Parr.z .Setl:.3. Cure 'of Melancholy. Meinb. 5 , 338 farewell,and concluded his fpeech with thislhort fenteoce, My time" now come robegone, Ito IJI] death,youto li'Ve on ; bttt which ofthefe is bejl God alone knorn. For there is no pleafure here but forrow is annexed to ii repen. <Comedi ad tancefollows it. 'lf !feed libera!ly,I am likely Jick orjiw'[ett; If I liwj}a. Jimetatem, . I h d h. jl . " d I " . h fi " t,ravitrumtof· rtngy,my ungeran t. tr unot auaye, am weu nett er ttu norfojhng• fendit,pa•·ci~ If 1 li'Ve h~nejf,I burn tn lujl; Ifl take my pleafure,I tire and fiarvemy [elf: ;~;;;;'f:fi~~- and doemJuneto my body and foul. toj fo [mall aqt~anttty ofmirth, how Tium,venere"' muchforrow; a(ier fo ltttlcpleafure,how great mt[erte ~ T IS both waies trou- ~~~:':,/;,~~"' blefome to me, to rile and go to bed, to eat and provi~e my meat,~~res and taffirudiJ,&c. contennons attend me all day long, feares and fufp1ciOns all my hfe. I am t Bem. ' ·3·. difcontented,andwhy fhould I defire fo much to live~ But an happy death ~;,~;,~ ';Z:.~';: will make an end of all our woe~ and miferies, . triflitia, poft Ommbus unamm certamedela malu; ta.ram volup- Why lhouldfi not thou then fay with old Simeon, fince thou art fo well af. . ;;~:;::.";rial fctl:ed, Lord, now let thy f'rv•nt depart in peace : or with P•ui,I dejire to be diJfolved,.nd to be JVtth Chrifl~ Beatat!Jors qu.e ad bedtamvrtam •ditremape. dEft enim rit, tis a blelfed houre that le~ds us to a d blelfed hfe, a11d ble(fed are they {ef;~ ;:;;;,~ .. that die in the Lord. B~t life is fweet, and death is not foterrible in it felfe, .re.t•b?re ad re- as the concomitants ?f 1t, a loathfome d1feafe,pame,horrour,&c.and many frtgenum, Je, times themanerof 1t, to be hanged, tobe_br_okenonthewheele tobcunexpeaarume a:"' . r. . _ * · ' ~ prremium, de •- buned, or 10 . non te opttmamater gone adb<aviii. condet humi,patriove oner•bit fltembrafepulchro, ~'~· •o, .Afitibrls linguere (era, & gt~rgite u;erfom ~. Vnda feret,pifeef#r impa.fti vulnera./ambent: Thy gentle parents !hall not bury thee, Amongfi thine Ancefiors entomb'd to be, But feral! fowle thy carca!Te !hall devoure, Or drowned corps hungry fifi1 mawes !hall fcoure; As Socrates told Crito; it conceroes me not what is done with me when I am dead, F acil~s jaCit<ra fepttlchri :I care not fo long as I feel it nor,letthem fet mine head on the pike ofTendYitfa, andmyquarten in the foure parts of the world, -pa(camlicet incrucecor'Vos, let Wolvesor Beares devoure me, otuc. --' Cwlotegitt<r qs1i non habet urnam, The Canopie ofheav~n covers him that harh no tombe.So likewi(e for our friends,why fi1ould their departure fo much trouble us~ They are betteras we hope,and for what then doell: thou lament,as thofe do,whom P aut taxed in his time, I 7;he(4·'3 .that ha'Ve no hope!Tis fit therefhould befomefo· lemnitie1 t Sedflpeliredecet de(un[/u,;,peCiorc forti, j!l.9.Homer. Conjlantes, unstm#r diem jletui indulgenter. 'jobs friends fajd not a word to him the firfr feven daies, but let forrow and difconteot take their courfe, themfdves fitting fad and filent by him. When 'jupiterhimfelfc wept for Sarpedon, what e!fe didrhepoetinfinuate, but *Ov!d. that fomcforrow is good, tconfol.ad A- • .fl.!!u matremnijimentuinops infaneren•ti t~::,~~:·:f F lere vetat,-- who can blame_a tend.ermother if lhe {l••t.•fitum . weep for her children .i' Befideas t Plt~tarch holds, ns not mour power not j.~.,;d;:;,m•- tolament,Indolentiarson 'ui_vi& mstingit,it takes awaymercy and pitry,not ~- w
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