Part.I.SeCl: 2. 1J ifconterits,Cares;&c. all places;goe where thou wilt, and thou !halt find difconteots,carcs,woes, complaims,fickoeffe, dtfeafcs, tncumbrances, exdamanons : Ifthore look mto themarket,therc (faith* chryfojiome) u*r-awlmgand ron,ttmtD1!;iftothe Corm, thtre knavery and Jiattcry,C,~c .rfto a pri-r;at_emans h~r{e, there s carke andcare, he•vinef1e,&c. As he faid ofold, · k Nilhomine in terraJPiratmiflrremmagis alma: .., Hom. t o.Siin fimmiveris, "ibJ rix~t, tt_!JHgtz£; fiintutiam,ibi ftau.>J,IIdulativ;ji in domum yriw~ tam,&c. kHome;-. No creature fo miferabkas man,fogeoerally molefred, 1 in mi(triu ofbody, 1 Multimplt/lir in mi(erics of minde~ miftries ·ofheart, in mif:ries ajleepe, in .miflries .awake, !n homom,fmis, mifirics where(oevcr he turnes, as Be,rnarJ found, _Ntsnqmd tentatto eft vtta c01poris miferiisJ J" A · · le ( ,n · ,.f'.,(('J"l anim~mi[qiis, humanafopert"Y4m.? meere remprar:on IS our ue, AU;-m.con 1 e 11 . <t Y . I o. dum dermit, cap.z8.) catena perpetuomm malo~rtm, & qui; potiji molejiitU & difficultates dumoigir.t,quo· pati? Who can endure the mtfenes oftt ~ *In prefi>ertty we are mfolene a"d mwf,fioerm. intolerable,dejefled in adverjity, in aU fortunes fooljfh and miferable. >" In ad- t"!:_fJ;,~";'' vefjity I wiP• for projjerity , and in pr.f}erity I am nfaitl of adverjity ; what '::{~":;,dirnre mediocrity may he furmd? wbere is no temptation? What condition of lift i< f"'""'li•rolefee? n Wi[dome h•th laboltY annexedto it .; glory envy; rtches and cares, chtl- r=ii,inc.lmiidrenandincumbrances,plea(itre and di(eafos, reft apd beggery goe together : a tatibwtug•bm, if a man were therefore borne, (as the Plaronifls hold) to be punifhed in this ~7/:IC:::J.~ lift, for (ome precedentJinnes. Orrhat, as ~ Pliny complaines, Nature may be m ProfPmin ~ather accounted aftepmother, than a mttlher Ulito JU, aU things confidered: nD •d><rf':J"'fi1t &nAtures lift fo brittle,fo fuUofftare,Jo mad ,fofurious; only man is plagued ;;,;~;,;;:;, with envy,diftoment,griefes, covmu[nejfe, ambitil!f; (uperftition•. Our whole qui•imerh•< ; life is an Irifh Sea, wherein there is naught t? be.exptded but ·rempefruous ':.~":t:::t:,• fiormes,and troublefome waves, and thofc 10fim~e, : • ~#•ttnwio ? ,. · ' n cardAR.cO!J... P Tanltlm malommpelagui afPicio, foi.SapirntieL~· Yt non fit _inde enatandi cupia. . ;~~;;':J;:, no H alcyonian rimes, wherein a man can hold himfelfe fecure, or agree with f://i;/!,{,';1,/,_ his prcfcBt eflate: bllt as Boethius infers, q there is fomething in every one of ~oi~~,.,;,.,;b~ m, whtch before tryaH we feeke, and havtng tryed abhor: ' Wt earnejlly wifh, ';,""':!,{!:%:/;_ and e~gerly covet, andaree{tfooneswuryofit. Thus betwixt hope and feare, ,! %""""' fufpttlons., angers, . \ ca~fanA{ciho'- ' I Inter (jcmff, mcttrmi timores inter & irtf§, . ~"/:,m~of[U,t~f1J betwixt falling in,falling our,&c. we bangle away our~ befr daies,befoole our 1!'/i;:.' uag our times,we lead aconraotious,d ifcontepr, rumulrtious, mtlancholy, mife, •Libc7:"'"/· rabldife. ·· . . . , ... . .. ·. :o;::,-:.;:;,ij~ In a word,the world It felfe 1s amaze,a labyruuh oferrors,a deferr,a wil- . 1'1'<'"'· na."«~f dern~lfe?a denne of thee\<es,chearers,&:t. full ofliltlitpuddlts,horrld rocks~ ~~:;,::JJ:/ pre.ct~lt.mms,an ocean ofaaverfity;ao b,eavy yoake, #herein,infirmiries and ;;, , nuUifr~isi}icalammes overtake and follow onearrother as the Sea \vaves,aiid ifwe fcape orvi"',l""'~' Stylla,Yie fall fouleop Charybdis,and fo ih perpetual.! feare, labour,anguilb, ':.,):!,:;~·:;::.; w~ runne from one plague,onemtfchtefe, one burden·t::> another, dt~ ram fer- '':'"''""'""'in' vuntu (ervtt~tem, and you may as _foone feparate -watghr f-rom lead, heat ~;,~::;':;~~ from fire,mmflnelfe from water,bnghtnelfe from the Sunne, as mifery, dif- P"aitio. · . . , • ~ · . pEU1ipidtJ. ) qDecfJlJ[«~ib:~· 'Nn,{acJJe mmctltdirMiufua 'M!ord#.t,- intjl f17t!Jdis lJHP..tlfbetriti pttflnt, txpmi horre~nt. ~ Ejfiinhtmurt jtt~ Wl::~ moxtbfPU&tt. f&r. r, .\\ .. . >~ \. ... • content,
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