Downame - Puritan-02038 v2

54 z Of the mif ries rrhich are incident to á1t eflatee. no telle grieuous then thofe which they fi:flaine, would con- tentedly take their owne againe, andwillingly depart with- out any delire of commutation. For there is no elate which bath not miferies enow attending on it, to make them wret- ched who hue in it, if they be not flrengthencd with prefent patience, and hope of future happines : there is none in the world fo happie, who if they compare their hony with their gall,and their comfortswith their croffes,haue not iufl califs to complain of their vnhappines. For Both a man leade a (-In- gle life? why then as he bath not the cares, fo neither the comforts of wedlock e; and as he is priuiledged,hauing none to care for, fo be is punifhed, hauing none to care for him: as he hath few to bring voto him want, fo ifhe be in need, he hath as few to relieve him; as he hath no children ro trouble him, fo neither to cheere and refrefh him, when he is other - wife troubled : to fay nothing ofhis folitarineffe vfually ac- companied with fad melancholia, of the Joffe of halfe his kindred and friends which by mariage are doubled, of the continuance ofhis life and memorie in his pofleritie; ofthe troubleforne confli& which he continually bath againfl his owne concupifcence, of the difcontents which he endureth, whilefl eitherletting his feet vndcr another mans table,he is faine to Bate when they arc an hungred, to go to bed when they are drowfie, to make their appetite the rule ofhis diet, and to be fubieel to their orders; or keeping a houfc without anhufwife, and wanting an helper, which is as it were the one halle ofhimfelfe, he is fubieél to receiue many indigni- ties from his feruants, and to haue his elate walled, and ha- uocke made of all, by thofe to whom he giueth food and clothing. On the other fide, doth a man line in the late of mariage? then furely as he bath force comforts, fo alfo many troubles: forbetides his paines and care in prouiding for,and gouerning of his familie,he bath many croffes in his chiefefl comforts; for bath he a good wife? he fearethto lofe her, and is tormented with her loffe :hath he a bad one ? the is as acontinualldroppingto his bed, and as acotidian ague to his bones? bath he no children? then with the holyPatriarch he complaineth, that all he bath is nothing,hauing no heires of