An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature . Hat if a day, or a month, or a yearCrown thy delights with a thousand sweet con-tentings ! Cannot a chance of a night or an hourCross thy desires with as many sad tormentings?Fortune, Honour, Beauty, Youth, are but blossoms dying!Wanton Pleasure, doating Love are but shadows flying !All our joys are but toys ! idle thoughts deceiving :None have power, of an hour, in their lives bereaving. Earth s but a point to the world, and a ManIs but a point to the worlds compared centre!Shall then a point of a point be so vainAs to triumph
An English garner; ingatherings from our history and literature . Hat if a day, or a month, or a yearCrown thy delights with a thousand sweet con-tentings ! Cannot a chance of a night or an hourCross thy desires with as many sad tormentings?Fortune, Honour, Beauty, Youth, are but blossoms dying!Wanton Pleasure, doating Love are but shadows flying !All our joys are but toys ! idle thoughts deceiving :None have power, of an hour, in their lives bereaving. Earth s but a point to the world, and a ManIs but a point to the worlds compared centre!Shall then a point of a point be so vainAs to triumph in a silly points adventure ?All is hazard that we have ! there is nothing biding!Days of pleasure are like streams through fair meadowsgliding! Weal and woe, time doth go ! time is never turning ! Secret fates guide our states, both in mirth and mourning! [Thomas Campion, ] AN ACCOUNT O F TH E TORMENTS, THE French Protestants endure aboard the GALLEYS. By John B i o n , heretofore Priest and Curate of theparish of Ursy, in the Province of Burgundy; andChaplain to the Superbe Galley, in the FrenchService. LONDON, Printed for John Morphew, nearStationers Hall. 1708. I^J^
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