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A00049 Thrifts equipage Viz. fiue diuine and morall meditations, of 1. Frugalitie. 2. Prouidence. 3. Diligence. 4. Labour and care. 5. Death. Aylett, Robert, 1583-1655? 1622 (1622) STC 1004; ESTC S118663 33,126 66

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eu●r found For by this Diligence all well succeed No idle hower on her head doth shine She her best howers spends with prudent heed And all her businesse aright doth line She finds to all things an appointed time Except it be for Slouth and Idlenesse If idle words be iudged such a crime Much more the losse of times high preciousnesse Which cannot be regain'd with cost and carefulnesse Wherefore good fathers of a Family First rise and latest go to bed at night And those that loue the Mus●s company Do vse their eyes to read by Candle-light Artificer good-Husband Merchant Knight And Magistrate this Vertue doth defend Nothing so difficult but by the might Of Diligence is conquer'd in the end Therefore in all affaires she is our surest friend But non● more enemies than Negligence Slouth Dulnesse Carelesnesse and Idlenesse Impurest mire of foule Concupiscence The forge of Lust and draught of filthinesse Whence come all Vices Sinne and Wickednes Which turne men into Beasts like Sirens charmes Oh Slouth the nurse and mother of excesse Like Statue standing still with folded armes And neuer moues to good for feare of future harmes Vnnecessary Burthen on the ground Who when he hath consumed all his owne Deuoures his friends and then a theefe is found More false yea than a begger bolder growne For though the beggers-bodies hands are sown And 's mind is all on slouth and idlenesse Yet often in his mouth Gods Name is knowne But God all honesty and shamefastnesse He loaths that is possest of slouth and sluggishnesse A Sluggard is vnto himselfe and all A most pernicious wicked enemy By Slouth his mind and body soone do fall To sicknesses and all impurity He is the bane to all good company The stinking Sepulchre of one aliue Shadowes of men Tunnes of Iniquity Whose soul●s base ease of Reason doth depriue Whilst as a Swine with Mast their bodies fat and thriue We Sloth like Lazy Asse at home do finde But listen out you lowd shall heare him bray Iust like a coward dogge of currish kinde That doth at harmelesse Pilgrims barke and bay But comes a Wolfe for feare he runnes away Like fearefull Hart when as he comes to fight But as a Lyon greedy of the prey All day asleepe but in the dead of night He woorrieth the fould for hunger and despight Oh Diligence perfection of all When as thou dost with truth and vertue dwell But if to Vice and errour thou doe fall Thou passest H●ggs and Furies all of Hell Hels waking Cerberus is not so fell As popish priests who compasse Sea and Land Into Cymmerian darknesse to compell Those that in Sun-shine of the Gospel stand Thus diligently they obey their Lords command Oh would we be for Truth as diligent As they for errours and traditions vaine But I haue too much of my hower spent Against the Vice the Vertue to maintaine To Diligence I now returne againe Which like heau'ns glorious Sun doth neuer rest But like a gyant runnes his Course amaine Vntill she of the garland be possest This life 's no mansion but a way to heau'nly rest In heau'n are many Mansions heere we stay Onely to finish that for which we come If trewan●like we spend our time in play And be with drinke or sleeping ouercome Oh! when our fatall hower-glasse is runne And we are call'd to render our account Of good and euill in the body done Our debts alas will all our wealth surmount And our Omissions more than numbers vp can count This Diligence is like one in a Myne That digges much earth a little gold to find Like Silkeworme who her slendrest silken twine By Diligence doth on a bottome wind Like husbandman who little sheaues doth bind Wherewith he fils his Barnes and Garners full Like little stones by Morter fast combin'd Raisd to a Temple large and beautifull Like mighty hostes which Dukes of single men do cull Some by a night-Owle and a Dragons eyes This vertue Diligence haue figured And therefore Poets Fables do deuise The Golden-fleece so highly valued Kept by a Dragons diligence and heed The Golden-fleece the Kingdomes Peace I call The Dragon him by whom all 's ordered For on whose shoulders such a charge doth fall He must be vigilant and diligent in all This Vertue is indeed most soueraigne In highest Rulers which the Publique sway Who are set ouer vs for our owne gaine If them as Gods Vicegerents we obay They keepe continuall watch both night day For all our goods so they be diligent God grant such Rulers euer gouerne may His little Fold within this Iland pent To ioy of all our friends and foes astonishment The Latines Diligence deriue from Loue For he that loueth doth eu'n all fulfill Yea nothing hard or difficult doth proue To him that knowes 't is his beloueds will Whose hearts this glorious Grace of Loue doth fil They here despise all losses griefe and paine Let heau'nly loue into mine heart distill I worlds discouragements will all disdaine For Diligence on earth I loue in heau'n shall gaine This loue in Dauids heart doth so aboun● It from his eyes and eye-lids did expell All sleepe till he a resting place had found Wherein the Lord of life might alwaies dwell This made the Mount of Sion so excell That it the glory of the earth became This diligence makes all to prosper well Though but a sparke of Loues celestiall flame It gaines vs loue in heau'n on earth eter●●ll fame Oh blessed Paul had I thy eloquence Thy indefatigable paines to sound Thy wondrous trauell care and diligence Thy Masters will to know do and propound How many Sees of Bishops didst thou found How didst thou preach by day and work by night How diligently Heretickes confound And eu'n in Hels Worlds Tyran●s Iewes despight By Diligence declare the power of Loues might Should I the Fathers liues trace to the Floud And into Egypt follow them from thence From thence through wildernesse to their abode By Iordans bankes in Houses Cities Tents They all are Maps to vs of Diligence From Genesis vnto the Reuelation Their Pilgrimages all haue reference To new Ierusalem Saints habitation And we all stones and Builders on that one foundation As God so we must worke before we rest We may not cease till all be finished In heau'n we shall enioy eternall Rest Which by the Sabbaoth was prefigured The Spouse may seeke but finds not in the Bed Her Bridegroome he is like the nimble Hind He must be diligently followed But if by Diligence we once him find He skipping comes o're hils and mountains like the wind But if I onely speake of Diligence And image-like to others point our-right Yet liue in Carelesnesse and Negligence I like the blind may others Lampes inlight But stray and wander all the while in night Our life 's a moment here if we regard Eternity A cloud to heau'nly light Like drop vnto the Ocean compar'd Is earthly Ioy to that
surging seas as on the shore All needfull things she by her hand supplies Labour most actiue is Care politique and wise Like Ab●shai and Ioab when they fought With Ammon and the Syrians on the plaine Both constant noble resolute and stout Both striuing that they may the day obtaine If that the Syrians ground on Moab gaine Then Abishai must helpe if th' Ammonite Preuaile against Ab●shai Ioab againe Must succour him with all his force and might Care Labour thus from losse each mutually acquite L●bour betweene the Graces and the Mind Is as the light 'twixt colours and the fight As without light the Eye is alwaies blind So without Labour dwels the mind in night And as the Lord ordained hath the Light To be the meane here colours to discerne So Labour he appoints the medium right Whereby the mind may Grace and Vertue learne And ioyne them fast together by a force inter●e And as all l●fe and actiue strength proceed From feeding so from Labour all our good And as Men to prolong their life do feed So good-men haue for good to Labour stood As necessary to our life is food So vnto honesty is exercise And as none will expect fruit from the wood Except he blossoms first thereon espies So there 's no hope of Age that paines in Youth despise As is a womans fruit without a man So fairest hopes are without Labour vaine Many haue hotly at the first began But Courage want to th' end it to maintaine Like some rash Summers storme or dash of raine That corne beats downe with sudden inundation But soakes not halfe so deepe in flowrie plaine As showres that fall with sober moderation Things violent incline to sudden alteration And as we nothing to our healths do find More dangerous than Ayers alteration So nought more hurts the Body and the Mind Than change to slugg●shnesse from recreation Delight or Labour without moderation Destroy mens bodies and their wits ●onfound Like Nightingales that take such delectation Sweet notes aboue their fellowes to propound Their spirits faile and they are dead with singing found Many will labour but they soare too hie Or else most basely s●nke downe to the deepe They either will into Gods secrets pry Or downe into Earths baser bowels creepe A few or none true moderation keepe They either diue for profits base and vaine Or clime vp to Gods secret Mountaine steepe In both their steps no longer do remaine Then way of Bird in th' ayre or ships vpon the Maine You that the Muses Secretaries are And pen the counsels of the King of Kings I know your Labour Industry and Care To vnderstand and publish holy things Which vnto you such Ioy and Pleasure brings As we that feele it onely vnderstand Yet mount you high Sol fries your waxen Wings If low them Nept●ne wets with wauing hand The golden Meane 'twixt two Extremes doth alwayes stand Fraile mortall man if thou with fleshly Eye Behold'st the Sunne thy sight is dazeled Much more with brightnesse of Diuinity Is thy Minds weaker Eye astonished Glory shall him amaze that will aread The Splendour of eternall Maiestie Mans Mind here with corruption limited Hath no such ample large capacitie No mortall seeth me saith God but he must die Some Meates the appetite do more prouoke To eating we of them must take most heed Such are the Labours which are vndertooke For too high Knowledge or w●rlds baser meed For these prouoke our appetites indeed Vnto Extr●mes from that faire golden Meane Which do our Callings here so farre exceed To which corrupted minds so much do leane They alwaies fall into a curious Ex●●eme Base wretched Cares whose Labour is in sinne Which bring vs terrours in true pleasures steed Vncessantly here taking paines to win Base Mammon and this worlds vnrighteous meed Or an ambitiou● humour base to feed Or their meane House to highest pitch to rayse Or for Reuenge or lustfull wicked Deed Or to gaine popular applause or prayse And be a precedent vnto succeeding dayes As greater Fowles though they be strong of wing With bodies burthen are so weighed downe They cannot mount like nimble Larke in Spring So minds of men to these worlds Cares fast sowne Soone like this world are grosse and heauy growne And though they might by noble Industry Be raisd againe to vnderstand their owne Yet stupid senslesse on the dunghill lie Drunke with foule Ease and this worlds base Commodity These louers of the world though they wax strong In things ter●ene in heau'nly weaker grow For worldly honour they will sweat and throng Bu● to win Crownes in heau'n are dull and slow For worldly Gaine they ought will vndergo From heau'nly least reproach or shame will bend For Princes fauours they whole dayes will woo But not one howre to God in Prayer spend Thus present Shewes not future Glory all intend What Labour hard what time can we thinke long Which doth to vs eternall glory gaine To haue our wils no labour seemes too strong For Vertue wee 'l not least delight refraine Thinke but what holy Labour may obtaine A certaine hope and sweet remuneration Of which the Saints forsaking Pleasures vaine Haue by their liues giu'n plenteous commendatiō Here labouring all whilst they liu'd in their Vocation Here Plenty makes me sparing read the acts Of all the holy Fathers till the Flood From thence to Egypts Bondage next the facts Of Moses Iosuah Kings and Iudges good Haue they not all for Labour stoutly stood This shunning Labour by a Hermits Cell A late deuice is of Romes lazie brood To mumble Prayers and their Beades to tell But take no Care for neighbour Church or Commonweale Is this Pauls Watching Paine and Wearinesse Thirst Hunger Scourgings Nakednes and Cold Perils by land by water sore Distresse Besides his outward labours manifold His inward Cares the Church in Peace to hold A liuing man lye buried in a tombe Lest worldly 〈◊〉 and labours him withhold From contemplation of that heau'nly roome Where neuer such a slouthfull idle wretch shall come Braue actiue spirits though in Contemplation I spend much time yet I your liues do hold To be more worthy praise and admiration You bring to vs all good and ill withhold You whose great cares and labours do vphold Like Atlas shoulders ciuill Gouernment Your Splendors we your cares cannot behold Who know the Care and Weight of Regiment Would neuer enuy them their glory and content O Muses Darlings do not then abuse Your heau'nly Numbers which the Muses lend To honour of Authority to vse Their names with blots and infamy to blend Your Muse not able is to apprehend Their deepe Foresight that States and Kingdomes sway With care and labour they at Helme attend That sleepe and sing in ship you safely may No gentle Dogge will at his Keeper barke and bay Great Keeper of this famous Brittish Ile How dost thou care and labour for our ease Besides Kings ordinary Paynes and Toyle In Gouernement