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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A08278	The labyrinth of mans life. Or Vertues delight and enuies opposite. By Io: Norden	Norden, John, 1548-1625?	1614 (1614)	STC 18611; ESTC S110180	46,781	96

to dwell Armies of Vice and Vanities will be At her commaund and ouer master thee The chiefest point that first thou art to seeke Is that true wisdome which makes hautie meeke It is not Natures gift as Nature stands Polluted but giu'n by Diuiner hands Mans nature knowes not things celestiall No not it selfe and parts materiall But only as they seeme them takes and holds The cause materiall and the formall mouldes The perfect and imperfect outward parts Not th'in clinations of imperfect hearts Speach motion breathing sicknes health and light Are somewhat subiect to weake Natures sight But who where how wherefore men are to knowe Is giu'n by grace doth not by Nature growe In showe the impious may appeare vpright And see some steps of Truth by Natures light But brought vnto Truthes test it 's found but drosse That flyes and vaporates and brings but losse The young and old are apt to hide their ill That comes by Nature not to●● be the will Vnsetled in their iudgements young men are The aged feeble yet of deeper care The idle froth of youthfull fuming braine Must be cast off by Wisdome to containe Not to consent to all what th' hart would haue Nor to effect all Appetite doth craue In doubtfull things giue not too rash consent Luste buyes too deare a rash experiment Her present pleasures with succeding paine Content with griefe both with perturbed braine Continuing lust gets hatefull Impudence Infamie and shame succeede concupiscence Young yeares in some haue old experience And aged men the least intelligence But it 's obseru'd soone rots that ripes too fast A suddaine flame is no long-lasting blast True Wisdomes seede sowne in the greenest head Water'd by grace doth quickly branch and spread So doe the humors of vnstable minde Grow strong or weake as Fancies are inclynde A life contemplatiue in things Diuine Brings hurtfull humors vnder that repine It 's not the Cloyster or the Hermite life That keepes perturbed minde from inward strife But constancie in Vertues exercise Which he obtaines that best Philosophies That by true reason can his iudgement guide Which he can not that is not rectifide This Wisdome doth in words and deeds consist Not in the Will that worketh what it list But in the Will by grace Diuine renew'd And in the sence by Nature new indew'd This Nature sowes in mindes prepar'd the seede That beares the fruite whence will and worke proceed This changed nature and reformed swayes In some degree the minde that most estrayes Some sparke she leaues 〈◊〉 mindes polluted most Which most neglect and deeme it meerely lost This Nature will require what first it gaue As well what'th vitious as the vertuous haue Though they forget and make no vse of it Excuse but vaine fram'd by the finest wit There is a light within the darkest minde Though it shine not none can pretend him blinde For he that sues and soone consents to ill Feeles yet a lawe that countermands the will The will yet obstinate performes the fact That light within doth witnesse the contract That light will shine vnto the conscience And will reueale most hid concupiscence The things indeede thou must auoid and doe Are in effect in generall but two To flye what Enuie egges thee to effect To doe what I in contrarie direct Vnder the name of Enuie and of Lust Is comprehended what I hold vniust Pride Enuie Crueltie and Auarice Deceit Hypocrisie and flatteries Presumption and prodigalitie Ingratitude Hate Sloth and Gluttonie And many other things forbidden rest Harbor'd and hug'd in euery doting brest Earths pleasures vanities carnall delites Are Natures content not guided by my rites As many Sences as the bodie beares So many appetites Affection reares Ech pleasur 's propper to some Sence alone The rest then sleepe or are content with none The thing belou'd delites the longing eye The other Sences silent willingly The eye suffi●'d the eare pertakes her share The taste smell feeling all propensiue are To feede affection and abuse the heart Which erres led by polluted Natures Arte. When ech hath yeelded what his office giues The heart misguided thinkes it much relieues And when the heart whence springs affection Hath ●edde at full of false refection Then hungers it anew for new delite What fancie likes it holds most exquisite The changes of fond fancies appetites Are infinite seeming a while delites Forth with they grow vnto such harsh distaste Others are had fit fewell for a blast New choyce new change strangest varieties Are sweete awhile in fine perplexities Affection guided by Reason Diuine Shuts vp the outward opes the inward eyne Auoids earths pleasures treacherous and short Seekes pleasures which eternitie import The pleasures which determine be not best Nor long content the minde wherein they rest Pleasures alone that inwardly are bred And by right reason nourished and ●ed Shall neuer change though outward sences die Their inward ioyes shall liue eternally Let thy delite be then in what doth last Sport sparingly in that may bring distaste The weakest worme hath motion to aspire Knowes not yet whether it rise or retire No more knowes he that fancieth this and that Where or what marke it is he aymeth at The brutest beast seekes and desires to haue What so his brutish appetite doth craue Resembling those that what they see affect Though ill haue not true reason to reiect The minde doth long the will consentes and takes Lawfull or not as mindes delite it makes But if the will and full affection bee In earthes delites it makes a bond of free As pleasures come they fawne as harlots doe But past the minde left stunge they come into I● outward acte o● thy delite regaine More inward force t'exhilerate thy braine Dul'd with the practise of true vertues deedes Be moderate and then no ill it breedes And for the choyce of ●it companions To passe the time in recreations Looke not vpon them as they onely seeme Nor thinke them fit in showe of good esteeme But trye the humours and the inward minde Before consort proue how they stand inclinde If they affectate vitious wordes and deedes Abandon them scurrilitie it breedes And in thy recreati●e disports take heede Thou loose not that thy inward grace may feede Thy constancie and magnanimitie By wantonnesse and effeminacie No recreation beedes more infamie Then to bestowe deare time in gamestrie Dicing beseemes noe men of grauitie But brands them with the marke of leuitie Of frensie indiscretion wanting wit With these the sagest Romans branded it Let vertues actes be cherished in thee So shalt thou keepe thy minde assayled free Vertue a power ruling the inward part Brings into order the disord●ed ●●art And sets th'appetite in so comely frame It thirsts for nought but Reason holds the same One thing among a multitude is had In great esteeme which makes the gainer glad It beares the name which trul'it cannot take Goodes yet

both the left she had no right Her armes seem'd great with bowe and arrowes dight Her life she leades in darke and dismall den She comes among but seldome seene of men She counterfeits Camelion-like her hew That none may know her by the outward view She 's alwaies dry and only drinkes of bloud Whereof there flowes where she abides a floud This hidious sight affrights my minde opprest And what it ment I ponder'd in my brest A voyce me thought diuinely thunder'd out The meaning of this misterie of doubt The hagge was Enuie which did thus appeare Her colour pale imports despite and feare Her swolne cheekes shewes her puft vp with spight Couer'd imports she flyes reueyling light Her fiery eyes bewray reuenging minde Her gastfull teeth her cruell Tygers kinde Her sword-like tongue imports her words are wounds Her gaping mouth whom she can seaze confoundes Her Lyons clawes her crueltie imports Her stincking breath her poysoning her consorts Her stature lowe imports she is but weake Her belly bigge she must disgorge or breake Both hands sinister showes she doth no right Her bowe and shafts her furniture of spight The denne wherein she liues in darke doth showe That nought in her but things of darkenesse growe Her counterfeyting sundry shapes declares How forging loue her deepe despite prepares None knowing her by outward habit makes Some fall into her snares and them she takes Her thirst for bloud imports her hate so great As naught but death can quench her hatefull heate The spring of bloud that issues from her Cell Showes her delights doe spring and flowe from hell All which she cloakes with fayned pietie Cou'ting to couer inward enmitie This ougly filth the Mother of despite Pursues that Ladie of true loues delite These visions strange appal'd my minde opprest For sorrowes subiectes would but cannot rest Yet by the processe of ech course I gessed Whose person ech of all the three expressed This passionate deseruing cros'd relates By his successe the change of all estates The Ladie faire true Vertue represents The hagge foule Enuie nurse of Malc●●tents Her cloathing of rent leaues of bookes of Lawe Imports her seeming but of Law no awe The Ladie modest had a vayle e'cast Ouer her face this hagge oft makes it fast Lest men should see the glorie of her face And guide them by her rudiments of grace The Ladie milde beheld this passionate Blush at her presence and her gracefull gate The hagge perchance did most amaze the man Who on the Ladie sprinkles with her fan Distastfull sauours and reproche with tongue Yet this milde Ladie vndergoes her wronge Seemes not to heare or feele her iniuries Custome makes constant in extremities This gracefull Ladie doth thi● common so● Captiue at will yet wils to let her goe Giues not consent vnto her workes of hate She holds her feeble ●urious detestate This louely Ladie with affecting cheere Her vaile cast off wils passionate come neere He fearefull fals before this Ladie faire And seekes on suddaine outward faults repaire● For whoso comes obruptly in the view Of great estates will all defectes renew And set externall things in order neyte Though a meere Pharisaycall conceite Much was this passionate deceiu'd in this This Ladie lookes what is within amis No outward onament allureth her Who thinke to win her by gay garments erre No outward want or basenesse in attire Disgraceth her none great make her admire Defectes within she onely loathes and ●●yes The good within with grace she fortifies The impious ones she hates and scornes to be● Where that foule hagge is entertain'd not she This hatefull hagge vsurpes dominion Within this Labyrinth disunio● Before she came and did intrude the place It was no Labyrinth but place of grace But now she bandes in her al-hatefull bowre In spite vsurping vertues seeming powre She is most hatefull to the vertuous In outward showe yet most obsequious They scorne to foyle their fingers in her deedes Deluding some yet by her painted weedes Camelion-like she oft transformes her face And faines her Angel-like in frauding grace The Ladie shines and showes he● selfe to those That loue her light and be blacke Enuies ●oes Her counsell consequent to'ch passionate Showes how to curbe this hagge though obstinate Though she b●traies by wiles and circumuentes The most desertfull by her instruments This Ladie lures and would haue all men ●●ye That monster mother of impietie Who luls her louers like a nurse of spite With kisse of curses seeming sweete delite The Ladie her speach to the Passionate LOng since I this confused Maze possest Chiefe Ladie when t' was place of heauenly rest Before the fall of him I first did beare Who●e dismall fall this hatefull hagge did reare Herselfe once set pu●e in celestiall place Enuie and Pride depriu'd her of that grace Cast downe from blisse then strip'd of light and loue Malign'd the glorie shining from aboue And hates the happinesse of man below Plac'd in the Garden where Content did grow She then intrudes pretending wisdomes loue And my first borne in malice did remoue From light to darke from grace to giddinesse From Loue to ●ust from Faith to sicklenesse In him my first haue all posterities Lost true content and found sad miseries Now she seemes greatest and of greatest might She 's so indeed but only in despite She counter checkes the course which I aduise And fils this Labyrinth with cruelties The place where now this Labyrinth is set Was free to mee I had no counter let Vntill this hagge vsurped power and place And by her w●les robd humane kinde of grace A gracelesse guide her light infernall fire Begot belowe blacke Darknesse was her fires A hatefull monster of infernall breede On humane hearts and soules delites to feede● As Toades and Serpents creatures venimous Feede on gros●e poyson and 〈…〉 So this foule hagge feedes only on despite Enuie 〈◊〉 Ha●e are ●er delite None can escape her hidious hands of hate The purest she seekes to contaminate Within this Labyrinth high power● 〈…〉 That qualities 〈…〉 I might beget And men by mee might learne to liue vpright And re-assume the grace of heau'nly light Which is not got by humane pollicie By Arte or force or restlesse industrie The proud mali●ious hautie ins●lent Learne of that hagge their gracelesse gouernment The humble only and true fearefull take The way of life I leuell for their sake A way yet seeming way of bitternesse Of hearts distaste and irkesome wearinesse Only to those whose reason she peruerts And seedes of Ignorance in steede inserts She muffles men and hoodes them leste they see The meanes to make them of her bondmen free Thou know'st that hast had tryall of her spite Hee is her slaue that is her fauorite If thou persist a fauorite of mine Thou canst not bee but odious in her eyne She will oppose thee and against thee band She 'll fawne in 〈◊〉 haue wounding sword in hand● A seeming cup of sweete