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A20947	Heraclitus: or, Meditations vpon the misery of mankinde, and the vanitie of humane life with the inconstancie of worldly things; as also the wickednesse of this deceitfull age described. Faithfully translated out of the last edition written in French by that learned diuine, Monsieur Du Moulin By Abraham Darcie.; Héraclite; ou, De la vanité et misère de la vie humaine. English	Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.; Darcie, Abraham, fl. 1625.	1624 (1624)	STC 7326; ESTC S115746	58,947	176

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 I say that although there were such a man found in this world of so happy condition as to haue alwayes sailed in the ship of his life in this rough and inconstant Sea of the earth with the agreeable winds of his desire and without the least dangers but rather continually to haue enioyed a sweet and immutable calme yet notwithstanding this kinde of life full of Roses will proue full of Thornes at his death in considering that losse and depriuation of all those pleasures doe produce and bring forth cruell sorrows and griefes to the possessor thereof whose minde will bee so extremely vext and tormented that his paines and sufferings can be rather endured then expressed which may easily bee proued by the continuall experience that wee haue in worldly things by this Maxime the greater the contentments are the more extreme is the displeasure and anguish in the deprauation of them euen as gaine and profit produce feelings of ioy so losse and dammage by different effects breede sencible torments and griefes which moues me to conclude according to my first Propositions that there is no life although neuer so happy that can bee free and exempted from sorrowes and miseries and to adde my opinion to it I hold that the most vnfortunate are the happiest considering the conclusion and end of all things how the calme followes still the tempest the day succeeds the night faire weather raine and ioy is still attended with annoy and sorrowes according to the maxime of Heauen Earth all the difference there is is that this worlds happinesse and ioyes are temporall and limited and in the other World eternall and infinite 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 if Humility bee the Queene of all other vertues sith Arrogancy hath beene and is still Princesse of Vices I hold opinion with that worthy Philosopher which in one lesson only taught all sorts of Sciences comprehended abridged in that admirable precept and instruction of Cognosce Teipsum and truely who in that knowledge is not ignorant and that in knowing himselfe will auow that hee doth not perfectly know himselfe The way that we leade to arriue at this blest iourneys end vnto which wee aspire is most long and tedious So that it vvere much better for vs to arme our selues with a generous resolution to forsake the world before it doth leaue and abandon vs for the soonest we can will bee late enough to execute so glorious an enterprize For when I thinke and behold the miserable state of this transitorie world and how it is infected with all sorts of execrable sinnes a trembling horrour vnties my bodies ligatures my very knees beat together and I could vnfainedly wish my sinnowy structure to be transformed into a lumpe of snow that the ardour of my soules vexation might dissolue it into penitentiall teares for men do act sinne with an auaritious appetite and all varieties of abominations are lifted to their Arcticke point Doth not Satan coyne them so fast as men would willingly put them in practize Did pride euer so strut it vpon the Tiptoes as now it doth 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

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 vvith 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 vvell 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 vvith 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 vvell 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 vvithout 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 vvorld 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 vvhereof 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 vvhom 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