Thatallworldfy thingsare6tetmeere vanitiu, 283 ielbelt. For *omen aredelighted eaten withfetters;fo they bee ofgold, uettherdoe they eflcomethemhurthens, fo they bee preti. otu; nor thinks them bonds,fo that their treaj ure'hine in them. Tea, they arede/cghtedwiththeirlboundi, that they may thrult gold through their caret, and hang pearles andieweltat them : andyet thefejewels hark their waight, andfilch clothing their told; they fweat with the burthenoftheiriewels, and are chill with coldin their thingibes; andyet the opinion oftheir price hclpethall; andthat tbhichnatureabhorreth,cocteraufneffe cam- menderhandextolleth, Laflly, what worth and excellencie is in worldly plea- 6.Seí?.4. fures, more then opinion imparts vnto them?For doeweeThat there is no not fce,that that which toone is magnified as his chiefe de- exceUtndein light,is unto another loathforne and tedious? and contrari- orldlyPwhat wife, that which is accounted this mans hell, is efleemed fopinionit,paru an,nthersparadife?one thinketh huntingand hawking his vnto them. worldlyhappinefle, another accounteth it a tedious toylc ; onefwalloweth drinke aspleating neâar, and the more hee drinketh, the more heedeßreth; another whenhis thirfl is quenched,receiueth it as amedicine, or loathfome potion; onepam ere.hhis bodie, another abhorreth gluttonie, as a comberfome vice; one takethhis chiefe felicitie inmasking and reuelling,in carding, dicing, and dancing; another ha- tech them as idle andeffeminate fports,and placeth his hap- pinefl'e in martiall exercifes,which the other fleeth as pain - full and dangerous. In a word, eucry man bath his feuerall delight whereinhe taketh his chiefe contentment; and this . contentment he hath not from anyworth or excellencie in the thing it Idle, for then it would giue voto all others the famedelightbut from his owne opinion and conceit. And hence it is that his opinion changing, his pleafures alfo change, infomuch as wee may often obferue that thole de- lightswhich haue been heretofore his chicle felicitie, upon the alteration of his conceit, become loathfome and vn- plcafa,at. And as a man diflempercd with a burning ague, thinketh wholefome drinkes bitter and loathfome; and tholewhich are cart and fuwre, pleafant and well rellifhed 5 whichagainebeing reflored to his health, bee much difla- fleth /
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