Feeding Growing and Ingendering Which subdiuided are by Natures Artes Into sixe Faculties with them working And common to them all in eu'ry thing The first and second with the third and fourth Attracts retaines concocts and distributes The fift and sixt encorp'rates and puts forth What is supersluous And thus executes Their pow'res as one though sextiplied in sutes The foode the Mouth prepareth for the Maw The Maw forthwith prepares it for the Liuer From whence a sanguine tincture it doth draw And then vnto the Hart doth it deliuer Who in the nerues and veines it soone doth seuer Then through those channels of the bloud it flowes Through all the limbes to giue them nourishment And by those condites to the Braine it goes Whereas the Soule doth hold her Parliment To giue Lawes for the Bodies gouernement Where if the foode be fine and delicate It turnes to bloud that in the Braine doth breede Those Spirites fine that doe refine the pate And crowne the same with glory for its meede For Glory Spirites refined dooth succeede The like is found betweene th'internall Senses And those same Powres and virtues Animall First must a Powre receiue the Images That form'd are in the Senses corporall Which Powre is calld the powre Fantasticall This is the Soules eye seeing all vnseene Which viewes those Senses obiects being absent And of th'internall Senses is the meane They to the Memorie the same present Who safely keepes that which to her is sent Thus then the Fantasie attracts we see The Memorie retaines and Reas'on digest Iudgement distributes all in their degree Experience then incorporates the best And Wisedome by hir powre expells the rest Now for these Senses Powres and Faculties Haue all their Organs seated in the Braine Order requires that we particularize What cauernes in the scull the same containe And in what manner they doe there remaine Which Caues or Cells distinguisht are with skinne Or subtill Membranes and so being diuided The Head is like a House that is within Too many rowmes or chambers subdiuided Vaulted with Bone and with Bone likewise sided The skinne that rafters or else lines the roofe Is hard for durance and thicke to enwall Which is the skinne of Skinnes a skinne of proofe That Dura mater loe the Latines call For it enwombes the rest from dangers all The vse whereof is to preserue the Braine When it doth moue from hardnesse of the Scull For discreete Nature maketh nought in vaine Whose tender prouidence of care is full With Meanes she doth Extreames together pull It likewise serues to giue a passage free For all the Veines the Braines to feede and guide Whereby the vitall spirites may gouern'd be And likewise into partes the Braine diuide Before behind on this and on that side Besides this Membrane there is yet another More fine and subtill wou'n of many vaines Hight Piamater or the godly Mother Which in her wombe doth subdiuide the Braines And them in seu'rall secret Celles containes Wherein the Soule doth vse hir chiefest Pow'res Namely the Animall and Rationall Therefore all braines of Beasts are lesse then ours Ours fill their Cells and well-neere Scull and all Which doe refine the Spirits Animall Those Spirits that thus the Braynes repurifie Procures the Bodyes vnconceiued blisse And serues as Organs to Reas'ns faculty Which in the Soule the highest virtue is That hir corrects if she directs amisse Foure Ventricles or concaues close conioyn'd In substance of the Braine Dame Nature seates With mutuall passages which are assign'd For all the Spirites egresse which Sense creates For Nature all to all communicates Those Cells wherein this witty work 's begun Are made by right more rowmsome then the rest Of those to which the Spirites well-wrought do runne For there they purge their bad and keepe their best For the last Uentricles which are the least Two of the foremost then like Cressents twaine Plac'd on each side the Head are most compleate The third's in middle Region of the Braine Where Reason rules and holdes hir royall Seate The Fourth's behinde where Memorie is greate The Brayn-presse into which the Bloud is prest That giues the Braines their vitall nutriment Is compast with those concaues with the rest By which the Soule effecteth hir intent As with hir worke-performing Instrument Likewise an Organ made most curiously Like little Wheeles together close connext Is plac'd as Portall of the Memory To let the Spirits swift passage lest perplext It might bee by their throng and shrowdly vext From the midde Uentricle vnto the last A pipe doth passe as Chariot of the Sp'rites There to and fro they come and go in hast In mutuall wise as Nature them incites To do their duties and performe their rites In this part of the Brayne the Brayn-wrights skill And wisdome infinite do most appeare And here to Man hee shewes his great good will For he imprints his owne Character there Wherein his diuine Nature shineth cleere Which wee the more perspicuously should see If we could see to which internall Sence Each of these parts pertayne or Vessells bee Wherein the Soule most shews hir excellence But this surmounts the Mindes intelligence For such a Mystrie is embozomed In Wisdoms Breast chest of such Secrets hie Which is with obscure clouds invironed That it 's concealed from the Eagles eye Much more from Man that seeth but here by Thus hauing slightly toucht this tender parte For I could not but touch it thus at least Because the Soule therewith performes hir Arte It now remaines to prosecute the rest Of what my Muse touching the Minde exprest Imagination Fancie Common-sence In nature brooketh oddes or vnion Some makes them one and some makes difference But wee will vse them with distinction With sence to shunne the Sence confusion The Common-sence whose locall scituation The Fore-head holdeth hath that name assign'd Because it first takes common information Of all the outward Sences in their kinde Of inward Sences this is first I finde Ordain'd to sort and seuer eu'ry thing According to its nature properly Which th' outward Sences to this Sence doe bring And then transmitteth it successiuely To each more inward Sences faculty The outward Sences then cannot discerne What they doe apprehend but by this Sence Of which those Sences all their science learne And vnto which their skill haue reference As it referres all to th' Intelligence Making a through-fare of the Fantacie Which doth so forme reforme and it deformes As pleaseth hir fantasticke faculty Not pleas'd with what the common Sence informes But in the Minde makes calmes or stirreth Stormes This Pow'r is pow'refull yet is most vnstaid Shee resteth not though Sleepe the Corpes arrest She doates and dreames and makes the Minde afraide With visions vaine wherewith she is opprest And from things likely things vnlikely wrest Shee is the Ape of Nature which can doe By imitation what she doth indeed And if shee haue hir Patterns adde thereto A thousand toyes which in hir
Mirum in modum A Glimpse of Gods Glorie and The Soules Shape Eyes must be bright or else no eyes at all Can see this sight much more then mysticall LONDON Printed for William Aspley 1602. To the most noble iudicious and my best beloued Lorde William Earle of Pembrooke the most honorable Sir Robert Sidney Knight Lord Gouernor of Vlishing and the right right worshipful Edward Herbert of Mountgomery Esquire my most honored and respected Friendes TO subdiuide Soules indiuisible Being wholy in the whole and in each part For me were more then most impossible Though I were Arte it selfe or more then Arte. Yet must I make my Soule a Trinitie So to diuide the same betweene you three For Vnderstanding Will and Memorie Makes but one Soule yet they three Virtues be The Vnderstanding being first I giue Unto the first for Order so doth craue And Will Good-will the second shall receiue Then Memory the last shall euer haue And as I part my Soule my Booke I part Betwixt you three that shares my broken hart All yours wholy and to you most humbly deuoted Iohn Dauies Mirum in modum A glimpse of Gods Glorie and the Soules shape Wlt yeeld me words Wits words Wisedome bewray My Soule infuse thy selfe in 't Same 's diuine The froath of Wit O Wisedome skumme away Powder these lines with thy preseruing Brine Refresh their saltnesse salt their freshnesse fine That Wits sweete words of Wisedomes salt may taste Which can from crude Conceit corruption stay And make the same eternally to last Though in Obliuion be buryed ay The skumme of Wit the witty Skummes repast Which like light skum with those lewd Skums doth waste O Thou maine Ocean of celestiall light From whom all Lights deriue their influence The light of Truth infuse into my sprite And cleere the eyes of my Intelligence That they may see my Soules circumference Wherein the Minde as Centre placed is Wherein thou restest Center of true Rest Compass'd with glory and vncompass'd blisse Which do thy Lodge with glorious light inuest Then lighten thy darke Inne O glorious Ghest The Soule of Man immortall and diuine By Natures light beholds the light of Nature Like as the Bodies eyes when Sunne doth shine Doe by the Sunne behold the Sunnes faire feature So by that light shee sees shee is a Creature Created to her faire Creators forme In Wisdome Knowledge and such goodly graces Which doe the Vnderstanding right informe To guide the Will aright in sundry cases Whenas the Sence deluded Reason out-faces For as the Uaynes the body ouer-spreds And to its vtmost bounds themselues extend So Science in the Soule from certaine heads In great varietie her vaines doth send To whatsoe're the soule may comprehend This is her Birth-right with the body borne Kinde Natures larges giu'n with hand displai'd Which doth the Minde illustrate and adorne To and from whom all knowledge is conuai'd That tends vnto the soule or bodies aide Which is deduced from pow'r more supreame Then in th' externall Senses doth reside This light proceeds from that infused beame Which in the Soules supreamest part doth bide The Bodies motions and hir owne to guide For though th'incomprehensible hath stampt His wisdome in his workes to prooue his Beeing Yet all saue Man from this Light is exempt By which the Soules eyes sees past sense of Seeing Celestiall sweets with hir sweete selfe agreeing For th' outward Senses Beasts with vs enioy Nay they possesse the same in greater pow'r But yet those Senses they cannot imploy To Reasons vse and Understandings cure But these effects doe flowe from Sense more sure Which from an vnderstanding Soule proceeds Yet nought that Understanding doth digest But first on it the outward Senses feedes Both which inuites the Will vnto their feast Those Senses beeing tastèrs to the rest Then if the Senses bee affected ill Or apprehend their Obiects with offence They wrong the Vnderstanding and the Will With false reporte of their experience But first they misse-informe th' Intelligence It giuing credit to their information Misse-leads the Will that way ward is by kinde Which moues the Members wih all festination Beeing instrumentall agents of the Minde To doe what ere the Senses pleasant finde But when we say the Understanding seazeth On nought but what the Senses first surprizeth It s meant of things that pleaseth or displeaseth And to the Senses sensibly ariseth Then herevpon the common Sense deuiseth And then transferres it to the Intellect Which by hir pow'r inherent doth discourse By Reasons rules from Causes to th' effect And beeing there runnes forth with greater force Till Iudgement with strong hand doth stay her course Herehence it is the Soule her selfe doth know Hir owne effects shee to hir selfe discloseth So to herselfe herselfe herselfe doth shew By powres which shee within hirselfe encloseth Whereof hirselfe not of hirselfe disposeth But are directed by a higher Pow'r Yet hath shee eyes to see and sence to feele The way vnto hirselfe though most obscure Which hirselfe virtues to hirselfe reueale Through which she wots what works hir woe or weale This knowledge of the vnknowne parte of Man Namely the knowen Soules vnknowen parte From Man is hid since he to sinne began For Ignorance of Sinne is the iust smart Which now doth hold enthrall'd his vniust hart But sith the Soule is such a precious thing As cost the price of past-price deerest bloud Then can no knowledge more aduantage bring Then knowledge of the Soule as first she stood Or since she fell from her extreamest Good For she enwombes worldes of varietie Of Sunne-bright Beauties and celestiall Sweetes Vnited all in perfect sympathie Whereas the Minde with diuerse Pictures meetes Which Fancie formes and from the Fancie fleetes From whence proceedes all maruellous Inuentions Which doe produce all Artes and Sciences That Doubts resolue and doe dissolue Dissentions Touching the vniuersall Essenses Subiect t' our inward or our outward Senses Then what Soule on the Soule excogitates But it is rapt with ioy and wonderment Sith when the Minde but her adumberates In Fancies forge it feeles such rauishment As yeeldes therewith a heau'n of high content Then sith all Weale or Woe that vs befall Flowes from the Soule as from their speciall Spring We should not to her Weale be neuterall But study to preserue that precious thing As that conserues the Soule and Bodies Being Wherein three Faculties still working be Animall Vitall and the Naturall The Animall diuided is in three Motiue Sensitiue and Principall The Principall hath three parts speciall Imagination Reason Memory The power Sensitiue includes the powres Of the externall Senses seu'rally The Motiue powre the Corps to stirre procures As long as Vitall faculty indures Which Facultie is seated in the Hart Infusing Spirites of Life through eu'ry vaine The vertues Animall doe play their part In all the seu'rall cauerns of the Braine The virtues Naturall the wombe containe Which doe consist of three essentiall partes
the Will proceedes And with that Good the Will it freely feeds Yet lest the Soule beholding hir faire forme Aboue hirselfe should of hirselfe aspire He giues vs proofe he can hir parts deforme That form'd hir parts if pride prouoke his ire Then lets hee Fiends the Fantacie enorme VVith strong delusions and with passions dire Herehence it is that some suppose they are Stone dead some all Nose some more brittle ware Some hauing this parte perfect are defected In the powre rationall the Soules sentinell That is with doting dulnesse so infected As what they say or do they wot not well Yet is their Memory right well affected And all their other Faculties excell So Sicknesse some Mens Memory vnframes That they forget their country friends and names Some others not in parte but wholy loose The vse of all the Sences of their soule Because they did their faculties abuse Those beeing franticke Reason with Rage controule And worse then beasts they liue and cannot chuse The Good from Bad ne yet the Faire from Fowle But like infernall Furies fare they than Iniurious to themselues to God and Man Thus may these Powers perish all or parte VVhen that almighty Powre his grace withdrawes Then let high Spirits retaine a lowly hart That may obedient be to Reasons Lawes For ill successe proceeds from worse desart And good effects proceeds from no ill cause If thy Mindes eyes see more then such eyes can Thanke God therefore yet thinke thy selfe a man For if thy thoughts flie higher then that pitch And Luciferian pride thy Minde inflate Thou mayst with him fall hedlong in the ditch And runne into Gods vnreuoked hate Then will the Fiend so much thy Mind bewitch That thoushalt be possesst in endlesse date VVith his strong Legions Then let Reason raine Thy head-strong Will and thy high thoughts restraine Now hauing seene how each internal Sence Contained is in cauernes of the Braine And how their works haue mutuall reference That so they may their common good maintaine Let vs with Eagles eyes without offence Transview the obscure things that do remaine For Mans aye-searching Sp'rite with toil 's opprest Til it haue found that Good that giues it rest Yet this breeds bate twixt Reas'n and Fantacie For Fantacie beeing neere the outward Sences Allures the Soule to loue things bodily But Reason mounts to higher Excellences And mooues the spirit her nimble wings to trie In pursuite of diuine Intelligences Who in the iawes of Fantasie doth set A Snaffle to o're-rule her wilde coruet And all this vigor to the Spirite is giu'n To flie with restlesse wings of Contemplation Vnto that Powre which in the highest Heau'n Makes his no powre-impeaching Habitation Of which Powre if this Powre be quite bereau'n Her dignitie incurreth degradation For as nought is more rare in Man then Spright So nought but rarest things should it delight For it beseemes not that high Maiestic To Man his creature lower to descend Then Man by force of his Mindes Ingeny Is able to him easly to ascend That makes him not appeare to Mans weake eie Because his Reason can him apprehend If Reason then by vse be cleere and bright She may see him vnseene by her owne light For by our Reason and Intelligence We know him from which knowledge Loue doth slowe For we may loue that we see not by Sense But cannot loue the thing we doe not know Our Soules we loue and loue the place from whence Our Soules first came though Sense them cannot show So that high Powre though our Sense cannot show him Yet may we loue because our Reasons know him For can it be Mans Soule should be endow'd With Understanding Reason Will and Wit To whose high powre the highest Powre hath bow'd His goodnesse to be conuersant with it But that the Soule is therewithall allow'd On sempiternall Thrones with him to sit If so what can be worth the Soules discourse But that same Minde that gaue the Soule such force Let Beasts whose soules are meerely Sensitiue Whose Beeing ceaseth with their Bodies beeing Let those with Tooth and Naile striue here to liue Because they die for euer with their dying To them no other Soules did Nature giue But such as to this life was most agreeing But sith Mens soules of God Characters bee With nothing but with God they should agree Which Soules without their corp'rall Instruments By vertue of their intellectiue powres Within themselues can act some good intents Though not expresse them to this sence of ours Who are sometimes rapt vp with rauishments As parted from the Body certaine howres Wherein they exercise their virtue so That more then erst they knew they doe and kno Wherein the Vnderstanding and the Will Wherewith the Soule are sumptuously set forth Are most imploi'd whose functions are to fill The Soules with Treasures of the rarest worth Which th' Intellect to Will presenteth still And to the loue thereof the will allur'th For Will will nothing entertaine in loue But what the Vnderstanding doth approue And what it doth approue as erst was said It sends to Memories safe custodie So then the powres that most the Soule do aide Is Understanding Will and Memorie Which if by Error they bee not betraid They will the Soules affects so fortifie That shee in spight of all the Pow'res belowe Shall giue hir foes a glorious ouerthrowe Yet as the Sunne to vs imparts his light Now more now lesse as it is cleare or clouded So fares it with our Vnderstandings sight That 's darke as hell if it with Sinne be shrowded Or if that Earthly things inclose it quight VVherewith the Soule may be so ouer-crowded That she may faint and finally may fall To vtter darkenesse hir foe Capitall Besides the Sodies state and constitution May much auaile or disaduantage it Then Riot is no good Phisition To heale or keepe in health mans feeble Wit For excesse tends to Dissolution And Dissolution doth in Darkenesse sit Then wouldst thou haue a cleere Intelligence Feare God fare well but feede without offence For though the Soule the Body should o're-rule By lawe of Nature and in Reasons right Yet oft we see the Body rule the Soule When meates excesse augments the Bodies might The Flesh exalted wil the Spirit controule And make the Bodies manners brutish quight But if thy Flesh be ill compos'd by kinde Mend it with holsome meate and mod'rate minde For what a monstrous vice is this in Man To quench his Spirit with wine and belly-cheare When Beasts will take no more then well they can Although by force they should aby it deare For neuer Man a Beast by rigor wan To eate or drinke more then hee well could beare Then if thou wouldst not haue a Beast excell thee Take thou no more then Nature doth compell thee O that these Healthes that makes so many sicke Were buried in the lake of Leachs quicke For since our English ah were Flusbeniz'd Against good manners and good men
Eternity and Time are opposite For Time no more can bound Eternity Then Finite can inuirone Infinite Both of both which haue such repugnancy As nere can stand with Gods true Unity Eternity is then produc'd from hence By ioyning of his sole Infinitie With his essentiall intelligence And all the Attributes proceeds from thence If then Eternity doth bound this One Or rather he bounds all Eternity How could he Bee or beeing all alone How could he worke that worke vncessantly For hee 's all Act that acts continually Hauing no subiect whereupon to worke And beeing without his Creatures vtterly It seemes he must in Desolation lurke Which must of force an actiue nature irke Or how could he extend his goodnesse when None could receiue it if none Beeing were What honor could he haue there beeing then No one to honor him or him to feare Or what in loue if hee his children deere Had made t'exist from all eternity As to eternity th' are made t' appeere What inconuenience could ensue thereby Yes very great and marke the reason why He is an Essence free not bound to ought Who can and doth exist in boundlesse blisse Although besides himselfe that there were nought For he of greatest glory cannot misse Sith that eternally all gloris his But should the Creatures eternall be His glory would be much eclip'st by this For were th' eternall too aswell as he They would be gods as great in each degree Then nought he needes to giue him laude or loue Or subiect for his worke though nought there were For ere nought was he did not worke or moue Yet idle was not for his Spirit did steere In contemplation of his Essence cleere So himselfe to himselfe was Well of Weale And in himselfe did Glory it selfe appeare Which to himselfe himselfe did aye reueale So pleasd himselfe with what himselfe did feale Suppose no man but one were on the Earth And none but Vermine vile did him attend What honour could they yeeld What ioy or mirth Could they afforde that rather doe offend Such and no more doe men their Maker lend Who were made changeable by changelesse will So chang'd they are and to the worse they tend Who in respect of him continue still Worse then vile Uermine though they were more ill Who for his goodnesse is the God of grace And for his glory is the Lord of Light Whose glorious greatnesse filleth eu'ry place For no place is exempted from his Sp'rite And by it all that is compasst quite As the least Poynt is by the Heau'ns clire And nothing is so solid as hath might To keepe him out as it can Aire or Fire But he is all in all and parte intire Hee 's not in Temples made with mortall hands Nor those which his immortall hands haue made Nor in himselfe as Man for Fleshes bands Can hardly hold the least glimse of his Shade Much lesse his Substance which e're biding had No more in one then in an other place And though with Flesh it seemeth to be clad Yet dwells he in it but by pow'r and grace And so he dwells in all he doth embrace He dwells in Heau'n of Heau'ns by his Glory For there that matchlesse Glory glitters most He is in Hell and each place transitory By presence of his Spirit the holy Ghost He dwells in Christ but how O Christ thou knowst For as the Soule and Body makes one Man So God and Man one Christ do make thou showst Yet the coherence neither may or can The diffrence abrogate since Christ began Whose natures from confusion are as free As from distraction they are cleerely quit Which though connext confounded may not be Much lesse distracted both in one beeing knit But how conioyn'd surmounts the reach of Wit For in Christs body bodily doth dwell The fulnesse of the Godhead most vnfit To be contained in Heau'n Earth or Hell His greatnesse doth their greatnesse so excell Then Contemplation stay here make a pause Stirre not too fast about vncompasst things Though thou canst compasse Heau'n and Earth because Thou art the Image of this King of Kings Yet this flight is too farre for thy clipt wings The Trinity in Unitie's a wonder Surmounting wonders which amazment brings Yet lesse if more may be that God is vnder Fraile flesh and so contayn'd God cannot sunder Which two-fold natures oft co-operates And euermore assotiates each other But neuer mutually participates Each others properties as mixt together For what one hath the selfe same hath not either But in their kindes are diuerse yet but one That 's one of two or two in one much rather Which mystery to God is onely knowne But not as he is Man the same is showne To whom yet nerethelesse all pow'r is giu'n In whom as in its proper place it bides By which he ruleth in Earth Hell and Heau'n And were there some thing else the same besides Which powre beeing infinite with it he guides Each finite thing vnto its proper end In which omnipotence such force resides As were he willing he the Heau'ns could bend Belowe base Hell and make it Heau'n transcend Which peerelesse powre though nothing can oppugne Yet doth it selfe it selfe still so restraine As that it selfe cannot it selfe impugne For what it bindes it cannot loose againe At selfe same time for then that powre were vaine As beeing repugnant to it selfe and so No order should that rulelesse powre containe And then it selfe it selfe would ouerthro And with it selfe all things to wrack should go He cannot make Man free and bond at once Nor giue him Will and wrest it how he will He cannot hold in hate his Holy ones Nor in his loue much lesse imbrace the ill He cannot change himselfe beeing changelesse still Such things he cannot do not through defect Of powre what not if please him to fulfill But of his powre this is a strong effect That can do all but that it should reiect Who being euermore a compleate Acts In highest degree of diuine excellence He neede not chase Perfection by the tract For in himselfe It selfe hath residence Then motion hath he none by consequence For that must firmely stand wherein all moues Who is both Center and Circumference Of Motions motion for it him behoues To giue all rest which he moues or remoues He cannot moue but to himselfe alone Because alone at once hee 's eu'ry where And all that is is only in this ONE Then vnto what or whither should he steere Sith all 's in him that shal be is or were For mou'd he Motion should not tend to Rest But Motion should to Motion tend for ere So Time in bootelesse turnes should be at best When it should draw most neere to most vnrest He is that ONE in whom each one doth moue He moues each one that all in him should rest For whatsoe're from him doth most remoue It findes and feeles thereby the most vnrest Yet from himselfe nothing himselfe can wrest Who
such sorrow 's mixt with solace still Which is substantiall good with seeming Ill. This takes away th'obiection vsde by thee Thou godlesse Man against thy Gods good will Which faith he hath no care how ill we be Or if he had from Ills would set vs free Wherein thou dost the Good and Ill confound For to a good man can no ill befall Though hells of harmes did euer him surround And to a bad man no good can or shall Fall to his share though he possessed all For Goods the Ill abuse vnto their woe Wherewith they execute no mischiefesmall As worldly ills doe make the good forgoe All that is ill indeede or ill in shoe For as a Body craz'd conuerts good foode Into the humour ill predominant Whenas the sound conuerts to perfect blood Those meates that are to health most discrepant So doe the Bad with Wealth the Good with Want With thy Mindes eies behold those Caesars past That were fell Tyrants and thou needes must grant That for they were of their owne shades agast That which they held held them to horror fast What if an aking head were crown'd with gold What could that doe more then to paine it more It were too heauy hard and too too cold To giue it case or make it as before Which goldes restoratiue cannot restore How stopps the purple Robe the purple bloud Of him whose hart a traitrous hand did gore If in such cases such can doe no good Then who will Tirants taxe in enuious moode With gold or Ir'n what skils it to be giu'd Sith both our freedome reaues indifferently What matters it to be of life depriu'd With Axe or Hempe sith all is but to die Saue that the Axe doth it more speedily Aduance a Begger on a burning Throne And at his foote let Princes prostrate lie What pleasure takes he in Kings so or'throwne But such as kingly Tyrants feele alone A greater signe of death cannot appeere If fage Hipocrates we credit may Then when we see the Sicke to gripe the geare That lies vpon them or with it to play They are past helpe God helpe them then we say So they which still are fingring worldly things And greedily gripes all that 's in their way Whether they Subiects bee or frolicke Kings Are at Deathes grizly gate and Swan-like sings Many thou seest with Iustice Sword in hand Vpon it fall or it falls from their fist Because they could not well the same command And so themselues might mischiefe ere they wist God spills and spares by like meanes whom he list So want saues some that wealth would cast away Phisitians meates restraine that health resist And we for our health sake doe them obay Because of sufferance comes ease we say Grieue not to see a Beggar made a King Nor yet a King a Beggar made by chance The first doth stand in awe of eu'ry thing The last feares nothing subiect to mischance Because he liues as death should him aduance No Kingdome to Content no Crowne t'a Crosse No peace to that continuall variance We haue with our Affections and no losse To that of Heau'n for a world of drosse Store is no sore some say nor is ease ill So thought not Cirus who the Sardines sill'd VVith all that mought voluptuous thoughts fulfill VVhich for a plague to them he so fulfill'd And that they might so curelessely be spill'd The sober Soule and temp rate Body sees How mortall it is to be ouer-fill'd But th' eyes of swolne Excesse still ouersees That which with God and Nature best agrees Many meets Death at Feasts that in the field Could not come ne ere him though for him they sought A Splint at Triumph hath some Kaesars kil'd That many a bloudy battle erst had fought Thus Kings to death triumphantly are brought Because they will triumph ere victory The end makes all and in the end we ought To triumph only if we liue and die Belowe the Crosse that vs shall crowne on hie But yet saist thou what Prouidence can see The guiltlesse made a bloudy sacrifize To expiate the rage of Villanee That nothing else will quiet or suffize What skills it how the vertuous liuer dyes Sith by a bloudy death in likely-hood It pleaseth God their Soules so to surprize And on the brow of Time write with their blood Their virtues for succeeding Ages good Thus makes he Euill Good in spite of Euill For all that Is doth to his Glory tend Whereto he guides the doings of the Deuill Though Diu'ls doe it not vnto that end Then sith Gods Prouidence so cleere is kend As that sâ—â—se Blindnesse needs must see the same Let Gods â—â—â—les wisely thereon stil depend Whiles these wise men like fooles past Grace and Shame Denying it loose Body Soule and Name FINIS Coloss. 3. Bicause such a Monster should euer breathe The Noble comes sooner by violent death then the obscure