50 . .A Fe,n,ft for 'wor'mt. . I . Plcafufe-does crown thy youth, and lulls thy wants; Bu~ ( fullen age'~prroachirg ) ftpight avaunts. Mam lle is Joy, and forrow ieeks t0 bani!h, lt doth lamer.lt and mourn in age, and vanifh. The rimeof pleafitres, like the life ofMan • Beth joyful, both contained in a fpan ·; , ~oth bighly Fr~z'd, and both (,mfudden loft; . Vlhcn mofi we tru{hhem, they deceive us;moft; What fit of madnefs makes us love them thus? Wc leave our lives, and pleafure leaveth us: \Vhy, what is pleafure ? But agolden dream, Which ( 1 wakinng) makes our wams the more extreme~ 1 . And what is life ? A bubble full of care, Which ( priCkt byd_eath) £1:.laight empties iato air : The flowers ( clad in a far more rich aray, Then e'r was StJlomon) do foon dec:ty; What thigg.mQre fweer, ()r fairer than l flower ? And yet it blooR1s a~d fades. within an hour i What greater plea.fure than a riling Sun ? ¥et is this pleafure every evening GGne :· Eut thou art heir to Crcefu.s, and thy treaf~are . Being great and cndlefs) emdlefs is thy pleafure : , ]?ut tluJU (thouCrceftts heir ) C<;mfider mu1}, Thy wea~th, tt.nd thou, catne from; and goes to duft : Another7 s noble, and his name is..grear, 4 nd takes his place upot:l a lofty fear; -· T rue 'ti~, but yet his many wams are fuch, . That better ' rwerc he were not kR@Wn fo mu,cl1. Anuther binds his foul in Hymens knot, . His S?oufe is chafte, unblemi!ht with a fpot; But yet his c0mfort is bedafht, and dGne, Hi~.gropnds d.re ft<;C:kr, andnow he .wai'lts a fon. How ... fickle and Lmconfiant's Mans ~ftate ! 1\1 ~.n fain WOI:lld have, .bl:lt then he kn.OWS not what;'. ~nd having rightly knows n_ot l~ow t"~ prize it, · l· But like that foolifl1Dunghil-Cock, implays lr.
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