. Emblems, divine and moral . fySuch amrons baseuess; let thy soul disdainTh ignoble proffers of so base a swain :Or, if thy vows be past, and Hymens bandsHave ceremonied your uuequal hands,Annul, at least avoid, thy lawless actWith insufficience, or a pre-contract:Or, if the act be good, yet mayst thou pleadA second freedom; for the flesh is dead. Nazianz. Or at. I am joined to this body I know not;which, when it is healthful, provoketh me to war,and, being damaged by war, affecteth me withgrief; which I both love as a fellow-servant, andhate as an utter enemy : it is a pleasant foe,
. Emblems, divine and moral . fySuch amrons baseuess; let thy soul disdainTh ignoble proffers of so base a swain :Or, if thy vows be past, and Hymens bandsHave ceremonied your uuequal hands,Annul, at least avoid, thy lawless actWith insufficience, or a pre-contract:Or, if the act be good, yet mayst thou pleadA second freedom; for the flesh is dead. Nazianz. Or at. I am joined to this body I know not;which, when it is healthful, provoketh me to war,and, being damaged by war, affecteth me withgrief; which I both love as a fellow-servant, andhate as an utter enemy : it is a pleasant foe, auda perfidious friend. O strange conjunction andalienatiou ! what I fear I embrace, and what Ilove I am afraid of: before I make war, I am re-conciled ; before I enjoy peace, I am at variance. 124 EMBLEMS. BOOK V Epig. 8. What need that house be daubd with flesh aud blood?Hanged round with silks and gold ? repaird with food ?Cost idly spent! That cost doth but prolongThy thraldom: fool, thou makst thy gaol too strong. EiyLB LEIM 9. fur Christ, a elu/ricncs state is mute.,Trn Irzntnd folSartA, litf /tanlfurT/ungscfaine. BOOK V.—EMBLEM IX. Philippians I. 23. I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire todepart, and to be with Christ. What meant our careful parents so to wear And lavish out their ill-expended hours,To purchase for us large possessions here,Which (though unpurchasd) are too truly ours ?What meant they, ah! what meant they, to endureSuch loads of needless labour, to procureAnd make that thing our own, which was our owntoo sure ? What mean these livries* and possessive keys ? What mean these bargains, and these needlesssales ?What mean these jealous, these suspicious ways, Of law-devisd and law-dissolvd entails ? * Livries; a law term, expressive of legal conveyanceof an estate. 126 EMBLEMS. BOOK V. No need to sweat for gold, wherewith to buyEstates of high-prizd land; no need to tieEarth to their heirs, were they but cloggd withearth as
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