. Emblems . months, my months arc yearS; My years are ages to be fpcnt in tears : My griefs entailed upon my waftful breath. Which no recovery can cut off, but death. Breath drawn in cottages, * puft out in thorns. Begins, continues, and concludes in groans. INNOCENT, Book 3. Emhlemes. 187 INNOCENT, de vilitate condit. humana?. Owho wiU s^ive mine eyes a fountain of texrs^ that Imjybewail my mifsrable ingrr[s of mxns \ xhfrfulprtugrefs of mins conv^rfixion^ the damnable f^refs in mans difo*,.luxion ? / wiU confidt^r with teirs, robereof man was made^vohit man doth^ and what man it to
. Emblems . months, my months arc yearS; My years are ages to be fpcnt in tears : My griefs entailed upon my waftful breath. Which no recovery can cut off, but death. Breath drawn in cottages, * puft out in thorns. Begins, continues, and concludes in groans. INNOCENT, Book 3. Emhlemes. 187 INNOCENT, de vilitate condit. humana?. Owho wiU s^ive mine eyes a fountain of texrs^ that Imjybewail my mifsrable ingrr[s of mxns \ xhfrfulprtugrefs of mins conv^rfixion^ the damnable f^refs in mans difo*,.luxion ? / wiU confidt^r with teirs, robereof man was made^vohit man doth^ and what man it to do . Alof, he it formsd ofearth, conceived in ftn, born to punijhmsnt: Hd doth evil thingstohich are not lawful \ he doth filthy things, which are notdecent; He doth viin things^ which are not expedient. EPIG. i^ My heart. Thy lifes a debt by Bond, which bearsA fccret date ; the uie is Groans and Tears :Plead not; ufurious Nature will have aU,As wen the lufreftai the 2 i8S Emlletnesi Book ^lyjauU hath cauetetlto dcfire thy ■ judgments .]>fj! ifc-. i-^^ r , THE FOURTH BOOK. I. ROM. 7: 23. J fee another Law in my members warring a*gainsi the Law of my mind, and bringingme into captivity to the Law of fin. OHow my will is hurried too and fro,And how my unre(olv*d refolves do vary 11 know notftWhere to fix, fometimcs I g«This way, then that, and tli?n the quite contrary tI like, d (like; lament for what I could not;I do, undo; yet ftill do what I would at the felf fame inftant wiQ the thing I would not. 2 Thus are my weather-beaten thoughts oppreft With th earth-bred winds of my prodigious will jThus am I hourly toft from Eaft to WeftUpon the Fowling ftrcams of good and ill:Thus am I driven upon thcfe flipy*fy fud$Fronj real ills to faife apparent goods:My lifes a troubled fca, composed of cbs and floods. 3The curious Penman, having trimm*J hit page With the dead language ot hisdabled quiD,Lets fall a heedlefs drop, then in a rageCafhiers the frui
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