. Emblems divine and moral . my days are months, my months are years ; My years are ages, to be spent in tears : My griefs entaild upon my wasteful breath Which no recovry can cut off, but death. Breath drown in cottages, puffd out in thrones, Begins, continues, and concludes, in groans. 24 EMBLEMS. BOOK III. Innocent, de Vilitate Condit. Humanos. O who will give mine eyes a fountain of tears, thatI may bewail the miserable ingress of mans condi-tion ; the sinful progress in mans conversation ; thedamnable egress in mans dissolution ? I will considerwith tears, whereof man was made, what man d
. Emblems divine and moral . my days are months, my months are years ; My years are ages, to be spent in tears : My griefs entaild upon my wasteful breath Which no recovry can cut off, but death. Breath drown in cottages, puffd out in thrones, Begins, continues, and concludes, in groans. 24 EMBLEMS. BOOK III. Innocent, de Vilitate Condit. Humanos. O who will give mine eyes a fountain of tears, thatI may bewail the miserable ingress of mans condi-tion ; the sinful progress in mans conversation ; thedamnable egress in mans dissolution ? I will considerwith tears, whereof man was made, what man doth, andand what man is to do Alas ! he is formed of earth,conceived in sin, born to punishment: he doth evilthings, which are not lawful; he doth filthy things,which are not decent; he doth vain things, which arenot expedient. Epig, 15. My heart, thy lifes a debt by bound, which bearsA secret date ; the use* is groans and tears :Plead not; usurious Nature will have well the intrest as the principal. * Use, /j/// HI ///( t!/K //I / A(Hi- 7fi/iil,/( /i(f//i(/ /<■ Si/f : n/nc/t (•({/t/ /tnJfi/ii/ BOOK THE FOURTH E M B L E xM I. Rom. vii. 23. I see another law in my members, warring against thelaw of my mind, and bringing me into captivity tothe 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 I should not; And, at the self-same instant, will the thing I would not. Thus are my weather-beaten thoughts opprest With th earth-bred winds of my prodigious will;Thus am I hourly tost from east to westUpon the rolling streams of good and ill:Thus am I drivn upon these slippry suds,From real ills to false apparent goods ;My life s a troubled sea, composd of ebbs and floods. 26 EMBLEMS. BOOK IV. The curious penman, having trimmd his page With the d
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