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This vvorlds folly Or A warning-peece discharged vpon the wickednesse thereof. By I.H.
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I. H., fl. 1615.
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out his tongue O let them looke into the story of one Hecebolus a * Socrat. Tripartit lâ—b cap. 38. Sophister who accommodating his profession to the fashions of the Emperors fained himselfe in the dayes of Constantius to bee a most feruent Christian But when Iulian the Apostata was ruler presently hee turn'd Paynime and in his orations proclaim'd Iulian a God and when Iulian was dead in Iouinians time hee would haue turn'd backe to Christianity whereupon for his mutability and lightnes in his Religion his horrid conscience draue him to the Church gates there hurling himselfe flat cried and bellowed with a lowd voice Conculcate me sal infatuatum trample mee vnder your feete vnsauoury salt that I am entirely wishing out of his soules agony that he had neuer seene the light orâ—t his Conception his tongue had beene riuetted to the roofe of his mouth Lastly and indefinitly to all remember so to liue as you stil may be prepar'd for the stab of death then will you desire to sing your Requiem and Quousque Demine longing to be dissolued and to sleepe in peace reclusiuely from the turbulent sea of earthy carefull miseries discerning clearely by the spiritual eye of vnderstanding that mans life is a wayfare and a warfare a wayfare because it is short and a warrefare for that it is sharpe and that worldly delightes are deceitefull and of no durability like the water-serpent d Ephemeron simuâ— oritur moritur no sooner bred but dead collecting likewise out of humane experience that the best life is but a weary and tedious pilgrimage and 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 to 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 terror to the rich a desire of the poore a pilgrimage vncertaine a theefe 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 disburdens vs of all care vnmannicles and frees vs from vexation solicitude 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 Nemo suâ sorte conteÌ„tus euery man grumbles at his best estate The very Elements whereby our Ens as the secondarie cause is preseru'd conspire against vs the fire burnes vs the water drowns vs the earth annoyes vs and the aire infects vs our daies are laborious our nights comfortlesse the heate scorcheth vs the cold benumbs vs health swels vs with Pride sicknes empaleth our beauties friends turne Swallowes they will sing with vs in the Sommer of prosperity out in the Winter of trial they wil take wing and bee gone Enemies brand our reputations with deprauing imputations and the enuious man hurleth abroad his grins to ensnare our liues who wold then desire to liue where there is nothing that begets content For this world is a Theater of vanities a Chaos of confusions an Embassadour of mischiefe a tyrant to vertue a breaker of peace a fauorite of warre a sweet of vices a coyner of lyes an anuile of Nouelties a table of Epicurisme a furnace of lust a pitte fall to the rich a burthen to the poore a Cell of Pilgrims a denne 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 Eurypus with contrarious motions The pleasure of the wily world thus inueagles him Veni ad me ego reficiam Come vnto me and I will drowne thee in delight the corruption of the luxurious flesh thus ingles him Veni ad me ego inficiam Come vnto mee and I will infect thee the diuell hee whispers this in his eare veni ad me ego decipiam Come vnto mee and I will cheate and deceiue thee but our sweet and sacred Sauiour Iesus Christ with perswasiue inducements thus intreates him Veni 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ad me ego retipiam Come vnto me I pray thee that are heauy laden and I will receiue and exonerate thee and with the mighty arme of my mercy and compassion lift off that insupportable loade which crusheth downe to hel thy groaning soule Study then to liue as dead to the world that thou-maist liue with God for the iust man is saide nunquam sed post mortem viuere neuer to liue till after death Indeauor thy selfe to march faire through this worlds labyrinth not to squander and looke asquint vppon the Cyrcean allurements thereof but without turning either to the right or left hand run straight on in that Eclipiticke line which will conduct thee to that Celestiall Ierusalem where with that immaculate Lambe Christ Iesus thou shalt enioy pleasure without paine wealth without want rest without labour ioy without griefe and immensiue felicity without end Therefore I will bind vp the premises with this conclusiue exhortation of the Apostles Repent and amend your lines Math. 4.17 for the Kingdome of God is at hand Proh dolor hinc Lachrymae FAire Honor footes it squallid Glo-wormes ride And dart false splendors from vnpaid-for Pride Ith best Religion true none truely knowes In such deform'd conformity she goes Lust's a tyr'd Iade and waits for whome will mounther The Lord with 's Landresse Countesse with Page encounter Hymen tread out thy torch Plate's concession Omnia communia is the C profession Full beames of Grace beguild th' obsequious Groome VVho'l kisse the ground with 's knee But there 's no roome For high-borne Merit he ith shadow stands Farre out o' th Margent of great-base Commands Sleeke Flatteries cups replenish't to the brim But swolne Promotion lookes asquint on him VVho hoards more treasures in 's volumnious braine Then all those earth-bred stars Prides gawdy traine Peace moyst-ey'd Muse thy best Inuentions poore Thy Toung 's portcullist but thy thoughts speake more The Authors Character IN hope of guerdonile Epistle none with O my thrice honour'd Lord your worth alone c. Nor blow the bellowes to Ambitions fire With Eaglet-ayres make Butterflies mount higher Then their owne Nat'ral pitch nor with fil'd phrase Base-temperd Birth will burnish scowre or glaze No Popiniey shall weare worths liuerie Emblaz'd with word-embroderie by me Let Enuies wombe be my eternall graue If I turne Sycophant or vnseason'd slaue To furnish spangled-Fooles with what they want Make th' Asse beleeue he carries th' Elephant Craule int'a Great-mans bosome by some icast Like a staru'd Lowse vpon a Taylors breast Or cloath the fatall strumpet Helena With th'attributes of chast Andromeda Nor squint I after praise or plausiue grace Mans honest plainnesse needs feare no mans face Insta non magna vole
is scarse any difference betwixt Countesse and Curtezan Lady and Chamber-maid Mistresse and greasie Kitchin-wench Gentleman and Mechanicke as for Knight and Taylor there goes but a paire of Sheares betwixt them How many mispend and profusely lauish their forenoones houres in the curious pranking of their sinne-polluted bodies but how few rescrue one poore brace of minutes wherein to prouide spirituall induments to house their naked sinfull soules Neuer was that Apoththegme of old Bias the Philosopher more verified Omnia mea mecum porto 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 backes in gorgeous apparrell women do so commonly sophisticate their beauties that one though Linceus-sighted can hardly iudge whether they possesse their owne faces or no and which is more then most lamentabl euery snowy-headed Matron euery toothlesse * An abuse much complaind of by the Company of Painters Mumpsimus that one may see the sunne go to bed through the furrowes of her forehead must haue her boxe of odoriferous pomatum and glittering Stybium wherewithall to parget white-lime and complexionate her rumpled cheekes till shee looke as smug as an handsome painted close-stoole or rotten post But as for those that lap vp their bodyes in the pleasant mists of aromaticke perfumes let them withall swallow the Poets pill Neuole nonbenè olet qui benè semper olet Martial Within a sweete and Ciuet-lurking body often is imprisoned a loathsome stinking soule Murther is accounted but Manly reuenge the desperate stabber cares no more to kill a man then to cracke a Flea Vsury and Extortion are held Laudable vocations Couetousnesse is styled Thrift Luxurie and Whoredome are reputed but youthfull trickes And as for Drunkennesse why that 's a tolerable recreation do not men pursue it with such inordinat 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 soly prostitute themselues to quotidian carowsing till their breathes smell no sweeter then a Brewers Aperne whilst their families are wrung and grip't in the clutches of Pouerty lockt vp and imprisoned from those necessary supplements which shoulde keepe both breath and body together at vnion This is a worthy * S. Gregory Fathers opinion That a manpossessed with a diuell may be thought to be in a more hopefull state then a Drunkard for albeit 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 Sathan S. Augustine likewise descries three fearefull properties in a Drunkard S. Augustine It confoundes Nature saith hee loseth Grace and consequently incurres Gods wrathfull indignation to be powred out vpon the embracer thereof Swearing and blaspheming Gods great and glorious name is reckoned for a Moral vertue the grace of Birth and Honor the cognisance of an high-bred spirit VVhat Christian can refrain that hath any spark of diuine intellect in him to vnsluce the flood-gates of his eyes and let his melting heart gush through in teares when in the streets he shal heare litle children scarse able to go or speake to be vnderstood volley forth most fearefull oathes and vvith such procliuity as if they had bin tutor'd in their mothers womb whilst their parents standing by offer not to checke them vvith so much as a sovvre reproofe but seeming rather rather to solace themselues in their childrens sinnes and delight in their owne damnations like those who die of a Sardinian laughter If the penall Law of Ludouicus were put in practise who hearing one sweare seared vp his lips with an hot yron scarse ten in as many parishes but would bee glad to be in league with the Apothecaries Lip-salue How many miraculous iudgements hath God shot out against the blasphemers of his sacred Name whose instances would be too prolixious what sin can be more damnable and yet what more practised none can sooner pluÌ„ge the soule into the implacable gulfe of perdition and yet no sin by intentiue indeauour so easie to be cropt off and weeded vp for that it is no incidentall issue of natural corruption but an accidentall Monster ingendred of corrupted custome A learned * August Father confesseth That at euery other word hee once vsed to sweare but at length endeauoring to locke vp the doore of his lips to set watch before his tongue imploring diuine assistance therin and intreating moreouer his friends to smite him with the rod of reprehension in forty daies hee vtterly lost the abusiue vse thereof so that now sayth hee Nihil mihi facilius quà m non iurare Nothing is more easie vnto mee then not to sweare at all * French Inuentory It is recorded that Lewis the 7. King of France divulged an Edict that whosoeuer was known to war against heauen with oathes should bee branded in the forehead as a Capitall offender should not then euery Christian labor to set a watch before his mouth and keepe the doore of his lips that no rebellious words salley forth against his Creator if not for the fear 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 outstrip vs in their cloudy and ignorant zeale they will dispute in the heart of their highest streetes about their Alcoran and Mahometish Religion with holy intended deuotion But what voice is heard in our streetes Nought but the squeaking out of those a Lasciui contus quibus Satyri gaudent Achan var. â—â—st gen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 obscaene and light ligges stuft with loathsome and vnheard-of Ribauldry suckt from the poysonous dugs of Sinne-sweld Theaters controuersall conferences about richest Beere neatest Wine or strongest Tobacco wherein to drowne their soules and draw meager diseases vppon their distempered bodies Therefore let them bee patient if I rippe vp their impostumd'd vlcers as b Erasm Apophthegm Diogenes did the luxurious scape-thrifts with the Poets Lancier c Homer 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Fond youth thy vitall Twist will soone be crackt And tell them moreouer that by their nocturnall superfluities and insatiable quaffings they set but fethers in Times wings and as a woorthy home-bred Author saith spur but the gallopping horse hasten on their speedy deaths and digge their own vntimely graues More haue recourse to Playing houses then to Praying houses where they set open their cares eies to suck vp variety of abhominations bewitching their minds with extrauagant thoughts benumbing their soules with insensibilitie where by fin is become so customarie to them as That to sin with them is deem'd no sinne at all consonant