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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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