The non-dramatic works of Thomas DekkerIn five volumes . THE BEL-MAN OF LONDON. Difcouering the moft notable villaniesnow in the Kingdome. NTRING into a contemplationof the Changes of Time ; howall things that are vnder theMoone are as variable as herlookes are: how Goodnes growescrooked, & hath almoft loft herfhape: how Vertue goes poorely, and is notregarded: how Villany iets in filkes, and (likea God) adored : And when I confider, how allthe pleafures of this life are but as childrensdreames, how all the glories of the world arebut artificiall fire workes that keepe a blazingfor a time, and
The non-dramatic works of Thomas DekkerIn five volumes . THE BEL-MAN OF LONDON. Difcouering the moft notable villaniesnow in the Kingdome. NTRING into a contemplationof the Changes of Time ; howall things that are vnder theMoone are as variable as herlookes are: how Goodnes growescrooked, & hath almoft loft herfhape: how Vertue goes poorely, and is notregarded: how Villany iets in filkes, and (likea God) adored : And when I confider, how allthe pleafures of this life are but as childrensdreames, how all the glories of the world arebut artificiall fire workes that keepe a blazingfor a time, and yet die in ftinking fmoakes:and how al the labours of man are like thetoiling of the winds, which ftriue to caft vpheapes of duft, that in the ende are not worth ;o THE BEL-MAN the gathering : Then, euen then, doe I growwearie of my felfe: then am I neither in louewith y beautie of y Sunne, neither ftand Igazing at the dancing of the ftarres : I neitherwonder at the ftately meafures of the cloudes,the nimble galliards of the water, nor the wantont
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