. Emblems divine and moral . oor seeming goods ; which, being firm possession but a through fare ; Or, if they stay, they furrow thoughts the deeper;And, being kept with care, they loose their carefulkeeper. 46 EMBLEMS. BOOK I. S. Geog, Horn, 3. secund. Parte Ezech, If we give more to the flesh than we ought, wenourish an enemy; if we give not to her necessitywhat we ought, we destroy a citizen: the flesh is tobe satisfied so far as suffices to our good: whosoeveralloweth so much to her as to make her proud, knowethnot how to be satisfied : to be satisfied is a great art;lest, by the
. Emblems divine and moral . oor seeming goods ; which, being firm possession but a through fare ; Or, if they stay, they furrow thoughts the deeper;And, being kept with care, they loose their carefulkeeper. 46 EMBLEMS. BOOK I. S. Geog, Horn, 3. secund. Parte Ezech, If we give more to the flesh than we ought, wenourish an enemy; if we give not to her necessitywhat we ought, we destroy a citizen: the flesh is tobe satisfied so far as suffices to our good: whosoeveralloweth so much to her as to make her proud, knowethnot how to be satisfied : to be satisfied is a great art;lest, by the satiety of the flesh, we break forth intothe iniquity of her folly. Hugo de Anima. The heart is a small thing, but desireth great mat-ters. It is not sufficient for a kites dinner, yet thewhole world 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 ?The means a virtue, and the world has none. r^. Dii. luilVLirrena Timor; da luihi Calcar ^Alitor /)rl(l/e my iiotM(v Zra/ FrrT/tin^^ o/crr /^rrttfit tar f/te Spuref Hearts, firle^tiof Love . BOOK L—EMBLEM XIII. 1 John iii. Men love darkness rather than lightj because theirdeeds are evil. Lord, 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 promised, faintly paid; Or broken, or not made :Our better work (if any good) attends Upon our private ends:In whose performance one poor wordly 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 1 we loiter; cloggd with mire ? We stick, or else retire 48 EMBLEMS. BOOK I. A lamb appears a lion; and we fear Each bush we sees a our dull souls d
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