. Emblems, divine and moral : The school of the heart; and Hieroglyphics of the life of man . eing got, BOOK I. EMBLEMS. 39 Make firm possessions but a thoroughfare ^Or, if they stay, they furrow thoughts the deeper;And being kept with care, they lose their careful keeper. S. Greg, Horn. iii. secund. Parte Ezech. If we give more to the flesh than we ought, wenourish an enemy ; if we give not to her necessity whatwe ought, we destroy a citizen : the flesh is to be satisfiedso far as suffices to our good : whosoever alloweth somuch to her as to make her proud, knoweth not how tobe satisfied : to
. Emblems, divine and moral : The school of the heart; and Hieroglyphics of the life of man . eing got, BOOK I. EMBLEMS. 39 Make firm possessions but a thoroughfare ^Or, if they stay, they furrow thoughts the deeper;And being kept with care, they lose their careful keeper. S. Greg, Horn. iii. secund. Parte Ezech. If we give more to the flesh than we ought, wenourish an enemy ; if we give not to her necessity whatwe ought, we destroy a citizen : the flesh is to be satisfiedso far as suffices to our good : whosoever alloweth somuch to her as to make her proud, knoweth not how tobe satisfied : to be satisfied is a great art; lest, by thesatiety of the flesh, we break forth into the iniquity other folly. Hugo de Anima. The heart is a small thing, but desireth great is not sufficient for a kites dinner, yet the wholeworld is not sufficient for it. Epig. 12. What makes thee, fool, so fat ? Fool, thee so bare ?Ye suck the self-same milk, the self-same air;No mean betwixt all paunch, and skin and bone iThe means a virtue, and the world has none. 40 EMBLEMS. BOOK I. Emblem i. Da mill! fraena timorj Da mihi calcar III. 19. Men love darkness rather than lights because their deedsare evil. T ORD, when we leave the world and come to thee, ^ How dull, how slug are we ! How backward ! How prepostrous is the motion Of our ungain devotion !Our thoughts are millstones, and our souls are lead. And our desires are dead :Our vows are fairly promisd, faintly paid ; Or broken, or not made : BOOK I. EMBLEMS. Our better work (if any good) attends Upon our private ends :In whose performance one poor worldly scofF Foils us, or beats us thy sharp scourge find out some secret fault, We grumble or revolt;And if thy gentle* hand forbear, we stray. Or idly lose the the road fair, we loiter ; cloggd with mire We stick, or else retire :A lamb appears a lion ; and we fear. Each bush we see ^s a our dull souls direct our thoughts to thee, As slow as snails
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