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Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site . eng Wisdom. 2003-06 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2003-06 Apex CoVantage Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2003-07 Mona Logarbo Sampled and proofread 2003-07 Mona Logarbo Text and markup reviewed and edited 2003-08 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion THE SUMMARY OF VVISEDOME , By Edward Benlowes Esq Love not the World , neither the things that are in the World ; if any Man love the World , the love of the FATHER is not in him : For all that is in the World , the Lust of the Eyes , the Lust of the Flesh , and the Pride of Life , is not of the FATHER , but is of the World ; and the World passeth away , and the Lust thereof . But He that doth the Will of God abideth for ever . 1 Joh. 2. 15 , 16 , 17. IN DOMINO CONFIDO printer's or publisher's device LONDON , Printed for Humphry Mosely , and are to be sold at the Princes Arms in St. Pauls Church-yard , 1657. THE SUMMARY OF VVISEDOME , By the Author of THEOPHILA . Love not the World , neither the Things that are in the World ; if any man love the World , the Love of the FATHER is not in him , &c. 1 Joh. 2. 15 , 16 , 17. 1 WOrldlings we court not , envy not , nor fear ; May Friends to Vertue lend their Ear : While Sinners split on shelves , Saints to Heav'ns Harbour steer . 2 Earthlings ! What 's Heap of Wealth ? What 's Honours Height ? What 's Pleasures May ? can toyes so slight Blesse Heav'n-descended Soules with Lifes eternall Light ? 3 Riches from most men , swift as Eagles , fly ; Honours on popular breath rely ; Pleasure 's a flash ; — And All combind , but Vanity . 4 Why dot'st thou , WORLD , on these ? we will not stay : Iuggler , We know thy tempting Way ; Which is , by Charms to mock our Sense , and then betray . 5 Art toyles to serve thee ; Sables yield their Skinnes ; The Silk-Worm for thy Ward-robe spinnes ; The Rock with Jemmes , the Sea with Pearles , embosse thy Sinnes ▪ 6 To bribe thy Palate , Lust draynes Earth , Air , Seas ; Whence Finny , Wing'd , hoof'd Droves must please The Glutton , made thereby a Spittle of each Disease . 7 False World , Asps poyson equals not thy Gall , Imbittering Soules to Hell. Thus all Thy Darlings thou delud'st with thy enchanting Call. 8 I wonder not unbridled fools run on ; Since all their Heav'n's on earth alone ; Which , though thou seem'st to give , as soon as giv'n , 't is gone . 9 Kisse , and betray , then Nero's Rage out-dare ; He , whom thou hugg'st , should most beware : I shall un-mask thy Guiles , and thy fond Gulls un-snare . 10 Thy Smile is but a trap , thy frown a bubble , Thy Praise a squib , thy beauty stubble ; Who know thee best , have found a Theater of Trouble : 11 Where Men and Devils meet ; and Sense , compact With Fraud , gild every vicious fact : Where we must Evil hear , or suffer it , or act . 12 Thy Friends are thieves of Time ; The chat they vent ( Light Ayres please toyish eares ▪ ) is spent On trash , which Mindes seduce with cheating blandishment . 13 Thy gifted Sythemen have Religion mown , Which , in their Meeting-barnes , is grown From Best to All ( like Corinths Schism ) from All , to none . 14 Thy Shop vents brayded Ware of apish fashion ; Thy Gauds ( Wealth , Sport , Pride ) breed Vexation ; Like Hoboyes , on Earths Stage , oft ushering in — Damnation . 15 Ah , while , like Larks , fools with vain feathers play , Pleas'd with Sinnes glasse , are snatcht away , In midst of their Excesse , to Hells tormenting Bay ! 16 World , thou soul-wracking Ocean ! Flatteries blow Thee up , thou blue with Spite dost grow , Brinish with Lust , like the Red-sea , with Bloud dost flow . 17 And , like the Basilisks prodigious eyes , Thy first sight kills , but thy self dyes First seen : Quick-sighted Faith thy Darts prevents , and spies . 18 Had'st been lesse cruel , thou had'st been lesse kind ; Thy Gall , prov'd Medicine , heales my Mind : Thus Hell may help to Heav'n , the Fiend a Soul befriend . 19 The age-bow'd Earth groans under Sinners weight ! Iustice , opprest , to Heav'n takes flight , Vengeance her place supplies , which with keen Edge will smite . 20 False World ! is Hell the Legacy to thy Friend ? Crawl with thy trifles to the Fiend : We scorn thy Pack . — thIs year May bVrnIng CLose thy enD ▪ For All that is in the World , The Lust of the Eyes , is not of the FATHER , but is of the World , &c. 21. MIdas , to th' Barre ; thou void of Grace , yet stor'd With Gold , thy minted God , a dor'd : Thou , and thine Idol , perish in thy wretched Hord. 22 Thy heart is lockt up in thy shrined Chinck : O , heavy Gold , bred near Hells brink ! Misgotten Elf , thou Heav'n-designed Soules dost sink ! 23 Whos 's Gain is Godlinesse , — The Scripture he Perverts : — Dayes him with Interest fee , Who Incest still commits with his Coynes Progeny . 24 Thou hast too much , yet still thou whin'st for more ; Thou , wishing , want'st ; art , wanting , poor : Thou would'st ev'n plunder Hell for Cash to cramme thy Store . 25 While gripes of Famine mutiny within , And tan , like hides , the shrivel'd skin Of those thou hast decoy'd into thy tangling Ginne . 26 Whos 's skin , sear as the bark of saplesse wood , Clings to their bones , for want of food ; Friendlesse , as are Sea-monsters thrown ashore by th' Flood . 27 Though Fasts be all their Physick , their Corps all Their Earth , who for thy Pity call , Yet art thou harder to them than their bed , the stall . 28 Penurious Churl , When shall I ( sayes thine Heir ) Ransack thy Chests ? so ease thy Care : Purchase , instead of Ground , a Grave ! — Dye , Wretch , to spare ! 29 Hath treach'rous Coin swell'd by thy Curse ? — Live still Lay-Elder : Soon thy Crimes fulfill : The heaviest Curse on this side Hell 's to thrive in Ill. 30 How cursed Love of Money doth bewitch The leprous Mind with pleasing Itch ! This Slave to his own Servant , ne're was poor , till rich ! 31 Graves may be sooner cloy'd , than craving eyes : Bribes blanch Gehazi till he dies . Thou , Fool , Death shall this night thy Dunghill Soul surprize . 32 Nor would this . City-Wolf lead Men to Snares , Nor vex his Mind with carking Cares , View'd he himself i' th' Mirrour which Despair prepares . 33 So wastefull , Usurer , as thy self , there 's none ; Who part'st with three true Jemmes , for one Brittle as glasse ; — thy Fame , Rest , Soul for ever gone ! 34 Who Nettles sow , shall Prickles reap ; the train To Hell is idolized Gain : Unlesse thou Fiends can'st bribe , thou go'st to endlesse Pain ! 35 His hide-bound-Conscience opens now . — I 've run On rocks ( he howles ) too late to shun ! Grace left , Wrath seiz'd me ! Gold , my God , hath me undone ! 36 Often to Hell in Dreames I headlong fall ! From Devils then I seem to crawl , While Furies round about with whips my Soul appall ! 37 Atheism our Root , for Boughs were Factions store , Hypocrisie our Leaves gilt o're , Wrath , Treachery , and Extortion , were the Fruit we bore ! 38 Like profane Esau have we sold our blisse , For shine of Pelf , that nothing is ! This desperates our Rage , we still blaspheme at This ! 39 Thus cursed Gripers restlesse Tortures feel , Whose hearts seem'd rocks , whose bowels steel . I burn , ( cryes Dives ) for one drop , deny'd , I kneel ! 40 Fire each where broyles me , Fire as black as Night ! Goblins mine Eyes , Eares Shrieks affright ! Sins Debt still paying ; nere discharg'd , is Infinite ! For all that is in the World , The Lust of the Flesh , is not of the FATHER , but is of World , &c. 41 STrow Flowers for Spend-thrift ; Antemasks he might Act before Apes , Spectators right : Whose Dops , Shrugs , Puppet-playes , shew best by Candle-light . 42 Hot showes the Season by his dusty head ; With fancy'd ribbands round bespread ; Modish , and maddish , all untrust , as going to bed . 43 Ho! First brisk Wine , next let a sparkling Dame Fire our high Bloud , then quench our Flame ! Blest is the Son , whose Father 's gone i' th' Devils Name . 44 Each pottle breeds a Ruby , Drawer , score 'um : Cheeks dy'd in Claret , seem o' th' Quorum , When our Nose-Carbuncles , like Link-boyes , blaze before ' um . 45 Compleat thy funetall-Pyle ; shouldst thou mark well How down the Drunkards throat to Hell Death smoothly glides ; to swim so sadly would thee quell ! 46 Spawns of Excesse , Dropsies and Surfets are ; From Tenants Sweat's thy Bill of Fare : Each Glutton digs with 's teeth his Grave , whose Maw's his Care. 47 He 's sick , and staggers . Doctor , his Case state us ; His Cachexie results from Flatus Hypochondrunkicus , ex Crapula Creatus . 48 Scarce Well , he swills what should the Needy store ; And grindes between his teeth the Poor , Who beg dry crumnies , which they with Tears would moisten o're . 49 He a sharp Reck'ning shall , with Dives , pay ; Whose Feasts did hasten ' his Audit-day ; Death brought the Voider , and the Devil took away ! 50 Enter his Courtesan , who fannes his Fire ; Her pratling Eyes teach loose Desire : Fondlings to catch this art-fair Fly , like Trouts , aspire . 51 With Paint , false hair , and naked Breasts She jetts , And Patches , ( Lusts new Lime-twigs ) sets ; Like Tickets on the Door , Her self ( for Gold ) She lets . 52 Her Basilisk-like Glances taint the Air Of Virgin-Modesty , and snare His tangling Thoughts in trammels of her ambush hair . 53 With her profusely he mispends his dayes In Balls , and Dances , Treatments , Playes ; And in his Bosome this close-biting-Serpent layes . 54 Death , after Sicknesse , seize this Hellen must ; Whose radiant Eyes , now Orbs of Lust , Shall sink , as falling Starres , which , jelly'd , turn to dust . 55 How wildly shewes corrupted Natures Face , Till deck't by Reason , Learning , Grace ? Without which Politure the Noblest Stem is base ! 56 Fooles rifle out Times Lottery : Who mispend The Soules rich Joyes , alive descend , And antedate with stings their never-ending End ! 57 Thy Acts out-sin the Devil ; Who 's ne're soyl'd With Gluttony or Lust , ne're foil'd By Drink ; nor in the Net of Slothfulnesse entoyl'd . 58 Therefore in Time beware ; let not Sin-charms Bewitch thee , till Wrath cryes to Arms. Sins first Face smiles , her second frowns , her third Alarms . 59 How blind mad Sinners are when they transgresse ! All Woes are , than such Blindnesse , lesse ! That Wretch most wretched is who sleights his Wretchednesse ! 60 When Death shall quench thy Flames , and Fiends thee seize , In brimstone-Torrents , without Ease , Thou 'lt broyl mid'st blackest Fires , and roar mid'st burning Seas ! For all that is in the World , The Pride of Life , is not of the FATHER , but is of the World ; and the World passeth away , and the Lusts thereof , &c. 61 USher Aspiro in with 's Loomes of State , To weave Frauds Web , and his own Fate ; Who , mounted up , throwes down the steps him rais'd of late , 62 His posture is ambiguous , his Pace Is stately high , who thinks it Grace , If he casts forth a word , and deigns but half a face : 63 Nor minds he what he speaks ; For by false Light , Like to his Faith , he thrives ; Whose Sight , Clouded with Jealousie , can never judge aright . 64 By dubious Answers he is wont to guesse At Mens Dislikes ; and feares no lesse Feign'd Quips , than just Reproofs : Fear haunts him in each Dress . 65 Ambition prompts to Precipices steep , Which Envy gets , and Hate doth keep ; His daily thoughts of climing break his nightly Sleep . 66 Could he with 's foot spurn Empires into Air , And sit i' th' Universall Chair Of State ; Were Pageants made for him , as the Worlds Maior ; 67 Those fond Disguisements could not long him fence , But Crosses still would vex his Sense , And leave him blest but in the Preterperfect Tense . 68 Ev'n That at which Prides towring Project flies , If gain'd obliquely , sinks , and dyes : Earths Potentates ! great Aims , Plots , Fears makes Tragedies ▪ 69 Achitophel and Absalon prove This , ( Who of their Plots , not Plagues did misse ) To Matchiavels : That Ill worst to the Plotter is . 70 Pompey and Caesar so ambitious grow , A Battel must be fought to show Which of those Cocks o' th' Game o're Rome at last should crow ▪ 71 The World , as Great — Cham , Turk , Mogul up-cryes , Tuscans Great Duke , ( all , no great prize ) Great Alexander : — The Nine Worthy — Ironies . 72 Ev'n Scepters reel like reeds : Who had no Bound , Is bounded in six foot of ground ; Here lies the Great — Thou ly'st , here but his dust is found . 73 Who lately swell'd to be his Lordships slave , May trample now upon his grave , That levells All. Best Lectures dust-seel'd Pulpits have . 74 Where 's now the Assyrian Lion ? Persian Bear ? Greek Leopard ? Romes spread-Eagle where ? Where now fam'd Troy , that did in old Time domineer ? 75 Troy's gone , yet Simois stayes . See Fates strange Play ! That which was fixt , is fled away ; And what was ever sliding , that doth onely stay ! 76 Therefore , why gap'st thou thus for Shadowes ? who Neglected lets the Substance go , Led by false hope , he makes sad End in endlesse Woe ! 77 The Mighty mighty Torments shall endure , If impious : Hell admits no Cure : Ambition's never safe , though often too secure . 78 If Pride on Wing could reach the Starres ; yet shall , Like Lucifer , its Carkase fall : Pride mounted Babels Tower , and arched Satans Hall. 79 In Center of the terrible Abysse , Remotest from Supernall Blisse , That haplesse , hopelesse , easelesse , endlesse Dungeon is ! 80 Where Nought is heard , but Yelling ! O , that I Might once more live ! or once more dye ! Cursing his Woes , he wooes GODS Curse Eternally ! But He that doth the Will of GOD , abideth for ever . Lord , Teach us so to number our dayes , that we may apply our hearts unto Wisedome . 81 LUst brings forth Sin ; Sin Shame ; Shame-cryes , Repent ; Repentance weeps ; Teares Prayer do vent ; Prayer brings down Grace ; Grace Faith ; Faith Love ; Love zeal up sent . 82 Who feares GOD , is , without Despondence , sad ; Timorous , without Despair ; and glad , Without wild freaks : Whereas the World's Knave , Fool , or Mad. 83 Part should the World what are in Man combin'd ; The Body melts to be refin'd ; Grace cheeres the Suffering , Glory crowns the conquering Mind . 84 Nor Chance , Change , Fraud , nor Force , the Just Man fright , In greatest Pressures He stands right ; Ever the same , ( While Sloth feels Want , Ambition Spight . ) 85 From costly Bills of greedy Empyricks free ; From Plea of Ambidexters Fee ; From hypocritick Schism of Kirkish Tyranny . 86 He with Observance honours Vertues Friends ; And to their faithfull Counsell bends ; But not on empty formes of Worldly gauds depends . 87 In praysing GOD , above the Starres He climes ; And pitying Courts , with all their Crimes , And Fawns , and Frownes , dares to be good in Worst of Times . 88 Joy , Little World , spite of the Greater , blest ; Scanted abroad , within dost feast , Hast CHRIST Himself for Cates , The Holy GHOST for Guest . 89 Thou walk'st in Groves of Myrrh , with CHRIST thy Guide , ( The best of Friends that e're was tri'd ) By Thee in Vale of Teares spirituall Joy's descry'd . 90 Knew but the World what glorious Joyes still move In Faiths bright Orb , 't would soar above All Sense , and center in the Point of Heav'nly Love ! 91 O , Loves high'st Height ! Thou art the Wise mans Blisse ! T' enjoy Thee 's Heav'n , Hell Thee to misse ! The Earth , yea , Heav'n hath its Beatitude from This ! 92 No Christian Kings win by each others Losse ; What One gets by Retail , in Grosse All lose ; While still the Crescent gains upon the Crosse. 93 As Children fight for toyes ; So Kings for clods : Heav'ns Heir 's more great , and rich by ods : For All is His , and He is CHRISTS , and CHRIST is GODS . 94 No Bank on Earth such Summes of Wealth can lend , As Saints , who on Heav'ns Grace depend ; GODS Word their Law , His SPIRIT their Guide , The LAMB their Friend . 95 But , what 's vain Man ? what his earth-crawling Race ? That GOD should such a shadow grace , And him Eternally in GLORIES Region place ? 96 No Surfets Maw-worm's there , no itch of Lust , No Tympany of Pride , no rust Of Envy , no Wraths spleen , nor Obdurations crust . 97 But , there , though Blisse exceeds , It never cloyes ; For , sweet Fruitions Feast employes Still new Desire ; Where none can count his least of Joyes ! 98 The Soul there ( throwing off her raggs of clay , Laid in Earths Ward-robe , till last Day ) Ever triumphs in every Beatifick Ray. 99 There , each Saint doth an endlesse Kingdome own ! There each King hath a starry Crown ! Each Scepter there o' re-powers the Worlds , and Devils frown ! 100 None blest , but He who finds the JUDGE his Friend , When the last Trump shall Summons send ! The End doth crown , the Work , may JESUS crown The END ▪ SUMMA SAPIENTIAE , per Authorem THEOPHILAE . Nolite diligere MUNDUM , neque ea quae sunt in MUNDO ; si quis dilexerit MUNDUM , Amor PATRIS non est in eo , &c. Johan . 2. 15 , 16 , 17. 1 AMbitionis , & Invidiae , & Formidinis expers , Respuo Mundicolas ; Faveant Virtutis Alumni : Coelestis Statio His , aestu sorbente scelestos . 2 Terrigenae ! quid acervus Opum ? quid culmen Honorum ? Flora Voluptatum ? possuntne rependere Menti Coeligenae Vitam , quae sunt peritura , perennem ? 3 Pluribus aufugiunt Gazae pernicibus alis ; Est Honor incerti demulcens aura Popelli ; Luxuriesque vapor ; — Complexim cunctaque vana . 4 Munde , quid haec fugiriva colis ? Star , nolle morari : Novimus , Impostor , quod es insidiosus Amicis ; Circaeo faciles illudis Carmine Sensus . 5 Ars tibi subservire studet ; tibi Russica molles Exuvias Mustela parat ; tibi Serica Bombyx ; Gemmis Petra , Salum Baccis tua Crimina ditant ▪ 6 Fert lautas tibi Luxus Opes Terrae , Aëris , Undae ; Undè Tuis properant Pinnae , Pennaeque , Feraeque ; Ex quibus innumeros sibi procreat Helluo Morbos . 7 Aspidis ira tuum non aequat , Munde , Venenum : Indè venenatas protrudis ad Infera Mentes , Praestigiis damnans Cultores , Leno , Gehennae . 8 Non fatuos laxis excurrere miror habenis ; In Mundo solum tuus expetit assecla Coelum ; Quod dare , Munde , licèt videaris , ut unda recedit . 9 Oscula fige dolosa , Nerone neronior ipso ; Quò magìs arrides , magìs hinc sibi quisque caveret : Denudabo Dolos , solvamque è compede plexos . 10 Perfidiosus Amor tuus est ; tua , bullula , bilis , Laus ignis fatuus , tua forma fugacior Euro ; Te benè qui norûnt miserum sensêre Theatrum : 11 Daemon ubi consors Homini ; Sensusque , doloso Ore , dat injustis injusta Encomia factis : Hîc audire , pative , Malúmve patrare , necesse . 12 Sunt Socii fures pretiosi Temporis ; istud ( Vana placent . Vanis ) quodcunque loquendo refundunt , Flectit ad ▪ Illecebras sancto de Tramite Mentes . 13 Praetextu Lucis , Pessundant Sacra Profani ; Optima quae fuerant , Conventibus Omnia fiunt ; Omnia Nil Pariunt , nisi Schismata , ( More Corinthi . ) 14 Quisquilias , Animae pretio , proponis emendas ; Provenit ex Opibus , Ioculis , & Honoribus Angor ; Saepè Gehennali Praeludia splendida Busto ! 15 Heu ! dum Vanipetae Plumis , ut Alauda , jocantur , Dumque favent Scelerum Speculis , — in Criminis actu , Horrida Tartareae raptantur ad Agmina Flammae ! 16 Perdanimum tu , Munde , Fretum ! turgescis in altum Obsequio , palles Livore , Libidine falsus , Sanguine profuso , Rubium velut Aequor , inundas . 17 Prodigiosa refers Basilisci ▪ Lumina , primo Destruis intuitu , visus prior , ipse necaris : Teque , Tuumque Fides praevertit Acumine virus . 18 Si minùs immittis , mitis minùs indè fuisses ; Menti , felle tuo , Panacea probata paratur : Itur ad Astra , per Orcum ; Animae sic Dis fit Amicus . 19 Pondere Peccantûm Tellus gibbosa gemiscit : Astraea ad superum , violata , revertit Olympum ; Sera , at certa , Reos Vindicta severa prehendet . 20 An Styga , Munde , Tuis tua Testamenta resignant ? I tricis , Delire , tuis ad Daemona ; Totum Te dedignamur : — sit ConfLagratIo MVnDI . Nam Omnia quae sunt in Mundo , Libido Oculorum , non est ex PATRE , sed ex Mundo , &c. 21 MIda , tende Manum ; tibi Gratia rara , sed Auri Satque , superque ; tuum Nummum , quasi Numen adoras : Tu , Numenque tuum Nummi pereatis in Areâ . 22 Aestuat angustae cor opertum in carcere Cistae : Proli , Auri grave Pondus , Humi propè Viscera nati ! Coelipetas premis ( heu ! ) male-partum , ad Tartara Mentes ! 23 Cui Lucrum Pietas ; — Sanctae Sacra cuncta prophanat Scripturae : — Usuram Lux quaeque rependit Avaro , Progeniem proprii postquàm incesta verit Auri. 24 Inter Opes es inops , congesto es egenus in Auro ; Sic , cupiendo , cares ; fulvumque , carendo , Metallum Eripe res ipso , quo fias ditior , Orco . 25 Ilia dum stringunt Inopum Jejunia , tortum Ut corium , rugosa Cutis flaccescit Eorum , Subdola quos plexâ illexisti in retia Fraude . 26 Est macilenta quibus pellis , velut arida cortex , Deficiente cibo , vix ossibus haeret ; Amicis Destituuntur , Aquis ut nudae in Littora Phocae . 27 Pharmaca sint tenui licèt His Jejunia victu , Nilque habeant Terrae , nisi Corpora ; Durior Illis Es , quàm , ▪ ubi decumbunt , sunt dura cubilia Saxi . 28 Sordide , quando tuas ( Haeres ita muslitat ) ▪ Arcas Evacuabo ? fores minùs anxius indè ; Sit ipsi Pro Cumulo Tumulus ! Moriendo , Miserrime , parcas ! 29 Perfida MEROSIAE si auxêre Stipendia DIRAE , Vive , rapax Senior● ; — Subito tua Crimina , comple : Prospera quêis Peccata , quid infaelicius illis ? 30 Auri sacra Fames , quali Incantamine Mentem Fascinat ! inducens placidâ Prurigine Lepram ; Servo Verna suo , crescente fit indigus Aere . 31 Ingluviem forsan possis satiare Sepulchri , Haud Oculi ; Morbo periit Gehasius isto : Haec Nox est Animam , Stulte , ablatura lutosam ! 32 Civicus iste Lupus Laqueos nec tenderet ullis , Nec Curis esset , Mentem torquentibus , amens , Cernere si posset quod Desperatio tendit . 33 Te , Danista furens , non est profusior ullus ; Qui perdis triplicem vitreo pro Munere Gemmam : Te bona Fama , Quies , Anima & pretiosa relinquunt ! 34 Qui serit Urticas , metet aspera . Numen Avari Ignifluos Erebi ad Rivos deducit ; adibis Aeternas , mollire nequis si Daemona , Poenas ! 35 Conscius ipse Mali , fremit . Ah , Miser ( inquit ) ad istos Allisus pereo Scopulos ! me Gratia liquit ! Me Furor invasit ! Me cultum prodidit Aurum ! 36 Tartara sunt mediâ mihi saepè oblata Quiete ! Indè sugam videor moliri à Dite tremendo , Undique dum Furiae tacito Tortore flagellant ! 37 Pro Radice Atheismus erat ; pro centupla Ramis Factio ; pro variâ Simulatio Fronde ; Furores , Raptus , & Insidiae nostrâ pro Fruge fuerunt ! 38 Iusensati , & Opum illecti fulgore , profanus Sicut Esau , superam post terga reliquimus AULAM ; Hinc Rabies desperat , abhinc Blasphemia frendet ! 39 Sic execrandi stimulis cruciantur Avari ; Quorum visa Petrae sunt Pectora , Viscera ferrum ; Uror , ait Dives , tamen unica gutta negatur ! 40 Ignis adurit ubique , nigredine nigrior Ignis ! Spectra Oculo ! Asp'ra Auri ! semper sua Debita Poenis Solvet , at exsolvet nunquam quae Debita Culpis ! Nam Omnia quae sunt in Mundo , Libido Carnis non est ex PATRE , sed ex Mundo , &c. 41 INtrat Asotus ovans ; Vario strue Flore Theatrum ; Simia quaeque aptus Spectator Cercopitheco est : Sic Caput , & Collum , sic Crura , & Brachia torquet . 42 Pulvere conspersus , Lux est aestiva , Capillos ; Ornant , imò onerant curtas Redimicula Braccas ; Est , ac si Cubitum iturus , Thorace recincto . 43 Affer ( ait ) Vinum , scintillantémque Puellam , Ut quam , Bacche , creas , extinguat Cypria Flammam ! Iupiter ascendens est retrogrado Saturno . 44 Amphora quaeque parit ( signentur prome ) Pyropum : Ora Mero tinctus , ceu Purpura Iudicis , ardet , Praemicet igniferi cùm , pro Face , Pustula Nasi . 45 Conde tuam , moribunde , Pyrem : Si , Stulte , notares Ut fluit Ebriaci citò Mors , per Gutturis Alveûm , Ad Phlegethonta natans , tàm tristè natare paveres ! 46 Crapula prae nimio Luxu generatur , & Hydrops ; Fercula Ventricolae Sudore parantur Agrestûm : Helluo quisque fodit sibi dente vorace Sepulchrum . 47 Hunc Vertigo gravat . Dic undè Cachexia , Doctor , I sta venit ? Generatur ( ait ) Vertigo Cerebri Flatu Hypochondriaco , quem Crapula crebra creavit . 48 Semivalens , Miseris quod prosit , Gutture sorbet ; Mendicique ejus sub dente teruntur ; Egeno Sicca negat , madidis quae frusta rigaret Ocellis . 49 Divitis Exemplo , Rationem reddet amaram ; Cujus Festa Necem festinavere ; Canistrum Mors tulit horrendum , mox abstulit Omnia Daemon ! 50 Luminibus jaculando Faces venit Aulica Siren , Discat & ex Oculo lasciva Cupido loquaci : Blandi hanc sollicitant , Muscam ceu Trutta venustam . 51 Picta Genas , variata Comas , nudata Papillas , Affixae Malis Maculae ( quasi Signa ) notant quòd Copia sit Veneris , nisi desit Copia Solis . 52 Aspectu damnosa suo , Basiliscus ut atrox , Virginei castos deturpat Honoris Amores , Subdola crispato praetendens Retia Crine . 53 Cum Meretrice bonas Decoctor conterit Horas Saltibus , & Choreis , Epulisque , Jocisque protervis ; Hancque fovet Gremio morsuram prodigus Anguem . 54 Post morbos Helenam prendent hanc Tormina Mortis ; Lumina nunc cujus radiosa , Libidinis Orbes , In Sordes , Meteora velut , Cinerésque revertent . 55 Quàm rudis informi facie Natura videtur , Donec eam Ratio , Doctrina , & Gratia forment ? Nobilis absque quibus vilescit Stemmatis Heros ! 56 Integra Vita perit Brutis : Praesentia si quis Perpretiosa Animae disperdit Gaudia , vivus Deperit , infandâ semper stimulatus Erinni ! 57 Daemona Flagitiis superant tua Facta nefandis ; Quem Gula nec faedat , lucrosa Libido nec angit , Non Vino victus , non à Torpedine vinctus . 58 Dum licet , ergò cave ; Scelerum ne Fascina Sensum Incantent , donec Furor arripit Arma. Malorum Prima placet Facies , fremit altera , tertia torquet . 59 O , quàm sunt rabidi Peccantes Luminis Orbi ! Quaelibet Aerumnae tali sunt Nocte minores ! Nemo magìs Miser est Misero haud miserante Seipsum ! 60 Cùm tuus effraenis sub Mortem elangueat Ardor , Sulphuris in Stagnum raptus per Daemona , nigro Igne perureris , Pelagóque flagrante ululabis ! Nam Omnia quae sunt in Mundo , Superbia Vitae , non est ex PATRE , sed ex Mundo ; & Mundus transit , & Libido ipsius , &c. 61 AMbitiosus adest , fallendi callidus Arte , Quâ texat Fraudis telam , Fatumque sinistrum ; Dejicit ille Gradûs , per quos modò scandit in Altum . 62 Se gerit ambiguè , Gressúsque elatior illi ; Qui satìs ostensum reputat , de More , Favorem , Vel tria , contorquens Vultum , si Verbula Spargat : 63 Verba nec illa Sinu profert ; Nam Luce dolosâ , More suae fidei , lucratur ; cernere rectè Non Oculus Valet Errorum caligine septus . 64 Si quis respondet dubiè , putat indè cavendum Esse sibi ; & , quàmvis sint ficta severa , veretur Ac si vera : Reum Mens , undique conscia , terret . 65 Praecipiti levis Ambitio petit ardua Cursu , Invidiam pariens , Odio comitata perenni ; Nocte Diéque tumens Requiem distorquet Erinnys . 66 Si cuncta expansum calcare per Aëra posset Sceptra pede , & Mundi regeret si solus habenas , Unicus Imperiis det ut omnia Jura subactis ; 67 Non tamen Illa diù felicem reddere possent , Undique sed Curis miser imperitantibus esset , Séque fuisse sciat , non sentiat esse beatum . 68 Quae petit Icariis Fastus sublimior Alis , Si malè parta , ruunt subitò : Quaecunque cruenta Prodidit Ambitio sunt personata Theatris . 69 Hoc probat Achitophel , hoc degener Absalon ( Ausis Defecere suis , Poenās sed utérque dedêre ) Matchiavelliacis : Quod Fraus pessundat Agentem . 70 Ambitione pari gliscunt in Praelia , diris Pompeius , Caesár que Animis : Stat , nôsse Duelli Arbitrio , domitam cui Sors addixerit Urbem . 71 Magnificat Mundus Chammum , Turcamque , Magorque , Hetruscumque Ducem ( non sint licèt omnia tanti ) Magnum & Alexandrnm . — Ter Tres reor — Ironias . 72 Sunt Sceptra , ut cannae : Cui non suffecerat Orbis , Sarchophagus , licèt angustus , comprêndit . Ineptè Dicitui , Hîc Magnus jacet — Erro , quid hîc nisi pulvis ? 73 Dudum qui Satrapae servire tumebat ovanti ; Audet nunc imo positum calcare Sepulchro , Quod Cunctos aequat . Documenta dat optima Marmor . 74 Dic ubi nunc Syrus est Leo ? dic ubi Persicus Ursus ? Graecus ubi Leopardus abit ? dispansa potentis Romae ubi nunc Aquila est ? ubi celsae Maenia Troiae ? 75 Troia abiit , Simoisque manet . Legem aspice Fati ! Urbs quae fixa fuit , diffugit Mobilis ; atque Permanet in fluxu stabilis Constantia Rivi ! 76 Ergò , quid assiduis inhias Conatibus Umbras ? Qui solidum amittit Corpus , spe ductus inani , Tristia perpetuo concludit Fata Dolore ! 77 Magnates , Vos magna manent Tormenta , Tyranni Si sitis ; Nulli parcit furialis Erinnys ; Saepiùs Ambitio secura est , tutaque nunquam . 78 Vertice si feriat pennata Superbia Stellas ; Cum Satanâ tamen est ruitura ; Superbia struxit Culmina Babelis , torvique Ergastula Ditis . 79 Terribilis dirae Centro stat Carcer Abyssi , Sedibus à superis procul , ah , procul Aetheris Aulâ ! Quò spes nulla Boni , quò Meta nec ulla Malorum ! 80 Ruget in Igne furens . O , si mihi vivere rursus Fas soret extincto ! Mortémve subire ! Perennem Execrando DEI damnatus acuminat Iram ! Sed Qui facit Voluntatem DEI , manet in Aeternum . Domine , doce nos dies nostras ita enumerare , ut applicemus Sapientiae Corda nostra . 81 TUrpe Libido parit ; Pudor hinc ; resipisce susurrat Tunc Pudor ; erumpunt Lachrymae ; Precibusque revertit Gratia ; abindè Fides , & Amor , Zelusque resurgunt . 82 Qui timet OMNISCIUM , dolet absque Horrore ; pavetque , Sed non desperat ; Scelerum sine turbine gaudet : Cum Mundus Nequam , Fatuúsve Furénsve notetur . 83 Separet aetheream licèt hic à Corpore Mentem ; Liquitur ut tantùm deponat inania Corpus : Gratia pugnantem , Vincentèm Gloria cingit . 84 Non terrent Casus , Fraus , Vis , Mutatio Iustum ; Quò magìs opprimitur , revirescit amoenior ; Usque Par Sibi ( dum Timidúsque caret , Tumidúsque macrescit . ) 85 Non Medicastrorum Sostris emungitur ; Et non Lucrosis Iuristae Ambagibus angitur ; Et non Presbyteri Hunc vexat , Scotos populata , Tyrannis . 86 Cultori eximios Virtutis praebet Honores ; Datque piis monitis Aurem ; Sed Phasmata Mundi Frivola contemnit , vacuis splendentia formis . 87 TRIN-UNI jubilando , corusca supervolat Astra ; Cúmque suo miserans pomposa Palatia Fastu , Astu , Aestu , esse bonus , Vitiis ringentibus , audet . 88 Munde minor , gaude , Majore fremente , beatus ; Orbus in Orbe licèt , Bellaria Mentis abundant , SPIRITUS est Conviva Tibi , Convivia CHRISTUS . 89 Dirigis ad Myrrhae Lucos , Duce NUMINE , gressus ; ( CHRISTUS enim Lateri fidissimus astat Achates ) Delicias Coeli Lachrymarum è Valle tueris . 90 Si sciret Mundus quae Gloria , Gaudia quanta Arcessenda Fide , Sensum sublimibus Alis Sperneret , immensóque DEI flagraret Amore ! 91 O , Quis Amoris Honor ! Felicibus unica Merces ! Te coluisse valet Coelum , caruisse Barathrum ! Hinc ornatur Humus , micat hinc Seraphinus Olympus ! 92 Bellica Christiadum Discordia dira Regentûm ! Uni quod Palma , est Reliquis Jactura ; Per Orbem Dum Vexilla Crucem debellant Turcica CHRISTI . 93 Pro nuce , ceu Pueri , confligunt undique Reges : Ditior his Coeli , longéque potentior , Haeres ; Cuncta tenens , cùm sit CHRISTI , CHRISTUS que DEI sit . 94 Totus , Munde , tuus Thesaurus deficit ; atquì Coelica pro solido satis est His Gratia Fulcro , Queîs Lex Jussa DEI , Dux SPIRITUS , AGNUS Amicus . 95 Sed , quid inanis Homo ? terrae quid origo repentis ? Tantillae quòd Tanta DEUS concederet umbrae ? Inque Beatorum supremâ Sede locaret ! 96 Non ibi Guttur hians , petulansve Libidinis Aestus , Turgescens non Fastus ibi , livensve Rubigo , Ira nec excrucians , aut Obduratio crustans . 97 Sed fluit Infinita , ut & insatiata Beatis , Usque Potita licèt , tamen usque Petita Voluptas ! Quarum quae minor est Animi transcendit Acumen ! 98 Mens ibi ( deposito terrenae Pondere Molis Telluris Camerâ , summum expectante Tribunal , ) Iugitèr Angelico suffusa Nitore triumphat . 99 Quisque ibi Sanctorum Regno sine Fine fruetur ! Quisque ibi stellato Rex est Diademate cinctus ! Quaeque ibi Sceptra premunt Mundi Satanaeque Furorem ▪ 100 Faelix Nemo nisi cui JUDEX astat Amicus , Buccina terribilis cùm clanxerit ultima , Surge ! Meta coronat Opus , Metamque coronet IESUS ! FINIS . Notes, typically marginal, from the original text Notes for div A27386-e6330 Judg. 5. 23.