That allworldly thingsarekit werevanities. a89 then bya readie yeelding.And muchmoredoth he defire to 71ton tampones breake openapaffage for his hopes by violence,then to find intrare pattrte, a freeentrance : yea,and when outward oppofition ceafeth; geanrjre3rfjz the inward oppofitionwhich he findeth at home in his own iurar.Lucanus, confcience incompaflingofthefeearthly things,dothmuch raife theirprice and eftimation. Forwhen theconfcience a.. Menusplacet greethwiththedefire, andapprouingofit ,giuethfreeliber- Fgrudfd tie offèeking and inioying, then the thing de(ìred is com- monly jetur, r peon butlightlyfetby,andmeanelyefleemed: but when Pl,utusin it is vnlawfull either in itfelfe,or in refpe6 ofthe meanesof Trim. comming by it; then the LawofGod forbidding it,and the 3Qrcitacman- confciencecondemnin it, doefeta wonderfulled e vpon Cur,e.tcidit g ' g p gercagidtiter. the appetite, making it the more toaffeól it, byhowmuch senec.inHere. the moredifficultie andhazard there is in attainingunto it; Oet. faring herein like the riuer, which when it bath a free cur- Kom.7.s. rent,runneth quietly in his owne chanell ; but finding flop Let'Floarreli. and oppofition it ragethand fwelleth, and breaking downs sus :,pfapote- his banks,ouerfloweth the whole Countrie. fiar-seminane- And thus honours are highly valuedand efleemed, be- guitia laugui- eaufe theyarenot obtained without great labour and dan- drora lacir.o_ ger,as abroadby lying in theopen fields,bywatching in the SEA $ib.3. night,and toiling in the day, by innumerable perils in open D7 cultiein fight,and fecret ambufhments,wounds, skarres, effufion of oVt uing tbem, blood,andcontinual) hazardoflife ; or elfe at home by the mai,th honours painefull and carefull feruice ofthe flate,which is often ioy- and richefo ned with as mach hazard as labour. By which difficult much to be e- meanes when they arecompaffed,theyare anfwerably dice-11'd' medandvalued,not according to their owneworth,but ac- cording to there deareprizes,atwhichtheywere purchafed. Or ifthe ellimation ofthefe honours bee not aduanced by thefe outward difliculties,(asin truth this dangerouswayof comming vntohonour, was neuer inany age leffe trauellcd) Arlanamnia yet at leafs theyarcvalued the more,in regardofthe inward perpet:,gens bu_ oppofition which menfind in theirconfciences b vfina vn- u rmunnt rpjeur lawfull meanes oattaine vntothem; as namely counter- Horat.Oda3: feitinghypocrifie,machiauellian policies,treacherous falle- lib.r. hood,whereby they raife themfelues by fupplantingothers, notcaringby howwicked peps they clime,fo they may rife, V and
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