None of a little burthen should complaine You 're cloth'd with flesh and bones and not supprest A little house a Gyant may containe And little bulks great spirits oft invest For vertue hath not such desire to find The stature of the body as the mind 25. That too much bewailing and griefe is to be avoided at Funerals to one lamenting the decease of a friend IT were more fit that you relinquish'd orrow Then that you should be left by it that may What ever may be done be done to morrow And what to morrow may be done to day We should therefore as soon's we can desist From that wherein we cannot long insist 26. The vertuous speech of a diseased man most patient in his sicknesse MY flesh still having beene an enemy Unto my spirit it should glad my heart That paines which seize now on my body may Be profitable to my better part For though Diseases seeme at first unpleasant They point us out the way we ought to goe Admonish us exactly of our present Estate and t' us at last this favour shew That they enlarge us from that ruinous Close and darke prison which confined us 27. We should not be sorry to be destitute of any thing so long as we have judgments to perswade vs that we may minister to our selves what we have not by not longing for it TO want what J should have shall never make My heart lesse cheerfull reason still requiring That J be pleas'd what 's ' ever things J lacke To furnish to my selfe by not desiring For not to wish for things against the griefe Of feare and frustrate hopes provides reliefe 28. That vertue is better and more powerfull then Fortune VErtue denyeth nought but what to grant Hurts the receiver and is good to want Nor takes she ought away which would not crosse The owner and is lucrative to losse She no man can deceive she lookes not strange Nor is she subject to the meanest change Embrace her then for she can give that which Will without gold or silver make you rich 29. How magnanimous a thing it is in adversity patiently to endure what cannot bee evited VVHat grievous weight so ever be allowed By misadventrous fate wherewith to load ye Shrinke not thereat but yeeld your shoulder to it And with a stedfast mind support your body For valiant spirits can not be o'rcome Though Fortune force their bodies to succumbe 30. That nothing more opposeth the tranquillity of life which is proper and peculiar to Wise-men then to be tyed to a generality of publicke example in all our actions AMongst the causes of our evils this Is one of the most ordinary that We live b'example things which are amisse Supplying oftentimes the place of what Is rightest and most vertuous for there 's no man Scarce holds that error which is done in cōmon 31. A temperate Dyet is the best Physicke TO keepe a moderation in our Dyet Is the chiefe meane to be of health assured For nothing sickens so as too much ryot And Feasts kill more then Galen ever cured Nor is ther Physicke should so fully please us Others expell but this prveens Diseases 32. That all our life is but a continuall course and vicissitude of sinning and being sorry for sinne WE sinne with joy and having fin'd we mourn Then kindle after teares new sinfull fires There being a turne perpetuall and returne 'Twixt our repentance and profane desires For senses to delights are wedded wholly Which purchas'd reason doth bewaile their folly 33. Why our thoughts all the while we are in this transitory world from the houre of our nativity to the laying downe of our bodies in the grave should not at any time exspaciat themselves in the broad way of destruction SEeing the strait lodging of your mothers wombe Brought you to life from whence you must depart To the darke entry of a little tombe Betwixt your birth and Buriall let your heart Tread vertues narrow path till you contract To so strict bounds the pleasures of this wide And spacious world as that you may draw backe The reines of covetous desire hate lust and pride For by so doing you will make your death A blessed passage to eternall breath 34. It is the safest course to entertaine poverty in our greatest riches YOur thoughts in greatest plentie moderate Lest with superfluous things you be insnared Let poverty be your familiar Mate That Fortune may not find you unprepared For so it will not lye into her pow'r T' inflict that crosse which you cannot endure 35. To a Gentleman who was extreamly offended at the defamatory speeches of a base detractor AT his reproachfull words doe not conceive The meanest grudge for curs will still be barking Nor take you notice of him seeing a knave Is like a scabbed sheepe not worth the marking And this your setting him at nought will make him Swell as a Toad till his owne poyson breake him 36. Of Death and Sin Bodies which lack the soules did them inform Turn'd to corruption lose their former grace And out of hearts corrupted breeds a worme Still gnawing upon guilty Consciences As from deceased bodies Death withdrawes The living soules another life t' enjoy So sinne contrary to the divine Lawes In living bodies doth the soule destroy Death is not vanquish'd till the Resurrection Of bodies testifie the soules conjunction And by Regeneration sin's infection Is buri'd in a mortifi'd compunction Lesse then is death then sinne the tomb then hell The more that soules the bodies doe excell 37. The advantages of Povertie IF you have povertie you have no sumptuous But a most easie ghuest secure and quiet Who will preserve your mind from being presumptuous From prodigality excessive ryot From vicious pleasures Robbers and the stealth Of theeves which ills befall to those have wealth 38. How to make all the world peaceable IF so in ev'ry man the flesh would dwell At concord with the spirit that it cease Against its soverainty to rebell The universall world would be at peace For if there were no avarice no hate No pride nor lust there could be no debate 39. One who did extreamly regret his bestowing of a great benefit vpon an ingrate man BY giving moneyes to a thanklesse man You lost the matter of your benefit But the best part thereof doth still remaine Which was your willingnesse in giving it For his repaying of your gratefull action Had made you gaine all that you had received And getting nought you lacke not satisfaction It onely being to give it that you gave it Else in your gifts a bargaine we should find And not the noble acts of a free mind 40. Of wisedome in speech in action in reality and reputation WIsely to talke deserveth much respect Yet to live wisely without doubt is better To be accounted wise is a great matter But it is most to be it in effect Such as would follow wisedome then let them Strive more for deeds then words for
Wall On the offender while his mighty heart And noble mind far more sublime then all The Regions of the Ayre most bravely scorne Th' inferiour dangers of a boystrous storme 10 Why the world is at variance EAch man hath his owne sense and apprehension And faith wherein he lives but from this ill That each hath his owne will springs all dissension For that all men agree their lackes but will Warres never raging in so shrewd a cace But that if men were pleas'd would turne to peace 11. How to be alwayes in repose SO that desire and feare may never jarre Within your soule no losse of meanes nor ryot Of cruell foes no sicknesse harme by Warre Nor chance whats'ever will disturbe your quiet For in a setled and well temper'd mind None can the meanest perturbation find 12. A wise man onely may properly be said to enjoy life HIs life is short who present times neglects Feares times to come and hath past-times forgot Or rather while he breaths his Age hee makes A base abode in time but liveth not For onely hee leades in judicious eyes The longest life who lives till he be wise 13. Who is not satisfied with his owne fortune how great soever it be is miserable THough the Septemvirat of Dutch Electors Jnaugurat him Caesar and each one Extoll his valour above that of Hectors In wit and wealth surpassing Salomon Yet if he proudly soare a higher pitch He 's neither mighty valiant wise nor rich 14. A certaine old mans expression before his death to his Son THat J am at the period of mine age Nor you nor J have any cause to mourne For life is nothing but a Pilgrimage When we have travel'd long we must returne Let us be glad then that my spirit goes After so many toiles to his repose 15. To one of a great memory but depraved life THough many things your memory containe Jf by your mind to matters it be led Which are lesse profitable to retaine Then to commit t' oblivion it is bad And whatsoever arts it comprehend If it remember not on piety Repentance for enormous sins the end Of life God jndgements and his clemencie Those necessary precepts while you lake You but forget your selfe and it is weake 16. how a man should oppose adversitie GAinst misadventure being resolv'd to fight My mind shall be the bow whence J'l apace Shoot back the arrows Fortune out of spight Assaults me with and breake them in her face For all her soverain'ties I abjure Her harmes I dread not and defye her pow'r 17. The expression of a contented mind in povertie THat I 'm not covetous is all my land From whence my thoughts new treasours dayly bring And the best moveable which I command Is I buy no unnecessary thing By these I of true wealth possesse such store That all the Kings on earth can have no more 18. Not time but our actions are the true measure of our life THat life is short which measur'd by the span Of time hath been of vertuous actions scant And one day's longer in a learned man Then twenty Lusters of an ignorant For life is good and 't is the quality Of goodnesse that extends its quantity 19. Ingratitude is such a common vice that even those who exclame most against it are not freest of it IT would not be an universall cace Nor could each man have so true cause to fall In rayling 'gainst ingratitude unlesse There were some reason to complaine of all Thus who have with unthankfulnesse beene met May from such dealing this instruction draw That if themselves did ever prove ingrate They get but justice from the Talion-Law To th' end they may from those their faults refraine Which they so ugly see in other men 20 Of Negative and Positive good NOT onely are they good who vertuously Employ their time now vertue being so rare But likewise those whom no necessity Nor force can in the meanest vice insnare For sin 's so mainly further'd by the Devill That 't is a sort of good to doe no evill 21. To one bewailing the death of another YOU have no cause to thinke it strange that he Hath yeelded up his last and fatall breath For 't is no wonder for a man to dye Whose life is but a journey into Death Nor is there any man of life deprived For age or sicknesse but because he lived 22. Why covetous and too ambitious men prove not so thankfull as others for received favours WHose mind with pride and avarice doth flow Remember seldome of a courtesie So well as humbler spirits doe for who Lean's most on hope yeelds least to memory Their thoughts so farre on future aimes being set That by-past things they purposely forget 23. A counsell not to vse severity where gentle dealing may prevaile STrive never by constraint to crosse his will Whose best affection fairely may be had The noble mind of man being such as still Follow's more heartily then it is led For there was never power charme nor Art That could without consent obtaine the heart 24. That they may be alike rich who are not alike abundantly stored with worldly commodities I have of Lands nor moneyes no large portion Yet if I be content to thinke that J◠Am not as rich as any were great dulnesse For wealth not being in plenty but proportion Though vessels have not like capacity They may be all of them alike in fulnesse 25. Vertue and goodnesse are very much opposed by the selfe-conceit that many men have of their owne sufficiencie THer 's nothing hinders vertue more then the Opinion of our owne perfection For none endeavours to doe that which hee Imagineth he hath already done And some by thinking t'have what they have not Neglect the wisedome which they might have got 26. How to support the contumelie of defamatorie speeches IF men deservedly speake ill of you Be angry not at them but at the cause Which you to them did furnish so to doe But if they still continue 'gainst the Lawes Of truth and modesty their bad report While with a valiant heart and testimony Of a good conscience you your selfe comfort Contemne those rascals that insult upon ye For a reproach by honest meanes obtain'd Doth full of glory to the heav'ns ascend 27. Of Lust and Anger LUst taking pleasure in its owne delite Communicats it selfe to two togither But far more base is anger whose despite Rejoyceth at the sorrow of another For th'one is kindly th' other sows debate Lust hath a smack of love but wrath of hate 28. An encouragement to an impatient man in an Ague WHy should you in your sicknesse thus enrage Seeing patience doth a gen'rous mind befit You may be sure it will not last an Age For if it leave not you you must leave it Take courage then faint not but bravel endure Whats'ê◠to kill the soule hath not the pow'r 29 The firme and determinate resolution of a couragious spirit in the deepest
covering neverthelesse the possession of future pleasures honours and commodities never receive contentment is they ought in the present time IN things to fortune Subject when we get What we did long for we anew desire To have wherewith t' uphold the former state Which likewise we obtaining more require For businesse engendreth businesse And hope being th' usher of another hope Our enjoyd ' wishes serve but to make place To after aimes whose purchase to the top Of our ambition never reacheth thus By still aspiring higher we can find No end in miseries that trouble us Turmoyle the body and perplex our mind Although we change with great varietie The matter which procures our miserie 36. The different fruits of idlenesse and vertue in young men AS singing Grashoppers a fond Youth revels In Summer blinks starves when tempests rage But wise men Pismire like enjoy the travels Of their young yeares in th' winter of their age These by their Providence have wealth in treasure While those are pained for their by-gone pleasure 37. To a generously disposed Gentleman who was maine sorrie that he had not wherewith to remunerat the favours by the which he was obliged to the curtesie of a friend YOu have restor'd his kindnesse if you owe It willingly and doth not prove forgetfull For with all Mankind it would hardly goe If no man could with empty hands be gratefull And in what may concerne a benefit 'T is th' onely mind refounds and maketh it 38. The truest wealth man hath it from himselfe IF you from discontents have a desire To live exeem'd the way is ne'r t' importune Your friends with suits but alwaies to require Your riches from your selfe and not from fortune For your dislike affection and opinion Are things still subject to your owne dominion 39. That the impudicity of a Lascivious Woman staines but her owne and not her husbands honour THough of her sacred Matrimoniall Oath Your wife make no account if what be due To a wise Husband you performe she doth Bring to her selfe discredit not to you For others faults can no disgrace impart you Though to your losse they tend and make you sorrie No more then you can by anothers vertue Though it breed joy and gaine reape any glorie 'T is our owne vertu ' vice must praise or blame u 〈…〉 And either make us glorious or infamous 40. Who really are rich and who poore HE that agreeth with his povertie Is truly rich while on the other part He 's poore who 'midst the superfluitie Of wealth in new desires consumes his heart For 't is an empty mind inflicts the curse Of poverty and not an empty purse 41. How to oppose sinister fate IF of misfortune you suppose t' exoner By any other meanes then those of vertue Your troubled spirit you bestow upon her Both your owne skll and weapons to subvert you For that wherewith you ' magine to resist Her furie is already in her hand And which she holds extended to your breast To make you plyable to her command It is not then great friends Nobilitie Health beauty strength nor store of worldly treasure That can preserve you from her blowes for the Of all those things disposeth at her pleasure But you your selfe must furnish with such armes As may defend you against vice and sin And so you shall not need to feare her harmes For being so warded you are happy in The tumults of the world and she unable With all her might to make you miserable 42. The deserved mutability in the condition of too ambitious men AS is the Tortoise used by the Eagle So fortune doth vaine-glorious men inveagle Who carries them upon the wings of honour The higher up that they may breake the sooner 43. That inconveniences ought to be regarded to before hand TO wait for crosses that may happen is The meane whereby to beare them easily They not being much unlike the Cockatrice Which if fore-seene by us dyes instantly While unexpected misadventures kill Joy in the breed and tyrannize the will 44. Concerning those who disdaine to walke on their owne feet when at any rate they may have the convenience to be carried WE will not see with others eyes nor heare so With borrow'd eares yet hath fond custome Prevailed that we take especiall care Upon the feet of others still to goe Although our owne be nere so strong to beare The burthen of our bodies I am sure That no man came into this world in chaire On horseback or in Coach our birth was poore And we must dye in no lesse poore estate But 'twixt those abject ends such pride there is And in so short a course of life so great Forgetfulnesse of both extremities As if enjoying an immortall breath We could not have beene borne nor tast of death Thus endeth the second Booke of Sir THOMAS VRCHARDS Epigrams EPIGRAMS The Third Booke 1. How to behave ones selfe in all occasions NO kind of trouble to your selfe procure And shun as many crosses as you can Stoutly support what you must needs endure And with the resolution of a man Whose spirit is affliction-proofe possesse A joyfull heart in all occurrences 2 That no man to speake properly liveth but he that is Wise and vertuous IF wee lacke vertue and good deeds to hold Our life 〈…〉 True life affords not though it make us old Nor lived he that lives not after death For in good minds the lives of men consist And they alone mortalitie resist 3 We ought always to thinke upon what we are to say before we utter any thing the speeches and talk of solid wits being still premeditated and never using to forerunne the mind OUr tongu 's the hearts interpreter and still In wise discourse hath but the second place The heart should end ere th' tongue begin for while The Legate speakes the Truch-man holdes his peace Which order being inverted we abuse The hearers patience and our selves confuse 4 That Lust and drunkennesse are odious vices Wrath makes a man to sin couragiously And pride doth swell with faire appearances But drunkenesse and too much Leacherie Are sloven filthie villanous and base For by the one Gods image being exil'd His Temple by the other is defil'd 5. A certaine ancient philosopher did hereby insinuate how necessary a thing the administration of Iustice was and to be alwaies vigilant in the judicious distribution of punishment and recompence SEeing by the multitude of those offend The shame of sin 's diminish'd now in such A measure that a common crime in end Will cease to be accounted a reproach I am affrayd that if iniquitie Be suffer'd thus to propagate it will With bad example safer be to stray Then to prove singular in doing well Nor is this grievous inconvenience tho Pernicious to the state to be withstood If any the least care be wanting to Chastise the wicked and reward the good Which Law each Prince should in his bosome nourish That Vice
may be supprest and vertue flourish 6. That overweening impedeth oftentimes the perfectioning of the very same qualitie wee are proudest of FOnd selfe-conceit likes never to permit Ones mind to see it selfe with upright eyes Whence many men might have attain'd to wit Had they not thought themselves already wise To boast of wisedome then is foolishnesse For while we thinke we 're wise we 're nothing lesse 7. To one who seemed to be grievously discontented with his poverty LEt never want of money vexe your braine Seeing all contentment is in th' only mind To the which mony doth no more pertaine Then to the Hierarchies of Angel-kind Thus Gold being Earthly and the mind sublime T' abase your spirit is a sort of crime 8. The resolution of a proficient in vertue I Hope so little to transgresse the Law My conscience will endite me or be proud Of wealth and pomp as not to care a straw For Fortunes frownes so that my deeds be good Which eternize my blisse while she makes Kings T' enjoy at best but transitory things 9. That a courtesie ought to be conferred soone and with a good will NO man will from his heart owe that which was Extorted by meere importunity Without regard of true desert because It seemes to have beene giv'n unwillingly Who distributes his benefits that way Needs not then wait for a gratification From him whom he hath dulled with delay And tortured with grievous expectation For we acknowledge gifts according to Th' intent of him who doth the same bestow 10. The best wits once depraved become the most impious THe whitest Lawne receives the deepest moale The purest Chrysolit is soonest stained So without grace the most ingenious soule Is with the greatest wickednesse profaned And the more edge it have apply'd to sin Where it should spare it cuts the deeper in 11. That those employ not their occasions well who spend the most part of their life in providing for the Instruments of living SOme wasting all their life with paine and sorrow To seeke the meanes of life no leasure give Their thoughts from ayming alwaies at to morrow Whereby they live not but are still to live In their whole age the fruits that issue from Their labours being but hopes of times to come 12. An vprightly zealous and truly devout man is strong enough against all temptations THat man in whom the grace of God begins His soule with divine comfort to refresh May the whole heptarchie of deadly sins In spight of all the Devill the World the flesh Are able to suggest enforce to yeeld Christ being his guide and Christian faith his shield 13. That to employ our thoughts on the study of mortality and frailty of our nature is a very necessary and profitable speculation BE not from death by any meanes a stranger But make her your familiar friend that if The cause require it vilipending danger You may step forth t' embrace her without griefe For the more boldly you intend to meet her The relish of your life will prove the sweeter 14. The Generous speech of a Noble Cavallier after he had disarmed his adversary at the single Combate THough with my Raper for the guerdon Your fault deserveth I may pierce ye Your penitence in craving pardon Transpassions my revenge in mercy And wils me both to end this present strife And give you leave in peace t' enjoy your life 15. To one who was excessively cheerefull for being recovered of a Fever wherewith he had beene for a time extreame sorely shaken THat to your health you are restored you May in some sort be joyfull and yet pleased To know your dying day is nearer now Then when you were most heavily diseased For to its Journeyes end your life still goes Which cannot stay nor slow it's pace nor hath Jt any Inne to rest in toyle repose Sicknesse and health being alike steps to death Let this thought then your gladnesse mortifie That once againe you must fall sicke and dye 16. That the most of our contentment while we are upon the Earth consisteth rather in Negatives as not to be perplexed with ment all perturbations outward diseases and other such like life-tormenting crosses then in the reall fruition of any positive delight that can befall vs THere being no possibility that men Can here enjoy a greater delectation Then to possesse a body without paine And mind untroubled by the meanest passion Without desire of further pleasure health And a good conscience should be our chiefe wealth 17. VVhy we must all dye IT being the law of Nations to restore What we have borrow'd ther 's no remedy But being engaged to a Creditor Who will not lose his debt we must needs dye Nor can we plead one halfe a termes delay For when Death craves it we are forc'd to pay 18. Of the covetous and perverse inclination of the greatest part of Mankind WHen profit goes with vertue we respect her So that her very foot-steps we adore But if she walke alone then we neglect her And will not wait upon her any more So basely 'gainst their consciences most men Descend from honour to attend on gaine 19. The Parallel of Nature and Fortune A Fly which is a despicable creature Obtaines beside her wings six feet from Nature Yet foure feet onely she is pleas'd to grant To the huge body of an Elephant So Fortune doth withdraw her gifts from some Whose real worth surpasseth theirs on whom She hath bestowed them as forcibly As Elephants in strenth exceed a fly 20. How we should enjoy the delights we have and contemne such as we have not LEt not the want of pleasures be unpleasant To your remembrance and with moderation Make use of those contentments which are present If you would ne'r be griev'd with expectation For to our owne things absent to preferre Frustrates our hope when it hath bred us feare 21 To one who did confide too much in the sound temperament and goodly constitution of his bodily complexion Boast not of outward health but have a care Your soule be not distemperd for we find The case of them most dangerous who are In wholsome bodies of a sickly mind Vice tyrannizing over flesh and blood In those whose will and judgement are not good 22. A Counsell to be provident and circumspect in all our actions without either cowardise or temeritie DOe nothing tim'rously and yet b'aware You be not rash let prudence therefore guard Your words and deeds for he needs not to feare What 's to be shun'd that shuns what 's to be fear'd Nor in the present time be vex't who from Things past discerne of what is like to come 23. Of foure things in an epalleled way vanquished each by other AS Death o'rthroweth man and cuts his breath And fame most gloriously subdueth Death So gourmandizing time doth fame or'come And to eternity time must succumbe 24. A consolation to those that are of a little stature not to be sorry thereat
life then fame 41. To one who was grieved within himselfe that he was not endewed with such force and vigour of body as many others were THough you be not so strong as other men Jf you have health the matter is but small You being reserv'd for tasks more noble then The labours of the body therefore all You can complaine of is not of defect But of imparitie Nature did grant Milo great strength in whose regard you 're weake So was he weaker then an Elephant His strength decay'd but Solons lasted longer And wise men love not what 's not durable Care not for strength seeing sicknesse will be stronger But with your soule as with a Sword of steele Within a sheath of Wooll subdue temptations For the true strength of Man being in the mind He is much stronger overcomes his passions Then who can with main force a Lyon bind And who himselfe thus in subjection brings Surmounts the power of all Earthly Kings 42. An encouragement to those of meane Parentage not to be hindered by the Obscurity of their extraction from the undertaking of glorious enterprises THe baser that your Parents are the greater Renowne and honour will to you redound Jf all your actions be on vertue grounded To give being more then to receive and better To have a noble life then birth to found A new Nobility then find it founded 43. We should not be troubled at the accidents of Fortune nor those things which cannot be eschewed LEt 's take in patience sicknesse banishments Paine losse of goods death and enforced strife For none of those are so much punishments As Tributes which we pay unto this life From the whole tract whereof we cannot borrow One dram of Joy that is not mix'd with sorrow 44. Age meerly depending on the continuall Flux of time we have very small reason to boast of a long life already obtained or be proud of the hope hereafter to attaine unto it THe present time doth fly away so fast That one can hardly follow 't with his mind The Praeterit's a time already past And seeing the futur 's still to come we find Both those being absent that they are not ours Although they breed to us no meane vexation Th' one with the slip'ry thought of ill-spent houres And th' other with a carefull expectation Thus life is almost nothing in effect Whereof two parcels never are our owne The third being such as e'r we can reflect Upon th' enjoying of it is quite gone The longest time not having bounds to measure A reall permanent and solid pleasure Here end the first three Bookes of Sir THOMAS VRCHARDS Epigrams Laud to the Father with the Son and Ghost TRIUN as fore And still hath beene since times begun be now and evermore The Errata's Page 2. line 6. for place a p. 4. l. 14. at Dart blot out l. 22. for place a p. 5. l. 7. for find read find p. 7. l. 3. for misadventure read misadventures l. 6. at with place a and at face a p. 8. l. 11. at law place a p. 12. l. 25. at doe place a at ought a p. 13. l. 6. and 7. must be indented p. 21. l. 7. at estates place a l. 19. before at all read lived p. 31. l. 1. for guideth read giveth l. 22 for place a line 23 blot out the p. 35. line 16. for u read us and place there a page 36. l. 5. for skll reed skill page 40. line 6 at death place a l. 17. for place a THE Printers to the Reader THough in none of the printed Copies be all those above collected faults yet the Forme in severall sheets happening to passe divers times the Presse before an exact Revise was made many of the Bookes are found to containe some as the whole impression them all therefore thought we fit for the ease of the more curious in every penult page to subjoyne them as they are here sum'd up willing rather to insert the totall where the parts are wanting in their distinguish't places then by omitting any thing of the due count to let an errour slip uncorrected What else hath escaped our animadversion we heartily intreat the courteous and judicious Readers to excuse and amend and humbly beg their favours they may be pleased to vouchsafe an acceptance of these our endeavours with the same intention we have offered them the furtherance of the common good and satisfaction of every one in particular being all wee aime at our chiefe ambition and the most approved Testimony which our consciences affoord us in the discharge of our calling FINIS Imprimatur JOHANNES HANSLEY March 15. 1640.