whence into her brest New poysons still she takes Then in the Soule recides Furie Despaire and Rage At God which them diuides From him an endlesse age Thus both aliue and dead Scorcht both with Frosts and Flames One while in burning bed And streight in Iere streames Stench neuer kills them here Night neuer shuts their eyes Noyce neuer deafes there â—are By wants or wounds none diesâ— The senses all remaine And euery facultie To worke their greater paine Their selfe tormenters be Therefore feare God and dread Not men that can impose Nothing vpon thee dead Shun Hells eternall woes CHAP. XXXVII The comparison of the great and little Worlds Et creauit Deus hominem ad imaginem similitudinem suam ad imaginem Dei creauit illum Genes 1. HOw much vnlike this great World seemes to be Vnto this little World in quantitie And yet in qualitie how neere they come Within the compasse of a comparison The Heauens and Earth this greater World we name Of Heauen and Earth's composde this lesse Worlds frame The Sunne illuminates the Heauens all And giues earth life So in these bodies small The soule performes as much The Sunne transmits His influence his light and benefits Through the tralucent bodies interposed And triple Ayre in Regions three disposed Euen so the sentient Soule likewise susteines Both moues and gouerns as with certaine reines On th' ayrie wings of b threefold Spirits sent Each facultie of this her instrument And as the Sunne from two halfe Hemispheares Illumines Earth which otherwise appeares But a sad mansion So the soule affords The like through her halfe seene halfe hidden Orbes The Sunne by rarifaction doth euoke Th'attenuated Waters vaprous Smoke To th'ayres cold Region and condensed there Melts them to feede the Earth and coole the ayre The like againe doth Natures lesser Sunne The Soule I meane when through concoction Motion or other cause the vapours flie Vpwards if through the head transpired they be They haue their vses in Dame Natures Hall But if dissolu'd like showres in Haruest fall And many a time the worst disease beget Thus squares the sentient facultie with it But the supreame irradiance of the mind Farre liker to the Worlds high Soule we find Both incorporeall essences and high Vnbounded by c Time Place or Quantitie And as the Worlds high Soule containing all Is not contained d The like thing doth befalâ— To this of ours As that hath supreame powre In all so by Creations right hath ours Ore this her petty Kingdome And as that Doth this great World two waies illuminate By e corporall and incorporeall meanes So seemes the soule to powre forth two-fold beameâ— Beames that doe this dead earth viuificate Beames that doe this darke sence illuminate Beames that forth from that f light and essence flow That in it selfe both light and essence holds And as God is by his infinite Of essence euery thing g So mens soules be After a sort by apprehending all Materiall things and immateriall And as that hath perfect knowledge and will So had this tho now spoild by Satans ill But much they differ in existencie God of himselfe subsists But by him we By whom our soules were first of nothing made The perfect patterns of th'â—de â—s laid Vp in the secret closets of his mind Now for the h Earth altho therein we find Betwixt things ouall and things angular But little semblance Yet some things there are Which in a measure paralels may seeme We haue both frozen Poles and burning Line The head and feete that furthest off remaine The frozen Poles I may imagine them The parts precordiall Line and Center be Where natiue heare consumes humiditie Within the earth is many a burning fire And in our selues Diseases and Desire No small flames breed When Water Fire or Aire Would from Earthes wombe vnto their homes repaire But are deteynd what Feauors they ingender And in our selues the same effects they render As diuerse know * An oylie humor feeds Our Natiue heate Trees haue the like and Seeds Our flesh is but a humour that 's concreat Earths superficies is no more the sweat And fatnes of the clouds Nature alone Imparts not i fat and marrow to our bone Earth hath her fat which k sulphure we doe call Which feeds her Bones her Mines and Minerall Nature to vs alone haire hath not lent The Woods and Groues are Earths like ornament Dame Nature not alone our wants supplies With fruitfull Veines and panting Arteries The christall streames and Riuers â—alt tide wasâ—t In stead of these arâ— reasonantly plac't The two great Seas the l Terrene and the Ocean That mouing still this seeming void of motion Natures Magazines of humiditie Be as in vs the heart and Liner be Hâ—w like are these yet how vnlike againe All faire did not mans sinne their beauties staine a Nonne capitis situs in quo intellectus rationis sapientiaeofficina supremam illam inuisibilis mundi partem quae summi illius numinis intelligentiarum sedes creditur reffert nonne mens Des â—lla portio corporis domina tribus potentijs sâ—u facultatibus eandem tamen cum anima rationalâ— essentiam perticipantibus Dei ousian amâ—riston in personis interim trinam adumbrat tacite quasi ingerit Nonne interiorum sensuum triga tres illas hierarâ—hias in quas religiosa antiquitas intelligentiarum numerum innumerum est partita exteriores autem sensus eas intelligentias quaerationem Angelorum induunt vt sunt Apostolo citante virtutes principatus throâ— Archangeli Angeli tanquam stipatores Deâ— omnipotentis thronum circumstantes iussa illius capessentes salutemque humani generis quouis modo promouentes representant innuunt Galen 1. de temp ad finem Galen 1. de vsu partium cap. 2. 3. Ex Knoblochio Institu Anato b Animall Vitall Naturall c Demonstratum est extra coelum necesse câ—rpus nec etiam esse posse patet ergo neque locum extra coelum esse neque vacuum neque tempus Arist. de coelo lib. 1. cap. 9. d Quid igitur continet animam si sua natura est partibilis Profecto non corpus nam potius econtrario videtur animam continere corpus vnde eâ egressâ euanessit putrescit Arist. de an l. 1. cap. 9. e Per solem nempe instrumentum materiale luminis per spiritum inuisibiliter irrhadiant em omnes piorum fidelium mentes f Quid enim aliud ipse Deus quam lux est sed tamen illa neque visa nec affatu facilis Scaliger Excert 297. 3. excer 365. 6. g Vt ergo Deo quam similimus homo reddatur necesse est cum quoque omnia fieri Cumque omnia fieri non possit per infinitudinem essentiae vt Deus est omnia ideo opportebat fieri per imaginem rerum omnium in mente hominis impressam diiudicatam Keckerman sâ—st Phys. l. 4. cap. 4. hominem intelligendo omnia omnia fieri
of hurtfull weeds it may bring forth profitable he arbs MAn hath a garden that 's not very large nor very narrow and it is his charge To dresse the same to prune and looke vnto it Least weeds instead of wholesome hearbs â—â—regrow it T is not his owne he hath it but for life And hence God knowes proceeds his care as strife For tide he is â—ach day some fruits to bring For this to him that did demise the thing But he alas can no way pay his rent Tho for the same he knowes he shall be sâ—ent For tho he â—oyle and labours to his powre To kill â—he weedâ— that soring there euâ—â—y howre Yet still they multiply and still grow more Out of old rootes comes new not knowne before So thicke that one of seuerall kinds may take Handfuls at once but must enquirie make A long long 〈◊〉 for â—ny wholesome plant For in this Garden those be wondrous seant No Palmes or Vynes grow here for â—ouers true No Râ—semarie an hearbâ— to Hymen dew No hâ—auenly thrift this Garden doth bâ—gâ—t Nor honestie by Nature neere a whit Their growes not in t a dram of any Sage Some Time but much neglected till old age Roses once grew therein and Lillies toe But in their roomes Hemlocks and Deaths hearbs now Hysop that 's giuen by heauen to wash vs cleare Oft withers through dispairing Willowes neare And bitter Rew that brings our â—hiefest gaines This hardly growes with industrie and paines For all this ground 's with such fowle weeds growne ouer That each iudicious eye may plaine discouer The Gardiners most manifest neglect Or in the ground some naturall defect Both must we grant defectiue all herein That we by shew not substance measure them Things faire tho hurtfull so the sense beguile That we them nourish tho they kill the while Vnto our Landlord lets therefore resigne Our interest Dispose it Heauen t is thine And He auens bright eie that once wept teares of blood Showre grace downe on our hearts and make theÌ„ good CHAP. III. The difference betweene a rude neglected mind and a mind directed by grace and gouernd by reasons discipline instant by example of difference in grounds THe dunghill base neglected ground that breeds Nothing but stinking Hemlocks and vile Weeds Butdocks Briers Brakes and contemptible things Differs not more from Gardens of great Kings Where Art and Nature friendly seeme to vie Which should each others worke most beau â— ifie Where cunning Artists hand ingrasts and stockâ— The Pistachene the Peach or Aprikocks Where shadie Groues rare Fruits and fragrant Ayre Soft downie Carpets burbbling Fountaines cleare Conspire to make a sensuall happiness The rude vnpollisht earth differs from these Not halfe so much I say as doth that mind Which senâ—uall lusts and appetites doe bind Captiuing reason that should be their King Differ from those where artfull pollishing All vagrant lusts and â—oule desire haue tide Subdued by Grace to Reason sanctified But as earth doth not of it selfe produce Those things that are most needfull for mans vse Which by much toyle and tillage are acquired So those things that by Heauen are most desired And sought for in our selues they doe not grow From our corrupt affections but doe flow From the reflection of that light Diuine Without which darknes doth our soules confine Without which these our hearts most vile fruit brings Euen Lusts Rebellions Treasons and worst things For earth and man for sinne together curst Nor earth nor man seeme what they were at first Poore man seemes now like Ierusalems a Phane The place where God was thought once to remainâ— And to inhabit that 's become a den Of theeues a propugnacle for vile men Gods enemies that lies for truth belieue From whence both God and all his Saints they grieue So mans heart that created was to be A Phane or Temple for the Deitie A Castle and a Fortresse is become To harbor treasons and rebellion Gainst God and goodnesse This a Fort is made From whence vncleanâ— desires and lusts inuade The Vnderstanding and depraue the Will So that that knowes not good this followes ill a The Temple of Ierusalem now a 〈◊〉 Moschet CHAP. IIII. The best things abâ—sed most dangerous for vnderstanding which in Mans first estate made him little lesse then Angels being now depraeued makes him many times more miferable then beasts THe fairest and best things thus misapplied Seeme foâ—le and all their natiue beautie hide Gold that seemes faire for health or ornament Seemes foule when it betrayes the innocent Beautie that 's good with chastitie and grace Seemes vile bestowed vpon th'immodest face And vnderstanding which by faâ—â—e transcends All else wherewith Dame Nature vs befriends The Sunne that should irradiate the soule How faire t' was pure But now depraued how foule The beasts that doe enâ—oy no more then sence Doe seeme to this to offer lesse offence Then we to reason for their appetiâ—e Doth in it's proper obiects most delight The Silk worme that for ornament is gâ—uâ—a Her appetite is still the same to spin The Bees alone her hony-house to frame Both Hawke and Hound haue each their proper Game Th'Apodes doe not seeke to goe or swim Ayre serues alone to keepe and nourish them The Dolphin nerâ— attempts the earth to know For if he touch the earth he dieth so Nor seekes the silly Mole to swim or flie But in the earth alone to delue and die And those same Flies in Cyprian furnacâ— found Bred in the fiâ—e hate water ayre and ground All things but Man are streight in their desires He onely wrong where rightnes Heauen requires God made him vpright with erected brow To looke at Hâ—auen and not with beasts to bow To earth God gaue him Angels mind and face But he alone seekes things terrean and base The obiect of our intellect is a Trewth And therefore chiefly God Put Man pursewth Nothing so much as falshood follie lies Instead of substance shadowes nullities The obiect of our will is also b Good And goodnesse selfe the chiefest good that 's God Tâ—o still our minds and thus depraued will Nothing so much affect as what is ill God is the obiect of each perfect mind But Hell and blacknes in the most we find Ouâ— mâ—ndâ—s like Clocks composde of many wheeles Each day new change and alteration feeles Either they goe too fast or else too slow â—dâ—e they rust in action fairely shew â—ach day we must with teares of penitence Wâ—sh them from foule dust of concupiscence And â— ligenâ—ly wind them vp with care And meditation else they fruitles are a Cum veritas sit obiectum intellectus idcirâ—o id erit maximè obiectum intellectus quod est maximè veritas essentialiter originaliter nemâ—e Deus Cur â—rgo intellectus hominis tam difficulter apprehendâ—t Deum ipso Arist. teste nam 2. Metaphis cap. 1. inquit intellectus hominis habet se adea quae sua natura sunt
call the noone-day night And herein is that darknesse more accurst Of th'vnderstanding then the senses sarre For this defectiue we 're content to trust A friend to guide vs lest our steps should erre But that most wretched calls the darknesse day And thewd the light in darknesse striues to stay And why 's this cause we trust the sence alone And this light through the sences neuer past The Eyes no obiects haue but bodies knowne To speake of light vnseene to th'sence is waste But vnbeleeuing man that doest agnize Onely things obuious to thy sence and eyes When hast thou seene the Ayre at any time The chiefe sustaining meanes by which we liue Or thine owne soule whose beauties clearer shine More splendant beames then fading earth can giue For each thing is more noble in degree As'ts freer from Materialitie Water therefore 's aboue th'condensed dust Ayre aboue that then th'element of fire Then th'Orbes tralucent a incorporeall most Of bodies Lastly th'Angels that aspire Nearest that incorporeall Sunne aboue That giues the light of wisdome warmth of loue a Most incorporeall of bodies because of tralucent so many hundred thousand miles tho of Adamantine haranesse Coeli enim qualitates sunt 4. 1. Subtilitas siue puritas 2. Indissipabilitas seu soliditas 3. Immutabilitas 4. Rotunditas CHAP. XXIX Gods Wisdome YOu Nations then that starres and fire inuoke To this a light let your hallowed Incense smoke All Lights are darknesse else no other light Can guide your steps from errors dismall night Come then but when to see this light you come You must doe like those that behold the Sunne Looke on some third thing that reflects the skies Because two vehement obiects spoyle the eyes The Bashawes in the Turkish presence bow Their heads and bend their eyes to th' earth downe loe Fearing to gaze too freely on their Prince Then shall we dare more then the Scraphins They to behold this Light in highest place Doe interpose their wings before his face Not able so great glories to behold Then shall we wretched mortals farre more bold Gaze full vpon those beames that make vs blind No let vs for this weake eie of the mind Find some reflecting mirror as we doe For th'sences that t' our intellect may show As in a glasse the shadow of this light For this it selfe is in it selfe too bright For creatures to behold of so low state We haue a glasse a glasse of things create Wherein this wisdome doth so clearely shine That euery eye may see this light diâ—â—ne Therefore in this glasse of the creatâ—res we The glorie of our Maker best may see Who infinite vnbounded vnconteynd Himselfe in limits yet hath all things fram'd By number weight and measure for both Heauen Earth Sea Sun Moone the Stars the Planets seuen The Elements Men Beasts and Plants we find In these termes and dimensions all confind The Heauens in reuolution iumpe with time No accident doth ere their course decline From their first order Such proportion Of magnitude assignd to euery one And distance that if ought herein were chang'd From order the whole frame were quite estrang'd From goodnesse and pernitious to men But this is not ordaind alone to them The little Bees and Ants therewith are blest Such true proportion both in man and beast Of weight and measure in each member plac't And euery part with such true number grac't That if therein the least transgression be It brands the creature with deformitie God giues to man one head two hands two feete If any where this orders changd we meet A Monster If the Nose or Mouth or Eare Be fram'd too large they make the whole appeare Vncomely What an vniformitie In Flowers and Fruits in Seeds and Leaues we see Fram'd with such euennes that oft-times our sight Cannot distinguish all with number weight And measure And what can the wisdome show Of our great Maker more then this to know The number weight and measure of each part Shall not he know the motions of the heart He knowes the number of our steps and haires Shall not he know our secretest affaires And close affections He the drops of raine And of the Sands that on the shores remaine The number knowes And tell me shall not he The number of our words and actions see Yes For his Wisdome yet farre more appeares In that he at one instant sees and heares The actions thoughts and words of euery man Mans lame imperfect knowledge hardly can By many acts discoursing too and fro Scarcely attaine not fully come vnto The knowledge of some one thing But this King By one act sees himselfe and euery thing That Heauen and Earth containes But now we come To th'weighâ— and measure of perfection This Earth for which men striue so much we deeme Compar'd with Gold and Iems of small esteeme But these compar'd with things that life can saue Farre sleighter and much lower value haue The beasts that haue the benefit of sence Offencelesse creatures haue preheminence But men endued with reasons facultie Obtaine a splendor farre more cleare and high Yet these compared with those cleare minds aboue Whom no soule appetiâ—es of sences moue Are poore and low How great diuerâ—â—tie Of weight and measure is in digâ—itie In mens estates and callings here on earth Some wise some weake some meane and low by birth Others noble some indigent and poore Others swelling with abundant store But in the most mans weake opinion erres For tho the state of pouertie appeares Irksome and heauy vnto earthly minds The holy soule therein aduantage finds For wealth 's a snare that doth our soules betray But want's a tutor whips vs to the way That leads vnto eternall happines So that these present discommodities Returne in time an ample recompence When the faire guilded sweets of oppulence Repay their weight in bitternes and gall Oh how inscrutable are his workes all Who can declare the secret simpathies The hidden causes of antiphathies Who can expresse the wondrous properties Of Plants and Beasts their hidden qualities How many excellencies each were dwells Within the fabrick of these earthen cells For of the fairer faculties of mind The mind 's reflected knowledge darke and blind With such imperfectnes it selfe doth view We justly doubt if what we know be true Tho most we find our imbecillitie In contemplation of that Maiestie Which like a Faâ—lkon through the high clouds towres Where we come tardy with these wings of ours a God is light and there is no darknesse in him Iohn 1. 1. CHAP XXX His Power HIs Power againe as hard a taske I find For infinite can neuer be confind To place or number worke too hard and high To shew his powre that rules both earth and skie To whom the Saints and Angels all obey To whom the Lampes that rule both night day For he their Maker and their Mouer is Nor doe they runne their proper course but his Who sometime doth subiect their glorious
rather heare thinke why then what they be First what a spatious and maiestick Hall Full of officious seâ—uanâ—s for your vse Hath Heauen ordained to entertaine you all Wherein if any want t is but th' abuse Of foule excesse whose surfets wasts the store That might supply the needies wants twice orâ— With what a downie Carpet hath he spread The flowrie earth to entertaine your feete Where euery plant and flowre that shewes his head Brings with it profit wonder and delight How many a pretty flie with spotted wing Vpon there slender stalkes their Canzons sing How many fruitfull Champains feeding flocks How many beautious Forrests clad in greene Where watry Nimphes with soft embraces locks Such shadie Groues as for true Loue may seeme Fit Chappels to the winged singers layes And burbling streames to chaunt true Beauties praise Yet more he lodges in earths secret vaines Ten thousand things of farre more valued prise And th' Sea for pleasure and for vse conteines The choisest beauties richest sinells and dies Thus hath our Maker for touch tast and smell For Eie and Eare puruey'd compleatly well But man himselfe alone must feâ—d the mind And contemplation onely cooks the dish What is it then Hath Heauen all these assigned For our vse to that end we should be his Then must we giue him one poore little part The onely thing he craueâ— A thankefull heart CHAP. XIX His Benificence IF from a friend some trifle we receiue Some bracelet gloues or some such common thing We thinke our selues ingratefull if we leaue These vnrequiâ—ed and can we lesse bring To him which giues vs all that we possesse Then the poore hearts true loue and thankfulnesse How can his râ—iall bounties be exprest The things ordained for ornament and vse The various fare prepar'd to feast his guests Where each one for his appetite may chuse Oh who can count the various kinds of creatures Their wondrous shapes their colours their features Ten thousand flocks that ore our heads still houers Which daily seeme to bid vs kill and eate Ten thousand fruits which time to vs discouers Ten thousand plants and rootes and seeds for meate The sculles Oh Lord of all the Lakes â— Fountaines The Hâ—ards are thine vpon ten thousand mountaines Ten thousand creatures for delight assignd Ten thousand stones that precious vertues hold Ten thousand flowers to recreate the mind Ten thousand healthfull Drugs more worth then Gold Ten thousand more then I can sum or count Thy blessings Lord all tongues and wits surmount And euery blessing is so double blest That they not onely food for vs containe But bounreous Nature locks within the least Of these some helpe for our disease and paine One thing sometimes hath such varietie That many pretious vertues hidden lie For all which God requires but thankfulnes Tho thanklesse we too often not agnize The author of these benefits of his Buâ— either Chance or Natures gifts them prize For those that with these blessings moâ—t abouâ— Arâ— commonly the most ingratefull found CHAP. XX. His Magnificence not onely affording things necessary but heaping his benefits vpon vs with so great varietie that the vnderstanding of man cannot vtter it ME thinkes it were enough if God did giue But bread and water to his enemies And some one kind of food to make vs liue Temperate and secuâ—ed from Luxuries And not to frame so many thousand kinds Of bread of vyands and of tempting wines Cuba her Iucca vaunts Peru her Mayze Pegue and rich Cambaya theirs of Rice Congo her bread of a Luco's graine doth praise And Palme-tree fruite Guynce no lesse doth prize Her bread of rootes Inama tearm'd by them But Heauen faire Europ crownes with the best graine Italy vaunts Falerne and Setyne wine Germany Rhennish Claret France Spaine Sack Candyse and Cyprus their 's of Muskadine Greece hath her Chyan India Palme and Rack Drie b Ferrall her Heauens-dew-distilling tree Turkey her Cossa Corne made Wines haue we Me thinks our Maker had great bountie showne If he our nakednes such clothes had giuen As our first Parents had from Eden throwne But he hath made the little flies to spin And many a beast to yeeld their haire wooll And trees and plants from whence more soft we cull Me thinks for beggers too it had been faire One onely kind to haue of Wood and Stone To build defensiues for the Winter ayre But who can count the kinds of any one Oke Cedar Cypresse c Teyxo Ebony A thousand sorts of Marble Porphery Me thinks againe one beast were well for ease But drie Arabia that doth water want Hath the moyst Cammell Danzieks frozen Seas The sprightfull â—lland The huge Elephant Our Maker vnto fruitfull â—nde assignes The little dockâ—â—ed Asse to barren Climes a This Luco is a little small graine round like musterd-seed which makes bread not inferior to our Wheate Hisâ— congo b Ferrall one of the Canarie Ilands hath no water in it but that which drops from the leaues of one onely tree for ouer the top of this tree there houers continually a moist cloud by Gods appointment from whence the tree receiues this aboundant moisture for the benefit of men and beasts Linschott c This wood called Teyxo is a stranger in these parts growing onely in the Iland Terâ—cara a tree of marueilous largenesse and the wood exceeding hard red within and waued with an admirable beautie This is not cut but for the King of Spaine himselfe CHAP. XXI No Place emptie and vnfurnisht of Creatures for Mans behoofe but all full without scarcitie or scant to this end that man for this fulnesse and bountie of externall things might returne a proportionate fulnesse in his affections towards God which bestowes all this vpon him FOr Gods most compleate bountie not content With such a single liberalitie Therefore this great varietie hath lent As much abhorring pore vacuitie And indigence in all his workes diuine Which all with compleat bounteous fulnes shine The Riuers and the Seas be full of fish The earth is full of trees of grasse of plantâ— And full of creatures fram'd to feed on this The ayre is full of her inhabitants All things on earth doe of this fulnes share No emptie place all fild with viâ—all ayre But man may sooner loose himselfe in quest And suruey of these blessings manifold Much sooner then discouer in the least The sâ—uerall gifts and vertues that they hold For in the least so many worths we find As much surmount mans weak sin darkned mind How many seuerall gifts hath the Maguayze How many hath Maldiuars fruitfull tree Which are as foyles to beautie and praile Our plenties infinite varietie One tree doth them with all abundance store And sweet content and all ours can no more Yet here with vs some one thing seeme to stand In stead of thousands As the Sheepe and Cow This brings the Oxe that tills and fats the land That warmely clothes vs. This our feeâ—e doth shoo And with
bloodie noâ— the Bore The Aspe so full of teeâ— So fell the Mantichore So luâ—tfull not the Goat So slothfull not the Beare So proud the Horse doth not Nor Iuâ—oes fowle appeare The Dragon for reuenge For enuy he the Dog And Fox for craft transcends For beastlines the Hog A Tunny to deuoure A Hawke to seeke his pray A c Whirlepoole in to powre A d Cayman to betray How vile a thing is this That all things which are ill In Plants in Beasts or Fish We amply doe excell But indigent in all That we in beasts commend We onely more then all Our Maker still offend a The Zibraes are by some Authoâ—s counted very swife b Daâ—t eiusmodi fertâ—resse â—â—leritate vt cuâ—su fears emnes anteuertat Equos suos empturi vel vendituri Lant farae â—ernicitate pâ—obant Arabes Sâ—al exer 206. pars 5. c This Whirlepoole otherwise called a Phiseter and by some taken to be the Whale drawes inso much water that when he spouts the same forth againe hee is therewith able to ouerset and drowne ships pli l. 9. e. 4. d A Cayman is the same that a Crocodile CHAP. XXXII Faire without foule within OH God how blest were we If as our limbes are white There might like candor be In mind compleate and right But therein are we crosse Black vgly crooked still Turning our gaine to losse Through fond depraued will The pollisht Iuorie â—rought from thee Taproâ—ane Or Callâ—cut from thee Congoe or Mauritane With Pearle of rich Perue Faire Oâ—muz Cameron May not compare their hew Nor whitenesse with Sylon The pure white Syndon â—punne By Brittaâ—ne Virgins here Oâ— by the Belgâ—â—k Nunne To Lillies browne appeare And â—ymster thy pure Fleece Dreft by thy rustick Swaines Tho rich as that of Gâ—eâ—ce No luster it retaines Compared with Atlas Snowes Or Douers Chalâ—â—iâ— Hill Which to repugnant showes To Amphythâ—yâ—es will But Man that is as faire In outside as the best With what shall I compare His darksome sable brest For tho he loue the light And beautie doe admire And most in things delight Which Nature doth attire In this celestiall hew Whereof himselfe doth vaunt Despising both the Crow And cole-black Cormorant Yet he to whitenes still Doth offer most offence To whitenesse that excels To snow-white Innocence And tho vpright he goe And groueling all the rest Yet he in mind doth shoe More crooked then the beast The Cedar he commends So goodly tall and streight And Pine that neuer bends But be ares his top vpright But ne'er obserueth how Himselfe by Nature fram'd Vpright and streight to goe As one to Heauenwards aim'd In mind doth still decline To Earth still downewards beâ—t More then the Dog oâ— Swine Whom Natures lawes content Things proper them suffice For appetite and need But man with Heauen this Flesh His Soule with earth would feed Improperties delight Him best in his desires For like is fed with like But he vnlike requires CHAP. XXXIII Wee praise substances but pursue shadowes HOw wretched and how vaine Aâ—e Mortalls that refuse True substances to gaine And shadowes onely chuse Pigmalion like we doe On pictured beautie dote Like Rhodian Youthes we woe The shadowes that are not And substances despise Tho fitter to be lou'd The things beneath the skies By Mortals most approu'd For which our soules we sell Are Beautie Wealth and Fame For these we visit Hell And Plutoes firie raigne For these we hourely part With Ease with Health and Friends For these we make a mart Of Liues and Innocence And what is Beautie now That thus the mind can fire That makes vs languish so And pine with fond desire An accidentall thing A type and shadow bare Of that Almightie King Whose beauties â—ubstance are On Men not onely plac't For many thousand be Both Beasts and Plants high grac't Therewith in their degree And what is Wealth for which We â—oyle and hazard still It makes vs not more rich Nor happie Heauens high will Hath not these things confind To Measure nor to weight But plac't them in the mind Content makes all things streighâ— Euen In the greatest want But base Desire opprest With heapes of wealth feeles scant Is poore and cannot rest Much poorer thing is Fame Peruâ—ian Ayre lesse lighâ— T is but a heauenly name In earthly raggs bedight And base Pâ—eâ—eyan breath Which oft on wings doth raise The lumps of worth'elle earth But spots faire vertues praise With black and vgly feeâ—e Now which of these is best Imperfect all in sight And shâ—dowes all exprest Glorie Wealth Beautie lent To men bare shadowes be In Earth but accidents In Heauen essentially Earths glorie doth appeare Of Heauen a type most bate And Wealth that we haue here With that must not compare Beautie terrestriall In beasts or men combin'd In Earths rich Minerall Or what 's to earth assign'd The beautious Planets seuen The glorious Sunne and Moone The Azure studded Heauen Nights still companion All these one picture frame Of beautie that 's immense Beautie which man may name But not conceiue by sense Though our depraued mind Still fading things pursue VVhich we but shadowes find Yet loose the substance true CHAP. XXXIIII We follow gaine not goodnesse WHo can enough complaine On humane dilligence This Zeale of ours for gaine It breeds my great offence Too short's the longest day Too long the shortest night Desires brooke not delay But croft no peace admit The Raine the Frost and Snow And Tempests of the Ayre These neuer make vs bow If gaine be our affaiâ—e For profit we doe saile Amongst the fleeting Ice T' encounter with the Whales And Beare we are not nice And in these places strange We seeke the morsses shole Both Lands and Seas we range Neere to the frozen Pole Then to the burning Line And Affricks Desarts drie Where many thousands pine And perish wilfully Where by the Sunne and Wind They Mummey doe become Yet we with this in mind To th'same misfortunes â—un How small a thing doth man In magnitude appeare Compar'd with Seas and Land As if he nothing were But all this earthly ball Both Earth and Seas vast frame To mans desires more small Doe seeme then he to them If profit may redound No dangers doth he doubt How oft he circles round This massie frame about The Currents Sands and Rocks The Typhons and Ternades The falling Spouts he mocks And Monsters that inuades The flying Fires that seeme By th'Winds attrition bred The Waues which some would deeme The Graues where hope lies dead The Tempests and the Stormes Death and Diseases all Triumphantly he scornes If profit may befall For this he trauels both By day and darksome night No labour doth he lothe Or Office thinke vnmeet For this he Marts frequents And place where pleadings be Which wise men are content To haue but seldome see Amongst the fooles he gapes And hunts about for pelse But knowes not that he takes Paines to condemne himselfe If to Gods