Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

418 That worldly shing.rcannot fatisfieori ring contentment. drunke with delight ; and drunlrenneffe increafing thirft, maketh vs in the end to grow infatiable. And this emptines and infatiety Both make vs often both to change,and alto to reiterate the fame pleafures; that they which cannot at once fatisfie, may by our continuall feeding on them,at lean keep vs from fauufhing. For example, what doth dainty mcates bring with them, but a vaine delight, which prefently va- nifheth, either by renued hunger, which againe defireth them, or through their furcharging the flomacke, upon which follow crude humors and ill digefiion, which caufeth vs to loath them ? So, how vaine is the pleafure of the moll delicate drinks, which delight no longer then they are fwal lowing downe,and do not fully fatisfie,but only for the pre- lent allay ourthirfly appetite ? The like may be faid ofodori- ferous fmels,which delight then only whilefl they are at the note; ofpleafing fights, which no longer pleafe then they are in the eye ; of fweet muficke, which vanifheth and lea- ueth nothing behind, when the confortcea(eth;ofmetric company, andpleafing fports and pallimes, whole delight lafteth no longer,then theirprefent fruition ; and in a word, ofall other pleafures that the world affordeth, which filling vs full ofnothing, but vaine emptines, do make vs like the thirfly grounds to open the mouth, gaping after the pleafingg !bowers of new delights. And of this Salomon himfelfe had experience,who though he furfetted ofpleafure, yet he was not filled, and when he had fitffered his heart to glut it felfe with varietyof delights,yet he remained altogether vnfatif- fied,only in the end by much vie he came to loathing fatie- sie, and was vexed in his mind,becaufe he had fpent fomuch good time in thefruition of thefe bate vanities, CHAP.