A Preparation to the Psalter . ing my ielfe tofeme employment: either thecankred ruftineffe, which vlually ac-companies floth, would make me wholly vnfit for all affaires; or thebeing out of action, might giue euill temptations the opportunity, toget the vpper hand. Morcouer; I am not fo ignorant, but that I know a time will come(and it may be fuddenly) when as well I,that haue but one talent, fhallbe called to account for it, as he that hath fiue. And therefore I durftnot but feeke out lome honeft endeauor; that when our great Mai-mer fhall pleafe to require my laft Audit, I may haue the witn
A Preparation to the Psalter . ing my ielfe tofeme employment: either thecankred ruftineffe, which vlually ac-companies floth, would make me wholly vnfit for all affaires; or thebeing out of action, might giue euill temptations the opportunity, toget the vpper hand. Morcouer; I am not fo ignorant, but that I know a time will come(and it may be fuddenly) when as well I,that haue but one talent, fhallbe called to account for it, as he that hath fiue. And therefore I durftnot but feeke out lome honeft endeauor; that when our great Mai-mer fhall pleafe to require my laft Audit, I may haue the witneffe of agood confciencc, that I had ( at lead) a defire to occupie the portionwhich I haue receiued, to his glory. And fo much was my oucr-earneftlonging to be doing,that I muft cofelTe,it grew ripe,before my discre-tion ; which made me bufie, before I knew how to do any thing well:as too apparantly appeared in thofe my Satjricall Poems. For, in them,you may perceiue(fure I am, I find there) fo many childifh ouer-fights B and. Want of em-ployment isthe cauleofyoung-mensmine. We muft allgiue accountboth ofourtime, and thegifts we hauereceiued. A Preparation to the Pfalter. Chap. Hec that hath but one Ta-lent hiu ft no:;hide ic Difficile eft Sa-tyrem nonfcri-bere. and abfurdkies, that if then I had hot the fewneffe of my yeares tohaueexcufed the greenneffe of my wit, with the teftimony of myowne knowledge that my zeale was to doe well; I fhould long be-fore this time haue beene afhamed of them, as ridiculous : and yetnot for that they may feeme fuch to fome nice Criticks. For, what theyrecken foolifh in them, I repent me not of: nor can I for any iuft rcafonaltogether renounce them or wifh they had neuer beene rather as their bold honefty hath gained me fome reipedt a-mong honcft men: fo I truft they hauc done fome good, in which I{hail one day find comfort; feeing for that which is amifle in them, Ihaue bene put to penance already , both in expenfes andreftrain
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