. Emblems, divine and moral . hen my days are months, my months are years;My years are ages, to be spent in tears:My grief s entaild upon my wasteful breath,Which no recovry can cut off, but drawn in cottages, puffd out in thrones,Begins, continues, and concludes, in groans. Innocent, de Vilitate Condit. who will give mine eyes a fountain of tears,that I may bewail the miserable ingress of manscondition; the sinful progress of mans conversa-tion; the damnable egress in mans dissolution? Iwill consider with tears, whereof man was made,what man doth, and what man is to do.
. Emblems, divine and moral . hen my days are months, my months are years;My years are ages, to be spent in tears:My grief s entaild upon my wasteful breath,Which no recovry can cut off, but drawn in cottages, puffd out in thrones,Begins, continues, and concludes, in groans. Innocent, de Vilitate Condit. who will give mine eyes a fountain of tears,that I may bewail the miserable ingress of manscondition; the sinful progress of mans conversa-tion; the damnable egress in mans dissolution? Iwill consider with tears, whereof man was made,what man doth, and what man is to do. Alas! heis formed of earth, conceived in sin, born topunishment: he doth evil things, which are notlawful; he doth filthy things, which are not de-cent; he doth vain things, which are not ex-pedient. 32 EMBLEMS. BOOK III. Epig. 15. My heart, thy lifes a debt by bond, which bearsA secret date; the use* is groans and tears :Plead not; usurious Nature will have all,As well the intrest as the principal.* Use, interest. B O OK iv:. EMBLEM 1. Horn. 7 • 23 • /?/// i?t ///):2Yts/f (t/icf/trrZciilIfiful,Tendtfig to Sin ; H/iic/t eafitiiyittwmvJBml BOOK THE FOURTH. EMBLEM I. Rom. VII. 23. I see another law in my members, warring againstthe law of my mind, and bringing me into cap-tivity to the law of sin, 0 how my will is hurried to and fro, And how my unresolvd resolves do vary ! 1 know not where to fix ; sometimes I go This way, then that, and then the quite contrary :I like, dislike; lament for what I could not:I do, undo; yet still do what 1 should not;And, at the self-same instant, will the thing Iwould not Thus are my weather-beaten thoughts opprestWith th earth-bred winds of my prodigious will; Thus am I hourly tost from east to westUpon the rolling streams of good and ill: VOL. II. F 34 EMBLEMS. BOOK IV. Thus am I drivn upon these slippry suds,From real ills to false apparent goods;My life s a troubled sea, composed of ebbs andfloods. The curious penman, having trimmd his pag
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