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A04036	The mirror of mans lyfe Plainely describing, what weake moulde we are made of: what miseries we are subiect vnto: howe vncertaine this life is: and what shal be our ende. Englished by H. Kirton.; De contemptu mundi. English	Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 61-1216.; Kirton, H. (Henry); Gosson, Stephen, 1554-1624. Speculum humanum. aut	1576 (1576)	STC 14093; ESTC S106262	64,245	170

hir furie more increaseth the great desire of pleasure is satiate by the which concupiscence is ingendered This is the Tyran of the fleshe the lawe of the members the nourishment and inflamation of sinne the languishing and feblenesse of nature and the foode of deathe No man is borne without it which if at any tyme wee happilye passe ouer not yelding thereunto yet doeth hir force alwayes remayne actually graffed in our flesh for if we shall say we haue no sinne wee deceiue our selues and the trueth is not in vs O greeuous necessitie and vnfortunate estate of man before we can sinne we are fastened and straight linked to sinne And before wee can offend wee are bounde with offence By one man sinne entered into the world saith saint Paul and through sinne death h●th gone ouer all men Dyd not our fathers eate the bitter grape saye the Prophets and are not the teeth of their children set on edge therewith Of the feeblenesse and weaknesse of the yong infant Chap. 4. WHy then is lighte giuen to this poore wretche and lyfe to them which lyue in bitternesse of the soule happye are they which dyed before they were borne feelyng death before they knewe what lyfe is For some come into this world so deformed and monstrous that they seeme rather to be abominations than men for whom peraduenture it had bin better prouyded if they had neuer come in sight bicause they are set forth to be beholden as monsters For manye of them are borne dismembred and corrupt in their senses to the heauinesse and sorowe of their frendes to the ignominie of their parentes and to the rebuke of their kinsfolks To what end should I speake this particularly of some seeing that generally wee bee all borne impotent without knowledge without speech and without strength Wee come into this worlde lamenting feebly faint differing very little from brute beasts yea in worse case than they bee in many respectes For they as soone as they come forth doe by and by march and go forwardes and we can not only go vpright vpon our feete but being croked are not able to creepe with our handes Of the payne of the childes byrth and of his pitifull crying out Chap. 5. WEe be all borne yelling and crying to the end we may expresse our miserie For the man childe newly borne cryeth A the female E so that all crye A or E which commeth from Eua. And what is Eua but as much to say as Heu Ha which importeth alas or fye vppon me For these wordes be● both Interiections of him that soroweth or lamenteth expressing the greatnesse of his grief Hereuppon our first mother before hir sin committed in Paradise was called Virago but after she had sinned she well deserued to bee named Eua at the which tyme shee hearde God say vnto hir Thou shalte bring forth thy chylde in payne and sorow For there is no payne lyke to the grief of a woman labouring with childe Wherefore Rachel through the exceeding great payne of trauail with hir childe departing out of this life on hir death bed named hir son Benoni which is as much to say as the child of sorow and pain The wife of Phinees through sodayn pangs cōming vppon hir was deliuered of a childe both of thē died as it were at an instant yet in the very point of hir death she called hir chyld Icabod ● which is to say the child of no glory But as he which escaped after shipwrack is glad so the womā when she is in trauel is sad but after shee is deliuered remēbreth no more hir pain● for ioy that there is brought forth a r●●sonable creature into the world Then to conclude she conceiueth hir childe in vncleannesse shee bringeth it f●orth with heauinesse and sorrowe she nourisheth it with anguishe and payne shee keepeth it with continuall care and feare Of the nakednesse of man Chap. 6. NAked commeth hee out of his mothers wombe into this worlde and naked shall he returne againe from hence he commeth poore and shall returne agayne poore For I came naked out of my mothers wombe sayth Iob and out of this world I shall returne naked agayne we brought nothing doubtlesse in●o this worlde bycause wee can take nothing with vs out of it If anye man goe out of the worlde clothed let him consider what kynde of appa●ell hee brought into it which willingly I will passe ouer as a thing vndecent to bee spoken and vnseemely to bee heard What ●rui●e man bringeth forth Chap. 7. O Most vile vnworthye and miserable condition of man O vnseemelye and wretched estate Search out diligently and make s●rious inquisition of the hearbes and trees they doe of themselues bring forth ●lowers● boughes and fruites and th●n miserable wretche bringest forth nittes lyse and wormes They doe of their owne nature yelde oyle wyne and balme but thou vtterest things displeasant and odious they doe send forth from them sweete and pleasant odours thou lothsome and vnsauery smels such as the tree is such is the fruite for an euill tree can not bring forth good fruit And what is man according to his forme but a certayne tree turned v●side downe whose rootes be the heares whose trunke is the head with the necke whose s●ock is the brest with the belly the braunches bee the armes with the legges the leaues be the fingers with the ioyntes This is the leafe which is ●oste with euery wynde this is the tree that is ouerthrowne with euery blast and this is the stubble which is dryed vp with the sunne Of the incommodities of ●lde age and shortnesse of lyfe Chap. 8. IN the first beginning of mans estate we reade that men liued nine hundreth yeares and more but the lyfe of man declining by little and little God sayde vnto Noe my spirit or breath shal not remain alwayes in man for y he is fleshe his dayes shal be an hundreth twentie yeares which may bee vnderstoode as well of the terme of mans life as of the space of his repētance For since that time forwards we seldom reade that man liued longer but when mans life was cut shorter the Psalmist sayd The dayes and tyme of our lyfe yeeres doe consist in the very number of seuētie years but if through the powers and forces of nature they be cōtinued to the number of foure score yeres yet that tyme is but of more labour and sorow Shal not the smal number of my dayes saith Iob be ended in a short time our dayes passe ouer more swift than the webbe which is cut off by the weauer A man borne of a woman liueth but a shorte tyme and is replenished with many myseries which florisheth for a tyme and vanisheth away agayne euen as a flower hee also flyeth away lyke a shadowe and doeth neuer continew in one estate Fewe men now

sorowes vnloked for which happen vnto men Chap. 20. SOdayne heauinesse doeth alwayes accompany worldly myrth and that which beginneth with ioye doeth alwayes ●nd with some sorowe for worldly pleasure is mixte with manye bitter corsies This knewe he right well which sayd Laughter is mixt with griefe and the end of mirth is finished with wayling The children of Iob did proue this true by experience the whiche whiles that they were making mery in their eldest brothers house a sodayne myghtie wynde ri●ing out of the deserte ouerthrewe the house destroyed them all And therefore their father might wel say● My ●arp is changed into mourning my citherne is turned into the v●yce of those that weepe It is better saith the wise man to go into the house of mo●rning than of banketting Harken therfore vnto his good counsayle In the day of thy mirth prosperitie forget not sorow and aduersitie and remember thy laste and ending day and thou shalt not sin damnably Of ●he ne●renesse of death Chap. 21. THe last day of our lyfe is vnto vs alwayes the first day to lyfe and yet wee doe neuer accompt the first day to be the last Wher●as in deede we should still so line as though we shuld alwaies die For it is writen Remember that death doeth not ●arry long and is not slow in comming Tyme passeth away and death approcheth nighe A thousand yeeres are before the eyes of hym that dyeth as it were but yesterday which is already past For the things which God will haue come to passe are alwayes springing and things present doe dayly decaye and perish and those things which are past are cleane dead and consumed We then are dying whiles we liue and then doe we cease from dying when we cease to liue Therefore it is better to dye● alwayes to liue than to liue to dye euer For the mortall lyfe of man is but a liuing death Whereuppon sayth Salomon I commend more the estate of those that be dead than of those that liue and I iudge him that is not yet borne happier than them both The lyfe of man passeth swiftly away and can not be stayed and death commeth vppon him instantlye and can not bee hindered Man therefore is that wonderfull thing which doth decrease and encrease and al in a moment For howe much the more mans life encreaseth so much the neerer he approcheth to his ende Of the terror of dreames Chap. 22. THe verye tyme whyche is graunted man in this lyfe for his rest is not permitted to be quiet vnto hym for in dreames dreadfull things often times appeare which cause a manne to feare and visions in hys sleepes doe molest him And although in very deede those things which men dreame of be not sorowfull terrible or payneful yet for certaynetie those whyche are molested with such dreames are caused to be pensiue sorowfull and fearefull In so muche that sometymes in their sleepes they feruently weepe and when they are waked out thereof are often troubled in their minds Marke well what Elephas Thematices sayeth of this matter In the terror of a vision sayeth hee in the night time when men are wonte to sleepe a greate feare and trembling came vppon mee and all my bones did shake for feare and when the spirit passed in my presence the heare of my head stood vp Consider the saying of Iob also in these wordes If I say vnto my selfe my bedde shall comfort me and I shall bee eased talking with my selfe vpon my couch thou wilte terrifie me with dreames and wilte make me shake for feare through visyons Nabuchodonozer sawe in a dreame that thing whiche made him throughly afrayde and the vision being firmely imprest in his mynde dyd much vexe trouble him Many thoughtes and cares do folowe dreames and where there is many dreames there is exceedyng many vani●ies Dreames haue caused many to erre and do amisse and the hope that men haue had in them hathe byn made frustrate In sleepes also happen often tymes vncleane imaginations whereby not onely the flesh is polluted by illusions in the night but the soule is also defyled whe●●vpon the Lord in the Leuiticall lawe sayeth thus if there bee any man amongst you which by illusion is abused in his sleepe by night let him goe out of the tents and let him not returne before that in the euening he bee washed cleane with water and after the going downe of the Sunne let him come agayne into the tentes Of Compassion Chap. 23. O With what griefe be wee vexed with what trembling feare bee wee shaken when wee vnderstande the losses or hinderaunce of our friendes and howe muche doe wee stand in feare of the dangers and losse of our parents yea sometymes he that is whole add sounde of bodye is more troubled and vexed in his feare than the sick and feeble is in his sicknesse For the voluntary sicke man is more afflicted with the affection of his griefe than the sicke patient man languishing in his feeble●esse Herevpon breaketh out the Poet in these wordes Loue is a lothsome thing God wote and passing full of griefe Whose breast is so hardened whose harte is so stonye that hee can not bee sorye and lament that he can not weepe and wayle when ●e doeth beholde the sickenesse or death of his friend or neighbour that hee can not suffer with him that suffereth and sorow with him that mourneth Our sauiour Christ him selfe when hee sawe Marye Magdalen the Iewes which came with hir to Lazarus monument all weeping hee was afflicted in spirit and troubled in him selfe and wepte Not peraduenture bicause Lazarus the brother of Mary was deade but rather for that he should rayse him vp or cal him being now deade vnto the myseries of this lyfe againe For let him perswade him selfe to be guiltie of great hardnesse of hart and to bee accompted as one faulte worthy who soroweth more at the corporall departure of his friend than the spirituall death of his soule Of sundry misfortunes that happen vnto men Chap. 24. SUch is our casual cōdition that when we seeme to stād in great securitie we dwell in deepeste daunger and when wee least feare we sonest fall Calamitie falleth vppon vs not loked for sickenesse sodaynlye inuadeth vs and death without ransome requireth his duetie Doe not therefore boaste vppon the nexte day being ignorant what the day folowing will bring forth Man knoweth not his end but as the fishes be taken with the booke and the byrdes bee sodaynly entrapped with the snare so men bee preuented in their dayes and sometymes taken in an euill houre when death shall speedily arrest them Of the innumerable kindes of sicknesses that man is subiect vnto Chap. 25. THe knowledge that man hath hadde to searche oute the causes and natures of things these many hundreth yeeres could as yet neuer finde out so many