. Emblems divine and moral . et thy soul disdain Th ignoble profiers of so base a swain ; Or if thy vows be past, and Hymend bands Have ceremonied your unequal hands, Annul, at least avoid, thy lawless act With insufficiency, or pre-contract: Or if the act be good, yet mayst thou plead A second freedom ; or the flesh is dead. 283 EMBLEMS. nnoK 5. Nazianz. Orat. xvi. IIow I am joined to this body I know not,whiili, wlien it is healthful, provokcth me to war,and, being damaged by war, aflTectoth me willigrief; which I both love as a fellow-servant, andhate as an utter enemy: it is a pleasant foe
. Emblems divine and moral . et thy soul disdain Th ignoble profiers of so base a swain ; Or if thy vows be past, and Hymend bands Have ceremonied your unequal hands, Annul, at least avoid, thy lawless act With insufficiency, or pre-contract: Or if the act be good, yet mayst thou plead A second freedom ; or the flesh is dead. 283 EMBLEMS. nnoK 5. Nazianz. Orat. xvi. IIow I am joined to this body I know not,whiili, wlien it is healthful, provokcth me to war,and, being damaged by war, aflTectoth me willigrief; which I both love as a fellow-servant, andhate as an utter enemy: it is a pleasant foe, anda perfidious finend. O strange conjunction andalienation : 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. Epig. 8. What need that house be daubd with flesh and blood 1Hangd round with silks and gold ? repaird with food ?Cost idly spent; that cost doth but prolongThy thraldom. Fool, thou makst thy jail too strong. BOOK 0. LMDLEMS. 2S9 PHILIPPIANS. I. 23. 1 am in a strait betwixt two, havingr a desire to departand to be with Christ. What meant our careful parents so to wear,And lavish out their ill-extended hours, To purchase for us large possessions here, Which (though unpurchasd) are too truly ours ?14J T 290 EMBLEMS. BOOK 5. 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 ?Wliat mean these jealous, these suspicious waysOf law dcvisd, and law dissolvd entails ?No need to sweat for gold, wherewith to buyEstates of high-prizd land ; no need to tieEarth to their heii-s, were they but cloggd withearth as I. 0 were their souls but cloggd with earth as I,They would not purchase with so salt an itch; They would not take of alms, what now they buy;Nor call him happy, whom the world counts rich;They would
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