haue
languish't
in
vnexpressible
agonies
,
tortures
,
gnashings
,
and
horrid
howlings
ten
thousand
millions
of
yeeres
;
yet
shall
you
bee
as
farre
from
the
end
of
your
torments
,
as
you
were
at
the
beginning
.
A
confused
modell
,
and
misty
figure
of
hell
haue
wee
conglomerate
in
our
fancy
,
drowzily
dreaming
,
that
it
is
a
place
vnder
earth
vncessantly
(
Aetna-like
)
vomiting
sulphurious
flames
:
but
we
neuer
pursue
the
meditation
thereof
so
close
,
as
to
consider
what
a
thing
it
is
to
liue
there
eternally
.
For
this
adiunct
,
Eternall
,
intimates
such
infinitenesse
,
as
neither
thought
can
attract
,
or
supposition
apprehend
.
And
further
,
to
amplifie
it
with
the
words
of
a
worthy
Writer
,
though
all
the
men
that
euer
haue
or
shall
be
created
,
were
,
Briareus-like
,
hundred-handed
,
and
should
all
at
once
take
pens
in
their
hundred
hands
,
and
should
doe
nothing
else
in
ten
hundred
thousand
millions
of
yeeres
,
but
summe
vp
in
figures
as
many
hundred
thousand
millions
as
they
could
,
yet
neuer
could
they
reduce
to
a
Totall
,
or
confine
within
number
this
Trisillable
word
,
Eternall
.
Can
any
Christian
then
(
vpon
due
consideration
hereof
)
forbeare
to
prostrate
himselfe
with
flexible
humility
before
the
glorious
Throne
of
Grace
,
&
there
,
with
flouds
of
vnfaigned
teares
,
repentantly
abiure
and
disclaine
the
allurements
of
carnall
corruption
,
the
painted
pleasures
of
the
world
,
and
the
bitter
sweetnesse
of
sinne
,
which
is
the
death's
wound
of
his
soule
?
for
a
Weapon
wounds
the
body
,
and
sinne
the
soule
:
For
what
profits
it
a
man
to
winne
the
whole
world
,
and
lose
his
owne
soule
?
The
soundest
Method
therefore
,
to
preuent
our
exclusion
from
the
Throane
of
Gods
mercy
,
is
,
to
imagine
,
we
still
see
him
present
in
his
Iustice
,
whatsoeuer
,
or
when
soeuer
we
attempt
any
blacke
designe
:
Let
vs
but
adumbragiously
fancy
(
as
one
hath
it
)
the
Firmament
to
bee
his
Face
;
the
all-seeing
Sunne
,
his
right
Eye
;
the
Moone
,
his
left
;
the
Winds
,
the
breath
of
his
Nostrils
;
the
Lightening
and
Tempests
,
the
troubled
action
of
his
Ire
;
the
Frost
and
Snow
,
his
Frownes
;
that
the
Heauen
is
his
Throne
;
the
Earth
his
Footstoole
:
that
he
is
all
in
all
things
;
that
his
omnipotence
fils
all
the
vacuities
of
Heauen
,
Earth
,
and
Sea
;
that
by
his
power
,
hee
can
vngirdle
and
let
loose
the
Seas
impetuous
waues
,
to
o'rewhelme
&
bury
this
lower
vniuerse
in
their
vast
wombs
,
in
a
moment
that
hee
can
let
drop
the
blue
Canopy
(
which
hath
nothing
aboue
it
,
whereto
it
is
perpendicularly
knit
)
or
hurle
thunder-bolts
thorow
the
tumorous
cloudes
,
to
pash
vs
precipitate
through
the
center
,
into
the
lowest
dungeon
of
Hell
.
These
allusiue
cogitations
of
Gods
omnipotent
Maiestie
,
will
curbe
in
and
snaffle
vs
from
rushing
into
damnable
actions
,
if
we
vnremoueably
seat
them
in
our
memories
.
Make
then
a
couenant
with
thine
eyes
and
heart
,
O
man
,
lest
they
dote
on
earthly
grasse
,
surfeit
on
the
sugared
Pils
of
poysonous
vanities
,
and
so
insensibly
hurle
downe
thy
better
part
into
the
gulph
of
irreuocable
damnation
,
if
not
for
thy selfe
sake
,
yet
iniure
not
thy
Creatour
,
who
halh
drawne
thee
by
his
owne
patterne
,
moulded
thee
in
his
owne
forme
;
and
,
to
make
thee
eternally
happy
,
hath
infused
his
owne
essence
into
thee
;
for
thy
soule
,
by
the
Philosophers
confession
,
is
infusion
celestiall
,
no
naturall
traduction
,
and
in
that
respect
another
calls
it
an
arrachment
,
or
cantell
,
pulld
from
the
celestiall
substance
which
cannot
terminate
it selfe
within
a
lumpe
of
flesh
:
Euen
as
the
beames
of
the
Sunne
,
though
they
touch
the
earth
,
and
giue
life
to
these
inferiour
creatures
,
yet
still
reside
in
the
body
of
the
Sunne
whence
they
are
darted
:
So
thy
soule
,
though
it
bee
seated
either
within
the
filme
of
the
braine
,
or
confined
in
the
center
of
the
heart
,
and
conuerseth
with
the
sences
,
yet
it
will
still
haue
beeing
whence
it
hath
its
beginning
.
Remember
then
thy
Creatour
in
the
dayes
of
thy
youth
,
call
vpon
him
while
it
is
called
to
day
;
for
as
the
Poet
no
lesse
sweetely
then
discreetly
sung
,
Who
knowes
ore
night
that
hee
next
morne
shall
breathe
?
Then
take
Dauids
Early
in
the
morning
,
not
the
Deuils
Stay
till
to
morrow
:
for
thou
knowest
,
God
will
bring
thee
to
Iudgement
,
yet
thou
knowest
not
when
,
nor
in
what
yeere
,
nor
in
what
moneth
of
the
yeere
,
nor
in
what
weeke
of
the
moneth
,
nor
in
what
day
of
the
weeke
,
nor
in
what
houre
of
the
day
,
nor
in
what
minute
of
that
houre
,
nor
in
what
moment
of
that
minute
;
for
hee
will
come
like
a
thiefe
in
the
night
suddenly
,
before
with
a
winke
thou
canst
locke
vp
thine
eye
,
or
in
thy
braine
create
the
nimblest
thought
▪
Canst
thou
then
hope
to
stand
iustified
in
thy
Makers
presence
,
when
thou
hast
cramd
the
deuill
with
thy
sappe
of
strength
,
and
full
gorg'd
him
with
the
purest
Acorne
Mast
of
thy
siowy
virility
,
if
at
last
thou
come
limping
on
Times
tottering
crutches
,
to
present
vnto
him
the
off
all
huskes
,
and
morosity
of
thy
doting
decrepit
age
.
What
thanke
is
it
to
pardon
our
enemies
,
when
wee
cannot
hurt
them
?
to
giue
away
our
goods
,
when
wee
can
enioy
them
no
longer
?
to
abandon
our
pleasures
,
when
wee
cannot
vse
them
?
to
forsake
sinne
,
when
it
biddes
farewell
to
vs
?
and
at
last
onely
to
surcease
to
offend
,
when
ability
of
offending
is
taken
from
vs
?
No
,
no
,
hee
will
then
paralell
thee
with
the
sluggard
,
that
neuer
would
acquire
foode
till
hee
was
first
starn'd
,
and
ranke
thee
with
the
sottish
ideot
,
that
could
not
know
a
fish
,
till
hee
was
already
stung
with
a
Scorpion
:
thy
palsie-shaken
prayers
will
bee
like
Cains
oblation
,
vnacceptable
to
the
Lord
,
and
noisome
to
his
nostrils
.
Thinkest
thou
to
expiate
Gods
Iustice
,
when
thou
hast
prodigally
swealed
out
the
blazing
lampe
of
thy
brightest
day
in
the
Deuils
chappell
,
if
at
last
thou
come
creeping
(
when
thy
breath
lies
twinkling
in
the
socket
of
thy
nostrils
)
to
set
it
vp
in
Gods
Sanctuary
,
hoping
then
and
there
to
haue
it
replenish't
with
his
all-sauing
grace
and
mercie
?
O
mocke
not
thy
soule
with
these
deluding
phantasma's
:
for
as
Alexander
seeing
one
of
his
souldiers
whetting
his
dart
when
others
of
his
fellowes
went
foorth
to
fight
,
casheer'd
him
,
saying
,
Hee
's
vnfit
to
beare
armes
,
that
hath
them
to
make
ready
when
hee
should
skirmish
:
So
will
God
send
thee
packing
(
as
hee
did
the
foolish
Virgins
)
with
this
retorsion
,
Thou
comest
disfurnish't
,
with
no
oyle
in
thy
lampe
,
and
thou
deseruest
no
mercie
,
that
neuer
desiredst
it
till
now
in
miserie
.
Gather
thy selfe
betimes
then
within
the
weapons
of
Faith
,
Hope
,
Charity
,
Repentance
,
and
Perseuerance
,
and
let
Prayer
stand
perpetuall
Sentinell
:
for
if
the
Diuell
once
get
footing
within
thee
,
he
will
hardly
bee
eiected
,
so
wily
is
he
in
peruerting
thee
,
that
thou
canst
not
bee
too
wary
in
preuenting
him
;
For
as
Iphicrates
answered
his
Generall
,
(
who
asked
him
why
hee
surrounded
his
souldiers
with
a
Wall
,
when
there
was
no
feare
of
foe-mens
approach
?
)
A
man
cannot
be
too
prouident
in
preuenting
obuious
and
occurrent
dangers
.
So
canst
thou
not
bee
too
cautelous
in
repelling
the
perillous
stratagems
of
the
Diuels
assaults
:
therefore
may
I
cloze
vp
the
precedencie
with
that
worthy
saying
of
a
more
worthy
Epigrammatist
,
No
man
needes
feare
,
that
feares
before
hee
needes
.
O
cleanse
and
purifie
thy
heart
then
by
earnest
prayer
and
powerfull
ciaculations
,
which
is
made
the
loathsome
cage
of
sinne
,
the
silent
receptacle
of
diabolicall
cogitations
,
and
the
dismall
dungeon
of
malignant
motions
,
that
the
Spirit
of
grace
may
there
finde
harbour
,
and
take
delight
to
bee
thy
inmate
.
Remember
,
O
thou
mighty
man
,
that
swelling
titles
of
Honour
are
but
the
leaues
of
vanity
.
Remember
,
O
thou
rich
man
,
that
terrene
and
transitorie
pleasures
are
like
the
Bee
,
though
they
yeeld
honey
,
yet
carry
they
a
sting
,
and
are
but
as
the
Lillies
of
the
earth
,
more
delectable
in
show
,
then
durable
in
continuance
.
Remember
,
O
thou
extortioner
,
thou
cruell
man
,
thou
Murtherer
,
thou
Adulterer
,
thou
deceitfull
man
;
thou
vnconscionably
deteinest
the
hirelings
wages
;
and
thou
that
actest
inexorable
villanies
secretly
in
the
darke
,
imprisoned
from
the
worlds
dull
eye
,
that
if
the
Eagle
can
discerne
,
as
one
hath
it
,
the
Hare
vnder
the
Bush
,
and
the
Fish
vnder
the
Waues
,
much
more
can
God
,
who
is
the
Creator
of
creatures
,
penetrate
the
closet
of
thy
heart
,
with
his
all-seeing
eye
,
and
discerne
thy
clandestine
sinful
practices
before
,
and
in
their
very
conception
,
and
for
them
hee
will
bring
thee
to
iudgement
.
Remember
,
O
thou
that
swayest
the
Sword
of
Iustice
,
to
strike
or
saue
,
as
thou
art
suggested
by
thine
owne
ends
,
profits
,
or
affections
,
that
though
thy
couert
proiects
be
not
envulgard
to
the
worlds
generall
eye
;
yet
a
day
of
Reuelation
will
come
,
when
all
thy
partiall
and
priuate
practices
shall
bee
stript
,
euiscerate
,
and
laid
as
apparantly
open
,
as
the
sheepe
vpon
the
Gambrell
.
But
now
with
reuerence
and
Doue-like
humilitie
to
you
(
which
are
Iehouahs
Embassadors
)
the
light
of
the
world
,
and
salt
of
the
earth
,
doe
I
addresse
my
speech
,
mustered
vp
in
the
meanest
and
mildest
ranke
of
words
.
O
,
I
could
wish
that
all
of
you
stood
without
the
list
of
that
reprehension
of
Vices
,
which
once
an
ancient
and
honest
Historian
twitted
the
Monkes
of
Canterbury
with
.
Some
rise
early
in
the
morning
,
to
see
their
hounds
pursue
the
prey
,
but
not
to
pray
:
some
delight
to
catch
Fowles
,
but
not
Soules
;
some
take
pleasure
to
cast
a
Dye
well
,
but
not
cast
to
die
well
.
Doth
the
wilde
▪
Asse
bray
,
saith
Iob
,
when
he
hath
grasse
;
or
loweth
the
Oxe
when
he
hath
fodder
?
But
I
dare
not
say
,
No
more
doe
some
of
you
preach
,
when
you
haue
once
got
a
Benefice
.
If
there
bee
any
that
entertaine
Religion
with
their
Lord
,
preach
the
praise
of
their
Patrons
;
preaching
in
the
Pulpit
,
chatter
in
their
Chambers
,
suiting
their
Linsie
Wolsey
professions
▪
with
their
seuerall
ends
:
O
let
those
remember
how
God
met
with
a
mischiefe
that
notorious
Nestorius
,
who
for
his
temporizing
inconstancie
,
set
wormes
a
worke
to
eate
out
his
tongue
.
O
let
them
looke
into
the
Story
of
one
Hecebolus
,
a
Sophister
,
who
accommodating
his
profession
to
the
fashions
of
the
Emperours
,
fained
himselfe
in
the
dayes
of
Constantius
,
to
be
a
most
feruent
Christian
.
But
when
Iulian
the
Apostata
was
Ruler
,
presently
he
turned
Paynim
,
and
in
his
Orations
proclaimed
Iulian
a
god
.
And
when
Iulian
was
dead
in
Iouinians
time
,
hee
would
haue
turned
backe
to
Christianitie
.
Wherevpon
for
his
mutabilitie
and
lightnesse
in
his
Religion
,
his
horrid
conscience
draue
him
to
the
Church
gates
,
and
there
hurling
himselfe
flat
,
cryed
and
bellowed
with
a
lowd
voice
,
Trample
me
vnder
your
feete
vnsauoury
salt
that
I
am
;
entirely
wishing
out
of
his
soules
agony
,
that
he
had
neuer
seene
the
light
;
or
at
his
conception
,
his
tongue
had
been
riuetted
to
the
roofe
of
his
mouth
.
Lastly
and
indefinitely
to
all
;
Remember
so
to
liue
,
as
you
still
may
bee
prepared
for
the
stroke
of
Death
:
then
will
you
desire
to
be
dissolued
,
and
to
sleep
in
peace
reclusiuely
from
the
turbulent
sea
of
earthy
carefull
miseries
,
discerning
cleerely
by
the
spirituall
eye
of
vnderstanding
,
that
mans
life
is
a
wayfare
,
because
it
is
short
and
a
warfare
,
for
that
it
is
sharpe
,
and
that
worldly
delights
are
deceitfull
,
and
of
no
durabilitie
;
like
the
water-Serpent
,
no
sooner
bred
,
but
dead
.
Collecting
likewise
out
of
humane
experience
,
that
the
best
life
is
but
a
weary
and
tedious
pilgrimage
,
&
feeles
no
touch
of
true
solace
,
till
at
the
euening
of
his
dayes
he
lodge
at
the
Inne
of
death
:
for
death
is
the
path
of
life
,
a
Gaole-deliuery
of
the
soule
,
a
perfect
health
,
the
hauen
of
heauen
,
the
finall
victory
of
terrestriall
troubles
,
an
eternall
sleepe
,
a
dissolution
of
the
body
,
a
terrour
to
the
rich
,
a
desire
of
the
poore
,
a
pilgrimage
vncertaine
,
a
thiefe
of
men
,
a
shadow
of
life
,
a
rest
from
trauell
,
an
Epilogue
to
vaine
delight
,
a
consumption
of
idle
desires
,
a
scourge
for
euill
,
a
guerdon
for
good
:
it
dis-burdens
vs
of
all
care
,
vnmanacles
and
frees
vs
from
vexation
,
solicitude
and
sorrow
.
Of
all
those
numberlesse
numbers
that
are
dead
,
neuer
any
one
returned
to
complaine
of
death
,
but
of
those
few
that
liue
,
most
complaine
of
life
.
On
earth
euery
man
grumbles
at
his
best
estate
.
The
very
elements
,
whereby
our
subsistence
or
being
,
as
the
secondarie
cause
,
is
preserued
,
conspire
against
vs
:
the
fire
burnes
vs
;
the
water
drownes
vs
:
the
earth
annoyes
vs
;
and
the
aire
infects
vs
;
our
dayes
are
laborious
,
our
nights
comfortlesse
;
the
heat
scorcheth
vs
;
the
cold
benummes
vs
;
health
swels
vs
with
pride
;
sicknesse
empaleth
our
beauties
;
friends
turne
Swallowes
;
they
will
sing
with
vs
in
the
Summer
of
prosperitie
,
but
in
the
winter
of
tryall
,
they
will
take
wings
and
be
gone
.
Enemies
brand
our
reputations
with
deprauing
imputations
;
and
the
enuious
man
hurleth
abroad
his
gins
to
ensnare
our
liues
:
who
would
then
desire
to
liue
,
where
there
is
nothing
that
begets
content
?
for
this
world
is
a
Theater
of
vanities
,
a
Chaos
of
confusions
,
an
Embassador
of
mischiefe
,
a
Tyrant
to
vertue
,
a
breaker
of
Peace
,
a
Fauorite
of
Warre
,
a
friend
of
Vices
,
a
coyner
of
Lies
,
an
Anuile
of
Nouelties
,
a
table
of
Epicurisme
,
a
furnace
of
Lust
,
a
pit-fall
to
the
rich
,
a
burthen
to
the
poore
,
a
Cell
of
Pilgrims
,
a
den
of
Theeues
,
a
calumniator
of
the
good
,
a
renowner
of
the
wicked
,
a
cunning
Impostor
,
and
a
deceiuer
of
all
.
How
is
the
progresse
of
poore
proud
mans
life
violently
agitated
(
like
the
riuer
Euripus
)
with
contrarious
motions
?
The
pleasure
of
the
wyly
world
thus
inueigles
him
;
Come
vnto
mee
,
and
I
will
drowne
thee
in
delight
.
The
corruption
of
the
luxurious
flesh
thus
ingles
him
;
Come
vnto
me
,
and
I
will
infect
thee
;
the
Diuell
he
whispers
this
in
his
eare
,
Come
vnto
mee
,
and
I
will
cheate
and
deceiue
thee
:
But
our
sweet
and
sacred
Sauiour
Iesus
Christ
,
with
perswasiue
inducements
thus
intreates
him
;
Come
vnto
me
(
I
pray
thee
)
that
art
heauy
laden
,
and
I
will
receiue
and
exonerate
thee
,
and
with
the
mighty
arme
of
my
mercy
and
compassion
lift
off
that
vnsupportable
loade
,
which
crusheth
downe
to
Hell
thy
groaning
soule
.
Study
then
to
liue
as
dead
to
the
world
,
that
thou
maist
liue
with
God
:
for
the
iust
man
is
said
,
neuer
to
liue
till
after
death
.
Endeuor
thy selfe
to
march
faire
through
this
worlds
Labyrinth
,
not
to
squander
and
looke
asquint
vpon
the
Circean
allurements
thereof
.
But
without
turning
either
to
the
right
or
left
hand
,
runne
straight
on
in
that
Eclipticke
line
,
which
will
conduct
thee
to
that
celestiall
Ierusalem
,
where
(
with
that
immaculate
Lambe
Iesus
Christ
)
thou
shalt
enioy
pleasure
without
pain
;
wealth
,
without
want
;
rest
,
without
labour
;
ioy
without
griefe
;
and
immensiue
felicitie
without
end
.
Moreouer
the
contempt
of
the
world
,
born
of
the
loue
of
God
,
shall
at
length
grow
to
hatred
of
the
world
,
when
that
besides
the
vanity
and
misery
of
it
,
he
shall
contemplate
the
mischiefe
and
enmitie
against
the
Almighty
which
there
raigneth
;
when
besides
that
vanity
which
some
doe
lay
open
to
the
view
of
all
,
hee
will
represent
to
himselfe
the
iniquities
which
are
closely
kept
,
and
the
Treasons
,
Adulteries
,
Murthers
,
which
are
priuately
and
lurkingly
committed
,
when
he
shall
consider
the
vials
of
Gods
wrath
and
displeasure
powred
generally
vpon
all
man-kinde
:
for
in
the
consideration
of
this
world
,
it
behooueth
vs
to
leaue
out
no
part
of
it
,
but
to
obserue
all
manner
of
nations
and
people
:
amongst
which
there
are
many
Pagans
,
which
not
onely
by
a
consequent
,
but
also
by
expresse
profession
,
adore
the
deuill
.
The
East
Indies
dedicate
their
temples
to
him
,
and
reuerence
him
with
all
respect
.
The
West
Indies
are
afflicted
and
tormented
ordinarily
with
euill
spirits
.
In
most
part
of
the
North
,
lurking
deceits
,
and
assuming
strange
shapes
,
are
very
common
among
the
Inhabitants
.
Sorcery
is
there
an
ordinary
profession
,
and
the
Diuell
reigneth
without
contradiction
.
In
that
Countrey
which
did
once
flourish
,
where
the
Apostles
had
planted
so
happily
the
holy
Ghost
,
the
Churches
are
now
changed
into
Mosques
,
and
Temples
of
Idolatry
.
In
the
West
,
the
head
of
the
visible
Church
is
become
an
earthly
Monarch
,
and
banks
are
erected
in
those
places
,
where
,
in
times
past
was
the
House
of
God
.
Amongst
those
erroneous
and
enuious
people
are
scattered
the
Iewes
,
which
blasphemed
against
Iesus
Christ
,
and
hauing
persecuted
him
in
his
life
,
doe
iniuriously
wrong
him
after
his
death
.
The
Countrey
from
whence
came
Decrees
and
Orders
for
Religion
,
hath
in
it
publike
Brothel-houses
,
and
Sodomy
is
there
an
vsuall
custome
.
Here
it
is
also
,
where
doubts
in
Religion
that
concerne
a
mans
faith
,
are
decided
in
the
middest
of
corruption
.
There
onely
remaineth
in
the
world
a
handfull
of
people
which
serue
Iesus
Christ
in
truth
and
verity
;
and
they
can
scarce
receiue
breath
in
this
ayre
which
is
so
contrary
to
them
;
beeing
here
as
fishes
without
water
;
as
the
remainders
of
great
Massacres
;
as
pieces
of
boords
scattered
after
the
breaking
of
a
great
vessell
;
and
yet
neuerthelesse
,
among
these
few
that
are
substracted
out
of
the
rest
of
the
world
,
corruption
doth
increase
as
a
Canker
or
Vlcer
,
Quarrels
,
Vanity
,
Superfluity
in
Apparell
,
Auarice
,
Ambition
;
Sumptuousnesse
,
which
spendeth
foolishly
,
doth
infect
the
one
part
of
this
small
troupe
;
for
GOD
is
ill
serued
in
priuate
families
,
their
almes
are
cold
,
they
pray
seldome
,
and
reade
neuer
:
IN
briefe
,
a
contagion
of
vices
by
conuersing
with
our
aduersaries
,
doth
infect
vs
,
which
is
the
first
steppe
to
superstition
;
for
errour
creeps
in
to
vs
by
vice
,
and
spirituall
fornication
by
corporall
.
If
therefore
where
God
is
most
purely
knowne
,
hee
bee
there
ill
serued
,
how
much
more
amongst
the
rest
of
the
world
?
If
vices
doe
harbour
in
the
Sanctuary
,
how
much
more
in
the
body
of
the
church
and
habitation
of
the
wicked
?
Therefore
Christ
doth
rightly
call
Satan
,
The
prince
of
the
world
;
and
Peter
doth
iustly
write
in
the
second
of
the
Acts
,
Saue
your selues
from
that
peruerse
generation
,
for
Satan
lieth
in
ambush
for
vs
all
.
This
age
is
infectious
,
vices
are
like
vnto
glue
,
temptations
strong
,
our
enemies
mighty
,
our selues
feeble
and
ignorant
,
and
the
way
of
saluation
narrow
and
full
of
thornes
;
And
few
there
bee
(
saith
Christ
)
that
finde
it
:
And
those
which
finde
it
,
doe
not
alwayes
keepe
it
;
but
many
hauing
knowne
the
trueth
,
doe
leaue
it
,
and
returne
to
their
vomit
.
Let
vs
know
then
a
place
so
dangerous
,
that
wee
may
passe
by
as
strangers
,
which
doe
not
onely
passe
,
but
also
runne
from
it
,
flying
from
the
world
,
to
come
vnto
God
,
for
wee
shall
neuer
haue
repose
,
vnlesse
wee
rest
our selues
vpon
him
.
The
heauen
moueth
alwayes
,
and
yet
it
is
the
place
of
our
rest
.
On
the
contrary
,
the
earth
resteth
alwayes
,
and
yet
it
is
the
place
of
our
motion
.
The
Quadrants
and
Horologies
imitate
the
motion
of
heauen
;
but
the
faith
of
the
beleeuers
doth
imitate
the
Rest
which
is
aboue
all
.
Vlysses
did
more
esteeme
the
smoake
of
his
owne
house
,
than
the
flame
of
anothers
;
How
much
more
then
would
he
esteeme
the
flame
of
his
owne
chimney
,
than
the
smoake
of
anothers
?
Wee
are
heere
strangers
,
this
is
not
our
house
:
our
habitation
is
in
heauen
.
Let
vs
compare
the
smoake
of
this
strange
house
,
and
the
darkenesse
of
the
earth
,
with
the
beauty
and
splendor
of
our
owne
dwelling
,
which
is
the
in
Kingdome
of
heauen
:
Here
is
the
reigne
of
Satan
,
there
the
Kingdome
of
God
;
here
is
a
valley
of
teares
,
there
the
height
of
mirth
;
here
wee
sowe
in
sorrow
,
there
wee
reape
in
ioy
;
here
wee
see
the
light
of
the
Sunne
through
two
little
holes
,
which
are
called
the
eyes
;
there
wee
receiue
light
from
God
on
euery
side
,
as
if
wee
were
all
eyes
.
Therefore
,
because
God
is
all
in
all
;
to
him
be
honour
and
glory
in
this
world
,
and
in
the
world
to
come
.
Amen
.
FINIS
.