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Of the vanit foil J and brace apparel!. 387 (pending our time & ft y about variety of colours,in bray_ dery,iewels,aÿmg and curling of haire,painting,periwigs, and fuch like vanities ?Finally, feeingwe profeffe our (clues pilgf'iïns on earth ; why fhould we goe like, not onely citi- zens, but courtiers of the world ?and feeing we fay that wee &aare trauelling towards our heauenly countrie; why doewee Orloade not fo much our bodies, as our minds, with the intol_ ktablewaightand heauie care of variety and fuperfluityof -*-fuits, mademore maflie and burthenfome with gold,filuer, and precious iewels;all which before wee come to our iour- nies end,we mull leaue behind vs,ifatleall we do not make the poore our porters to beare them for vs. Fourthly, that wee may beeweaned from this vanity of 4Sety.Ir. co lily and gorgeous appareil; let vs confider that it is of no That this bra. worth and excellencie : for the moll rich clothes do not bet- ter bath in the body that weares them ;much leffe the mind that noaorihor Y excei(encie. takes care to prouide them; but as it is vnto thisthe bel- lowes ofpride, fo vnto the other an vnprofitable burthen ; and were it not for opinion and affeEtion which lightens the loade; what leffe waight and cumber is there in a chaine of gold, then in a chaine ofiron ? what leiTe trouble to haue co/bantam the fingers loaded with gold rings fet with pointed dia- conilriugit,lrc, monds, then to weare vpon them rings of brafTe fet with %aure Ct. flint or (mall peebles? feeing the price doth not lighten the geturan fern. burthen, but onely a deceiued and falfe conceit ? Againe, siceruixpre- what excellencie or worth is there in the richefllilkcs,and mito f'grari& finefi clothes, the matter of the one being the excrement oft: ncefl u. crawling wormes, the other the fleece of the fillie fheepe? uar.Ambroi de both which within a fhorttime weare out to ragges,orwith virgin.bb.t. untimely decay may bee confumed with moathes and fillie Vermine; and what excellencie is in that, which as wormes breed,fo wormes defiroy ? And of what worth is that to be valued which man borroweth from beafles and creeping things,which are creatures farre infeiiourvnto himfelfc? A noble man much fcorneth to borrow clothes of a meane yeoman; or being by prefent need conflrained to bee thus beholding, he would rather be afhamed then glorie in it; although there both are creatures of the fame kind, made by C c a the