IT is strange to observe how the very Body expresseth the secret fantasies of the minde : GATE . and how well the one sympathizeth with the other . I have seene even in this one motion , the Gate , such especiall arguments of a proud heart , as if the body had beene transparent , it could not have represented him more fully . And I have wondered , how Man endued with reason , could bee so farre estranged from that wherewith he was endued ; as to strut so proudly with feet of earth , as if hee were never to returne to earth . But especially , when Youth is imployed in ushering his Mistresse , hee walkes in the street as if hee were dancing a measure . Hee verily imagines the eyes of the whole Citie are fixed on him , as the very patterne which they esteeme worthy imitation : how neerely then concerns it him to stand upon his equipage . He walkes , as if he were an upright man , but his sincerity consist onely in dimension . He feares nothing so much as some rude encounter for the Wall , Audacia pro muro bebetur . Salust . in bell . Caril . and so bee discredited in the sight of his Idoll . Now I would be glad to weane this Phantasticke from a veine of lightnesse , and habituate him to a more generous forme . First , he is to know , how that which is most native and least affective , deserves choisest acceptance . We were not borne to glory in our feet , the Bases of Mortality : but to walke as children of light , in holinesse and integritie . Safer it were for us , to observe and make use of that , which the Swan is reported to use , when at any time shee glories in the whitenesse of her colour , to wit , shee reflects her eye upon her blacke feet , which qualifies her proud spirit : making her so much the more dejected , as joying before in her owne beautie , she was erected . Excellently was that Embleme of humane frailty shadowed in the image of Agathocles the Syracusan tyrant , who commanded his Statue to be composed after this fort : the Head to bee of gold , signifying purenesse ; the armes of ivory , intimating smoothnesse ; the body of brasse , implying strongnesse ; but the feet of earth , importing weakenesse . Be the Head-peece never so pure ; bee it a Diadem of gold we weare , it cannot promise to us perpetuitie ; we stand on earthen feet , how may wee then stand long , Dan. 4.27 . relying on such weake supporters ? Though Nebuchadnezzar strut never so proudly upon the turrets of his princely Palace , 29. saying , Is not this great Babel which I have builded ? 30. he knowes not how soone he shall be deprived of his glory , and be enforced to feed with the Beasts of the field , being as one estranged from his former magnificence . Quid ergo ad nos consolatio mundi ? Seneca . Let us not glory in mundane vanity , nor repose too much confidence in these feet of frailty . Si pes in terris , mens sit in coelis ; Though our foot be on earth , let our minde bee in heaven : knowing , that ( as Saint Augustine saith ) Three cubites of earth doe expect us ; and how little or much so ere we possesse , this is all that shall be left us .

LOOKE . THe next Subject wee are to treat of in this Display of youthfull vanity , is his Looke : wherein hee is ever noted to shew a kinde of contempt , expressing by his eye , what he conceives in his heart . Here is oculatus testis , an eye-witnesse to tax him of his pride ; disdaining to fix his eye upon the lower shrubs , as if a reflex on them should derogate from his glory . They that looked upon Sylla's ring , could not choose but take notice both of Sylla's seale and the treason of Iugurth ; Plutarch . in vit. Syll. so hee , that should but eye a proud Looke , could not choose but collect from what heart so disdainfull a Looke proceeded . I have ever observed , the most generous to bee least affective in this kinde : for it is , and hath beene ever an inherent propriety in them , to expresse a generous affability as well in Looke as Speech . The eyes ( saith a good Father ) are members of the flesh , August . but windowes of the minde ; which , Eagle-like , should be ever erected to the beames of righteousnesse , and not depressed by any unworthy object of externall basenesse . The onely Sight of God is the true food and refection of our minds : Gregor. wee looke to be satisfied , but satisfaction wee cannot finde in any outward object ; much lesse in contempt of our poore brother , who many times exceeds us more in worth , than we him in birth . But tell me Young Gallant , what it is that moveth thee to this contempt of others ? Is it thy descent ? alas , that is none of thine ; thou derivest that glory from thine Ancestors , whose honour by thy ignoble life , dieth . Yea , recall to minde how many glorious Houses now lye buried in the grave of oblivion , by the vicious course of irregular Successours : and againe , how many Houses , whose Names formerly were not so much as knowne , either raised from others ruine , or advanced by industrious merit , usurpe their glory . Is it thy Riches ? Indeed , if the Philosophers Axiom be true ; Riches is a signe of eternall glory , there were some reason to glory in them : but wee shall finde this glory meerely imaginary , yea a great darkener and blemisher of the internal glory & beauty of the mind . For as the Moone doth never eclypse , but when she is at the Full : so the Minde is never so much obscured , as it is with the superfluitie of Riches . And againe , as the Moone is farthest off from the Sunne which giveth it light , when it is at the Full ; so a Man , when he is the fullest of Riches , is farthest off from that equity and justice , which ought to give him light in all his proceedings . And therefore , he might doe well herein to imitate the Fly , which putteth not her feet in the great masse of honey , but onely taketh and tasteth with her tongue so much thereof as serveth her turne , and no more , lest by doing otherwise , she might remaine taken and drowned therein , Yea , if we should but reflect and take a view of certaine Ethnicks , whose admirable contempt of Riches eternized them , wee should observe what inimitable continencie was in them , and what an Hydropticke thirst of avarice remaineth as yet unquenched in us . And though wee must live according to Lawes , and not to Examples , yet Cicero held that nought could be taught without example ; wherefore , to enforce this argument further , wee will here produce certaine Heathens , who contemned Riches so much , as being offered , yea obtruded , they would not accept them . Anacharses refused the treasure sent him by Croesus : Anacreontes refused the treasure sent him by Polycrates : and Albionus refused the treasure sent him by Antigonus . The like moderation wee read in Fabius Maximus , Crates , Mimus , and most of the Greeke Philosophers . This indifferencie towards Fortune , De tran● . an . is excellently described by the sententious Seneca concluding , Nihil eripit fortuna , nisi quod ipsa dedit . To insist on more examples , were to enlarge this branch too much ; we will therefore shut them all up with that divine observation of the wise Simonides ; who being asked once , whether Vertue or Riches were of more reputation , made answer , That the vertuous did more frequent the doores of the rich , Quo ●ltior in diviti●s , eo copiofier in vitiis . than the rich the vertuous : Thence inferring , that Wealth was a great nourisher of Vice , and Povertie of Vertue ; or rather implying , how those who are richest are oft-times the retchlest , being ever with vices more infected , who are to highest fortunes advanced . Wherefore I assure me , thou wilt not glory in riches for they deprave the Soule , Ber. de inter . Dom. which should bee in the Body , like a Queene in her Palace . Whence then proceedeth this haughtie Looke ? perchance thou wilt object , that thou art a man of Place ; admit thou beest : is there nothing thou canst finde to expresse the eminence or greatnesse of thy Place , to which thou art called , save a disdainefull of surly Looke , a neglectfull or scornefull countenance , contemptuously throwne upon thy inferiour ? Surely , if such an one thou bee , how great so-ere thou bee , I will admire rather thy Seat than thy Selfe : and conclude with Aristippus , A stone sits upon a stone . These are they , at whom our Moderne Poet glanced pleasantly , when he saith ; They dare not smile beyond a point , for feare t' unstarch their Looke , So punctuall and formall they are , as besides a kinde of formall and phantasticke humour they are nothing : or to expresse them better ; They thinke it a derogation to honour , to converse with basenesse ; They shew a great deale of peremptory command in an awfull Looke , imagining it a sufficient argument of greatnesse , for Midas Asse to have Minos countenance : For thus hath Time drawne out their formes to me , They be and seeme not , seeme what least they be . Since then neither Descent , for that is derived from others ; nor riches , aptest to deprave us of all others ; nor place , being worst expressed in glorifying our selves and contemning others ; should move us to put on the countenance of disdaine to our inferiours : we are to conclude , that Humilitie , as it opens the gate unto glory , so Affability , a vertue right worthy every generous minde , cannot bee better planted than in the eyes , those Centinels which guard us , those two Lights which direct us , those adamantine Orbes which attract affection to us . Metam . 1. A face erected , first to man was given , T' erect his eyes unto the King of heaven . Let not then any other object entertaine it , at least , not retaine it : if they be to be imployed in any worldly object , let them be imployed in contemplating his workes who made the world ; for all other objects are but meere vanitie and affliction of spirit .

SPEECH . THe third Subject we are to discourse of , is Speech ; a propriety wherein Man is distinguished from other creatures : yea , the onely meanes to preserve societie among humane creatures .

Sine loquela non potest stare societas .

Arist.

Aug. de Magist .

Psal. 141.3 .