A
MIDNIGHTS
Trance
,
wherin
is
discoursed
of
Death
,
The
nature
of
Soules
,
and
estate
of
Immortalitie
.
THough
it
hath
beene
doubted
if
there
be
in
the
Soule
of
Man
such
imperious
and
superexcellent
Power
,
as
that
it
can
by
the
vehement
and
earnest
working
of
it
,
deliuer
knowledge
to
another
without
bodily
Organs
,
and
by
the
only
conceptions
and
Ideas
of
it
,
produce
reall
effects
,
yet
it
hath
beene
euer
and
of
all
thought
infallible
&
most
certaine
,
that
it
often
(
either
by
outward
inspiration
,
or
some
secret
motion
of
it selfe
)
is
augure
of
its
owne
Misfortunes
,
and
hath
shadowes
of
comming
Dangers
presented
vnto
it
,
a
while
before
they
fall
forth
.
Hence
so
many
strange
apparitions
and
signes
,
true
Visions
,
Dreames
most
certaine
,
vncouth
languishings
and
drowsinesse
,
of
which
to
seeke
a
reason
,
vnlesse
from
the
sparkling
of
GOD
in
the
Soule
;
or
from
the
God-like
sparkles
of
the
Soule
,
were
to
make
Reason
vnreasonable
,
in
reasoning
of
things
transcending
her
reach
.
Hauing
often
and
diuers
times
,
when
I
had
giuen
my selfe
to
rest
in
the
quiet
solitarinesse
of
the
night
,
found
my
imagination
troubled
with
a
confused
feare
,
no
,
sorrow
,
or
Horror
,
which
interrupting
sleepe
did
confound
my
senses
,
and
rouse
mee
vp
all
appalled
,
and
transported
in
a
suddaine
agony
and
sad
amazednes
;
of
such
an
vnaccustomed
perturbation
and
namelesse
woe
,
not
knowing
,
nor
being
able
to
imagine
any
apparant
cause
,
carried
away
with
the
streame
of
my
(
then
doubting
)
thoghts
,
I
was
brought
to
ascribe
it
to
that
secret
fore-knowledg
&
presageing
Power
of
the
Propheticke
Mind
;
and
to
interpret
such
an
agonie
to
bee
to
the
Spirit
,
as
a
faintnes
and
vniuersall
wearinesse
is
to
the
Body
,
a
token
of
following
sicknesse
,
or
as
the
Earth-quakes
are
to
great
Cities
,
Harbingers
of
greater
calamities
,
or
as
the
roring
of
the
Sea
is
,
in
a
stil
calme
,
a
signe
of
some
ensuing
tempest
.
Hereupon
,
not
thinking
it
strange
,
if
whatsoeuer
is
humane
should
befall
me
,
knowing
how
Prouidence
abates
griefe
,
and
discountenances
crosses
,
and
that
as
we
should
not
despaire
of
euils
,
which
may
happen
vs
,
wee
should
not
trust
too
much
in
those
goods
we
enioy
:
I
began
to
turne
ouer
in
my
remembrance
all
that
could
afflict
miserable
mortalitie
,
and
to
fore-cast
euery
thing
that
with
a
Maske
of
Horror
could
shew
it selfe
to
humane
eyes
,
till
in
the
end
,
as
by
vnities
and
points
,
Mathematicians
are
brought
to
great
numbers
and
huge
greatnesse
,
after
many
fantasticall
glances
of
mankinds
sorrow
,
and
those
incumbrances
which
follow
life
,
I
was
brought
to
thinke
,
and
with
amazement
,
on
the
last
of
humane
euils
,
or
(
as
one
said
)
the
last
of
all
dreadfull
and
terrible
things
,
Death
.
And
why
may
wee
not
beleeue
that
the
Soule
(
though
darkely
)
fore-seeing
,
and
hauing
secret
intelligence
of
that
sharpe
diuorcement
it
is
to
haue
from
the
body
,
should
be
ouergrieued
and
surprised
with
an
vncouth
and
vnaccustomed
sorrow
?
And
at
the
first
encounter
examining
their
neere
vnion
,
long
familiarity
&
friendship
,
with
the
great
chang
,
paine
,
and
vglines
,
which
is
apprehended
to
bee
in
Death
,
it
shall
not
appeare
to
be
without
reason
.
They
had
their
beeing
together
,
parts
they
are
of
one
reasonable
Creature
,
the
hurting
of
the
one
,
is
the
enfeebling
of
the
working
of
the
other
,
what
deare
contentments
doth
the
Soule
enioy
by
the
senses
?
They
are
the
gates
and
windowes
of
its
knowledge
,
the
Organs
of
its
delight
;
if
it
bee
grieuous
to
an
excellent
Lutanist
to
bee
long
without
a
Lute
,
how
much
more
must
the
want
of
so
noble
an
instrument
bee
painefull
to
the
Soule
?
And
if
two
Pilgrims
who
haue
wandred
some
few
miles
together
,
haue
a
hearts
griefe
when
they
part
,
what
must
the
sorrow
be
at
the
parting
of
two
so
louing
friends
,
as
is
the
Soule
and
Body
?
Death
is
the
violent
estranger
of
acquaintance
,
the
eternall
diuorcer
of
Marriage
,
the
rauisher
of
the
Children
from
the
Parents
,
the
stealer
of
the
Parents
,
from
the
Children
,
the
intomber
of
Fame
,
the
only
cause
of
forgetfulnes
,
by
which
men
talk
of
them
that
are
gon
away
,
as
of
so
many
shadows
,
orageworn
Stories
.
It
is
not
ouercome
by
pride
,
made
meeke
by
flattery
,
staied
by
Time
;
Wisedome
saue
this
,
can
preuent
&
help
any
thing
:
nor
Youth
,
nor
Vertue
,
nor
Beauty
,
can
make
it
relent
and
becom
partial
:
It
is
the
reasonles
breaker
off
of
al
actions
,
by
this
wee
enioy
no
more
the
sweet
pleasures
of
Earth
,
nor
behold
the
stately
Vault
of
Heauen
,
Sunne
perpetually
setteth
,
Stars
neuer
rise
vnto
vs
,
all
strength
by
this
is
tane
away
,
all
comlinesse
defaced
,
Glory
made
ignoble
,
Honour
turned
into
contempt
:
This
in
an
houre
robbeth
vs
of
,
what
with
so
great
toyle
and
care
in
many
yeeres
,
we
haue
heaped
together
:
Successions
of
Linages
by
this
are
cut
short
;
Kingdomes
want
Heires
,
and
greatest
States
remaine
Orphanes
.
By
Death
wee
are
exiled
from
this
excellent
City
of
the
World
,
it
is
no
more
a
world
vnto
vs
,
nor
wee
no
more
People
vnto
it
.
That
Death
,
naturally
is
terrible
&
to
be
abhorred
,
it
cannot
altogether
be
denied
,
it
being
a
priuation
of
Life
,
&
a
not-being
,
&
euery
priuation
being
abhorred
of
nature
,
and
euill
of
it selfe
,
yet
I
haue
often
thought
that
euen
naturally
,
to
a
minde
by
onely
nature
resolued
and
prepared
,
it
is
more
terrible
in
conceite
then
in
verity
,
and
at
the
first
glance
,
then
when
well
looked
vpon
,
&
that
rather
by
the
weaknesse
of
our
fantasie
,
then
by
what
is
in
it
;
and
that
the
solemnities
and
shews
of
it
,
did
adde
much
more
vglinesse
vnto
it
,
then
otherwise
it
hath
:
to
auerre
which
conclusion
,
when
I
had
gathered
my
astonished
thoughts
,
I
beganne
thus
with
my selfe
:
If
on
the
great
Theater
of
this
Earth
,
amongst
the
numberlesse
number
of
Men
,
this
condition
were
onely
proper
to
thee
and
thine
,
then
vndoubtedly
,
thou
hadst
reason
to
repine
at
so
vniust
and
partiall
a
Law
:
But
since
it
is
a
necessity
,
from
the
which
neuer
an
age
by-past
hath
been
exempted
,
and
vnto
which
those
which
bee
,
and
so
many
as
are
to
come
,
are
thralled
,
it
being
as
common
,
as
any
the
most
vulgar
thing
to
sence
,
why
shouldst
thou
in
thy
peeuish
opposition
take
so
vneuitable
and
familiar
a
chance
to
heart
?
This
is
the
broad
path
of
mortalitie
,
our
generall
home
;
behold
what
millions
haue
trod
it
before
thee
,
what
multitudes
shall
after
thee
,
with
them
who
at
that
same
instant
runne
.
In
so
vniuersall
a
calamity
(
if
DEATH
bee
one
)
priuate
complaints
cannot
bee
heard
,
with
so
many
royall
Palaces
,
it
is
no
losse
to
see
thy
poore
cabin
burne
.
Shall
the
Heauens
stay
their
euer-roling
wheeles
(
for
what
is
the
motion
of
them
?
but
the
motion
of
a
swift
,
and
euer-whirling
wheele
,
which
twineth
forth
,
and
againe
vproleth
our
Life
,
)
and
hold
still
time
,
to
prolong
thy
miserable
dayes
?
As
if
they
had
nothing
to
doe
els
,
but
to
serue
thy
humor
.
Thy
Death
is
a
peece
of
the
order
of
this
All
,
a
part
of
the
life
of
this
World
:
for
while
the
World
is
the
World
,
some
creatures
must
die
,
and
other
take
Life
.
Eternall
things
are
raysed
farre
aboue
this
Spheare
of
generation
&
corruption
,
where
the
first
matter
,
like
an
euer-flowing
and
ebbing
Sea
,
with
diuerse
waues
,
but
the
same
water
remayneth
;
what
is
below
in
the
vniuersality
of
the
kind
,
not
in
it selfe
doth
abide
,
Man
a
long
line
of
yeeres
hath
beene
,
this
Man
euery
hundreth
is
swept
away
.
This
Center
is
the
sole
Region
of
Death
,
the
Graue
where
euery
thing
that
taketh
life
,
must
rotte
,
a
Stage
of
change
,
only
glorious
in
the
vnconstancy
,
and
manifold
alterations
of
it
,
which
though
many
,
seeme
yet
to
abide
one
,
and
being
one
,
are
yet
euer
many
.
The
neuer
agreeing
bodies
of
the
Elementall
Brethren
turne
one
in
another
,
the
Earth
changeth
her
countenance
with
the
Seasons
,
sometimes
looking
colde
and
naked
,
other
times
,
hote
&
flowrie
;
nay
I
cannot
tell
how
,
but
euen
the
lowest
of
those
heauenly
bodies
,
that
mother
of
Moneths
,
and
Lady
of
Seas
and
moysture
,
as
if
shee
were
a
mirror
of
our
constant
inconstancy
,
by
her
too
great
nearenesse
vnto
vs
seemeth
to
participate
of
our
changes
,
neuer
seeing
vs
twice
with
that
same
face
,
whiles
appearing
dark
,
now
pale
,
sometimes
againe
shining
vnto
vs
.
Death
no
lesse
then
Life
,
doth
here
act
a
part
,
the
taking
away
of
what
is
old
,
being
the
making
of
a
way
for
what
is
yong
.
Which
since
it
is
so
,
and
must
of
necessity
bee
so
,
thou
must
learne
to
will
,
that
which
he
wills
,
whose
very
willing
giueth
beeing
to
all
that
it
wills
,
and
rather
to
reuerence
the
ord'rer
,
then
repine
at
the
order
,
for
we
be
borne
not
to
giue
lawes
to
God
,
and
his
Lieutenant
Nature
,
but
to
obey
those
Lawes
which
they
haue
giuen
.
If
thou
dost
complaine
that
there
shall
be
a
Time
,
in
the
which
thou
shalt
not
be
,
why
dost
thou
not
too
regreat
that
there
was
a
Time
,
in
the
which
thou
wast
not
?
And
so
,
that
thou
art
not
as
old
as
that
enlifening
Planet
of
Time
?
For
not
to
haue
been
a
thousand
yeere
before
this
moment
,
is
as
much
to
bee
deplored
,
as
not
to
be
a
thousand
after
it
.
We
know
what
Death
is
by
the
thought
of
that
Time
,
and
estate
of
our selues
,
which
was
ere
wee
were
.
Death
is
not
to
bee
,
that
will
be
after
vs
,
which
long
long
ere
we
were
,
was
.
Our
Nephewes
haue
that
same
reason
to
vex
themselues
,
that
they
were
not
young
men
in
our
dayes
,
which
wee
haue
to
complaine
that
we
shall
not
be
old
in
theirs
;
they
who
fore-went
vs
,
did
make
place
vnto
vs
:
and
shall
we
grieue
to
leaue
a
roome
to
them
who
come
after
vs
?
The
Violets
haue
their
time
,
though
they
liue
not
in
the
cold
Winter
,
and
the
Gilly-flowers
keepe
their
season
,
though
they
spread
not
their
leaues
in
the
Spring
.
Empires
,
States
,
Kingdomes
,
haue
by
the
doom
of
the
supreame
Prouidence
their
fatall
periods
,
great
Cities
lie
sadly
buried
in
their
dust
,
Arts
and
Sciences
haue
not
onely
their
eclipses
,
but
their
waynings
and
deaths
,
the
gastly
Wonders
of
the
World
raysed
by
the
Ambition
of
ages
are
ouerthrowne
,
the
excellent
Fabricke
of
this
Vniuerse
it selfe
shall
one
day
suffer
ruine
,
or
a
change
like
a
ruine
,
and
poore
Earth-lings
thus
to
be
handled
,
complain
.
Seek
now
the
Assyrian
,
Median
,
&
Persian
Empires
:
where
is
the
posterity
of
that
great
Macedonian
?
And
the
terror
of
this
Earth
the
Romane
Caesars
?
But
is
this
life
so
great
a
good
,
that
the
losse
of
it
shold
be
so
deare
vnto
man
?
If
it
be
?
the
meanest
creatures
of
nature
thus
be
happy
,
for
they
liue
no
less
than
he
:
if
it
be
so
?
how
is
it
esteemed
by
man
himselfe
at
so
smal
a
rate
?
that
for
so
smal
gaine
,
nay
,
a
light
word
,
he
wil
not
stand
to
lose
it
?
what
excellency
is
there
in
it
,
for
the
which
Man
should
desire
it
perpetually
,
and
repine
to
return
to
his
great
Grand-mother
Dust
?
Of
what
worth
are
the
labors
and
actions
of
it
,
that
the
interruption
and
leauing
off
of
them
should
bee
bewayled
?
Is
not
the
entring
into
life
weakenesse
?
The
continuing
sorrow
?
Man
in
the
one
is
exposed
to
all
the
iniuries
of
the
Elements
,
and
like
a
condemned
trespasser
(
as
if
it
were
a
fault
to
com
to
the
light
)
no
sooner
born
,
than
bound
and
manacled
;
in
the
other
,
like
a
Ball
hee
is
vncessantly
tossed
in
the
Tennis-court
of
this
World
:
When
hee
is
in
the
Meridian
of
his
glory
,
there
mistereth
nothing
to
destroy
him
,
but
to
let
him
fall
his
owne
hight
,
a
reflex
of
the
Sun
,
a
blast
of
wind
,
nay
,
the
glance
of
an
Eye
is
sufficient
to
kill
him
.
His
Body
is
but
a
Masse
of
discording
humors
boiled
together
by
the
conspiring
vertues
of
the
Planets
,
which
though
agreeing
for
a
time
,
yet
can
neuer
be
made
vniforme
and
brought
to
a
iust
proportion
.
To
what
sicknesse
is
it
subiect
vnto
,
beyond
those
of
the
other
creatures
?
no
part
of
it
beeing
which
is
not
particularly
infected
and
afflicted
by
some
one
,
nay
euery
part
of
it
with
many
;
so
that
not
without
reason
,
the
life
of
diuers
of
the
meanest
creatures
of
Nature
hath
beene
preferred
(
by
the
most
wise
)
to
the
naturall
life
of
Man
.
And
wee
should
rather
be
broght
in
a
maze
,
how
so
fragila
matter
should
so
long
endure
,
then
how
so
soone
decay
.
Are
the
actions
of
the
most
part
of
men
any
thing
different
from
those
laborious
exercises
of
Spiders
,
that
lye
in
ambush
to
pray
on
the
simpler
,
and
euiscerate
themselues
many
dais
for
the
weauing
of
a
fraile
web
,
which
when
finished
with
great
toyle
,
a
blast
of
wind
carrieth
away
both
the
Worke
and
the
Worker
?
Or
are
they
not
such
indeed
as
bee
the
toyes
of
little
Children
?
Or
to
hold
them
at
their
highest
rate
,
as
is
some
earnest
game
at
Chesse
?
Euery
day
we
rise
and
lye
down
,
apparell
and
disapparell
our selues
,
weary
our
Bodies
,
and
refresh
them
,
which
is
a
circle
of
idle
trauels
;
sometime
wee
are
in
a
chase
after
a
fading
beauty
;
now
wee
seeke
to
enlarge
our
bounds
,
augment
our
Treasure
,
feeding
poorely
to
purchase
what
wee
must
leaue
(
perhaps
)
to
a
foole
,
or
(
which
is
not
much
better
)
a
Prodigall
heire
:
raised
again
with
the
wind
of
Ambition
,
wee
court
that
idle
name
of
Honor
,
not
considering
that
men
in
glassy
places
are
but
tortured
ghosts
,
wandring
in
golden
Fetters
,
and
glistring
Prisons
,
hauing
feare
and
danger
their
vnseparable
executioners
,
in
the
midst
of
multitudes
rather
garded
then
regarded
.
Those
whom
inward
Melancholly
hath
made
weary
of
the
Worlds
eye
,
who
haue
withdrawne
themselues
from
the
course
of
earthly
affaires
,
by
thoughts
curious
,
sad
regrets
,
idle
contemplations
,
liue
a
life
farre
worse
then
others
,
their
wit
beeing
too
quicke
to
giue
them
a
true
taste
of
woe
,
while
those
of
a
more
shallow
and
simple
conceit
,
haue
want
of
knowledge
and
ignorance
of
themselus
,
for
a
remedy
against
euery
other
euill
.
What
Camelion
,
what
Euripe
,
what
Moone
doth
change
so
oft
as
man
?
Hee
seemeth
not
the
same
person
in
one
and
the
same
Day
,
by
reason
of
his
subiection
to
his
priuate
Passions
.
Young
,
wee
scorne
our
childish
conceits
,
and
wading
deeper
in
yeeres
(
for
yeres
are
a
Sea
into
which
we
wade
vntill
we
drown
)
we
esteeme
our
Youth
inconstancy
,
Folly
,
Rashnes
:
Old
,
wee
begin
to
pity
our selues
,
plaining
,
because
we
are
changed
,
that
the
World
is
changed
:
Like
them
in
a
Shippe
,
which
when
it
is
they
that
launch
from
the
shore
,
are
brought
to
beleeue
that
the
shore
doth
flie
from
them
.
When
we
are
freed
of
euill
in
our
owne
estate
,
wee
begin
to
grudge
and
vex
our selues
at
the
happinesse
and
fortunes
of
others
,
wee
are
fraught
,
wee
care
for
what
is
present
,
with
sadnes
for
what
is
by-past
,
with
feare
for
that
which
is
to
come
,
nay
,
for
that
which
will
neuer
come
;
we
deeme
that
pitty
,
which
is
but
weakenes
,
and
plunge
our selues
in
the
deepest
gulfes
of
anguish
,
one
day
still
laying
vp
strife
of
griefe
for
the
next
.
The
Aire
,
the
Sea
,
the
Fire
,
the
Beasts
be
cruell
executioners
of
Man
,
yet
Beasts
,
Fire
,
Sea
,
and
Ayre
,
bee
pitifull
to
Man
,
in
respect
of
Man
;
for
,
mo
men
are
destroied
by
men
,
then
by
them
all
.
What
wrongs
,
scornes
,
contumelies
,
prisons
,
poysons
,
torments
,
receiueth
man
of
man
?
What
engines
and
new
workes
of
death
are
daylie
found
forth
by
man
against
man
?
What
Lawes
to
thrall
his
liberty
?
Fantasies
and
scar-crowes
to
inueigle
his
reason
?
Amongst
the
Beastes
,
is
there
any
hath
so
seruile
a
lot
in
anothers
behalfe
as
man
?
yet
neither
is
content
,
nor
hee
who
raigneth
,
nor
he
who
serueth
.
The
halfe
of
our
Life
is
spent
in
sleepe
,
which
(
sith
it
is
a
release
of
care
,
the
balme
of
woe
,
and
indifferent
arbiter
vnto
all
)
must
be
the
best
,
and
yet
is
but
the
shadow
of
Death
:
and
who
would
not
rather
than
suffer
the
Slings
,
and
Arrows
of
outragious
Fortune
,
the
whips
and
scorns
of
time
,
the
oppressors
wrongs
,
the
proud
mans
contumelies
,
sleepe
euer
(
that
is
,
dye
)
and
end
the
Heart-ake
,
and
the
thousand
naturall
Shocks
,
that
flesh
is
heire
to
?
Our
happinesse
heere
,
seemeth
rather
in
the
wanting
of
euils
,
and
being
free
of
crosses
,
then
in
the
enioying
of
any
great
good
.
What
hath
the
brauest
of
mortals
to
glory
in
?
Is
it
greatnesse
?
Who
can
be
great
on
so
small
a
round
as
this
Earth
?
and
bounded
with
so
short
a
course
of
Time
?
How
like
is
that
to
castles
,
or
imaginary
Cities
,
builded
in
the
Skie
,
of
chance-meeting
Clouds
?
Or
to
Giants
modelled
(
for
a
sport
)
of
Snow
,
which
at
the
hotter
lookes
of
the
Sunne
do
melt
away
?
such
an
impetuous
vicissitude
so
towseth
the
estates
of
this
World
.
Is
it
knowledge
?
But
wee
haue
not
yet
attained
a
perfect
vnderstanding
of
the
smallest
floure
,
and
why
,
the
grasse
should
rather
bee
greene
,
then
red
,
the
Element
of
fire
is
quite
put
out
the
Ayre
is
but
water
rarified
,
some
affirme
there
is
another
world
of
men
and
creatures
,
with
Cities
,
and
Towers
in
the
Moone
,
the
Sunne
is
lost
,
for
it
is
but
a
cleft
in
the
lower
Heauens
,
through
which
the
light
of
the
highest
shines
:
What
is
all
we
know
,
compared
with
what
wee
know
not
?
It
is
(
perhaps
)
artificiall
cunning
:
how
many
curiosities
be
framed
by
the
least
creatures
of
Nature
,
vnto
which
,
the
industry
of
the
most
curious
Artizans
doth
not
attaine
?
Is
it
Riches
?
What
are
they
but
snares
of
Liberty
,
bands
to
such
as
haue
them
,
possessing
,
rather
then
possessed
:
Metalls
which
Nature
hath
hidde
(
foreseeing
the
great
euill
they
should
occasion
)
and
the
only
opinion
of
Men
,
hath
brought
in
estimation
?
When
wee
haue
gathered
the
greatest
aboundance
,
wee
our selues
can
enioy
no
more
thereof
,
then
so
much
as
belongs
to
one
man
,
Rich
and
great
men
doe
their
businesse
by
others
,
the
lesser
doe
them
themselues
.
Will
some
talke
of
our
pleasures
?
It
is
not
(
though
in
the
fables
)
told
out
of
purpose
,
that
Pleasure
being
called
in
haste
from
Earth
to
Heauen
,
did
here
forget
her
apparell
,
which
Sorrow
hauing
thereafter
found
(
to
deceiue
the
World
)
attired
her selfe
with
;
and
if
wee
shall
confesse
the
truth
of
most
of
our
ioyes
,
we
must
say
that
they
are
but
disguised
Sorrows
,
the
drammes
of
our
honey
,
are
lost
in
pounds
of
Gall
,
Remorse
neuer
ensueth
our
best
Delights
.
Will
some
Ladies
vaunt
of
their
Beauties
?
That
is
but
skinne-deepe
,
of
two
senses
onely
knowne
,
short
euen
of
Marble
Statues
and
Pictures
,
dangerous
to
the
beholder
,
and
hurt
.
full
to
the
possessor
,
an
enemy
to
Chastity
,
a
thing
made
to
delight
others
,
and
not
those
who
haue
it
,
a
superficiall
lustre
hiding
Bones
and
the
Braines
,
things
fearefull
to
bee
looked
vpon
;
growth
of
yeres
doth
take
it
away
,
or
sicknesse
,
or
sorrow
preuenting
them
;
our
strength
,
matched
with
that
of
the
vnreasonable
creatures
,
is
but
weakenesse
.
If
Death
be
good
,
why
should
it
be
feared
?
And
if
it
bee
the
worke
of
Nature
,
how
shall
it
not
bee
good
?
And
how
shall
it
not
bee
of
Nature
?
Sith
what
is
naturally
generate
,
is
subiect
to
corruption
,
for
such
a
composition
cannot
euer
endure
,
but
must
of
necessity
dissolue
.
Againe
,
how
is
not
Death
good
,
sith
it
is
the
thaw
of
all
those
miseries
which
the
frost
of
life
bindeth
together
?
In
two
or
three
ages
(
without
Death
)
what
an
vnpleasant
spectacle
were
the
most
flourishing
Cities
in
the
World
?
For
what
should
there
bee
to
be
seene
in
them
,
saue
bodies
languishing
,
and
courbing
againe
into
the
Earth
?
Pale
disfigured
faces
,
Skelitones
in
stead
of
Men
?
And
what
were
there
to
bee
heard
,
but
the
regrets
of
the
yong
,
and
Plaints
of
the
aged
,
with
the
pittifull
cries
of
sicke
and
pining
persons
?
there
is
almost
no
infirmity
worse
then
age
.
If
there
bee
any
euill
in
Death
,
it
would
appeare
to
bee
for
that
paine
and
torment
,
which
we
apprehend
to
arise
of
the
breaking
of
those
straight
bands
which
keep
the
Soule
and
Bodie
together
,
which
(
since
it
is
not
without
great
wrestling
and
motion
)
seemes
to
proue
it selfe
vehement
and
most
extreme
.
The
sences
are
the
onely
cause
of
paine
,
but
before
that
last
effect
traries
,
that
the
worst
composed
Bodies
feele
paine
least
,
and
by
this
reason
all
sicke
persons
should
not
much
feele
paine
,
for
if
they
were
not
euill
composed
they
would
not
bee
sicke
.
That
the
sight
,
hearing
,
smelling
,
taste
,
leaue
vs
without
paine
,
and
vnawares
,
wee
know
most
certainely
,
and
why
should
wee
not
beleeue
the
same
of
the
feeling
?
That
which
is
capable
of
feeling
is
the
vitall
Spirits
,
which
in
a
man
of
good
health
are
spred
&
extended
through
the
whole
Body
:
And
hence
is
it
,
that
the
whole
body
is
capable
of
paine
;
but
in
sicke
men
wee
see
that
by
degrees
those
parts
which
are
most
remoued
from
the
heart
,
remaine
cold
,
and
being
denuded
of
naturall
heate
,
all
the
pain
that
they
feele
,
is
that
they
can
feele
no
paine
:
now
as
before
the
sicke
be
aware
,
the
vitall
Spirits
retire
themselues
from
the
whole
extension
of
his
body
,
to
assist
the
heart
,
(
like
distressed
Citizens
,
which
finding
their
wals
battred
run
to
defend
their
Cittadell
)
so
do
they
abandon
the
heart
without
any
sensible
touch
,
as
the
flame
withdrawes
it selfe
from
the
wicke
,
the
Oyle
fayling
.
As
to
those
shrinking
motions
and
conuulsions
of
sinewes
and
members
,
which
appeare
to
witnesse
great
paine
,
let
one
represent
to
himselfe
the
strings
of
a
high-tuned
Lute
,
which
being
cracked
retire
to
their
naturall
winding
,
or
a
piece
of
Ice
which
without
any
outward
violence
cracks
at
a
Thaw
:
no
other
waies
do
the
sinewes
of
the
body
,
finding
themselues
slacke
and
vnbended
from
the
Braine
,
and
that
their
wonted
labours
and
functions
do
cease
,
struggle
and
seeme
to
stirre
themselues
without
any
paine
or
sence
.
Now
,
although
Death
were
an
extreme
paine
,
sith
it
is
in
an
instant
,
what
can
it
bee
?
Why
should
wee
feare
it
?
For
while
we
are
,
it
commeth
not
,
and
it
being
come
,
wee
are
no
more
.
Nay
,
though
it
were
most
painefull
,
long
continuing
,
and
terrible
vgly
,
why
should
we
feare
it
?
Since
feare
is
a
foolish
passion
but
where
it
may
preserue
,
but
it
cannot
preserue
vs
from
death
.
That
is
euer
terrible
,
which
is
vnknown
:
so
do
little
children
feare
to
goe
in
the
darke
,
and
their
feare
is
encreased
with
tales
.
But
that
(
perhaps
)
which
doth
bring
thee
most
anguish
,
is
to
leaue
this
painted
Sceane
of
the
World
in
the
Spring
,
and
most
delicious
season
of
thy
yeeres
;
for
,
though
to
die
be
vsual
,
to
die
young
may
appeare
extraordinary
.
If
the
present
fruition
of
thes
things
be
foolish
,
what
can
a
long
continuance
of
them
be
?
Poore
and
strang
Halcyon
,
why
wouldest
thou
longer
nestle
amidst
these
inconstant
waues
?
hast
thou
not
already
suffred
enough
of
this
world
,
but
thou
must
yet
endure
more
?
But
count
thy
yeres
which
are
now
(
)
&
thou
shalt
find
,
that
whereas
ten
haue
ouer-liued
thee
,
thousands
haue
not
attained
this
age
.
One
yeere
is
sufficient
to
behold
all
the
magnificence
of
Nature
,
nay
euen
one
day
and
night
,
for
more
is
but
the
same
brought
againe
.
This
Sun
,
that
Moone
,
those
Starres
,
the
disponsition
of
the
Spring
,
Summer
,
Autumne
,
Winter
,
is
that
very
same
which
the
Golden
age
did
see
.
They
which
haue
the
longest
time
lent
them
to
liue
in
,
haue
almost
nothing
of
it
at
all
,
setting
it
eyther
by
that
which
is
past
,
when
they
were
not
,
or
by
that
which
is
to
come
:
Why
shouldst
thou
then
regard
,
whether
thy
dayes
be
many
or
few
;
which
when
prolonged
to
the
vttermost
,
must
proue
(
paraleld
with
Eternitie
)
as
a
Teare
is
to
the
Ocean
?
It
is
hope
of
long
Life
,
that
maketh
life
seeme
short
.
Who
will
weigh
,
&
aduisedly
weigh
the
inconstancy
of
humane
affaires
,
with
the
back-blows
of
Fortune
,
shall
neuer
lament
to
die
yong
.
Who
knoweth
what
disasters
might
haue
befallen
him
,
who
dieth
yong
,
if
hee
had
liued
to
been
old
?
Hauen
taketh
them
whom
it
loueth
,
from
dangers
before
they
doe
approach
;
pure
and
(
if
wee
may
say
so
)
virgin
Soules
carrie
their
bodies
with
great
anguish
,
and
delight
not
to
abide
long
in
them
,
being
euer
burnt
with
a
desire
to
returne
to
the
place
of
their
rest
;
and
to
be
relieued
of
fleshly
vncleanlynesse
,
that
which
may
fall
forth
euery
houre
,
cannot
fall
out
of
time
:
life
is
a
iourney
in
a
dustie
way
,
the
furthest
home
is
Death
,
in
this
,
some
goe
more
heauily
burthened
then
others
,
swift
&
actiue
Pilgrimes
come
to
the
end
of
it
in
the
morning
,
or
at
Noone
:
which
slow-paced
wretches
,
clogged
with
the
fragmentall
rubbish
of
this
world
,
scarce
with
great
trauell
,
crawle
vnto
at
midnight
.
Dayes
are
not
to
be
numbred
after
the
number
of
them
;
but
after
their
goodnesse
,
the
greatnes
of
a
Spheare
,
addeth
nothing
to
the
roundnesse
of
it
,
but
a
little
circle
is
as
round
as
the
most
ample
;
that
Musician
is
not
most
praise-worthie
,
who
hath
longest
played
,
but
he
in
measur'd
accents
who
hath
made
sweetest
melodie
;
to
liue
long
,
hath
often
beene
a
let
to
liue
well
.
Let
it
suffice
that
thou
hast
liued
to
this
time
,
and
(
after
the
course
of
this
world
)
not
for
nought
,
thou
hast
had
some
smiles
of
Fortune
,
fauors
of
the
worthiest
,
some
friends
,
&
thou
hast
neuer
beene
disfauoured
of
the
Heauen
.
Yet
it
is
almost
impossible
,
that
thou
canst
want
a
desire
to
liue
,
and
wishest
not
thy
dayes
a
while
continued
,
though
not
for
life
it selfe
,
at
least
that
thou
mayst
leue
to
after-times
a
monument
,
that
once
thou
wast
;
for
since
it
is
denied
vs
to
liue
long
,
(
said
one
)
let
vs
leaue
some
worthy
remembrance
of
our
once
here
being
,
and
thus
extend
this
spanne
of
Life
so
farre
as
is
possible
.
O
poore
Ambition
!
to
what
I
pray
thee
canst
thou
concreded
it
?
Arches
and
stately
Temples
,
which
one
age
doth
rayse
,
doth
not
another
raze
?
Tombs
and
adopted
pillers
lie
buried
with
them
which
were
in
them
buried
;
hath
not
auarice
defaced
that
,
which
Deuotion
did
make
glorious
?
All
that
the
hand
of
Man
can
make
,
is
eyther
ouerturned
by
the
hand
of
Man
,
or
at
length
by
very
standing
and
continuing
consumed
;
as
if
there
were
a
secret
opposition
in
Fate
,
to
controle
al
our
industrie
.
Possessions
are
not
enduring
,
children
lose
their
Names
,
families
raised
on
the
highest
top
of
wealth
and
Honor
(
like
those
which
are
not
yet
born
)
leauing
off
to
be
,
so
doth
Heauen
confound
what
we
labor
with
Art
to
distinguish
.
That
renowne
by
Papers
,
which
is
though
to
make
men
glorious
,
and
which
neerest
doth
approach
the
Life
of
those
eternall
Bodies
aboue
,
how
slender
it
is
,
the
very
word
of
paper
doth
import
;
and
what
is
it
when
obtained
,
but
a
multitude
of
words
which
comming
Worlds
may
scorne
?
How
many
millions
neuer
heare
the
names
of
the
most
famous
Writers
?
And
amongst
them
to
whom
they
are
knowne
,
how
few
turne
ouer
their
pages
?
And
of
such
as
doe
,
how
many
sport
at
their
conceits
,
taking
the
verity
for
a
Fable
,
and
oft
a
Fable
for
Veritie
,
or
(
as
wee
doe
pleasants
)
vsing
all
for
recreation
?
Then
the
arising
of
more
famous
doth
obscure
and
darken
the
glory
of
the
former
,
being
esteemed
as
Garments
worne
out
of
fashion
.
Now
when
thou
hast
obtained
what
praise
thou
couldst
desire
,
it
is
but
an
Eccho
,
a
meere
sound
,
a
cloud
of
Ayre
;
which
seene
a
farre
,
did
appeare
something
,
but
approached
,
is
found
nought
;
a
thing
imaginary
depending
on
the
opinion
of
other
Men
;
for
it
is
hard
to
distinguish
vertue
and
fortune
,
the
most
vicious
(
if
prosperous
)
haue
euer
beene
praysed
,
the
most
vertuous
(
if
vnprosperous
)
haue
still
beene
despised
.
Applause
obtained
whilst
thou
liuest
,
hath
euer
enuy
following
it
,
and
is
brittle
,
like
that
Syracusians
Spheare
of
Glasse
;
and
borne
after
thy
Death
,
it
may
as
well
be
ascribed
to
some
of
them
that
were
in
the
Troian
Horse
,
or
to
such
as
are
yet
to
be
borne
an
hundreth
yeeres
hereafter
,
as
to
thee
who
nothing
knows
,
and
is
of
all
vnknown
:
What
can
it
auaile
thee
to
bee
talked
of
whilst
thou
art
not
?
Consider
in
what
bounds
our
Fame
is
confined
:
This
Globe
which
seemeth
large
to
vs
,
in
respect
of
the
Vniuerse
,
is
lesse
then
little
,
how
much
thereof
is
couered
with
Waters
,
how
much
not
at
al
discouered
?
How
much
desart
and
desolate
And
how
many
thousand
thousands
are
they
which
share
the
remanent
amongst
them
?
&
all
this
is
but
a
point
,
&
in
comparison
nothing
to
that
wide
wide
canopie
of
Heauen
.
For
the
Horizon
that
bounds
our
sight
,
bindeth
the
Heauen
as
in
two
halfs
,
which
it
could
not
doe
if
the
Earth
had
any
quantity
compared
to
it
.
More
,
if
it
were
not
as
a
point
,
the
Starres
could
not
still
appeare
to
vs
of
a
like
greatnesse
in
respect
of
their
diurnall
motion
:
for
where
the
Earth
raysed
it selfe
in
Mountaines
(
wee
being
more
neere
to
Heauen
)
they
would
appeare
more
great
,
and
where
it
were
humbled
in
vallies
(
we
being
farther
distant
)
they
would
seeme
vnto
vs
lesse
.
But
on
all
sides
the
Heauen
beeing
equally
distant
from
the
earth
,
of
necessity
wee
must
auouch
it
to
bee
but
a
point
.
Well
did
one
compare
it
to
an
Ant-hill
,
and
men
(
the
Inhabitants
)
to
so
many
Pismires
in
the
toyle
and
variety
of
their
diuersified
studies
.
But
let
it
be
granted
that
Glory
and
Fame
is
some
great
matter
,
and
can
reach
Heauen
it selfe
,
since
it
is
often
buried
with
the
honored
,
and
endureth
so
short
a
time
,
what
great
good
can
it
haue
in
it
?
How
is
not
Glory
temporall
,
since
it
increaseth
with
Time
?
Then
imagine
me
(
for
what
cannot
imagination
reach
vnto
?
)
one
could
bee
famous
in
all
times
to
come
,
&
through
the
whole
World
presen
,
t
yet
he
shall
be
for
euer
obscure
,
and
vncouth
to
those
mighty
ones
,
who
were
only
heretofore
famous
amongst
Assyrians
,
Persians
,
Greekes
,
and
Romanes
.
Againe
,
the
vaine
affectation
of
Man
is
so
suppressed
,
that
though
his
workes
do
abide
,
the
worker
is
vnknowne
:
the
huge
Aegypttan
Pyramides
though
they
haue
wrastled
with
time
,
and
worne
vpon
the
vast
of
dayes
,
yet
their
builders
be
no
more
knowne
,
then
it
is
known
by
what
strange
Earth-quakes
and
Deluges
Iles
were
diuided
from
the
continent
,
and
Hils
bursted
forth
of
the
low
Vallies
.
Dayes
,
Moneths
,
and
yeres
runne
away
,
and
only
obliuion
remaines
;
of
so
many
ages
past
wee
may
well
figure
to
our selues
something
,
but
can
affirme
little
certainty
.
But
,
Oh
my
Soule
,
what
ailes
thee
to
be
thus
backward
and
fearefull
at
the
remembrance
of
Death
?
sith
it
doth
not
reach
thee
,
more
then
darknesse
doth
those
eternall
Lampes
aboue
:
rowse
thy selfe
for
shame
,
why
shouldst
thou
feare
to
bee
without
a
body
,
since
thy
Maker
and
those
spirituall
and
supercelestiall
Inhabitants
haue
no
Bodies
?
Hast
thou
euer
seen
any
Prisoner
who
when
the
Iayle-gates
were
broken
vp
and
hee
enfranchised
and
set
loose
,
would
rather
plaine
and
sit
still
on
his
fetters
,
then
seeke
his
freedome
?
If
thou
rightly
thinke
on
thy self
thou
hast
no
cause
of
sorrow
:
for
,
if
there
bee
any
resemblance
in
what
is
finite
of
that
which
is
infinite
,
if
thou
bee
not
an
Image
,
thou
art
a
shadow
of
that
eternall
Trinitie
,
in
thy
three
essential
Powers
,
Vnderstanding
Will
,
Memory
,
which
though
three
,
are
in
thee
but
one
:
and
yet
abiding
one
bee
distinctly
three
.
But
in
no
thing
more
commest
thou
neere
that
Soueraigne
good
then
in
thy
Immortality
,
which
who
seeke
to
improue
,
by
that
same
it
proue
,
like
them
who
arguing
themselues
to
bee
vnreasonable
,
by
the
very
arguing
shew
that
they
haue
some
.
Nothing
in
this
visible
world
is
comparable
to
thee
,
thou
art
so
wonderfull
a
beauty
,
and
beautifull
a
Wonder
,
that
if
but
once
thou
couldst
be
gazed
vpon
by
bodily
eyes
,
euery
heart
would
be
inflamed
with
thy
loue
,
&
eleuated
from
their
groueling
earthly
desires
.
What
God
is
in
the
World
,
thou
art
in
the
body
,
abiding
on
the
Earth
,
thou
measurest
the
Heauen
,
thou
makest
the
Seas
and
Winds
to
serue
thee
,
thou
many
things
foreknowest
before
they
fall
forth
,
thou
art
not
content
with
the
sight
of
all
,
within
the
spacious
bounds
of
this
large
Cloister
of
the
World
,
vntill
thou
rayse
thy selfe
to
the
happy
contemplation
of
that
first
illuminating
intelligence
,
transcending
time
,
and
euen
reaching
Eternity
it selfe
,
into
which
thou
art
transformed
:
for
by
receiuing
,
thou
(
beyond
all
other
things
)
art
made
that
which
thou
receiuest
.
By
thy
three
faculties
,
thou
participatest
with
the
three
parts
of
Time
;
by
Memory
with
that
which
hath
passed
,
by
Vnderstanding
with
that
which
is
present
,
&
by
Wil
with
that
which
is
to
come
.
Man
by
thee
is
that
Hymen
of
celestiall
and
terrestriall
things
,
without
whom
the
vniuersall
frame
and
great
Fabrick
of
this
world
would
remaine
vnperfect
.
Thou
only
at
once
art
capable
of
contraries
,
thou
knowest
thy selfe
an
immediat
master
peece
of
that
eternall
artizan
,
&
acknowledgest
thee
so
separate
,
absolute
,
and
diuerse
an
essence
from
thy
Body
,
that
thou
disposest
of
it
,
as
it
pleaseth
thee
:
for
there
is
no
passion
in
thee
so
weake
which
mastereth
not
the
feare
of
leauing
it
.
The
more
thou
knowest
,
the
more
apt
thou
art
to
know
,
not
remayning
enfabled
by
thine
object
as
sense
by
obiects
sensible
.
Thou
shouldst
bee
so
farre
from
abhorring
this
separation
,
that
it
should
be
the
first
of
thy
desires
,
it
being
thy
perfection
.
Thou
art
here
but
as
in
an
infected
and
vncleane
Inne
,
or
a
liuing
Tombe
,
oppressed
with
cares
,
suppressed
with
ignorance
:
Most
of
thy
knowledge
commeth
by
thy
fine
intelligencers
of
sence
,
which
(
being
often
deceiued
)
deceiue
thee
:
small
things
seeme
here
great
vnto
thee
,
and
great
things
small
:
Folly
Wisedome
,
and
Wit
Folly
:
freed
of
thy
fleshly
care
thou
shalt
rightly
know
thy selfe
,
and
haue
perfect
fruition
of
that
full
and
filling
happinesse
,
which
is
God
himselfe
.
God
and
happinesse
are
one
,
for
if
God
haue
not
happinesse
,
hee
is
not
God
,
because
happinesse
is
the
highest
and
soueraignest
good
:
then
if
God
haue
happinesse
,
it
cannot
be
a
thing
different
from
him
,
for
if
there
were
any
thing
different
from
him
in
him
,
hee
should
be
an
essence
composed
,
and
not
simple
.
More
,
what
is
different
in
any
thing
,
is
eyther
an
accident
,
or
a
part
of
it selfe
;
in
God
,
happinesse
cannot
be
an
accident
,
because
he
is
not
subiect
to
any
accident
;
if
it
were
a
part
of
him
(
since
the
part
is
before
the
whole
)
wee
should
be
forced
to
grant
that
something
was
before
God
.
Bedded
and
bathed
in
these
earthly
Ordures
,
thou
canst
not
come
neer
that
soueraigne
good
,
nor
haue
so
much
notice
of
him
,
as
the
Owle
hath
of
the
Sun
.
Thinke
then
by
Death
that
thy
shel
is
broke
&
thou
then
but
euen
hatched
:
Why
shouldst
thoube
feare-stroken
,
and
brought
vnder
for
the
parting
with
this
mortall
Bride
,
thy
Body
?
Sith
it
is
but
for
a
time
,
and
such
a
time
as
she
shall
not
care
for
,
nor
feele
any
thing
in
,
nor
thou
haue
need
of
her
,
nay
,
since
thou
shalt
receiue
her
againe
more
goodly
and
beautifull
,
then
when
thou
leftst
her
?
Being
made
like
vnto
that
Indian
Christall
,
which
after
some
reuolutions
of
ages
is
turned
into
purest
Diamonds
.
If
the
Soule
be
the
form
of
the
Body
,
and
the
forme
separated
from
the
matter
of
it
cannot
euer
remain
,
but
hath
a
natural
appetite
and
desire
to
bee
vnited
thereunto
,
what
can
let
and
hinder
this
desire
,
but
that
one
time
or
other
it
be
accomplished
,
and
haue
the
expected
end
,
adioyning
it selfe
to
the
body
?
No
violent
thing
can
bee
euerlasting
,
the
abiding
of
the
Soule
without
the
body
being
violent
,
cannot
bee
euerlasting
.
How
is
not
such
a
beeing
not
violent
,
since
as
in
a
stranger
place
the
faculties
of
it
(
which
neuer
leaue
it
)
are
not
duely
exercised
?
:
this
is
not
contradictory
to
Nature
,
much
lesse
impossible
to
God
.
If
the
body
shall
not
arise
,
how
can
the
only
and
soueraigne
Good
bee
perfectly
and
infinitely
good
?
For
how
shall
hee
be
Iust
?
Nay
,
haue
so
much
iustice
as
a
man
,
if
hee
suffer
the
euill
and
vicious
to
haue
a
more
prosperous
and
happy
life
then
the
followers
of
Vertue
?
Which
ordinarily
vseth
to
fall
forth
in
this
life
:
for
the
most
wicked
are
lords
and
gods
of
this
earth
,
as
if
it
had
been
made
only
for
them
,
and
the
vertuous
are
but
their
enuassaled
slaues
,
beeing
subiect
to
all
dishonors
,
shames
,
wrongs
,
miserie
.
Sith
then
he
is
most
good
,
most
iust
,
of
necessity
there
must
be
appointed
by
him
another
time
,
and
another
place
of
retribution
,
in
the
place
of
retribution
,
in
the
which
there
shall
bee
a
reward
for
liuing
well
,
and
a
punishment
for
doing
euil
,
with
a
life
in
the
which
both
shall
haue
their
due
;
and
not
in
their
Soules
only
:
for
,
sith
both
the
parts
of
man
did
act
a
part
in
the
right
or
wrong
,
it
is
reason
they
both
be
arraigned
before
that
High
Iustice
,
to
receiue
their
owne
.
For
man
is
not
a
Soule
onely
,
but
a
Soule
and
Body
,
to
which
either
guerdon
or
punishment
is
due
.
This
seemeth
to
bee
the
voice
of
Nature
in
almost
all
the
Religions
of
the
World
,
this
is
that
vniuersall
testimony
charactered
in
the
minds
of
the
most
barbarous
and
sauage
people
;
for
all
haue
had
a
blind
ayming
at
ages
to
come
,
and
a
mistie
diuining
of
another
life
,
all
appealing
to
one
generall
Iudgement
Throne
.
To
what
else
could
serue
so
many
expiations
,
sacrifices
,
Prayers
,
solemnities
and
ceremonies
?
To
what
such
sumptuous
Temples
,
and
such
care
of
the
dead
?
To
what
all
Religion
?
If
not
to
shew
that
they
did
looke
for
a
more
excellent
estate
of
liuing
after
the
short
course
of
this
was
out-runne
:
and
who
doth
deny
it
,
must
deny
that
that
there
is
a
God
,
a
Prouidence
,
and
not
beleeue
that
there
is
a
World
or
Creatures
,
and
that
hee
himselfe
is
not
what
hee
is
.
But
it
is
not
of
Death
(
perhaps
)
that
wee
complaine
,
but
of
Time
,
which
vsing
against
vs
(
as
against
all
fragil
and
caduke
things
)
his
adamantine
Lawes
,
altereth
the
constitution
of
our
Bodies
,
benummes
our
sences
,
and
the
Organes
of
our
knowledge
,
of
which
euils
Death
relieueth
vs
:
So
that
if
we
could
be
transported
(
oh
happy
Colonie
!
)
to
a
place
where
there
were
no
time
,
it
were
our
only
good
,
and
the
accomplishment
of
all
our
wishes
.
Death
maketh
this
transplantation
,
for
the
last
instant
of
corruption
,
or
leauing
off
of
a
thing
to
be
what
it
was
,
is
the
first
of
generation
or
being
of
that
which
succeedeth
;
Death
then
beeing
the
end
of
this
miserable
mortall
life
,
of
necessity
must
bee
the
first
beginning
of
that
other
eternall
;
and
so
without
reason
of
a
vertuous
Soule
is
it
either
feared
or
complained
on
.
As
those
Images
were
figured
in
my
Mind
,
(
the
morning-Star
now
almost
arising
in
the
East
)
I
found
my
thoughts
to
become
calme
and
appeased
,
and
not
long
after
my
sences
one
by
one
forgetting
their
vses
,
began
to
giue
themselues
ouer
to
rest
,
leauing
mee
in
a
still
and
quiet
sleepe
,
if
sleep
it
may
be
called
,
where
the
Mind
awaking
is
carried
with
free
wings
from
out
fleshly
bondage
?
For
,
heauy
lids
had
no
sooner
couered
their
lights
,
when
I
thoght
(
nay
sure
)
I
was
where
I
might
discerne
all
in
this
great
All
,
the
large
compas
of
the
rowling
Circles
,
the
brightnesse
and
continuall
dances
of
the
twinkling
Starres
,
which
(
through
their
distance
)
here
below
cannot
bee
perceiued
,
the
siluer
countenance
of
the
silent
Moone
shining
by
anothers
light
,
the
hanging
of
the
Earth
(
as
enuironed
with
a
Christall
girdle
)
the
Sunne
enthronized
in
the
midst
of
the
Planets
,
Eye
of
the
Heauens
,
Gemme
of
this
goodly
Ring
the
World
.
But
whilst
with
wonder
and
amazement
I
gazed
on
those
celestiall
twinnes
,
and
the
burning
Lamps
of
that
glorious
Temple
,
(
like
some
poore
Countrey-man
brought
from
his
solitary
Mountaines
and
flocks
to
behold
the
magnificence
of
some
stately
City
)
there
was
presented
to
my
sight
a
Man
as
in
the
spring
of
his
yeres
,
with
that
selfesame
grace
,
comely
feature
,
and
maiesticke
looke
,
which
the
late
(
_____
)
was
wont
to
haue
:
on
whom
I
had
no
sooner
set
mine
eye
,
when
(
like
one
thunder-stroken
)
I
became
all
astonished
.
But
hee
with
a
mild
demeanour
approching
,
and
voice
surpassing
all
humane
sweetenesse
appeared
(
mee
thought
)
to
say
:
What
is
it
doth
thus
torture
thee
?
is
it
the
memory
of
Death
,
the
end
of
all
Sorrow
and
entrie
to
these
happy
places
?
is
thy
fortune
below
on
that
darkened
Globe
(
that
scarce
through
the
littlenesse
of
it
heere
appeares
)
so
great
,
that
thou
art
heart-broken
and
deiected
for
the
leauing
of
it
?
what
if
thou
hadst
left
behind
thee
a
(
_____
)
so
glorious
to
the
world
(
yet
but
a
mote
of
dust
encircled
with
a
Pond
)
as
that
of
mine
?
so
louing
Parents
?
such
great
Hopes
?
these
had
beene
apparant
occasions
of
regrate
,
and
but
apparant
.
Dost
thou
thinke
that
thou
leauest
life
too
soone
?
Death
is
best
yong
,
things
faire
and
excellent
are
of
least
endurance
,
the
Rose
which
is
the
flowre
of
flowers
,
that
same
day
that
sees
it
spred
in
the
morning
,
sees
it
fade
at
euening
,
and
lose
the
leaues
,
the
Spring-time
the
most
amiable
Season
of
the
yeere
is
the
Shortest
.
Who
liueth
well
,
liueth
long
,
those
whom
GOD
loueth
best
,
are
soone
relieued
of
mortall
miseries
.
Let
not
man
esteeme
his
estate
,
after
his
earthly
being
,
which
is
but
a
Dreame
,
though
hee
bee
borne
on
the
earth
,
hee
is
not
borne
for
the
earth
,
more
then
the
embrion
for
the
Mothers
wombe
:
it
plaineth
to
bee
relieued
of
its
Bands
,
and
to
come
to
the
light
of
this
world
,
and
Man
mourneth
to
bee
loosed
from
the
Chaines
with
which
he
is
fettered
in
that
inchanted
valley
of
vanities
,
it
nothing
knoweth
whither
it
is
to
goe
,
nor
ought
of
the
beauty
of
the
sensible
world
,
and
the
visible
workes
of
God
,
neither
doe
men
of
the
magnificence
of
this
intellectuall
world
aboue
,
vnto
which
(
as
by
a
Mid-wife
)
they
are
directed
by
Death
.
Fooles
,
who
thinke
that
this
excellent
and
admirable
Frame
,
so
wel
ordered
,
so
rightly
gouerned
,
so
wonderfully
faire
,
was
by
that
supreme
Wisedome
made
,
that
all
things
in
a
circulary
course
should
be
and
not
bee
,
arise
and
dissolue
,
and
thus
continue
,
as
if
they
were
so
many
Shadowes
caused
by
the
incountring
of
the
Superior
Celestiall
bodies
,
changing
only
their
fashion
and
shape
;
or
were
dreames
which
for
a
morning
haue
their
being
in
the
braine
:
No
,
no
,
the
eternall
Wisedome
hath
made
man
an
excellent
creature
,
though
hee
faine
would
vnmake
himselfe
and
turne
againe
to
nothing
,
though
hee
seeke
his
happinesse
amongst
the
vnreasonable
creatures
hee
hath
placed
aboue
.
When
some
Prince
or
great
King
on
the
earth
hath
builded
any
stately
City
,
the
worke
being
perfected
,
they
were
wont
to
set
their
Image
in
the
middest
of
it
,
to
be
gazed
vpon
and
admired
;
No
otherwise
hath
the
Soueraine
of
this
All
,
(
the
fabricke
of
it
done
)
placed
Man
,
(
made
to
his
own
Image
)
in
the
midst
of
this
admirable
City
.
God
contayneth
all
in
him
as
the
beginning
of
al
,
Man
containeth
al
in
him
as
the
midst
of
all
,
inferior
things
be
in
man
more
nobly
then
they
exist
,
superior
things
more
basely
,
celestiall
things
fauour
him
,
earthly
things
are
vassaled
vnto
him
,
hee
is
the
band
of
●oth
,
neyther
is
it
possible
but
that
both
of
them
haue
peace
with
him
,
if
he
haue
peace
with
him
who
made
the
couenant
betweene
them
and
him
.
Hee
was
made
,
that
hee
might
know
the
infinite
goodnesse
,
power
,
and
glory
of
him
who
made
him
,
and
knowing
loue
,
and
louing
enioy
him
,
and
to
hold
the
Earth
of
him
as
of
his
Lord
Paramount
.
How
can
it
bee
thought
that
God
should
giue
so
long
life
to
Trees
,
Beasts
,
and
the
Birds
of
the
Ayre
,
being
Creatures
inferior
to
Man
,
which
haue
lesse
vse
of
it
,
and
denie
it
to
him
,
vnlesse
hee
had
prepared
another
manner
of
liuing
for
him
in
a
place
more
excellent
?
But
O
God!
(
said
I
)
had
it
not
been
better
that
for
the
good
of
his
natiue
Countrey
so
(
_____
)
had
yet
liued
?
How
long
will
ye
(
replied
he
)
like
the
Ants
thinke
there
bee
no
fayrer
palaces
then
their
hills
,
and
like
poreblinde
Moles
there
is
no
greater
light
,
then
that
little
which
they
shunne
?
As
if
the
master
of
a
Campe
knew
when
to
remoue
a
Sentinell
,
and
hee
who
placeth
Man
on
this
Earth
,
did
not
know
how
long
he
had
neede
of
him
?
Euery
one
commeth
here
to
act
his
part
of
this
Tragicomedie
called
Life
,
which
done
,
the
Curtaine
is
drawne
,
and
he
remouing
from
the
Stage
is
said
to
die
.
Most
(
_____
)
then
(
answered
I
)
Death
is
not
such
an
euill
and
paine
,
as
it
is
of
the
vulgar
esteemed
?
Death
(
said
he
)
nor
painefull
is
nor
euill
of
it selfe
,
except
in
contemplation
of
the
cause
of
it
,
being
as
indifferent
as
birth
:
Yet
it
cannot
be
denied
,
but
that
the
vncouthnesse
of
it
,
with
the
wrong
apprehension
of
what
is
vnknowne
in
it
is
noysome
.
But
the
Soule
sustained
by
its
Maker
,
prepared
and
calmely
retired
in
it selfe
,
doth
finde
that
Death
(
since
it
is
in
a
moment
of
time
)
is
but
a
short
,
nay
sweete
sigh
,
and
is
not
worthy
the
remembrance
compared
with
the
smallest
dramme
of
the
infinite
happinesse
of
this
place
.
Here
is
the
Palace
roy
all
of
the
Almighty
King
,
in
which
the
incomprehensible
comprehensibly
manifesteth
himselfe
;
in
place
highest
,
in
substance
not
subiect
to
any
corruption
or
change
,
for
it
is
aboue
all
motion
,
and
solid
turneth
not
;
in
quantitie
greatest
,
for
if
one
Starre
,
one
Spheare
bee
so
vast
,
how
vast
,
how
great
must
those
bounds
bee
which
doth
them
all
containe
?
In
qualitie
purest
,
Heauen
here
is
all
but
a
Sunne
,
or
the
Sunne
all
but
a
Heauen
,
this
is
the
onely
and
true
Olympe
.
If
to
earthlings
the
footstoole
of
God
seemeth
so
pleasant
,
of
what
worth
(
if
they
could
see
)
would
they
hold
his
Throne
?
And
if
the
Throne
bee
so
wonderful
,
what
is
the
sight
of
him
for
whom
and
by
whom
this
All
was
created
?
Of
whose
glory
to
behold
the
thousand
thousand
part
,
the
most
pure
intelligences
are
fully
content
,
and
with
wonder
and
delight
stand
amazed
;
for
the
beauty
of
his
light
and
the
light
of
his
beautie
is
incomprehensible
.
Here
doth
that
earnest
appetite
of
the
vnderstanding
pause
it selfe
,
not
seeking
to
know
any
more
,
for
it
seeth
before
it
in
the
vision
of
the
diuine
essence
(
a
mirror
in
the
which
not
Images
or
shadows
,
but
the
true
and
perfect
essence
of
all
that
is
,
is
most
viuely
and
perfectly
seen
)
all
that
can
be
knowne
,
or
vnderstood
.
Here
is
the
will
stayed
,
louing
that
Soueraigne
Good
in
whose
fruition
all
good
consisteth
,
and
without
which
can
be
none
.
Here
is
a
blessed
company
,
euery
one
reioycing
in
another
and
filled
with
ioy
of
themselues
,
the
happinesse
of
one
is
the
happinesse
of
the
whole
,
as
the
happines
of
the
whole
is
the
happinesse
of
euery
one
:
and
as
the
company
is
innumerable
,
the
ioy
of
each
one
is
incomprehensible
.
No
silly
Mortall
confined
on
that
piece
of
earth
,
who
hath
neuer
seene
but
sorrow
,
can
rightly
thinke
of
,
or
bee
capable
to
conceiue
the
happinesse
of
this
place
.
So
many
feathers
moue
not
on
Birds
,
so
many
Birds
cleaue
not
the
Ayre
,
so
many
leaues
tremble
not
on
Trees
,
so
many
Trees
grow
not
in
the
wilde
Forrests
,
so
many
waues
turne
not
in
the
Ocean
,
so
many
Sands
border
not
those
waues
;
as
this
Triumphing
Court
hath
varietie
of
delights
,
and
neuer
loathsome
pleasures
.
Ambition
,
Disdaine
,
Malice
,
Ignorance
,
Error
,
Difference
of
opinions
,
doe
not
enter
this
place
,
resembling
the
foggie
mists
which
couer
those
lists
of
sublunary
things
.
Here
is
Youth
without
Age
,
Strength
without
Weakenesse
,
Ioy
without
Sorrow
,
Light
without
Darkenesse
,
Life
Without
End
,
Ages
doe
neuer
here
expire
,
Time
did
neuer
enter
.
All
pleasure
paragon'd
with
what
is
here
,
is
griefe
,
all
Mirth
mourning
,
all
Beauty
deformitie
,
heere
one
dayes
abiding
is
aboue
the
continuing
in
the
most
Fortunate
estate
of
the
Earth
many
yeeres
,
and
sufficient
to
counteruaile
the
extremest
Torments
of
Life
.
Amongst
all
the
wonders
of
the
great
Creator
,
not
one
appeareth
to
bee
more
strange
(
replied
I
)
then
that
the
dead
should
arise
,
Nature
denying
a
regresse
from
priuation
to
a
habit
.
Wonders
(
said
hee
)
in
a
wonderfull
cause
are
no
wonders
,
the
Author
of
Nature
is
not
thralled
to
the
Lawes
of
Nature
,
but
worketh
with
them
or
contrary
as
it
pleaseth
him
,
vnto
whom
nothing
perisheth
.
This
world
is
as
a
Cabinet
,
in
which
the
small
things
(
though
hid
)
are
nothing
lesse
kept
then
the
great
.
To
him
who
in
an
instant
brought
all
this
All
from
nought
,
to
bring
againe
in
an
instant
any
thing
that
euer
was
in
it
to
what
it
was
once
,
should
not
be
thought
impossible
:
Where
the
power
is
without
limitation
,
the
worke
hath
no
other
limitation
then
the
workers
Will
;
Reason
her selfe
finds
it
more
possible
for
infinite
power
to
deliuer
from
it selfe
a
finit
World
,
and
restore
any
thing
in
this
world
to
what
it
was
first
,
though
decayed
and
dissolued
,
then
for
a
finit
man
,
to
change
the
forme
of
matter
made
to
his
hand
.
The
power
of
God
neuer
brought
to
knowledge
all
that
it
can
,
for
then
were
his
infinit
power
bounded
and
finite
.
That
time
doth
approach
in
which
the
dead
shall
liue
,
and
the
liuing
bee
changed
,
and
of
all
actions
the
guerdon
is
at
hand
;
then
shall
there
bee
an
End
without
an
End
,
Time
shall
finish
,
and
Place
bee
altered
,
and
another
World
of
an
age
Eternall
and
vnchangeable
shall
arise
:
With
the
which
(
mee
thought
)
hee
vanished
,
and
I
did
all
astonished
awake
.
FINIS
.