That worldly thingsare vnprofiradle. 479 rich, becaufe their labour prouoketh their appetite, which is fatisfied at their mealeswithout lùrfetting, either becaufeby reafonoithe fcantneffe of their prouifion they cannot,or in refpeCi of the courfeneffe oftheir fare they will not exceed duemeafure : whereas the rich hauing their flomackes cloy: edwith infobrietyand intemperance, intowhich they haue fallen,whilef their bewitching dainties, and varietyofdi- fheshauealluredthem, by pleating their pallet to oppreffe their flomackes, and wanting the meanes oflabour and ex- ercife to recouer them ; they haue fill their hunger preuen- ted with their prouifion, and fo cotnmingto their meales with cloied appetites, they rather loath then delight in their daintief fare, and not knowingwhether it werebell toeateany thing or nothing ofall their delicates,theyin- wardly fret that hauing fogood meate, they haueno better flomackes; and repent oftheirlaf meales gluttonie, not be- caufe they hate their finne,but becaufe they haue loft their appetite,and nowarc depriuedofall their pleafure, becaufe they had then too much. Neither haue they anygreatbene- fitby theit brauery abone chofe thatgoe in plaine habits,fee- ingthefe noleffe then they attaine vnto the maine ends of appareil, which are tokeep vs warme and tohide our fhame; whereas they by their fuperfluity gaine but morecare and trouble, and by difplaying thefe enfignesof pride, expofe themfelues to theskornc oftheir fuperiours,and to the enuie ofthofe who are ofmeaner conditionand ellate. Finally, theyhauenogreatpriuiledge abone the poore inrefpe&of their foft beds,rich couerings,and cofily canopies : for whet- as the chiefevfeofa bed is to fleepe in it, and take our ref+; the rich doe leaflofall attainveto it, though their lodging beneuer focafe andgorgeous, partly becaufe their fitlneffe andexceffe are as great hinderances to ref}, as hunger and want,andpartlybecaufe their headsare troubledabout their riches, whilefl theyare thinking either ofgetting more, or ofkeeping and difpofing that they haue; whereas poore men which lie harder, doe fleepe much more roundly, after their fober meales,and their dales labour. And this the wife Salomon obferued : Theßeepe(faith he) ofham that trauelleth Ecclef. fr
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