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 L Oe, Death irivefted in a Roabe of Ermine , 
 Triumphant {its,embelliihed with V ermine, 
 Vpon a Pile of dead-men's skulls, her Throne, 
 Pell-mell fubduing all, and fparing none. 
 
 A ferutinous judgement will the Type reifent, 
 
 You may imagine, 'Tis Deat h’s Parlement, 
 
 V pon the world it’s pow’rfull Foot doth tread, 
 For, all the world or is,or (hall be dead. 
 
 One band the Scepter, t’other holds our Mirrovr, 
 In courted e to Oiew poor eflefb its err our: 
 
 If men forget themfelves,^ tells ’em home, 
 They’re D ust and 4lhes, All to this mu ft come. 
 To view their fate herein, fome will forbeare, 
 i Who wave all thought of Death as too fevere : 
 
 ! But know, Death is (’thought be unknonn how nie) 
 
 ! A Point, on which depends Eterni tie, 
 
 | Either to live Crown’d with perpetuall Blijje, 
 
 Or howle tormented in Hell’s darke -dhyjje. 
 
 W ith winged hath our brittle lives doe pafle, , 
 
 As rannes the gliding Sand i’th’ Houre-Gla(fe . 
 
 I f more vou would, continue on your Look e 
 
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 TO 
 
 Britain e. 
 
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 j de- 
 rive its value and lultre front 
 the number of Vermes which 
 they poiielTe 5 I render you 
 now the homage of my obferVattce , and 
 fubmiftions , as to one of the greatefl SVso~ 
 narchs of the World , finee you are the 
 SMajeUie of all Venues together. What 
 an agreeable eompulfion is this, to fee a 
 man’s felfe powerfully forced to become 
 
 A 3 
 
 
C P I S T L E 
 
 the fuhjett of a for aim Princely the ibve- 
 iraigne authorise of his merit ? To this 
 point am I reduced, S i R,your all-royall, 
 psrfeBwns impofe upon me fo abfolutely 
 luch fweet lawes of fervitudephz.tlhz.ve 
 | no more lib'ertie 3 but to accept its yoake. 
 
 | And in this , my inclination and dutie 
 i make, a frefh injunction ore me, which, 
 difpute preh eminence with all the reft : 
 for who can keepe himfelfe from ren- 
 dring homage to your JMajefiie , theonely 
 fame of whofe Renowne captivates 
 through all the ^^^jinftruefting us, 
 that you are as abfolute over yomHPaf 
 fionS) as over your SuhjeBs ; and that you 
 reigne as Soveraigne in the efteeme of 
 men , as in your Roy all Efiates : And the 
 
 Truths of this fet your glory at fo high 
 a worth shat the /elicit ie on’t may perhaps 
 be envied you, but the like Merit not to 
 be reach by others, becaufe Nature is 
 very fparing of the like gifts f and Heaven 
 
 does 
 
 i 
 
■vDedi catorie. 
 
 does not every day fuch miracles . Forme, 
 I am but one of the Admirers, not of die 
 greatnejfe of your Dominion ( although 
 mely the <vaft extent of the Ocean market 
 out its limits) but of all the divine qualities 
 which you onely poffefTe in proper as a 
 Good, which Time* Fate , nor Death can 
 take from you. Nor is this the aft in all, 
 to be Wife, Valiant, and Generous , in the 
 height of Native deduction ; All thefe 
 Titles of Honour have degrees of eminence, 
 which markeouc to us the gradations of 
 their feverall perfections, and whereof 
 your SMajeftie fhewes us now the onely 
 patterne, having in pofTeffion all admirable 
 Virtues , with fo much puritie and lufter, 
 as dazlcs its very enyyers^nd forces them 
 to adore that in your ,'yVlajeflie , which 
 el fe where they admire not. And *tis my 
 beleefCjthat you (land thus unparallel d 
 even amongft your fern liable s , fmee be- 
 Tides the Crownss of your Cradle , you 
 r'- ■ ' d A 4 carry 
 
 far 
 
The Ep i s t le, & c , 
 
 carry above them others, and luch as (hall 
 exempt you from the Grave. I avow, 
 that I have ftudied long time to fpeake 
 condignely of your SMajefiie j but al- 
 though my paines and watchings are equally 
 unprofitable , my de/eB yet is dill glorious 
 hovvfomever 3 that it is a (hadow from your 
 Light. It fufficeth me to have taken Pen 
 in handjto publifh onely 3 that I am 
 
 Tour Maiesties 
 
 Moft humble, and moft 
 obeyfant Servant 
 
 P ,De la S e r re 
 
E QUEEN 
 
 OF GREAT 
 
 <BR1TAINE. 
 
 A ME, 
 
 Qould not approach , but 
 •with a MiitROVR in my 
 hand, before your Majeftie, 
 the fplendour of vehofe mag- 
 nificence da%les Jo power- 
 fully all the world , that I am not able to 
 behold the immediate prelencc ont , but 
 by thd reflexion of its Raycs. Without 
 , M adame, your Glory is 
 
 arrived, 
 
 y 
 
 
I The Epistle 
 
 arrived to the point of rendring your per- 
 fections fo unknowns , us being fo above 
 the commune; that J beleeVe moU men 
 honour you now by obfervance and ex- 
 ample onely , as not able otherwife to 
 I reach the depth of the juft reafons they 
 might have for it.* 2for & this -Alt, to fp 
 ; that you are folely faire , and pCrfeCtfy 
 chafte 5 but it is necefiarie , beyond all 
 this , to intimate fecretly , in the Lan- 
 guage of Thought , all the divine qua- 
 lities which you poflefle of Super-emi- f 
 jncnce in all things , fince their puritie 
 cannot difc end to the capacitie of our di£ 
 courfe , without [uffering a kind of pr«- 1 
 phanacion. From hence is it , that if J 
 Jhould call you , Th e C dm p leat l y- 
 Perfect, 1 might wen fay in effeft that 
 which you are ; but never thus jhould 1 
 reprefsnt the greatnefte of your merits , j 
 fince every of them in it felfe ha’s fitch 
 particular perfections a as might chanenge 
 
 
D E DIGATOR1E. 
 
 Altars front w > if your humilitie could 
 
 ' Truths (M ‘At 
 
 permit it. lh efe arc v 
 
 dame) as binder me from prayfmg 
 your Majeltie, not knowing bow to exprefle 
 my felfe cpndignely . Well might 1 perhaps 
 fuggefl it to remembrance, that your par- 
 ticular inclinations are the publikeVer- 
 tues which we adore y and that of the fame 
 temperament of humour, Nature compofed 
 heretofore the Sages of the World : ’But of 
 all thefe dilcourfes notwithstanding, I can- 
 not frame one onely prayfe f Efficiently ad- 
 equate to your worth, feeing 'tis elevated 
 beyond, at fiujogiutas. Infomuch 3 that if 
 Admiration it felfe teach not a new Tan- 
 guage to poiieritie, wherein to. proclaime 
 aloud the favours and graces wherewith 
 Heaven hath accomplifht you y it mutt con- 
 tent it felfe , to reverence your Name, and 
 adore your Memorje , without preemption 
 of Ipeech of your actions , eyr being ever 
 above all valuation, as we'd as imitation. 
 
 To 
 
1 The Epistle 
 
 ITo infiance the immortalicie of your A u- 
 gustick Race, although it he a pure 
 Source of Honour , which can never 
 be dry’d up ; yet all thefe Titles of a 
 Kings Daughter, Sifter, and Wife, 
 cm never aide to your Renowne , which 
 derives its value rather from the admira- 
 bilities of your Life , then the greatnelle 
 of your Birth. Infomuch (Madam e) 
 that the Scepters and Crownes of your 
 Royalties , are the meanefi Ornaments 
 wherewith your Majeftic can decke it 
 felfe 5 fnce the leafi glympfe of the leaf 
 of your Actions , duskes the lufter of aB 
 the other magnificences , which environ 
 you. And 1 betebve , had tbofe Wonders 
 of the World beene of fuch a worth, 
 as every day you defbry , they had power- 
 fully refilled againfi the ailaults of Ages : 
 but as they bad nothin % admirable in them > 
 but the Name, Memorials have pre- 
 ferved that, and let them pcrifii. ‘But 
 
 yours 
 
I 
 
 0E dicatorie. 
 
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 yours ( Mad a me J • lohicb arc too 
 perfcd: for a iutable Name, jhall not 
 ceafe to iurvive the revolutions of Times, 
 cu being enlivened by Vertue , sebfck a- 
 lone cm exempt from Death* Let it not 
 feeme ftrange then, if 1 hazard the perils 
 of the Sea , to render Homage to cl, 
 Qu e e N e , lob of e Greatnefle per- j 
 force humbles the mofl arrogant ipirits, 
 being not able , fo much cu in thought, to 
 reach to the firft degree of her Glory. 
 The Grace s themfehes are hers, 
 
 and the Vertue s hanee allianced 
 their owne and her Name j and all the 
 adorable qualities which are found here , 
 below , are admirable in her alone , cu 
 in their Source. I am confirained to be 
 h lent (Madame) being oToer-cbarged 
 j toitb too much fubjeft of fpeech. The 
 number of your Perfections aflonifies 
 me , the greatnefle of your Merit rati- 
 fies me, the iplendour of your Vertue 
 
 dazjes 
 
 * _ _ 
 
dalles me : t And m this- dazle, this tranf- 
 porc , this excefie of admiration, therein 
 my fenfcs and iplrlts are aB alike enga- 
 ged, I am competfd to caft my felfe at the 
 feet of your Majeftie, and demand pardon 
 
 M ADAME, 
 
 Ymr Maie sties 
 
 Moft humble, and moft 
 
 obeyfant Servant, 
 
 w y 
 
 P.Dff la S E RRE. 
 

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 THE QVEEXCE OF 
 
 Great Britaine. 
 
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 Vpon the Mirror which flatters not, 
 
 of Le Sieur de la Serrh: 
 
 -> ,s.: T t 
 
 SONNET. 
 
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 P Rr n c e s s e jth is pcrverfe Ages g lonousgemnje^ 
 Whole Icaft of V ertu.es fecmes a prodigie* 
 
 |. Illuftrious Sien ^ of the faireft Stemme , 
 
 .That Heaven ere Ihevy’d this Hniverfcs eye ; 
 Though Bate with thoufand hindrances averle, 
 Barres me the placebo which my duty's bent : 
 
 I cannot cheere my foule from [eife-torment , 
 
 But by deftgne to pourtray^w inVcrfe. 
 
 ' T • But 
 
But fince that Serr.es (hew’s in this true Mitrout 
 The Venues of your M/wfo eternall fplendour. 
 As lively as your Body s beautious meafiirc. 
 
 My heed to view you here, lets others pafle 
 Sowell I here ugmze all your rare treafure. 
 
 That I ne’re faw a better Cryfta&GiaJfe. 
 
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S? «sj|s 4? <&> <■&> <$, 
 
 *&»&£&»* & M-'Sfc m 
 
 To the Author, upon ' 
 
 ffc / 4 »*£ fubjeff. 
 
 STANCES. 
 
 D ivine Spirit, hnomhg Soule, 
 
 > wrYfr /eve/y f VV eet controule 
 wr Coules *%e good rules under , : 
 
 which thy Pen layes dome with wonder 
 
 ^Wth f^reetMfle*/ %VoS 
 
 Breathes oracular [acred noife . 
 
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 AU thy Workes /<? we/? ejdeem'd 
 thorough Europe, proofes are deem’d 
 Of thy Gifts, which all admire , 
 
 Which fuch Trophies thee acquire. 
 
 And with thefe thy Mule invented , * 
 Orpheus fcf by thee out-creHed. 
 
 Aifi jince blind Ignorance 
 
 wore abode £* France 
 Seldome can wee meet with fitch 3 
 As the workes 0/ rfy /wee? rWA • 
 t immortal 1 ftraines effyirit^ 
 As doe thoufand Laurels merit. 
 
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But although thy aBive Mule 
 Wonders did. before produce. 
 
 At wio feldome fee the like- 
 This doth with amazement firike : 
 
 > T'ts a Mi i r r o u R) that doth fliine 
 More mth Fire, then Cryftaline. 
 
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 *Tis a Mirsovr never flatters. 
 
 On my eyes fueh rayes it patters, z 
 
 That therewith / dazled am, 
 
 Searching for thee in the fame, 
 
 By fomc charme, or fir anger cafe, j 
 
 I fee thy fpiric, not thy face. , 
 
 / , ' _/Vy 
 
 This ftrange fafhion doth amaze me, 
 when l {iie % re fo little ) gaze me, 
 
 1 am fir eight all on a fire, 
 
 The more I looke, more l admire : 
 
 ar * 
 
 'Tit a Mirrovr fire of flame, 
 
 Sparkling, more wee marke the fame. 
 
 Yet not every prying eye 
 shaS it-felfe herein efpie 5 
 ’Tit not for fa commune ufe, 
 
 Free from flatrering abufe : 
 
 None fo clearely here are feene. 
 
 As King C a a* r l e s, and his faire Qgeene. . 
 
 Therefore 
 
 
Therefore thm the Aut ho r meant? 
 
 To the World it to preicntj 
 Since it is a thing ($ rare* 
 
 And unparalelied fa ire $ 
 
 That it fbould a Tablet bee 
 For the faireft hee could fee . 
 
 S e r r e s, this thy worke-man-fhip 
 Doth my fpiric over-Jfrip , 
 
 With fuch judgement, and fuch grace? 
 
 Thou do' ji fhcvv in little (pace 
 Three II range Wonder s, without errour, 
 Two bright Sunnes in one cleare Mirrovr. 
 
 ■And by this thy rare compofure i 
 Shall thy Nam e, beyond endofure 
 Of thts prefent Ag e^obtaine 
 Eternall honour for thy paine : 
 writing to thefe Princes Graces? 
 
 Thou are prais’d in thoufand places; 
 
 Par ie mefm 
 
Vpon the Booke. 
 
 SONNET. 
 
 H Ere,undifguis’d,is feene in this true Mirrour 
 The glory, or the fbame of mart all fiorie 4 
 As Reafon, or the mifle-led Senfes errour 
 Doe mnne the day, or i weld the P'iBorie? 
 
 S e r r e s doth here lively delineate 
 Our every- dayes vaine wretched paffages, 
 
 And what is deftind after FmeraU fiate , 
 
 T o innocent yurenejfe , or black wickedneffi ?. 
 
 Such diverfe fubjeBs in this one enclosed, 
 
 Such variom objeEis to the view expofed. 
 
 Thou little Monarchy Man, fmall F niverfe , 
 
 Thy Sm'e it lejj'ons thus, and thee informeSj 
 As thou art Se«/<?,with heavenly fires converfe, 
 
 As thou art F/efathou art a Fait for j vermes. 
 
 To 
 
To the R. 
 
 EADER, 
 
 T may , perhaps , feetne ftrange , 
 that 1 treat fo often in my Works 
 of the fame matter, as of the eon- 
 
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 rnSa&amtmmM mm/UBmf \J — ' •* J 
 
 tempt of the World, and meditations of 
 Death : But if the importance of the fub- 
 jedt be confdered , and the profit to be de- 
 rived thence , a Man will never be wearie 
 of feeing fuch faire truths under different 
 prefentations. Befides , the conceptions 
 of fpirit upon the fame matter, are like 
 the productions of Nature in the Spe- 
 cies’s of Tulips : Every yeere [bee gives 
 a Change, both to their Colour, and Ar- 
 ray. iAnd though they be fill Tulips, 
 (bee renders them fo different from their 
 
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To the Reader. 
 
 firjt resemblance , that they can hardly o- 
 thermfe be knowne , but by name. The 
 Mind does the fame , upon the fame Sub- 
 jed: its Fancies , which are its ornature, 
 and embeiiifhment, render it by their di- 
 verb tie jo different from it lelfe, that 
 'tii hardly knowne , but by the Tides, 
 which it beares, to particularise each Con- 
 ceit:. So that if once againe 1 reprefenc 
 unto thee the pourtraic of Vanide, and 
 the Image of Death • mv fpirit , which 
 hath Headed me for Pencill, and colou- 
 ring in ibis Worke , hath rendred it fo 
 rare in its Novelue , and (o excellent in 
 difference from thofe which have prece- 
 ded, that -thou (halt fade nothing in it com- 
 mune with them, but my name. Thou 
 mayett confider moreover , that l dedicate- 
 Bookes tp K'l N G s and Qu eenes 
 not every day, and that thefe objects of 
 fuch eminent magnificence doe fo nobly 
 ronze the faculties of my Soule , that 1 
 
 1 - could 
 
To the Reader. 
 
 could not have petcie thoughts for fucb 
 high Perfonages. Tu that , which with- 
 out oftcntacion , makes me beleeve , that 
 if thou buy once agains this Books , and 
 tak'ft the paines to reade it , thou wilt re- 
 greet neither the Time, nor Money, which 
 thou (halt employ therein . Ad i eu. 
 
 If thou bee’ft of lb good an humour, 
 to pardon the Faults, excufe 
 thofe of the Impref- 
 fion. 
 
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 Parisiorum. 
 
 Q Vi moribundam vitam^l edacem vita* 
 mortem in hoc Specula Liber expri- 
 mic 5 te LeBor tibi objicit taim felici veri 
 fpecie, tam clara fublimis ftyli Luce 3 ut 
 temet fugere nequeas. Frequens contuere, 
 ne tetra hsc tua fpecies sternum tua fit. 
 Ita apprecor. 
 
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 Lie. & Prof. Or din. Apaft. 
 
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 T H# exprefteth to thee in a 
 
 Mirrour a dying life, and life-devouring 
 Death, layer thee open to thy felfe , Reader, in 
 fueh a happiefhape of truth, and fo cleare a light 
 of a fublmeftyle, that thou can jl not fcape thy 
 felfe. Gaze hereon often, that this ill prefence 
 of thine, as now it is, may not be fo thine eter- 
 nally. Thusltrifb. 
 
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 of facrcd Theolog. and Prof. 
 Ordin. Apoftolicke and 
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 The 
 
 
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 SUB: 
 
 '^•w wnC JNU 
 
 The Scope addrcfl; to the 
 
 Serious. 
 
 L Ec merrier Spieenes reade Lazari ^or laugh 
 Ac Sancho Pancbu , or the Grapes-bkod quaflcj 
 And tickle up their Lun*s with interlace 
 O f 7aisymdt C 0ye,f,chat furrow up the face 
 With wrinckling Smiles: But if they abujive be 
 To flight thefe hints of their Mortalities 
 Urg’d by our Amhour j ’tis a foolifh tray^ 
 
 And weakcly does become corruptive Clay. 
 
 If they doe meerely carpe,atid lye o’th’catch, 
 
 H at me be to them, that ottely forharme mtch. 
 Solomon (aid it, the /tending fcovnes 
 Of t'oolef a>e but crackli ngs of faming thornes . ' 
 Let them that will our btber fadnefie fhun, 
 
 Goeto the n,rry DevUl of Edmonton, 
 
 O fo nefjch PW, whole Author s drift hath bin 
 To let the people on the merry pinne. 
 lere is no 'Scop? for fuc < as love fo jeere, 
 
 N >r ha-e we theame tor Panto- Mimicks heore. 
 They th it are r.iv fht with each iyggj n g 'Toy, 
 
 | Let’em laugh on> and jolly mirth enjoy. 
 
 . Fairely 
 
 
t 
 
 Fairely be this a mrning, here’s no (fort, 
 
 And 'tis aii one, if they be lorry for r, 
 
 Or if they care not. Sit they merry then, 
 
 Here’s for the Genius of more (oltdemen. 
 
 Serb.es falutes the ferious 5 who are fuch, 
 
 Their better-moulded intrals he doth twich 
 With furring truths % and weigh 'em to the poize 
 Of equall judgement, without gig/ing noife* 
 
 Sad Meditations here compofe the Looke 
 Socratick-like } with no flajh-bumour fhooke ; 
 Duj%Eartb^n& -4[kes are the Epitbites 
 Here propriate to the and all the 2 lights 
 
 Expos’d ir, this True Mirrovr totheEie, 
 
 Are Death, the Grave, and the World’s Fannie, 
 'thef rail tie of mankind ; and fome have try’de. 
 Such pensive thoughts will i a y the duB of pride , 
 
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The Paragraphs, 
 
 ( fo compriz d in the Etnbletnes) 
 
 giving fubjeft to the Authors 
 Difcourfes following. 
 
 P Hilip,*^ King of Macedon, 
 Dajly -was rowz’d, and call'd upon 
 *By a (brill Page, whofe Bon-jour ran 3 
 R,enieinber 3 SiR,you are a Man, 
 
 1 1 . 
 
 Shirt is all remaines in fine, 
 
 To 'victorious Salad ine 5 
 •A* Death, a piece of Linnen is 
 All, that Great, Monarch could call his. 
 
 Adrian 
 
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 Ad Rian flights Triumphall glory, 
 In the Grave founds bis prime (Tory, 
 Before aU pompe hee doth preferre 
 Hit Maufolsean Sepulcher. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Diogenes, in Cynicke guife s 
 Puts Alexander to / ttrmife , 
 
 Ttb' Mifcellanie of the Dead, 
 
 Which is a King’s,^ Common’s Head, 
 
 ■d Morallize on thefe , Sieur S e r r e s writes, 
 
 Nor Comick Jeafts,«or amorous toy’s endites t 
 Their Paphian Dames wkl'ft others loofely $ng y 
 The Knell of Death his filemne ftyle doth ring : 
 Thofe {ubjt&.s^ich whole heards of Poets ufe 
 Tbred-bare,his nobler Soule difdaines to chufe : 
 while richly fuch a Reader Thefe will fit, 
 whofe judgement prizeth wilcdome above wit. 
 
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A PROLVSION 
 
 upon che E m b l e m e 
 
 of the firft Chaperg 
 or TraB. 
 
 R I s e , for a fersns Morns brings on the Day, 
 The S mne is mounted onward of his w*y> 
 
 The Anthymnes high among; the feather’d Qynrss* 
 
 A lively breath the agile i/fire infpires, 
 
 ^Draw-ope the C unawes doe not clofc rhe Eyi 
 From th efrefh beauties of the Az>ure-Skie* 
 
 Marke what a finart Bon iour his Page did bring 
 Each Adorn e to P H I L i ^Macedonia s King* 
 
 Remember (Roy ah Sir JYOu Are A Man* 
 The houres are wm^’d, the length a* Lfes z jftan. 
 This powerful! hint ftirr d up the King ro rife , 
 
 Whole name Heroick^deeds immortalize* 
 
 Gr {fe-vafXiUrMjheavie'headed jleepers wake* 
 
 In the bright Adome no more fefe (lumber /take 2 
 For Achon Man was made Qur Life's a Race, 
 
 He that would whine the ?rw,mo(} rmne apace* 
 
 Re noi enchanted with the lulling Downe f 
 Thar charmes the fenfes in Lethargic!^ fvowne ; 
 
 Leave the enclofure of Bed- (fanopie, 
 
 And give the i)tew more fpacious libertie : 
 
 Foriake th egravc-type Couch what? Death dothkeepe 
 His nightly Seffions* imaged by Sleep * » 
 
 He 
 
He that's 4. Dormoxfe for the time is dead, 
 
 And is entomb d alt eadie in his Bed. 
 
 Who knovves how ioone that jheet; whereon he lyes, 
 May fingle ferve to enwrap him, when h edjes? 
 
 How foone thefe hue feather-bedded bones 
 May ( over let ted be with Adarble-flones? 
 
 W here no joynt-fupplwg-warmth (frail give refrejh 
 To high-fed vemes. or eale-improved fUfh ; 
 
 Where tlvde puff groflures, which o’re-eurious cofi 
 Hath far fet-fiv vine art putrified, an d lr.fi . 
 
 Who would be tpicunan T net- *ti.< thus. 
 
 Wee that e.ae all rungs elfe ivermes vvii I eate Vs ? 
 
 Or who wouid be o’re-haughfk^fince to Earth 
 He miili returned thence he had his Birth . ? 
 
 Mean wh'le/though life’* ejwck^faxd doth heurelj'pajfe, 
 A fluggard fleepes out more then halfe his Cjiaffe. 
 
 Be Adi iv e while you may, for Time's poSl-kafic 
 Spurns on e -ch forward Minute to the lafi. 
 
 Such Thoughts as thefe bed fit the Mornings prime. 
 To “Rouz,e Men's Spirits to Redeeme the lint*. 
 
 Let fiich our Mattenshe, ere Teath'j fad Knell 
 Summon our wand ring Soules to Heaven or Hell, 
 
 THE 
 

 Philip Kina cfMACELON comanded one, of fits dag&s 
 to waJke him euetty Alovnincj, tf Cali doucLto him 
 
 >SlR RememBer that Yox* are, aMAJs - 
 
 r 
 
i#i§§#iif§§i$ii- , §ft§:if® 
 
 i§i9^iiiiiiiii:ii$ii$ 
 
 IK 
 
 The 
 
 MIRROVR 
 
 W H I C H 
 
 FLATTERS NOf. 
 
 CHAP. I, 
 
 A N, ! remember thou art 
 Man, never forger thy 
 name, if thou wilt not 
 forget thy fafety : Thou 
 art called Earth , thou art 
 made but of Earthy but 
 he Earth fubfifts, and, thou vanifheft • 
 utthe earth remaines firm, and thy duft 
 [yes away .'Study thy oiiferie$,Med irate 
 !iy difaflers. Thouart nothing in erFedf, 
 ^t if thou be anything imaginable, 1 
 
 C dare 
 
 Homo ab hn* 
 
 ID Of 
 
 MM2 ft a ihmg 
 o { nothing only 
 hi appearance 
 jomwhatf 
 
The Murovr 
 
 One cannot give 
 ihe dtfeription of 
 Man, but by mi 
 fcry> nor ofmiferj 
 but by Man* 
 
 dare not fo much as compare thee unto a 
 dreame, becaufe the frailty of thy nature 
 hath foraething both more feeble , and 
 lefle conftant : an Apparition hath above 
 thee the Simplicity of the Elements, 
 Iwhereof it is compofed , a fhadow im- 
 plies yet the advantage of the Noble- 
 neife of its beginning, fince the light 
 produceth it . Nay laftly, a very ftraw,or 
 an Atome, dilpute againft thee alfo with 
 reafon, for the purity of fob (lance, fince 
 they are corruptible , without infection , 
 but thy he3pe of filth gives horrour to 
 thy ovvne thoughts • inibmuch that! am 
 conftrained to -match thee to thy felfe , 
 for to fuggeft thee the truth ofthy (light- 
 nefli > 
 
 What a goodly Schoole is the world ? 
 and our condition a faire booke : and 
 all the fad accidents , to which Nature 
 fubje&s it, as fo many gracious Lef- 
 fom ? 
 
 May not a man iuftly (ay that the earth 
 is a Colledge, wherein the diverfityof 
 Times and Ages, figne out the diverfity 
 of Claftes, in which wee may equally 
 make the courfe both of our ftudies ana 
 daves, under the (way ofthofo miferies, 
 
 which 
 
ers not. 
 
 3 
 
 Mifhapt and 
 paines, are the 
 fruits of the gar* 
 
 den of our life. 
 
 which accompany us without ceafe : the 
 poorenelfe of our way of birth, may ftead 
 us as a rudiment in the firft Clafle.- the 
 cryes and teares of the cradle, are our 
 Grammar, the creeping weakened, and 
 pittifull infirmities of Boy-age like foe 
 much Rhetoricke , and now can there be 
 a more fubtile Philofophy , then that of 
 the cbnfideration of the calamities 
 which are deftined to youth ? Is it not 
 eafie to become a great Natural lift by ver- 
 tue of meditating the fruitfulneffe of our 
 nature in the produdion both of ils,and 
 paines which continually afflid us ? and 
 what better Metaphyficks, then contem- He which goes 
 plations of ourBeeing , ever rovvling to \ZZff % th ‘ 
 its ruine ? Letus draw then the conclu- mfeys ignorant 
 fionofthis Argument,anc| joyne with as I °F dotting. 
 muchreafonas interefttothefe two Vo- 
 lumes fo renowned , the Bible, and the 
 face of Heaven, where al forts of Scien- 
 ces are in their fource , This alfo of ourL , 
 
 „ j i • - r • - f Death andtm- 
 
 Tiortalf and decaying nature , ft nee it m- mcnMy an i 
 t ruds us the Art to pry our felves in our t 
 
 corruptions , that wee may recover our wuh the 
 elves in immortality. ; 
 
 When I confider that the Barth was 
 reated of nothing, and Man made of 
 - C 2 this 
 
 Oh 
 
 W' 
 
 with the length oj 
 an infant. 
 
 c i- 
 
 Mdn of nothing. 
 
BeMlRROVR 
 
 Chemridfubfifli 
 j not, but upon the 
 ounchtion of its 
 continual revolu- 
 
 tion. 
 
 A vapour. 
 
 Man elevating 
 bmfdfetoo h:gb 
 me apses ths 
 depth of the A- 
 byjfeicfhis ?re 
 cipkt. 
 
 ABlafl. 
 
 Smafy, 
 
 this nothing, and the greatneffes which 
 environs him , are nothing at all, and 
 all the pleafures which hee idol atrizetb, 
 are alfo of the fame ftuffe : I remain® 
 all confufed with aftonilhment, nor e- 
 'ver able to conceive the fubjebt of his 
 vanity , nor the reaionof his arrogance, 
 ooore corrupted Vapour with advan- 
 cing it felfe , is feon transformed into a 
 Cloud, to eonceale its noyfomnefle, 
 aut yet by way of this elevation , is 
 refolded into Lightnings and Thunder, 
 and afterward retumbles into the ditches 
 from whence fit ft it had its beginning. A 
 Puffe of wind which rumbles in its owne 
 violence, angry perhaps that it cannot 
 fubfift, but in flying, and that the adion 
 of its continual 1 flight , is the beginning 
 of its ruine. A finoake, which with a 
 vaine a {fault Will ncedes (bale the Hea - 
 and yet hardly can one well di- 
 
 vens 
 
 A ^erme. 
 tree me alt 
 already, but rot* 
 \ temefje , fince 
 \ a ‘ready w 'tmh 
 begin to devour 
 us. 
 
 A Ureami. 
 
 ftingoifhthe interval! betwcene its firft 
 Seeing and extinction: apoorgliftering 
 Woubc which datles none but purblind 
 fpirits, and gives light to thole wormes, 
 which devoure it in private, Aftreameal- 
 wayes murmuring, alwaves trilling away. 
 And now why fhallall thele goodly nul- 
 
5 
 
 ties, and all thefe pleafant Chmeraes in- 
 finite to us the vanity which they are 
 of? iTia.ll thefe cozening appearances 
 be ftablifh'd here below with S overaign- 
 ty ? bee it then onely in defire, or in 
 dreame , for with what gilded rinde fo 
 ere they bee out- fided, Corruption is 
 their Fornie , and Dull their Mat- 
 ter. 
 
 I am aftonifhed that Man fhould 
 be capable ro miftake hinafelfe,evento 
 the point of forgetting what hee was , 
 then, when hee yet was not: what he 
 is now, whilft heenjoyes the beauty of 
 the day, and what hee muft one day 
 bee at the Sun-fet of his life : Aflu- 
 redly yes , I am aftonifht at it , fince 
 all created things may ferve him for 
 a Mtrrour to contemplate there- 
 in, apparantly the verity of hismife- 
 ries. 
 
 The Heavens, though whirling about 
 with a Motion, alwayes equal! in the 
 lame fpaces of their carreere , doe not 
 ceale to wax old, 8c even their age repre- 
 lentstous naturally our decay. Though 
 the Starres fhine with a fparkeiing fu- 
 ller , as cleare as at the fir ft Day of 
 C 3 their 
 
 Every thing cop 
 mpti) the very 
 eye which mtv 
 nark thefe truth | 
 fbrttnot be ex- 
 empt. 
 
 Nature exhibited 
 us (6 many Mir- 
 roars of Jncon m ^ 
 fancy > as Jhshath 
 produced objefls, 
 
 Since that Na- 
 ture it felfeis 
 mortal f this fe~ 
 cond caufe eea~ 
 (lag, the mmsf 
 thefe cffitis is 
 
 U. 
 

 Every thing flees 
 ' aw&y from 
 and in running 
 : after them wee 
 r untie to Death 
 
 T he M I R R o V R 
 
 their creation, yet as they are attached 
 vyithinthofe circles of Ages,whofe con- 
 tinual motion is limited, they approach 
 by little and little to their laft Weft , 
 where their light mu ft be extin & , and 
 the pace of their courfe fbevves us the 
 way of our life , fince time conducts 
 us all together , though diverfly to our 
 end. The Fire fo greedy, that it devours 
 ltfelfe, when finding no more fuell to 
 nourifh it, is it not a Mirrour of the 
 Lampe of our life, whofe kindled weeke 
 goes out, when the Oyle of the Radi- 
 call moyfture failes it? The Aire, which 
 corrupts continually, is it notan Image 
 of our corruption? and without doubt 
 the Waters tranfparent body , repre- 
 fentsusthe fragility of ours, and its li- 
 quid cryftalline, alwayes rolling away 
 makes us lee in its gliding, our ftitting 
 nature. The earth could not have figu- 
 red us better then lliee doth, fince wee 
 are to day of the fame matter, and to 
 morrow of the like forme. What fai- 
 rer Mirrour then that of Flowers, where 
 we may fee in one day the whole courfe j 
 of our life , for at Sun-rife the buds 
 referable our Infancy, at noone the fame i 
 
 now ‘ 
 
which flatters not. 
 
 
 now full blowne , our youth , and at 
 Dayes-end , themfelves now quite wi- 
 1, our laft age. I will not fpeake of 
 all the other Species of creatures ani- 
 mate, how every onein its felfe, though 
 living , is an Image of death. Itfuffi- 
 ceth me to cherifh this remembrance, 
 and leave to you thereof the medita- 
 tion. 
 
 What (hall I tellyeeof Fortune, of 
 honours, riches, and all thefe glorious 
 qualities of valour, Beauty and a thou- 
 sand other befides, which vanifh away 
 withus? This blind Goddefle hath a 
 Mirrour under her feet, whofe round 
 figure fhewes us at once, both her inffa- 
 bility , and • our inconstancy , a? for 
 greatnefie and riches, the afhes of thofe 
 which have pofleft them, arc as fo ma- 
 ny frefh Cryflalls of a Mirrour, which 
 flatters not, wherein we may fee the va- 
 nity both of their enjoyment, and of 
 their poffelfors. Thole other qualities 
 of faireand valiant, are of the fame na- 
 ture , as thofe fen fi rive and vegetable 
 foules, which dye together with the 
 Subject which they animate , without 
 leaving ordinarily fo much as one final 1 
 
 C 4 memo- ) 
 
 The world is a 
 Tfyfe-gay of flow 
 CYSyWhtch by lit- 
 tle and little rvi 
 ther all together- 
 
 Fortune hath no- 
 thin q more her 
 ewne> then her 
 twonftancj* 
 
 There is mthim 
 
 • c| 
 
 tmmorul! in man 
 hut value* 
 
3 
 
 The Mirr o y r 
 
 Man h the Mk- 
 r our of Man y (o 
 that by due con - 
 temptation of one 
 party he majfavc 
 the whole. 
 
 All the obkEh of 
 
 y 1 . 
 
 the world bid in 
 JidttUy wh'de 
 
 we bin rcganicM 
 fmce they are ah 
 wayesfLciyg 
 away. 
 
 memorial 1 s for marke that they have 
 had a beein’g other wife ; and in fequell 
 to tbefe truths , can you find a truer 
 Mirronr , then this of our (elves, (incc 
 every part, (nay what fay I > ) every a* 
 dion , and every figh is an animate 
 pourtrait of Death • Infoinuch that 
 wee draw the breath of fo many con 
 tinuate Gafpes , without ability of 
 diipofe of one onely inftant, to give 
 intervall to this exercife. 
 
 How is it then poflible that Man 
 ilhould mis-know himfelfe, having fueh 
 faithful Mirrours beforehis eyes, where 
 at all times free may fee apparantly the 
 Truth of his Nature kneadwd in Cor- 
 ruption, formed by it , aud deft roved 
 alfo by the fame; Strange thing! he 
 can fee nothing in the World, but 
 Images of incsnftancy, and yet will 
 not apprehend his owne change : what- 
 soever (hall finite upon his eare, will 
 re found nothing but the bruit of his 
 flight, and yet he will not thinke upon 
 his retreat. 
 
 Laftly his other Senees , and his 
 fancy, Shall have no other objed but 
 this of the continual! viciifitude of 
 
 all 
 
'tobicb flatter s not « 
 
 all things , and yet hee will remaine 
 fir me and liable in his vanity, till death 
 ruine its foundation. Thus in the de- 
 ceitful! opinion, wherein hee is, ofpof- 
 fefiflng all things, hee loofeth the pof- 
 feflion of himfelfe, and having too 
 much dreamed on his pleafures, his 
 Life is pafi as a Dreamc without re- 
 turne. I mu ft tell you one of my me- 
 ditations . 
 
 I fhall never be able to comprehend 
 the meaning of thofe , who moane 
 themfelvcs againft Fortune, the World 
 and all the pleafures of this life. One 
 forfooth will upbraid to this foolifh 
 Deity , her deceipts , without confi- 
 dering that he'deceived himfelfe in gi- 
 ving Truft to a Goddefte, that nere 
 had any. Hee yet will accufe her 
 to have conduced him ftill through 
 craggy wayes , and over-fpread with 
 thornes, as if in following one that is 
 blind, a man fhould not hazard to run 
 this danger. 
 
 Another will make ye frefh com- 
 plaints againft the World, detefting 
 it’s Sweetes, curfing it’s charmes and 
 calling it a Thoufaad times deceipt- 
 
 9 
 
 To mufe almyes 
 of Death the 
 wiy of Immor- 
 tality • 
 
 A mail may welt 
 eomftaine againft 
 F Attune, theft 
 vaine Ycgnclcs, 
 exempt him not 
 from the paine* 
 
 TbcworU may 
 well bee the m~ 
 flrumcnt of out 
 jdoflruftien, not 
 the caufe . 
 
IQ 
 
 The M i R R o vr 
 
 I ■ 
 
 J', 
 
 | 
 
 * 
 
 | The number of 
 j thofe whom the 
 I world hath deceit* 
 | wed. h f& great , 
 that they that ftiU 
 imfliiy are now 
 m mere excufa - 
 
 > bk. 
 
 I 
 
 [ Tk ml// is / p free 
 
 that it cannot (uf- 
 .fh violence, but. 
 [from itjclfs , 
 
 p 
 
 : 
 
 , V ? ‘ ^Vi’y 
 
 full : but why ? one would lay to hear 
 thefe plaints , that the world began but 
 now to receive its birth , I meane were 
 but now newly created , that no man 
 knowes it yet , and that its firft couze- 
 oages began, but now to be difcovered? 
 What folly ! is not this to cheat ones 
 lelfe,to have commerce witha cheater ? 
 the world never yet bore any other 
 name or title, why then ay me we to nou- 
 riHi oar felves with its delights , whofe 
 after-bitternetfe cmpoylbns fenfibly 
 our foules ? But if its charmes be pow- 
 erful! enough to tempt reafon, they are 
 yet too feeble to vaoquifh it , provided 
 that the will confent not fo , that a 
 man remaine convift of all the crimes, 
 w hereof he may be accufed . 
 
 What leeraing ground then have we 
 to be enraged againft thole pleafures 
 which we have received^if our lelves on- 
 ly give thembothbeing and fornae?the 
 Fancies conceive thefe delights , and 
 the will gives them birth , they are the 
 workes whereof our imaginations form 
 the Species, and our delires make the j 
 Metamorpholis , changing them into 
 obje&s palpable, and fenuble, which 
 
 are 
 
"tobich flatters not , 
 
 are markes of the feale of our depra- 
 vednefle. 
 
 Let a man then abhorre pleafures in- 
 stead of accufing them, deteft their va- 
 nity in lieu of complaining of their de- 
 deitfulnefle. Butifthey be criminall, 
 they onely beare the ftaine of their Fa- 
 thers, and if they be complices of our 
 deftru&ion, tis we give them Birth, to 
 give us death. 
 
 Let men ceafero lament of Fortune, 
 fince the Mirror of its flying fcarfe, and 
 wings exprefle tothe life its lightneile, 
 and our folly. 
 
 Let none Argueany more that the 
 world is caufeofourruine,flnce we can* 
 not chufe but tread every houre over 
 theduft and afhes of thofe, who have 
 too late repented to have followed it. 
 As for voluptuoufnefle,tis a vaine Idea, 
 to which our paflions give a body , to 
 make it lerve as a fenflble objed of 
 their brutality, infomuch that it can do 
 nothing, butbyourfirft motions, ta- 
 king its vigour from our force, and its 
 power from our Soveraigntie, and this 
 renders us doubly culpable, palleating 
 our faults , inftead of acknowledging 
 them. 
 
 tl 
 
 Pleafures ate the 
 greatefl enemies 
 of life, 
 
 for in c a fling 
 flowers upon our 
 heads , they fill 
 our hearts with 
 thorns . 
 
 
 Fortune is [til her 
 (\ tlfe , he which 
 trufls her , ta^es 
 delight to bee 
 cheated. 
 
tz 
 
 Pleafure Hill 
 ta^es its force 
 frm $ur volm- 
 taryweakenefc* 
 
 yth mere then 
 I folly y when the 
 folly of other iy 
 fervent snot for 
 example. 
 
 tfee can no bet* 
 ter contemplate 
 any thingjhen i 
 the Mimurof 
 wr Toothing* 
 
 The M i R’RO VR 
 
 them, fince laments, rather than excu- 
 fes, might abfolv® us them. 
 
 Is it not that St. Iobn Chryfoftme 
 toucht with companion of our naiferies 
 cries out in aftonifhment of our weake- 
 nefle : oh World how many baft thou de- 
 ceived J but this is its trade ana profeili- 
 on. O F mane how many haft thou made to 
 fall! but even yet ftill,whilel am {pea- 
 king, fhee gives employment to her 
 trea(on,andexercife to her Tyrannic. O 
 Plea fores comfit ted in Sweets^and yetfteeped 
 inhitternejf'e , how many have yee poy fined! 
 but yet their vcnome is fo common , 
 that the whole earth is infe&ed with it. 
 What remedy then to all thefe ils ? 
 Mo other then this, to pry into ones 
 felfe,inthe U I RROV& of his owne 
 Afhes,AM i a r o v r alwayes hanging 
 at the Girdle, and which flatters not. A 
 M i r r o v r who fegla fife, though more 
 brittle, then one of Cry Rail , makes 
 us yet to fee that all the objects of the 
 World are falfe, but that of our Cor- 
 ruption^ zMirrour. , which reprelents us 
 more lively in our pourtrai&, then in 
 our (elves , A JMdirrour whole kind of 
 (hadow and Chimera makes us fee in 
 
 effed. 
 
rvhtcb flatters not, 
 
 effe<5fc that which we are in appearance. 
 
 A M'mour all miraculous , which 
 preferves ccrtaine Species’s of nothing 
 to render them fenfible to our know- 
 ledge. A < \Mirrour all divine, which rne- 
 tamorphofingour bodies into (liadows, 
 yet exprefles us fo naturally, that the 
 moft arrogant cannot miftake them- 
 felves. A Mirrwr laftly, which Nature 
 hath charmed with it’s owne proper 
 fpels, to the end , that vewing himfelfc 
 herein, a Man may be able to refift the 
 charnscs of the World’s allurements. 
 
 I am greatly aftonifht at thofc that 
 preach us the Knowledge of our (elves, 
 to be fo trouble fome,and difficult, fince 
 that at all times , and in all p!accs,of all 
 (ides and all forts of fafhions, wee are 
 Nothing at all, or if by an excefle of 
 flattery and vanity , I borrow fome 
 names to exprefletrucly what wee are , 
 it can bee no other then thofe of durt 
 and mire, whole noyfomnefle takes a- 
 way all doubt on it , from the moft 
 incredulous. 
 
 In what then coniifts this trouble 
 of ftudying to know one’s- felfe , (ince 
 the moft ignorant may in this , goe 
 
 out 
 
 ■ « m , i 'i m^. . II CH.TTMK ' HI I ■ ■ ■ . I l" J I J J M J l M.mw. 
 
 Ml the M'moun 
 of the World flat* 
 tcr 9 except ibh 
 of our miferics • 
 
 if a nz&n would 
 /till (ludy himfelfc 
 he would become 
 the wifefl of the 
 Wortt. 
 
i 4 
 
 Sdfe- knew! edge 
 onely difficile to 
 
 the proud, 
 
 ■■ 
 
 Humililyi s a slfil 
 full Schoolma- 
 ster, to teach us 
 to Itfiowourfetvs 
 
 >A man fyiowes 
 no more then bee 
 remembers . 
 
 T^Mirrovr 
 
 ©ut Dodors in the fchoole of our mi- 
 feries : where lies the difficulty to ar- 
 rive to thisknowledge ? when the very 
 wind of our fighes carries away, every 
 moment, fome of that polluted duft, 
 whereof wee bee made. Where is this 
 paine, fay I yet, fince our ienfes and fpi- 
 rits can have no other objed, then this 
 of Inconftancy, as unfeparable to their 
 nature, as it is proper to our condi- 
 tion. Andwhat can bee this difficul- 
 ty, when we are capable of no ad ion 
 more, then to deftroy our (elves ? We 
 m u ft breake this rinde farther. 
 
 I willbeleeve thatevery one knowes 
 from whence he comes and whither he goes , 
 that his body is but a worke of rotren- 
 nefle, and thatthewormes attend ther- 
 of the prey, as anourifhmentwhich to 
 them is deftmated : but it is important 
 to confider that thefe truths , though 
 lenfible , are ofteneft put in oblivion , 
 and this default of memory denotes 
 that of knowledge, He which mufeth 
 upon his flightnefte, undervalued (ex- 
 cept God) all things, and vanity would 
 never beable to furprile us, during the 
 interim of this meditation.Man knows 
 
 : veT y 
 
which flatters not. 
 
 very well that he ts Mortall, but whilft 
 he never thinkes ferioufly of the necef- 
 fity of dying, this knowledge is for- 
 got, th@ugh he dye without ceafe, and 
 in loofing the remembrance of his con- 
 dition, looles the knowledge therof. 
 
 Remember that you are a Ad! an faid his 
 page every morning to Philip of Mace- 
 don. This great Monarch made him- 
 felfe to be rouzed every day from ileep, 
 with the Nerves of Death , fearing to be 
 charmed with th zfmetes of Ltfe. Great- 
 neifes environ him on all parts, to make 
 him forget his humility , but under- 
 hand you not the delicate Aire, which 
 he caufes to be fung to the tune of his 
 naileries :thepompeand Magnificence 
 of his riches dazlc his eyes with their 
 Iuftre,that he might never conlider the 
 wretchednefle which is proper to him . 
 But you fee how he makes himfelfe to 
 be awaked withthenoyle of this truth, 
 F ver to cherilh its remembrance : Sir 
 remember that you are a Man • oh how 
 many Myfteries are comprifed in thele 
 wordes ! behold the Allegory on t. 
 
 , Great Kings remember you are fub- 
 jed to many more Mileries, then you 
 - have 
 
 IS 
 
 Thetemembrme 
 of Death 
 us forget the va- 
 nities of Life. 
 
 Thtwaylopaffe 
 our dayn conten- 
 tedly fist o thinly 
 evmbottrc of the 
 lafl. 
 
 There mem* 
 branceof the 
 poorenejje if 
 Death, is a po- 
 tent char me u 
 refijithe memoty 
 of greatneffc of 
 Birth • 
 
1 6 
 
 if we be different 
 in manner of Life , 
 wt are all ecjuali 
 in mcfli ty of dy- 
 ing* 
 
 Cares and an\t - 
 Cites fitrpaffe in 
 number the plea- 
 (me of Kings* 
 
 Tk Mirrovr 
 
 have fubje<£ts in your Empire. Great 
 Monarch s remember that of all the great 
 extention of your Territories there' Ihall 
 notremaine you one onely foot , fo 
 jealous are the vvormes of your glory. 
 Great Princes remember that your Scep- 
 ters and your Crownes, are luch feeble 
 marker of greatnefle, that fortune fports 
 with them, Time mocks at them, and 
 the Wind dial fweep away their Duft : 
 Soveraigne Judges of the Lift of Men, 
 remember that although you ire above 
 the Lawes, This of Dying is inviola* 
 
 hie. ' . , “ ' - 1 
 
 The Fable is pretty, of the refoluti- 
 on, which the flowers ahd plants took 
 to eled a King and Queene, and as the 
 number of Voyccs gave the election, 
 the Marigold was declared to bee the 
 King of the Flowers , and the Bryar 
 Queene of Plants, and under this tby 
 lies hid ferious verities. 
 
 Is there any thing fairer in all the 
 borders of the Garden of Nature, then 
 the flower of the c Marigold ? Its gol- 
 den Tinciure of the colour ofthe Sun, 
 at firft view dazeleth fo delightfully ; 
 that the Eye amazed ly gazing with 
 
which flatters not. 
 
 admiration of its frefh-difpJaycd 
 beauty, can hardly retire its regards 
 from an obje& fo agreeable. But ga- 
 ther it , ana digbt it on you , and its 
 fentproduces a tboufand difiiks in the 
 Mind, for that one onely, which you 
 hold in your hand, for hence of a fud- 
 dainc the humours become dull , and 
 melancholy having beene annoyed 
 with fo faire a fulfomnefle. 
 
 Royalty is ablolutely the fame: 
 
 The Scepters are asfrefh flowers of, , rr , 
 Marigtld, whofe luftre and beauty ! sieptenwn 
 equally ravifhing , attrad at firft befonUy wife 
 glance to their admiration the Soule 
 By the eyes ; but if a Man take them 
 into his gralpejOrdeck his head with 
 them , hec Yhall find himfclfe fill’d 
 with anxious cares by this cover- 
 ture. If you doubt of this, aske seleu. 
 cm ,hee will anfwere , That the firft 
 moment of his Raigne,was the laft of 
 
 The Sweet-bryar alfo bore away 
 :he Royalties for who Would not love 
 twithits Rofc? O how both toge- 
 her have powerful 1 actradives, to 
 empt equally, both the heart to de- 
 
 D fire 
 
 , >1, ll—i'JM III " 
 
i 8 
 
 The M i R R o v R 
 
 Thornes arc the 
 Kofes of icings 
 gardens* 
 
 Great mferlesare 
 deflinated to 
 gnat fortunes. 
 
 7 he f Itchy of 
 ifmzshsth much 
 more h< fits then 
 Reality • 
 
 lire them , and the hand to plucke 
 them? And*tis in vaine that Nature 
 hath given armes to the jealoufie of 
 its prickles, to ferve for the defence 
 of its flowers . fince thefe (harpes are 
 as fo many baits , which irritate us 
 rather with D efire then Beare. All the 
 world infert it intbeir nofe-gayesjbut: 
 the prickles remaine, the Rofe wi- 
 thers. 
 
 Say we then al fo, that Royalty is. 
 a faire Sweer.bryar , accompanyed 
 with its Rofes • I raeane many con- 
 tentments of the fame nature. Both 
 together have great charmes toaffed 
 us both with love and defire . but the 
 Bryars of the Crovrne remaine , the 
 Rofe of delights withers. O how pon» 
 derous is the loade of this greatnefle? 
 And if you beleeve not me , enquire 
 hereof of the puiflant King Mttbrida- 
 tes , hee will often reiterate to you . 
 That be never figb'd , but for the pnderotu 
 burden of bis Cr events. 
 
 sir^remember ror are 
 
 A MAN. 
 
 But what is there here to pride in i 
 May it be of the greatnes of his Do 
 
 minions i; 
 
ers not. 
 
 1 p 
 
 faions ? This is but an alien good, 
 which admits not to be poffeft but 
 by vanity , deceits honours and plea- 
 fores have nothing elle more in pro- 
 priety. To be an amply landed-man, 
 is to have miry foylc to (ell, and (mail 
 profit to make thence. 
 
 S ir remember you are a Man. What 
 may be his ambition ? may it be to 
 conquer the whole world, what will 
 he doe with it after conqueft:, fince it 
 is a Ball of fnow, which Time melts 
 by little and little , tumbling it with- 
 out ceflation. 
 
 Sir remember you are a Man, What 
 might he his defignes ? Should hee 
 pretend to Altars, and Temples, what 
 oblations canbemadetoa VidUme, 
 whom Death holds conrmually at a 
 ^ay ? can Incenfe be offered to a 
 Dunghill, or an Idoll made of a Sink ? 
 
 ‘he very thought ftiockes common 
 r enfe. 
 
 Sir , remember that you are a Man. 
 What can hec doe with his abfblute 
 )Ower? A little ftone makes him 
 fumble j a ftraw can blind him-, a 
 hadow, an Atome^ a thing of no thing 
 
 2 are I 
 
 Kjng^my trouble 
 themfclvcs to 
 conquer thee mb y 
 it fid Z triumphs 
 over them* 
 
 w 
 
 lie which mafyt 
 himfelfe to beach 
 red, U rather fi 
 to be Deaths 
 Slime then to be 
 IMairkpd* 
 
 !Man h Co mif, . 
 ruble, that I am 
 am^dl ee p tin 
 not 
 
r 
 
 1 have [aid to 
 corruption, 7 hou 
 art my { ath errand 
 to the mtmcy 
 thou art my mo * 
 therand wyftfler. 
 lob. if* 1 4* 
 
 The head that 
 wcam the 
 crowne 5 mam 
 away with it • 
 
 are capable to reduce him to nothing 
 at all. And is not this an objed of pi- 
 ty, rather then of envy ? Great Kings, 
 thefe are truths too important fo 
 yoti,toloofe their icmcmDrance, 
 Well may you out-brave the hea- 
 vens with a briftling eye-brow ♦ the 
 onely imagination of its Thunder- 
 claps, holds you already inalarme« 
 Boldly may you tread vpon the Earth 
 with a difdaincfulffoot . the Same 
 v» hereof you are made , ihall fhortly 
 be fo troden , when the worraes arc 
 glutted with ir. Remember that you an 
 Men , and that all the obje&s of ri 
 ches and honours which enviror 
 you, are of the fame Nature as yoi 
 are. You arc dying every moment 
 and every thing falls away withou j 
 ceafe. 
 
 When I reprefent to mind you 
 heads, diadem’d with a rich Crovvne 
 I conceive it a little point infirm'i 
 andclofed in a circumference , whofl t 
 lines abut at the center of corrupti 
 on, lines of magnificence , which ter 
 minate at the point of wretched 
 neffe. 
 
 ' 
 
 1 
 
 I 
 
which flatters not. 
 
 If I confider you with Scepter in 
 hand , me thinks I fee a fimple fhrub, 
 planted upon worfer earth , the fhrub 
 dries up, and is reduced to duft, the 
 ground remaines that it was before. 
 
 Let me contemplate you feared 
 uponyqur Thrones ,deckt with your 
 richeft Ornaments , my imagination 
 ftiewes me a Jupiter in pi&ure , hol- 
 ding theThunder in his hand - for you 
 are fo weake for all your abfolutc 
 power, that if you prefume hardily to 
 raife your head, but to looke upon the 
 Sunne , your eyes will water at the 
 fame time , to expiate with your 
 teares , the crime of year arrogance. 
 
 | Great Kings , Remember then , that 
 fou are not Great, but in miferies. 
 Sovcraigne Mwarcbs, Remember , that 
 /our Empiredome is but a fervitude, 
 ilnce you are fubje<ft tosllche dtfa- 
 fters of your fubjedts. PowerfuII 
 Princes, one go ft of wind defies to 
 he ftrugglc your abfolute power. Sa, 
 ■red MajeHus , I falute you to day by 
 his name ; but t® morrow I will 
 change termes ,and call you Skelitons 
 nd carkaflfes , to the end that in fpea- 
 
 D ^ king 
 
 U 
 
 Scepters and the 
 hands which held 
 them , are equal 
 ly perifhahle* 
 
 A flrange thing 
 that the claniy 
 Jhould blind U4, 
 tho igh it be the 
 principal of the 
 view. 
 
 All the attributes 
 ef worldly glory 
 accompany m hut 
 to the gra ve . 
 

 zz 
 
 
 The M i R R o v R 
 
 Manfcrvesfor 
 fbittk'cnc^e to 
 all things , fmcc 
 all thinpconcuYYe 
 lebismne*} 
 
 Man is Incan •? 
 flamy it fclft , ra- 
 //;er then ns 
 
 pQHYlWft. 
 
 % 
 
 king this truth , all the world may 
 know you , I will change my tone. 
 
 How ingenious are the Poets in 
 their fancies? They recount us, how 
 that Inconftancy being banilht f^pm 
 heaven , defcended upon earth , with 
 defigne to have her pi&ure drawne,, 
 and upon the refufe, that Painters 
 made of it 3 fhec addreft hcrfelfe to 
 Time, who after he had confideredf 
 her inallhcrdiverfities, made ule acti 
 laftof thevifage of Man forthefini* 
 filing cloth, wherein having reprefen- 
 rcd her to the li-fe, all the world tooke 
 her lor Man himfelfe, fince in effe& 
 ’cis but one and the lame thing. O 
 faire tru th difcovered by a fable. 
 
 He then that now would fee the I- 
 mage of Inconftancy,le t him con fid er.* 
 the Life-toticbes and lineaments of it,, 
 upon his ownevifage. Our fore-head 
 which wrinkles every moment, is itf 
 not the very fame as hers ? Our Eyes,, 
 which by conrinuall ufe every houre, 
 doc already require fpe&acles, arc 
 they not as hers ? Our cheekes which 
 now chap- fall are in nothing diffe- 
 rent from hers. In fine our vilagesj 
 ‘ '' ’ are; 
 
"Which flatters not. 
 
 ** , — .r -y vm**.**** ■ ■■>,.. M U » ' ■■ ■ " '■ < «• m-r^Kr * . " » ■ '"'■ j ir - J ' 111 ' 
 
 are the onelv MIRROTRS 
 WHICH FLATTER NOT . 
 
 But what (hall we anfwer notwith- 
 ftandingto the objection ofthis truth, 
 that , that which we fee of M A AT, is 
 notthe^/^iV.Ifhisvifage like a falfe 
 Horologe index falfe , this our pour# 
 trai&oflnconftancy ismeerely ima- 
 ginary.' 
 
 But is there any thing more incon- 
 ftant then the fpirit of Man? ’cisa 
 wcathcr-cocke for all winds , behold 
 againe the firft draughts of the vifage 
 oflnconftancy jtn.aft wee not of ne- 
 ccflity compare his changing humour 
 to hers , if a man would exhibit there- 
 of but one example • and thefe are yet 
 new lineaments, which reprefentus 
 this levity. In fine, his thoughts, his 
 jdefires ^ and all the palfions of his 
 [mind, are but objeCts of viciffitude, 
 capableof all forts of impreffions : fo 
 that in the perfection of the portrai- 
 ture of Man, Inconftancy is found 
 -perfectly depainted. Let us pro- 
 ceed. 
 
 ,! The fictions of Poets areyetferious 
 5 enough, to ferve us often for fuffici- 
 . D 4 ent 
 
 2*5 
 
 Though a Man 
 hides bimfeife 
 under the vayle 
 ofhypocnfie> bn 
 defeSh alwayes 
 breafe through* 
 
 The fpYitofMan 
 it much more 
 chwgingflhen hu 
 body, for this 
 change s onely in 
 growing old, but 
 that grows old 
 oriel] in changing. 
 
r 
 
 2,4 
 
 Venue onely can 
 render us iavtil* 
 nerable. 
 
 d verttms Man 
 feam nothing- 
 
 Etiery S\lan 
 would be immor * 
 tall 5 but none 
 tafapainc to 
 acquire immorta* 
 lity • 
 
 'Tii oneiy the con * 
 fcknecof apf 
 Mann of proofs t 
 again]! the firoafo 
 ofTmtmd Eor- 
 iunc . 
 
 Tfo Mirrovr 
 
 Uj " MW, l r ", , r I . , ". .!. .. 1 .P lu u n. , , ■ purr, ■». J -. . „ ■ — ^ „ r ^ 
 
 enc entertaineofthetime. ’Tisthey 
 which tell us of one Achilles t immor. 
 tall in all the parts ©fhis body, favc 
 onely his heele. 
 
 Great Kings, I will, if you pleafc, 
 take you for Achilles's , and will give 
 out you are like him, invulnerable, but 
 onely in the heele. But ofwhat tem- 
 per foever your Armes be , to what I j 
 purpofe ferve they you with this de- 
 feat ? This onely blot duskes the 
 Iufter of your glory. Nature has done 
 furcly well , to prodigallizc upon you 
 thus,both her graces and favours ; fhe 
 hath immortaliz’d you but by halfes. 
 All your apparcnces are divine, but 
 fomething within fpoiles all, each par- 
 ticular is a heele, by which Death 
 may furprize you. "| 
 
 Shall I fay then that you are Achil- i 
 hs'sy who will beleevc me|, fince your 
 heads (ervebutas Buts to the fhafts i 
 of Fortune ? To preach you invulne- ,■ 
 rable, a fmall leratch may thereon i 
 give me the lye. Truth more power- 1 
 full then flattery conftraines me to j 
 call you by your name, for in remem- j 
 brancing you that you are but Men, ! 
 
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which flatters not. 
 
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 I fuggeft you to the life all the difa- 
 fters, which accompany your Life. 
 
 Thou haft much to doe, to make 
 Panegy ricks in praife of Man , O 
 Mercury Trimgiflus, and to maintaine 
 fo confidently, that he is a great Mi- 
 racle, it muft be then a Miracle of 
 mifery, fince Nature produceth no, 
 thing fo miferable as he is. 
 
 And thou Pythagoras , which haft 
 had the fore-head to perfwade us 3 that 
 Man was a mortall God, if thou 
 hadft made Anatomieofhiscarkafte, 
 the ftench of his filth , had foone 
 made thee change this language. 
 j| Plato thou reafon'ft well upon thisfub- 
 ! jedt, yet without found coafideration, 
 then when with an enforcement of 
 fpirit and eloquence, thou wouldft 
 !' oblige us to bcleevc , that Man is of 
 |j the race of the Gods : yes furely,fince 
 thy Gods are Gods of earth, thecaufe 
 ismatcht to theeffedt, for Man is of 
 the fame matter. Plotinus , thoualfo 
 did'ft not roifle it , when in favour of 
 Man , thou fat'd’ ft he was an abridge- 
 ment of the wonders of the world, for 
 fince all it’s wonders heretofore fo fa- 
 mous 
 
 Man iifo poor s a 
 things that one 
 cannot give him 
 a name but is ad* 
 vantagtm to 
 him.* 
 
 There is m 
 Tongue in Ma- 
 ture which can- 
 furnijh us with 
 terms ftrong 
 enough to exprejfe 
 the miferies of 
 Man- 
 

 Memento ho* 
 in© qued nihil 
 es^&in nihi^ 
 lumreverteris. 
 
 Ego fans 
 mis St non ho- 
 mo, 
 
 Pfdlt % $»• 
 
 The M I R R o v R 
 
 mous are no more but duft and afhes, 
 Man may hereof be the example with 
 good reafon. 
 
 O how much more is expert David 
 in the knowledge of our condition, 
 when he compares Man , not onely to 
 the Duft , but to the Duft which flies 
 away, to fhow us , that , that little 
 which he is ftill , flies away till it be 
 nothing in the end. 
 
 But how glad am I O Lord , that I 
 am but Duft, to the end that I may flie 
 towards heaven, for the earth I under- 
 valew.HowI amfatisfled that I am but 
 Ajhes, that I may but be able to keepe 
 in my foulefome little fparkle of thy 
 love. What glory, and what content- 
 ment too , is it to be devoured by 
 wormes , fince thou calleft thy felfea 
 tvorme i gnaw O Lord, gnaw both my 
 heart and intrals. I offer thee them in 
 prey, and regive me new ones , that 
 may offend thee no more, I know 
 well that my life flits away by little 
 and little, but how agreeable is this 
 flight untome, fince thou art its ob- 
 ject. I fee well that my Dayes Aide 
 away , and paffe in continual! courfe. 
 
 A 
 
 
 But 
 
 ( 
 
ypbick flatters not. 
 
 But O what confolation is it to be 
 fenfible of dying at all houres, for to 
 live eternally ? O V erities againe, 
 what ravifhments have you to confo- 
 late the foules ©fthemoftaffli&ed > I 
 returne to my fubje<ft. 
 
 Wee readc of the Prieftsofthe 
 Gentiles , that they writ letters every 
 yeeretothcir Gods, upon the Allies 
 of the Sacrifices, which they made 
 upon the top of Mount Olympus , and 
 l oeleevc that this was upon defigne, 
 that they might thus be better recei- 
 ved, being written upon this paper of 
 humility. Let us fetch now fome 
 truth from this fancy. Let us write 
 every day to heaven , upon the paper 
 of our Allies , confefling that we are 
 nothing elfe, and let us make our 
 fighs the faithfull meftengers of thefe 
 letters , as the onely witnefles of our 
 hearts. I will hide my felfe under 
 the Afljes y O Lord, to the end that 
 thy Juftice may not fee me, faid Da - 
 vid. What Curtaine’s rhis ? This 
 S^veraigne Juftice which makes it 
 bright day in hell, cannot pierce the 
 Afbes to find underneath a Sinner. 
 
 No, 
 
 *7 
 
 Humility is ever 
 honoured by att 
 the world. 
 
 AU the ports of 
 the body are as fo 
 many Char diets 
 of dujl 3 wherein 
 may be read the 
 truth of our no~ 
 ttingneffe. 
 
I 2,8 
 
 S eeft'fhou hm 
 Ahab }humblcth 
 himft'ife . 
 
 I wU net bring 
 the evitlinhis 
 dopes 
 
 i Kingi * 1129 . 
 
 Reeordare 
 quaefo,quod 
 fieut argillam 
 fecifti me 8 c in 
 pulveremredu- 
 eesrae. 
 
 ' lob 
 
 Humility 
 triumphs overaU 
 thin gi* 
 
 Man remember 
 *tby beginning, fer 
 thou art not made 
 of Fire ti\s the 
 Sums , nor of 
 
 r^MlRROVR 
 
 No, no, for this vaile has tlievertue to 
 refled the beames of this revenging 
 light within the fource, which produ- 
 ced them. 
 
 Remember that I am nothing, O 
 Lord , and that thou haft made me ©f 
 nothing, and every moment canft re- 
 duce me to fomething leflc then no- 
 thing; cryes out lob, in his miferies. 
 He finds no other invention to ap» 
 peafe the mild eholler of his God , 
 then putting him in mind of his infi- 
 nite greatneflfe, and at the fame time 
 ofthepitifulleftate, whereunto heis 
 reduced. Why fhould you take 
 Armes againft me, O Lord, ( purfbes 
 he) when the breath of your word is 
 able to undoe the fame , which it 
 hath made me, Remember ,0 Remember , 
 that I am but what the benigne in- 
 fluence of your divine regards permits 
 me to be , for on the inftant that you 
 fhallceafe to regard me, Ifhallceafe 
 to live. 
 
 Decke we then with A flics our Bo- 
 dy ofDuft, and let us cover with a 
 new earth our owne , to make Ram> 
 piers ofproofe againft the thunders 
 
 of 
 
 - w xiwbw ’ un.». 
 
which flatters not • 
 
 2.9 
 
 of heaven. See you not how its all- 
 powerfull Juft ice, finds limitation in 
 the confemon of our being nothing. 
 We need fcarc nothing, acknowledg- 
 ing that we are nothing. Well may 
 the thunder make a horrid rumbling, 
 yet the Hyflope out- braves it in its 
 lowlineflc. Feare and Humility ever 
 abandon each others company. The 
 oncly meanes to triumph over all 
 things, is to vanquifh Ambition. 
 
 O Lord, I durft fcarce beleeve, that 
 lam, ifthy providence alone were 
 not the Prop of my Being.! But fince 
 thy goodnefie hath drawnc me from 
 the Abyffe of Nothing- let thy grace 
 caufe me alwayes to keepe the re- 
 membrance of my originall. Before 
 Time was, I was Nothing, now Time 
 | is, lam yetNothing. Butwhathap- 
 pinefle is it to be Nothing at all, fince 
 thou art Albthings ? for if I fearch 
 my felfe in vainein my felfe , is it not 
 fufficient that I am found in thee ? I 
 
 Ayu % the 
 winds 3 hut of , 
 mtejremwbence 
 it is thou foyl’fi 
 all the world* 
 
 He which can 
 overcome him* 
 felfe fball never 
 be vanquifh 0 1 by 
 a greater Cap- 
 tame . 
 
 will then forget even mihe own name, 
 and mule of nothing, but of the Cbl 
 mera of my being, fince as a Chimera, 
 it pafleth away and vaniftieth. The 
 
 onelv I 
 
 ***** 
 
 
$o 
 
 
 what a joy is it 
 to page away con - 
 tmually with aU 
 things, towards 
 him that hath 
 creattdalhbings} 
 
 Heaven changes 
 thejigbsofthe 
 Earth into tears, 
 l\meane its va- 
 pours into dew. 
 
 \ Since we are of 
 Earth, let as fuf 
 fer ihu divine 
 
 I Sun of Love , to 
 exbale the va- 
 pours of our fobs, 
 for to rnetmor* 
 phofe them into 
 the team of ‘Re* 
 
 ( entance. 
 
 T^MiRRovr 
 
 onely confolation , that remaines me 
 inmypaflage, is that thou alone re- 
 mained firmeand ftabIe 5 fo that with- 
 out end thou art the end of my car- 
 reere, and without bounds limited 
 the extent ef my courfc , as the onely 
 objed,both of my red arid felicity. 
 See me now upon returne. j 
 
 With what and ever to be adored 
 Iuftre, appeares the love of God in 
 hisday, in theworkofMan ? Would jj 
 not one fay - that it feemes hee made ' 
 him of earth , that hee might drow 
 chereon, the feedesbothofhis blef- 
 fings and graces ! O fortunate Earth, I 
 which being diligently cultured, may 
 bring forth the fruits of eternall hap- 
 pinefle ! 
 
 Boad thy felfe O Man , to be No- 
 thing but Earth , fince the heaven be- 
 dewes the Earth continually. But if 
 with a provoked eye, it lancheth out, 
 fometimes its thunders upon it , her 
 felfe doth afford hereof the matter. I 
 Live alwayes Innocenr,and thou fhalt 
 not know what ’tis to feare. Imploy 
 thy felfe without ceafe , to meafure 
 the depth of the Abyffe of thy no- 
 th ingnefte. 
 
which flatters not . 
 
 tfeingncfTc ; and though thou never 
 pierce to the bottome hereof, thy 
 paines (hall not be unprofitable , be r 
 caufe fecking thy felfe in thy bafe- 
 nefle , thou fhalt alwayes recover thy 
 felfe againe much greater then thou 
 arc. 
 
 The Sunne , th is faire Planet of the 
 Day , which with a continuall afpe<2, 
 contemplates all created things, can- 
 not make reflexion of his beames to 
 fee himfelfe,as if his mother Nature 
 had apprehended in making him fb 
 glorious ; that the Mirrour of his 
 light, might not be metamorpfeofed 
 into a fire of love , to render him amo- 
 rous of his owne proper luftre. 
 
 But the Intellect , this Sunne of our 
 Soules , has a faculty with which it can 
 both contemplate out of it felfe all 
 things , and repeale againe the fame 
 power to confider it felfe, which 
 makes a Man capable, not onely of 
 the Meditation of the tniferiesof the 
 World, butalfoof that of theafHi. 
 &ions and troubles , which infepara- 
 bly keeps him company to thq grave. 
 
 We reade ofiW^j } that God com- 
 manded 
 
 5t 
 
 We are all mw- 
 rowofourfelves, 
 not ^towing for 
 wkat 3 for our de- 
 fers are objects 
 rather of bale then 
 Love .. 
 
 v 
 
 A Man cannot 
 (tumble ordinari- 
 ly y but through 
 pervefneffeyfmee 
 Reafon enlightens 
 him in the very 
 worfi wayes. 
 
* The Laver 
 which was before 
 the Tabernacle •< 
 Exod # 3l,8 & 
 
 * 
 
 There is nothing 
 ajjhred in Life , 
 toi/i conHmatt 
 Death . 
 
 •4 ■ v 
 
 \ 
 
 f r/< not efficient 
 to mufeeftbe 
 necejfity of dying, 
 but to conftder aW 
 fothat every 
 bom may be our 
 Lafi, 
 
 \ 
 
 The MiRROVR 
 
 raanded him to frame the * fore-front i 
 of the Tabernacle all of Mirrours , to | 
 the end, that thofe that fhould pre- 
 fen t thcmfclves before his Altar, 
 might view themfelves , in this po- ! 
 fture of Prayer* O this excellent My* 
 fterie ! Mortals , it behooves you to 
 view your lelves in the Mirronr of ' 
 your Afhes, if you would have your 
 vowes heard. 
 
 God hath taught us an excellent 
 way of Prayer, G ive tuthis day our dau ■ 
 l) bread. But why O Lord, teacheft 
 thou us not toaskethec our bread for 
 to Morrow , as well as for to day ? O > 
 how good a reafon is there hereof!! 
 This is becaufc that life hath noaf- 
 furanceof rom.orrow • befides that its 
 is an excefle of grace , that wee may; 
 be bold to crave of him , the bread of 
 our nourifhment for allawholeday, 
 fincc every moment may be That of 
 our Death. Reader, let this verity 
 ferve thee yet as a Mirtour , if thoui 
 would’ ft have thy prayers to pierce 
 the heavens. This is not all , t© know 
 thy body is a Colofle of filth j which 
 ( is traiid along from one place to ano- ; 
 
r— ■ » ff ■ * IUL ip«iiBviwm.wi ■ wui nti Hini ■nR«HRnsam«nHR9an»»MW 
 
 ther , as it were by the laft ftrugglcof 
 a Life alwaycs languishing. It be. 
 hooves thee alfo to call to m ind j that 
 every inftant may , terminate the 
 courfe of thy trcublefome.carriere . 
 and that this fuddaine retreate , con- 
 ftraines thee to bid Adieu for ever to 
 all: the things of the world , which 
 thou cherifhedft moil, Thoughts 
 onely worthy s of a noble fpirir ! 
 
 I have eaten Ajbes as breads fayes the [ PftK' us * 
 
 ■ ■ T\ V t # * A a _ I' 
 
 Royal 1 Prophet ; buthow is it pofli- 1 Cil,crem Hn 
 
 kU . t t_: f. .1 I; quam paneifl 
 
 blc ? I conceive his thought. He en- mandifeXm, 
 tert.aincd his foule with the remem- 
 brance of the Allies of his body, and 
 this truth alone ferv’d as objed to his 
 imagination, fortofatisfiethe appe- 
 tite of his Soule. Xwirfgivcme both 
 the fame rclifh and defire, to repaft 
 niy felfc ftill thus,of Duft and Allies, 
 in remcmbrancing my felfe alwayes, 
 that I am nothing elfe. O fweet re- \a man toabafe 
 membrance of my rottennefle , fince 1 ’ L > ~ 
 it fteads me for eternail nourifhment 
 of my Soule ! O precious memorieof 
 my Nothingnefle, fince able tofatis- 
 fie the appetite of my heart 1 Let this' 
 be the daily bread } 0 Lord , which thou 
 ■ E haft 
 
 bimjelfe below 
 that which hi is, 
 being fo poore e 
 
 thing of nothin 
 
34 
 
 The MiRROVR 
 
 Si vitrei cffe- 
 mus,tmmis ca- 
 fus timeretnus> 
 SAugc 
 
 T here is nothing 
 more brittle than 
 glafe,yet wants 
 more . 
 
 Man is f*UymL 
 fmble, Jmebis 
 life u the (oune 
 oj bis mifeneu 
 
 haft taught me to aske thee, to the 
 end, that all my defires together 
 might be fatiated with this deare 
 nourifhment. I recolleft aiy felfe in 
 this digreflion. 
 
 Having diverfetimesmufed of the 
 imbecillity and weakencfle of Man, 
 
 I am conftrain’d to cry out with St. 
 ^uguftin , What is there that cad be 
 more frailein Nature ? If we were of 
 Glafle ( purlues hee) our condition 
 might therein be better , for a Glafle 
 carefully preferv’d , may laft long 
 time, and yet what paine fomever 
 Man takes to prefervehimfelfe, and 
 under what fhelter fomever , hee' 
 fhrowds himfelfe, for covert to the 
 ftorme , hee breakes and is Shattered 
 ofhimfelfe. 
 
 What reply you to thefe verities, 
 Great Princes ? Well may you now 
 be arrogant j Thefragilitieof Glafle j 
 cannot admit of comparison, with 
 this of your natures^ what feat 
 will you give to your greatnefle > 
 and what foundation to your vani- 
 ty > when thd wind alone of your 
 (ighs , may-fhipvrrackeyou upon the 
 
 Sea 
 
 
which flatters not. 
 
 Sea of your owne proper teares ? 
 what furnames will you take upon 
 you , for to make you be mf taken ? 
 Thacof ImmortaU would become you 
 ill, fince every part of your body, 
 fervesbutas a But to the (haftes of 
 Death „ Invincible , would alfo be no 
 way proper, fince upon the lead: touch 
 ofmifhap, you are more worthy of 
 pity,then capable ofdefencc. Would 
 you be called Gods l your Idolaters 
 would immolate you to their owne 
 laughter. Tread tinder foot your 
 Crownesj if rightly you will be crow- 
 ned with them 5 you onely thus ren- 
 der your felves worthy of thofe ho- 
 nours , which you mifprize : for Glo- 
 ry confifts not in the poftelfing ir 5 but 
 in the meriting $ and the onely means 
 to obtaine it, is to pretend nothing at 
 all to it. 
 
 How remarkeable is the cuftome 
 of the Locri&ns at the Coronation of 
 their Kings : They burnt before them 
 ahandfullof Tow , to reprefent un- 
 to them the inftability of their gran- 
 deurs , and the greedinelTeof Time to 
 deflroy them. In effect, all the great- 
 l ■ F. 3 nefles 
 
 ftgWlt f - .. T _ - r t , , - r __ 1 - T -- 1 _ 
 
 55 
 
 A man may cite 
 every thing with 
 vert ue ^without 
 it nothing 
 
 Heaven cannot 
 bee actfli' nd % but 
 by the mfpri^of 
 earth* 
 
The MiRROVR 
 
 mwg tow* 
 
 au th* g ttndokt I neffcsof the Earth , are but as a bun - 
 of Kings is but a& 1 diet of Tow 5 and then when Dariut 
 ththia\t of fa- j wou id make of them his treafure, 
 
 Mif-hap fet fire on them , and redu- 
 ced ’em into Cinders, and when hec 
 had yet in his heart a defire to immor- 
 talize them , a new fire feaz’d h»s in» 
 trals, by the heat of third , which 
 burn’d him to the end to confumeat 
 or ce, both the caufe , and the effe&. 
 So true it is, that the Glory of the 
 world vanillheth away like Smoke. 
 Great Kings , if you build a Throne of 
 Majeftie to the proofe , both againft 
 Time and Fortune, lay its foundad 
 on upon that of your miferies. Humi 
 lity takes her rife in Iowlinefie, from 
 the lowed footing, when fhe makes 
 her flight into the heavens. 
 
 O how admirable is the Humility 
 of Saint Iohn Baptiftl They would give 
 him titles ofSoveraignty , in taking 
 him for the Meffias : but" call to your 
 Memory, how with an ejaculation of 
 Love and reverence, hee precipitates 
 himfelfe both with heart and thought 
 into the Abyflc of his owne No- 
 chingriefie, there to admire in all hu- 
 f- miJrtv 
 
 Be which efleem 
 himfelfe the le&fl 
 of All , u the 
 gUatifl. 
 
wbkb flatters n ot, 
 
 mility , both Greatneflfeand Majefty 
 in his Throne, ltm but a vojce y fayes 
 hcc , which beat at the eares 'to enter 
 into your hearts. 
 
 ■AroycejNhich nifties in a moment, 
 and pages away at the fame inftant • 
 What Humility / Is there any thing 
 which is lefleany thing then a Foyce Z 
 ’Tis a puffe of wind, which a frefh one 
 carries I know not where , fince both 
 lolc themfelves in the ayre, after its 
 ne re folittle agitation, with their gen- 
 tle violence.'T is nothing in effe<ft,yet 
 notwithstanding , the proper name of 
 this great Prophet. They would ele- 
 vate him , and heabafeth himfelfe fo 
 low, that he would render himfelf invb 
 fible as a V lycefo much he fearc s to be 
 taken forhim,whofe fhooc-!atchet,he 
 judgeth himfelf unworthy to unloofe. 
 
 Lerd i what are weal fo, but a little 
 Wind enclofed in a handfull of 
 Earth ? to what can one compare us, 
 without attributing us too much va^ 
 nity. True it is, that we are the works 
 of thy hands, but all other created 
 things beare the fame Title, butjf 
 thy bounty hath beene willing to ad- 
 
 E 3 vantage 
 
 *7 ' 
 
 Vox clamantis 
 
 indeferto 
 
 Iohni.ij. 
 
 Chrlftus ver- 
 bum,lohannes 
 vox* 
 
 lohnr. 17 • 
 sA man U to he] 
 efi' mated in pro 
 portion to the tin- 
 dt naive hie 
 mafci vfinthf If 
 
1 
 
 5 a 
 
 The mfl 
 man ftnneih [t- 
 ven times a day 
 
 The MiRROVR 
 
 What lit for a 
 
 vantage our nature with many gra- 
 ces, proper and ordinated to it alone, 
 thefe are fo many witnefles , which 
 convince us , not to have deferv’d 
 them , fince our very Ingratitude is 
 yet a Recognizing of this Truth. Im 
 fomuch that as out Life is nothing 
 butfinne, and finne is a mcere priva- 
 tion, it may be maintained that wee 
 are noth ing cl fc, and confequently no- 
 thing at all. 
 
 But how Proud am I, O Lord ^ every 
 time I thinkc thou haft created me of 
 Earth , for this is a Principal!, which 
 drawes me alwayes to it felfe , by a 
 right of propriety ; from whence I 
 cannot defend my felfe. All things 
 feeke theh repofe in their element, O how 
 
 TJanh^fil Dufi and Afhes, whereof thou haft for- 
 
 mmu triumph 'fc appy am j to f e arch mine in that of 
 
 bexto'd'!. , .rr « _C.I fu. 
 
 
 mrd me > The Earth demands my 
 Earth, and my body as a little Gullet, 
 feparated from its fource, fpeedsby 
 little and little, to the fame fource, 
 from whence it had its begmning* 
 .^nd this is that which impeaches me 
 from gathering up my felfe , to cake a 
 higher flight. I fhould doe bravely, 
 

 
 which flatters not. 
 
 to hoyfe my felfe above ray Center, 
 when the allay of ray V anity , and the 
 violence of ray fail , arebut the lame 
 thing. I give ftill downewards upon 
 the fide of ray weakeneffes, and the 
 weight of my miferies , overbeares 
 upon the arrogance of my Ambition. 
 O happy defied, and yet more happy 
 the condition , which holds me al- 
 wayes enchained to the dunghill of 
 ray Originall , fince the links of this 
 eafie fervitude , are fo many Mir rows 
 which reprefent me that I am no- 
 ! thing , whenfoev cr I imagine my 
 felfe to be fomething. Let us change 
 our Tone , without changing Tub- 
 jed. 
 
 | Ladyes , Remember thdtyoi* dye every 
 houre , behold , here a M I R ROF R 
 WHICH FLUTTERS NOf. 
 It fhewes you both what you are, and 
 ilfuchasyou fhallbe. But ifnotwith- 
 ftanding, you ftill admire your felves 
 under an other vifage, full of allure- 
 ! mentis, and fweets. This is but Death 
 himfelfe , who hides him under tbelc 
 faire apparcnces , to the end yon may 
 notdifcerne him. It is true, you have 
 ! E 4 gracefull 
 
 I _ ■„ — — rn — -T— m- — a iM -n wUwa ■ > 
 
 Tfidi hoyfis up, 
 only to give a fall. 
 
 A man no doubt 
 may mufyiow 
 hmftlfe, yet the 
 leafl bit of mif 
 bap team the 
 voile ofhkbood- 
 winlftnejfe. 
 
 4 grange thing 
 that death u ftill 
 as next cut) as 
 bfe y and yet wee 
 never think* on t» 
 
 
4 ° 
 
 Ci me and Death 
 art the anth in- 
 exorable. 
 
 The M I RROVR 
 
 
 gracefull Trefles of hf ire which co- 
 ver your heads, and his is all Bald, 
 but doe not you heed, how hee pulls 
 them off from yours by little every 
 day, and makes thofc which he leaves 
 you, to turne White, to the end you 
 may pull them out your fclves? 
 
 - 1 1 is true, your Eyes have a iparkling 
 
 Iu Are, and beauty j but of his is feene 
 pnely the hideous place, where Na- 
 ture had feated them : But doe you 
 not confider , how with continual! 
 a&ion, bee Dusks the glory of this 
 beauty j and in conclufion, puts to 
 Eclipfe theft imaginary Pety-Suns. 
 
 It is true : , your hue is of Lillyes, 
 and your mouth of Rofes, upon his 
 face is feene onely the Hubs of theft 
 flowers : but call to mind , that he 
 Wafts this Lilly-teint, as well as Lil- 
 lyes tbemfelves ; and that the vermib 
 lion of this Rofle-mouth lafts but as 
 Rofes * and ifyetyou. differ to day 
 from him in fomc thing , you may re- 
 ferable him to-morrow in all. I leave 
 you to meditate of theft Truths. 
 
 M An is a i nte Mirrour , which repre- 
 fents to the naturallall things, which 
 
 are 
 
 ' 
 
 I 
 
 
Tbbich flatters not . 
 
 arc oppos’d unto it. Jf you turne 
 it downward to the Earth , we can fee 
 within nothing but objects of Duft 
 and Ajhts ; but if you turne him to the 
 Hcavens-ward, there is to be admired 
 in it beauties, and graces purely ce* 
 Iefiiall, In effc&,if weconfider Man 
 in his mortal! and perifhablc condi- 
 tion, hardly can one find any ftay in 
 this confideration , fince hee is no- 
 thing ejfe buta chimera , whofe forme 
 every Momepc, by little and little de- 
 firoyes, to reduce it to its firft no- 
 thing. And indeed, not to lye to ye. 
 May , is but a Puffe of Wind , fince 
 he lives by nothing elfe, is filled with 
 nothing elfe, and dyesoncly by Pri- 
 vation of it. But if you turne the Me - 
 dal! ( I would fay) the Mirrour of his 
 Soule towards his Creator , there are 
 feen nothing but Gifts of Immortali- 
 ty, but graces of a Soveraigne bounty 5 
 but favoursofanabfolute Will.The 5 
 heavens and the Stars appeare in 'this 
 Cry ftalline Mirrour , not by reflexion 
 |6f the obje&, but by a divine vertue 
 proceeding from the Nature of his 
 Caufe. Eetusto the End. 
 
 ' Me 
 
 41 
 
 Mannas one '? 
 pifturt with two 
 faceted often 
 the mop, naturaU 
 isfalfejl. 
 
 Man is nothing 
 in bwjfetfe , yet 
 comprehends all 
 things * 
 
 What though mem 
 be made of earthy 
 bets moredhiue 
 than mortally 
 
S. '.1> ii.-gj ' ■<■* ■» 
 
 aSmimit 
 
 j The flumber of 
 1 vanities u a mtr- 
 : taM malady to the 
 
 \ w 4 man jhould 
 I notforgithisbea- 
 I verity beginnings 
 having heaven 
 fora daily objcci , 
 
 ( 
 
 1 
 
 The M I R R O V R 
 
 Me thinks this page returnes againe 
 to day within the Chamber of Philip 
 of Macedon , and drawing the Cur- 
 caine, cryes out according to his or- i 
 dinary. 
 
 Sir, Awake , and Remember thatyeu 
 are a Man : but why rouzes hee him to 
 thinkeof Death , fince fleepe is its 
 Image Alexander knew himfelfe mor- 
 tal 1 by his fleeping;and in effect thofe 
 which havefaid, that fleepe was the 
 Brother of Death, have dravrne their 
 reafon of it, from their reciprocal! 
 
 I refemb lance. Awake then Great KingA • 
 Not to ponder that you arc mortal!, 
 your fleepe is a trance of this , but ra- 
 ther that you are created for immor- 
 tality. Remember “pen are Men, l will 
 not fay , fubjed toallthemiferies of 
 the£m!> ; but rather capable of all 
 the felicities of heaven. Remember jhat 
 yw are Men, I will not fay the fhittle- 
 cockeofTime, and the But to all the 
 (hafts of Fortune, but rather vigors 
 overages, and all forts of miferies. Ren 
 member that ) 0 n are Men . I will not (ay 
 any more Conceiv’d in Corruption, 
 brought forthby it , andalfodeftroy- 
 
 
 
which flatt ers not . 
 
 ed by it: But rather, I fay, born 
 for the glory of God, Living for to ac- 
 quire it, arid Dying for to poflefle it. 
 Remember that you are Men, I will fay no 
 more Haves of Sinne, the Flefh, and the 
 world : but rather free for refiftance 
 tothefirft, Hrong enough tovanquifh 
 the next, and more powerfull yet to 
 give a Law to the third : "Remember that 
 you are men, I will no more fay the pour- 
 trad of Inconflancy, the objeft of e- 
 very fort of ill , and the pafture of 
 Wormes : But rather the Image of God , 
 thefubjed of every fort of good, and 
 the foie aliment of eternity, as created 
 for it alone. "Remember that you are men , ! 
 I will not fay made of clay , animated j 
 with mis-hap, and metamorphofed 
 a’new into rottenncfTe •, but rather made 
 by theproper hand of God, animated by 
 his bounty, and redeemed by his Grace. 
 
 I wonder at this, that they fhould 
 call man a little world, fince the lead of 
 his thoughts is able to figne out it’s ex- 
 panfion beyond a thoufand worlds. True 
 it is that he was made of Earth, but the 
 Mafter which hath made him, having 
 alfo drawne himfelfe in the middle of 
 
 his 
 
 43 
 
 If a man fhould 
 confider his 
 worth by jhat 
 which he cofi hot 
 would love him * 
 felfe ferftflly. 
 
 A man may doe 
 every gosd thing j 
 Which hee defies, 
 fince in his im - 
 pwffince his will 
 is ta\en for the 
 deed. 
 
 Man is fare a 
 thing fomethmg 
 divine , which is 
 not fecne even to 
 it felfe. 
 
 j 
 
 Thmqh bee be* 
 
 o 
 
 made of d ay, the 
 rcoYbpianfiip is 
 yet all divine* j 
 
r • • 3 '• ■■7y' • 
 
 The M I R R o vr 
 
 i 
 
 ■ ■ 
 
 ■ 
 
 r 
 
 
 7 he betft of man 
 u(o vafi y and 
 fpacMtujhat 
 God ondy can fill 
 */• 
 
 his worke(as did>W/Ar)renders him, 
 more admirable than the Hcavens.One 
 might alfo judge at firft view , that the | 
 greateft part of the creatures have ma- 
 ny more Prerogatives then he.But con* 
 trarilythe heavens, the Stars, and all that 
 nature hath moft precious , have In no j 
 fort correfpondence or equivalence to 
 his grandeurs: Jet us fee the proofe on’t. 
 
 I grant that the Sea may make usad- 
 mife equally both it’s vaftnefle of Em- 
 pire, and efficacy of power, the Ieaft 
 teare ofrepentance which a Man fheds 
 is a thoufand times more admirable , ! 
 fince it remounts even to the fource of 
 that grace, which produc’t it, and con-' 
 fequently beyond the Heavens. I grant 
 that the Aire fils all, and its emenfe na- 
 ture permits no vacuity, through the 1 
 whole univerfe. The heart of man car- 
 ries him farre higher, being never able 
 to find fatisfacfion in it’s defires, if it’s 
 Creators-felfe, though without mea- 
 fure, be not its mealiire. Let the Fire 
 alwayes greedy and ambitious, fcale 
 the heavens in apparence with continual I 
 ad ion by the vain attempts of its ejacu- ; 
 lations; The leaft fparckle of the fire of 
 _______ divine)! 
 
which flatters not. 
 
 vine love wherewith man may beenfla- 
 med is fo pure and fo noble, that one 
 can not conceavean example of its per- 
 fection. Suppofe the tranfparent hea- 
 vens have no matter, then that of other 
 forme, and they render themfelves thus 
 wonderfull in their fimplicity, as in 
 their courfe ftill equall , and dill con- 
 tinuall : the fpirit of man is infinitely 
 more excellent in its nature, and much 
 more nob lealfo in its actions, fince it 
 workes without felfe-motion, but with 
 a manner fo divine , that its thoughts 
 carry it every where without change of 
 ftate or place. Bee it that the Sun all 
 marvellous inhimfelfe, and his effects 
 produceth nothing but wonders . The 
 Sun of realon , wherewith man is illu- 
 minate , is wholly miraculous, fince 
 it operates in a divine femblable man- 
 ner: the vertue of other creatures ve- 
 getable, and fenfitive is infeparably ad- 
 ioyned alfo to the body of man , as 
 its’ materiall : Infomuch that he con- 
 fines in a degree of eminence above 
 ill the creatures of the world, more 
 perfections himfelfe alone , then all 
 Ithey together have ever poflefied. 
 
 An 1 
 
 4 5 
 
 A man who loves 
 God with all bit 
 heart, lives upon 
 earth in the fame 
 fajhion , as they 
 live in heaven. 
 
 The tea fan of 
 nan it a ray bca* 
 min g from the 
 Sunnc of Dht- 
 ml). 
 
 Man hath fame 
 titles cf Nvbiftty , 
 tr which the ve* 
 ry Avgeh them * 
 f elves cannot pre- 
 tend* 
 
 I 
 

 4 * 
 
 ✓ 
 
 If mn &ere a- 
 game to bee fold, 
 who could ran- 
 fame him as hce 
 cofli 
 
 A man mfyet 
 biwfclfe above all 
 things* if heevn • 
 der value them 
 with mijpri\e. 
 
 The M i R R O V R 
 
 . . , ... i 
 
 And I (hall well (ay more yet. That 
 Man hath eertaine puiflances of difpo- 
 fition to elevate himfelf fo high in his 
 humility, that the Angels (hall be be- 
 low him. 
 
 But if I (hall yet moreover poize 
 Man, in the ballance of the Cro(Te : 
 of bis Saviour ,■ and fet him ait the 
 price of the blood, wherewith hec was 
 redeemed , which of the creatures, or 
 rather, which of the Angels * wilt! 
 be fo bold , to difpute the preemi- 
 nence? 
 
 Great Kings Remember then, that^tf 
 are Men : but more admirable in your 
 governments , then the Sea in its vafi- 
 nefte. Remember that pur are Men , but 
 alfccapable to purifie the <4^, by one 
 onelyfigh, though even that figh be 
 made of nothing elfe. Remember thdt 
 yon are Men, but a thoufand, thou- ; 
 fand times yet more noble then the 
 Fire , fince the Seraphinsburne incef- 
 fantly with thofe divine Fires , where, 
 with your hearts may bee enflamed. 
 Remember that pu are Men: but more 
 perfed then the Heavens, fince they, 
 were not created , buttopowre upon 
 
 you r . 
 

 which flatters not. 
 
 47 
 
 heads their benigne influences. ‘Re- 
 member that you are Men , but more 
 marvellous without comparifonjthen 
 the Sunne j fince y our Reafon is a di- 
 vine light , which can never fuffer 
 Eclipfe , but by oppofition from a 
 voluntary depravednefle. Remember 
 that you art Men: but alfo deftin'd to 
 command over all other living crea- 
 tures. Remember that you are Men : but 
 alfo kneaded as it were , by the hand 
 of one AH-powerfull , formed after 
 his Image, and redeemed by his blood, 
 what can one fay more ? 
 
 llnto what a point of Glory haft 
 thoo then elevated me , O fweet Sa- 
 viour? inabafingthy felfeeventothc 
 grave. After thou hadft formed me of 
 ?arth , thou haft alfo taken the fame 
 forme for to rdemble mein all things, 
 fhou I fay,0 my God, whole infinite 
 *reatneffe , cannot admit onely the 
 very admiration of the Seraphins, 
 >ut through the Travcrfe ©f the Vaiie 
 )f their ordinary fubmiflions. What 
 )rodigie of bounty is this ! Caufe 
 ne then O Lord , if it pleale thee, that 
 f may cftimarc my felfe at the price, 
 ... which 
 
 ■I 
 
 Man k an a- 
 brtdgemcnt ra- 
 ther of the mar- 
 vels of heaven, 
 than of the mira- 
 cles of earth* 
 
 if a man did of 
 ten mufe of the 
 end, for which be 
 was created, bee 
 would therein fa 
 up bis reft for all 
 the inquietudes 
 of the world . 
 
48 
 
 / 
 
 The magnificence 
 of man bath nei- 
 ther bounds nor 
 l.miis fince Godi * 
 bis end. 
 
 Though a man 
 foil fade awajy] 
 bee is yet a livel ) 
 pouriray ofim - 
 mortailitic . 
 
 ■ 
 
 i 
 
 { 
 
 The M h r ov r 
 
 which thou haft ranfomed me for, I 
 and that in fuch fort , that Ignay live 
 no more, but in loving thee, to dye 
 alfooneday of the famedifpofition. 
 Let me be bumbly-baughty , carrying 
 the lineaments of thy refcmblance, 
 that I may alwayes follow thee, 
 though not able to imitate thee. 
 This is that, which I will continually ; 
 implore thee for, until! thou haft 
 heard my vowes. 
 
 I aclvow now , O MercurieTrimegi - 
 ftus ,that thou haft reafon to publifh, 
 that Man is a great miracle, fince God 
 himfelfe hath been willing to efpoufe 
 his condition , tofhew us in its raife- 
 ries the miracles of his Love. 
 
 1 confefte Pytbagoras : , that thou 
 haft had no lefle ground to maintaine 
 that Man was a mortal! God , fince ex- 
 cept this fvveet ncceftitic , which fub- 
 je&s him to the Tombe, hee has a 
 thoufand qualities in him all immor- 
 tal!. . I fiiould finally have beene ol 
 advife.with thee Plato then, when thou 
 preachedft, every where, that Man! 
 iwasof the nice of the Gods, fince aj 
 pieCe of work fo rare , and fo per feft , 
 
 ■ 
 
45 
 
 dll the creature.} 
 we admirable } a* 
 iheefftfisofa 
 joveratgne &nd 
 independent 
 caitje : but man 
 has attributes of 
 an mpaxaUdd 
 glory* 
 
 which flatters not 
 
 could not proceed but from a hand 
 Omnipotent, I meane this Rivelet of 
 admiration could not proceed but 
 from a fource moft adorable. I am of 
 thy opinion Plotinm^ henceforth will 
 tnaintaine every therewith thee, that 
 Matt h an abridgement of the wonders 
 ofihe>vorld* Since thacal] rhellnivers 
 together was created but for his fer-j 
 vice.&pleafure. Say we yet moreover 
 that thofe wonders of the world , fo re- 
 nowned , are but the workes of his 
 bands . fo that alfo the anions of his 
 lpiritcari take their Rife abovethe Sun, 
 and beyond the heavens , and this too 
 no*v in toe chaines of its fervitude. 
 
 Orut King!, Be it fuppofed that 
 
 C/„ re T, Ving ° f !»«>»■ jimmy 
 
 y . The perfection of your Nature by little & little^ 
 
 !v S th i 5 defea of your powers, for 
 thtsVieiffitede, which God hath ten- 
 
 ed in tepa table to your condition is 
 
 a pure grace of his bounty : fince yoa 
 
 wax old onely, that you may be exem* 
 
 pted from the tyranny of Ages : fince 
 
 (llay^you dye every moment, only to 
 
 make acquisition of that immortalli- 
 
 f y, to which his love has deflin’d you. 
 
 F O 
 
The MiRRovr 
 
 Man maybe fayd 
 to be happy in be, 
 mg (ub)eft to all 
 Mijhzps, 
 
 \ 
 
 Death u a grace 
 rather than a 
 
 pme s 
 
 The felkitie of 
 man in tbk world 
 con fits in the ne 
 cejjiy of death. 
 
 paces : But Man contrarily being fet- 
 lcd upon the declining ftoop of his ru- 
 ine,rouls infenfibly without mtervall to 
 the grave, his pril'on. O deare ruine ! 
 O fweet captivity i fince the foule re- 
 covers her freedome, and this Sepul- 
 ture fervesbut as a Furnace to purifie 
 his body. The Aire, although it cor- 
 rupt, is not for all that deftroyed, the 
 corruptionof Man deftroyes its rnate- 
 riall. O glorious deftrudion, fince it 
 fteades him as a frefh difpofition to 
 render him immortall.The Fire, though 
 it fairelv devoure all things, is yet pre- 
 lerved ftill it felfe , to reduce all the 
 World into Allies: But Man perceives 
 himfelf to be devoured by Time, with- 
 out ability ever to refill it. Ohbene- 
 ficiall Impotence, fince hee findes his 
 Triumph in his overthrow ! the Sunne 
 caufeth alvvayes admiration in its or- 
 dinary luftre, but Mans reafon is im- 
 paired in the courfeof Times. Oh wel- 
 come impairement, fince Time mines 
 it but onely in an Anger, knowing that 
 it goes about to eftablifli its Empire, 
 beyond both time and Ages. In fine, 
 the Heavens may feem to wax old in 
 
 theii 
 
which flatters not. 
 
 their wandring courle : they yet appear 
 the fame ft ill every day, as they were a 
 thoufand yeeres agon : Man from mo- 
 ment to moment differs from himfelfe, 
 and every inftant difrobes him fome- 
 what of his Beeing. Oh delightfull 
 Inconftancy, fince a 11 his changes make 
 but fo many lines, which abut at the 
 Center of his {lability. 
 
 How myftcrious is the Fable of 
 Narciffus . the Poets would perfvvade 
 us, that Hee became felfe-enamoured, 
 viewing Himfelfe in a Fountaine. But 
 I am aflonifh’t, how one fhould be- 
 come amorous of a dunghill though 
 covered with Snow or F lowers . A face 
 cannot be formed without Eyes, tto fe, 
 and LMouth , and yet every of thefe 
 parts make but a body of Mifery, and 
 Corruption as being all full of it. 
 
 This Fable intimates us the repre- 
 fentment of a fairer truth, fince it im 
 vites a Man to gaze himfelfe in the 
 Fountaine of his teares,thus to become 
 amorous of himfelfe , not for the li- 
 neaments of dull and afhes , whereof 
 his countenance is fhap’t, but rather of 
 thofe beauties and graces, wherewith 
 \ - E 4 h is 
 
 S> 
 
 Hew happy is 
 man in decaying 
 eve/mcYj 
 fince he t hm at 
 t aft ten den him - 
 felfe exempt 
 from all the miff ~ 
 nes which pur fie 
 him • 
 
 long life is a 
 hcavie burthen 
 to we foulefin ce 
 it rnufi render an 
 account of ad its 
 moments* 
 
 

 if a man could 
 couiemp late the 
 beauties cfhu 
 fhulein innocence 
 he would atonies 
 ht fur priced with 
 us love * 
 
 if a man would 
 (fen view hln,« 
 letfe in the tares 
 ofhis repentance, 
 
 hi would ft on be- 
 e we & truejclf* 
 (over, ] 
 
 All the vaxne oh 
 iech of the world 
 
 w * 
 
 are fo manyfoun- 
 tainesof'R arcif- 
 his, wherein 
 prying men way 
 fh'pwr ache than* 
 (elves. 
 
 The Mirroyr 
 
 his fouie is ornamented , and all thefe 
 together make but a rivelet, which leads 
 him to the admiration of that fource* 
 Irom whence they tooke their origi- 
 nal!. - • ' 
 
 Oh how David w as a wife Narciffus! 
 then when hee made of his Teares a 
 Mtrrour, fo to become enamour’d of 
 himlelfe, for he was fo folfe-loving in 
 his repentance, that in this Hee fpent 
 both dayes and nights, with unparelle- 
 fod delights. 
 
 But if ITarci flits fhip-wrack’t him- 
 lelfe in the fountaineof his felfe-fond- 
 
 ndle ^ This great King was upon point 
 to Abyflc himfelfe in the Sea ©f his 
 tetr as, for their liquid Cryftalline Ihewd 
 him to himfelfe fo beautiful! , that 
 hee burned with defire thus to drowne 
 him felfe. ■ : - * . 
 
 
 
 Ladies vie v your felves in this Mir- 1 
 four, fince you are ordinarily Haves to 
 your owne felve love, You will be faire j 
 at what price foever • foe here is the | 
 meanes. The Cry flail Mirrour of your 
 teares flatter not , contemplate therein ' 
 the beauty of this grace , which God j 
 hath given you to bewaile your vani- | 
 
not* 
 
 tics, This is the onely ornament which 
 can render you admirable All thofe de- 
 ceitful! Chryftals , which you weare 
 hang d at your Girdles, Ihew you but 
 fained beauties vvherof Art is the work- 
 miftrefle and caule, rather then your 
 vifages .-Would yee be Idolaters of the 
 Earth which you tread on ? your bo- 
 dies are but of Durt ; but if you will 
 have them endeared, where fhall I find 
 tearmesto exprefle their Noy fomnefle? 
 Leave to Death his Conqueft , and to 
 the W irmes their heritage , and fearch 
 your felves in that originall of Immor' 
 tality , from whence your foules pro- 
 ceed, that your addons may correfpond 
 to the Noblenefie of that caule. This 
 is the mo ft profitable counfel! which I 
 can give You ; It is time to end this 
 Chapter# 
 
 > Great Kings I lerve you this Mor- 
 ning inftead of a Page, to awake You, 
 and remembrance Ton that you are Men\ 
 I meane, Subjeds to Deaths and con- 
 fequently deftinated to lerve as a Prey 
 tothetvormes , a Shittle-cocke to the 
 Windes, and matter for to forme an 
 objed of horror and aftoniftiment to 
 i ^ you 
 
 S3 
 
 Team ate tbe 
 fahhfulleft Mi* 
 rounofftnu 
 tenee • 
 
 If Lai e would 
 tal{€ as much 
 care of their fouls 
 as of their bodies 9 
 they would not 
 hazard the Ioffe 
 both of me and 
 to’tber* 
 
54 
 
 The meditation of] 
 out mthmgne(fe 9 ; 
 is afoveraigne 
 temedk agamjl 
 vanitko 
 
 Men are/b mare 
 of blood together , 
 that ad bean the 
 fame name a 
 
 Man hath no* 
 thing fo proper to 
 him, as the mife* 
 ry to which bee is 
 heme • 
 
 if the earth be 
 m mother y hga™ 
 venkowf fa* 
 thcr e 
 
 The M I R R O V R 
 
 you altogether. Muze a little, that your 
 life paflethaway as a Dreame • thinke 
 a little that your thoughts are vaine ; 
 confider at the fame time , that all that 
 is yours pafles and flies away. You 
 are great, but this necelfity of Dying 
 equals you to the lead of your fubje&s. 
 Your powers are dreadfull, but a very 
 hand-worme mocks at ’em : your riches 
 are without number , but the molt 
 wretched of men carry as much into 
 the grave as you. In fine, may all the 
 pleafures of Life make a party in Yours, 
 yet they are but fo many Roles, whole 
 prickles onely remaine to you at the 
 inftant of Death. The horror which en- 
 virons You, chafeth away your great- 
 ndfes,the weakenefle which poffelTeth 
 you, renders unprofitable your abfolute 
 powers, and onely then in that Ihirt , 
 which reds upon your backe, are com- 
 prifed all the treasures of your Coffers. 
 Are not the le verities of importance e- 
 nough to breake your fleepe ? 
 
 I awake you then for to remembrance 
 you this lad time, that pu are Men : but 
 dedined to polfefle the place of thofe 
 evill Angels , whofe Pride concaved 
 
 the 
 
which fl atters not. 
 
 the Aby fifes of Hell: that you are Men, 
 but much more con deferable for the 
 governement of your reafon, then your 
 Kingdome . That you are Men , but ca- 
 pable to acquire all the felicities of 
 Heaven , if thofe of the Earth are by 
 you difdained. That you are Men, but 
 called to the inheritance of an eternall 
 Glory, if you have no pretence to any 
 of this world . 
 
 LaQdyjbatyou are Men: bQt the living 
 images off an infinite and omnipotent 
 one. Cleare ftreames of immortality 
 remount then to your eternall fource. 
 faire rayes of a Sunn© without Eclipfe 
 rejoyne your felves then to the bodyof 
 his celeftiall light. Per fed patternes of 
 the divinity, unite your felves then to 
 it, as to the independant caufe of your 
 Beeing. Well may the Earth-quake 
 under your feet, your wils are Keys to 
 the gates of its abyfifes : fhould the 
 Water or’e-whelme againe all , your 
 hopes cannot be fhipwrack’t. That the 
 Aire fils all things may bee , but your 
 expedations admit of fome vacuum. 
 Though the Fire devoure all things ^ 
 the objed of your hopes is above its 
 
 flames 
 
 Though the body 
 and (oule toge- 
 ther ma^e up the 
 man : there is 
 yet as much dffe* 
 rence between 
 the one and the 
 other ,as between 
 the fcMcrd and 
 the [word# 
 
The M I R RO VR 
 
 S V 
 
 Although the pip* 
 tfptnces of the 
 (oule y mrJ{£ not 
 hut by tbelfenfes , 
 the effect mtbi$ 
 point are more no- 
 ble then the caufe 
 
 j„ - 
 
 Man needsfeare 
 netting, being ac- 
 tivated above aj. 
 
 Man could not be 
 more happy then 
 he h f fines God i$ 
 bhhfi felicity. 
 
 1 0 dye is proper to 
 
 ' mm 9 
 
 ! ' ' 
 
 fl ames , let the heavens poure downe in 
 a throng , their malignant influences 
 here below : yourfoules are under co- 
 vert from their aflaults. Let the Sun ex- 
 haling vapours make thereof thunders 
 for your ruine : you are under the pro- 
 fed ion of him who ejaculates their 
 flafhes • infomuch that mftead of hur- 
 ting you, all things doe you homage. 
 The Earth fupports you, the water re- 
 frefheth you ; the dire imbreaths you, 
 th&Fire warmes you* the 8m lights you, 
 & Heaven attends you* the Angels ho- 
 nour you, the Dwelt feare,you,iV4/»ye j 
 obeyes you, and God hitnfelfe gives 
 him (cl fe to you to obliege you to the 
 l ike reciprocation, ts not this to poflefle 
 with advancement all the felicities , 
 which you can hope ? I dare you to 
 wifh more. 
 
 Awake thy felfethen Reader, and let 
 thy confidence and thy miferie each in 
 its turne ferve thee as a Page every mor- j 
 ningto put thee in mind, That thou art 
 a Man, I meane a pourtraid animated j 
 with Death , rather then with Life, ft nee j 
 thou can ft doe nothing but dye, but in j 
 this continuall dying, amid the throng ! 
 

 which fiaiters mt 
 
 of "evils and fames which are enjoyned 
 to thy condition jConfderalfo chat 
 thou art created to poflefle an Eternity 
 both of liic and happinefie, arid that al J 
 tbe^e infinite good things are expofed 
 as an ayme of honour and glory to the 
 addreftes of thy will* for if thoij wilt, 
 Paradife (hall bee thine, though Hell 
 gape at thee ; Heaven (hall be thy (hare, 
 it’s delights thv Spcceflion, and God 
 alone thy S’overaigne felicity. 
 
 1Z 
 
 «*>S6 
 
 How h 
 thus !§ bee 
 able to be as mutb 
 as he defies* 
 
 4 
 
 : 
 
T^MiRRovr 
 
 A P R.O L VSI VE 
 
 upon the Embl e m e 
 
 <?/ the fecmd Chapter* 
 
 S Well on unbounded Spirits, whofe vaft hope, 
 •Scornes the ftreight limits of all moderate 
 Be Crefcent Bill, fix not i’th’ Pofttive, (licope 
 
 Grafpe Bill at more, reach the Superlative', 
 
 And beyond that too, and beyond the Moone j 
 Yet al’s but vaine, and you fhall find too foone* 
 Thefe great acquifis are bubbles fora (purr, 
 
 A nd Death vvil leave you nothing but your -Shirt 
 Be Richefi, Greatefi , Porvrfnlleft, and Split* 
 
 Fames Trumpet with the blaft on’t, there’s it. 
 That’s all, a Otffin, and a Sheet , and then * 
 
 You’re dead, and buried like to Common men. 
 This Saladine forefaw , and wifely ftoopes 
 Unto his Pate, ’midft his triumphant troopes, 
 
 A world of wealth, and Afiaticke Spoyles, 
 
 Cj tier don his glorious military toy les 
 Enfignes,and Banners ihade his armyes Eyes 
 With flying Colours of fled enemyes ; 
 
 Y et humbly he doth hi s chiefe Standard reare 
 Onely his Shirt diip’ayd upon a Speare, 
 Meanewhile his valorous Colonels were clad 
 l n rich Coate-armours, which they forced had 
 From fubdn’defoes, and’t feem’d a glorious thing 
 Each man to be apparrcld like a King, 
 
 The 
 
I which flatters not . 
 
 The very common Soaldiers out-lode lpokcj 
 Commander now* and did refped provoke. 
 Their former ornaments werccaft afide> 
 
 W hich Tore the victory were al their pride.(found 
 To check their Pompc ; with clang ring trumpet- 
 AHeraldlou d proclaim’s in Tone profound : 
 See what the Empermr doth prefcnt your Eye» 
 ’Tts ally that you muft looke for when you dye . 
 This Shirt is all even S aladine {hall have 
 Of all his Trofhjs with him to the grave . 
 
 Then be not over-heightncd with the fplendour 
 Of your richbraveries, which you fo much tender. 
 Nor let your honours puff you, leaft you find 
 The breath of Eame jade ye with broken wind. 
 This fblemne paflage of this Monarchs ftory 
 With greateft loiter doth advance his glory. 
 

 " Victorious SALADJNE cctuf <L to he^roclaitttd to all his 
 Armie that he carried nothing with him to the 
 Grant hut a SHIRT after ail his ConquefU • 
 
Which 
 
 FLATTENS NOT. 
 
 CHAP. II. 
 
 Rrogant fplrits, ambitious 
 Hearts be filent, and lend 
 an eare to the publicke cry 
 of this Herald , who with a 
 voyce animated with hor- 
 tour and affright, as well as with com- 
 panion and truth, proclaimed] aloud, 
 in the view of heaven and earth , and in 
 the prefence of a world of people . 
 That this Great S aladinh, magnili- j 
 cent Conqueyow of Jljia, and Monarch cf 
 the whole Eajl, carries away to the grave for 
 
 'The ban owe and 
 mifery of the 
 grave, mafystbc 
 hair* Hand m 
 end to ihepQU- 
 deft* 
 
 
7 * 
 
 The MiRROVR 
 
 This ntcsjfiij of 
 dying y (irvts for 
 temperament to 
 the vanity of the 
 great eft Mo~ 
 narchi cf the 
 world* 
 
 
 fruit of his victories but onelya fhirt , 
 which covers the mould of his body , and 
 even this ferap oflinnen too , fortune leaves 
 him, but to give the tfomes . 
 
 Abfolute Kings , put f ant Sever aignes ) 
 Jwhat will you reply to thefe difeourfes, 
 for to you they are add re ft ? I doubt 
 well, that fhame , confufion and afto- 
 ni foment , barre your fpeech, and that 
 this fenfibleobjeftof your proper mi- 
 ff ries, 8 fFe & s you fo with ruth, to force 
 from your bofomes a thoufand fighs. 
 The greateft Monarch of the earth be- 
 comes at a clap fo little , as not to be 
 found , no, not in his miferies , for the 
 wind begins already to carry away the 
 duft whereof hee was formed. The 
 powerfuiieft King of the world, is re- 
 duc’d to fuch a point of weakeneffe, 
 that he cannot reftft the wormes , after 
 vanquifoment and fubjugation of en- 
 tire Nations. The riche ft Prince of 
 the Eaft, takes a glory of alibis trea* 
 fores, to carry away but onely a fhirt 
 ro his Sepulture. What can you an-| 
 fwerto thefe verities ? 
 
 This famous Saladine , the terrour of 
 men, the valour of the earth , and the 
 
 wondet 
 
 
 1 
 
which flatters not . 
 
 wonder ot the world , efteeraes him- 
 felfe lb happy , and fo advantaged by 
 fortune , in refped fhe leaves him this 
 old ragge to cover his corruption, that 
 he makes this favour , to be publifhed 
 with found of trumpet } in the middof 
 his Army , that none might be in 
 doubt on’t: what beyond this can be 
 your pretentions ? I grant you may be 
 leated like Xerxes, upon a Throne all 
 | of ma Hie gold , canopied with a glide- 
 ring firmament of .precious Hones* 
 and that on what fide fomever you 
 turneyour menacing regards , you fee 
 nothing but ob jesS s humbled before 
 your Royall Majefties. You never 
 feate your felves upon thefe Thrones 
 of magnificence, but as it were, to 
 take leave ofthe alfembly , continuing 
 fiill to give your lad God-bwyes,like 
 a man who is upon point to depart com 
 tinuaiiy , fince he dyes every moment. 
 Infomuch , that all this Pompe which 
 accompanyes you , and which gives 
 Jhadow to the lufter wherewith you 
 are environed , vanifhes away with 
 you , and all thole who are its ad- 
 mirers , and idolaters * runne the 
 
 G 2 fame 
 
 73 
 
 Mm cannot com- 
 plaine of the 
 world, fince at 
 his death he gives 
 him afhirt,whicb 
 at hu birth , his 
 mother Nature 
 refufed him* 
 
 All thefpeethcs'of 
 Men are but 
 dtfeourfes of adieu 
 & leave- tatting* 
 fince every day 
 he marches 
 (i-raight forward 
 toward Death. 
 
74 
 
 The M i R R o v R 
 
 Ta 
 
 doth the umvsn 
 if a Man m^e 
 a mjfs in the 
 world? the ncjfe 
 csafcthi the re* 
 Hownc fajjeib. 
 
 the health of ko- 
 dy,an the only 
 ricbei of the 
 wet Id* 
 
 fame fortune , being of the fame na- 
 ture. 
 
 Be it from me granted , that the re- 
 port of your glory , admits no vacuity, 
 no more then the Ay re does , and that 
 your name is as well known© as the 
 Sunne , and more redoubted then the 
 thunder. This voycc’of renowne is but 
 as the found of a Bell, which redoubles 
 a noy fe ro its ovvne detriment , to ad# 
 vertife thofe that doubt ori’t ; and this 
 name fo famous , and dread full, find- 
 ing no memory here below to the 
 proofe of ages 5 buryes it felfe at laft, 
 i n the nothingneife of it's beginning • 
 
 Beit againe, that all the Gold of the 
 indies can be valewed but to a part of 
 your Eftate , and that all the world to- 
 gether, poflefle lefse treafure then you 
 alone j what advantage thinke you to 
 beare away, more then the moft mife- 
 rable of the world , that in this you 
 fhould be vainc ? Enjoyes nothe the 
 fame Sunne which lights you ? hath 
 not he the fame ulage of the Elements, 
 whereof you make u(e } But if you 
 have more then be, a glorioufnefse of 
 apparell, and a thoufand other fuper- 
 
 fluous | 
 
yphich flatters not . _ 
 
 7 < 
 
 * U 1 
 
 fluous things ( which are altogether 
 eftranged to vertue , as being imagi- 
 nary goods, whole appearance alone 
 is the onely foundation ) hee may an- 
 fwere you with Seneca , that with what- 
 fbmever coverture a Man hides the 
 JBame efbis mkedne^ he (hall pafse for 
 well-clothed among wife men. And 
 to come to the point 5 a Man hath ai- 
 wayes enough wherewith to follow 
 his way, and to finifh his voyage. The 
 furplus is but a burden of cares , which 
 are metamorphofed into fo many bry- 
 ars , when Death would difcharge us 
 of them. Befides, Riches coDfiftsbut 
 in opinion, though their treafures be 
 palpable and fenfible. A man is Rich, 
 equall to that which he beleeves him- 
 felfeto be. And though hee hath no- 
 thing, this Grace wherewith hee is 
 treafured, to finde Teft in his miferies, 
 is above all the Gold of the world . 
 
 What difference thinke you there 
 is betwixt the Rich and the poore ? 
 both the one and the other, are equally 
 pilgrims and travellers , and goe alike 
 to the fame place. Then , if the Rich 
 pafle through the fairer way , they ren- 
 
 G 3 counter 
 
 lie Is the mo(l 
 rtcbyWho h rnojl 
 comm . 
 
 / 
 
7 6 
 
 The Ml RR O V R 
 
 
 All ^Mortals to- 
 guhitmal{ea 
 dance of blind 
 men , who In 
 dancing runne to 
 death without 
 feeirg the way 
 t hey gaffe* 
 
 The treafuYCof 
 good wetfyesonly 
 inriches m ew~ 
 nally. 
 
 counter when they dye , ail the thorns 
 of thofe rofes which they have paft 
 upon. There is no arrivall to the Ha. 
 ven of the grave , without being tempe- 
 red fooner or later , in the fiorme of 
 thofe miferies, which accompany us. 
 And me thinks it is a comfort , to fuf- 
 fer in good time thofe evils , which we 
 cannot avoyd. 
 
 Rich-ones , how miferable doe I 
 hold you , if the goods of the earth be 
 your onely treafures ! Ricfc-ones, how 
 unhappy are you , if your felicities be 
 but of Gold , and Silver! Rich-ones, 
 how you compell ‘ nay pity of your 
 greamefles, ifyouhave no other titles 
 then thofe of your Lord.fhips ! Rich- 
 ones, bow frightfullonlyat thejioure 
 of Death are your names, fince the 
 mifery , wherein you are borne, ac- 
 company es you in the fepulchre. 
 
 True it is, that the Ayre of the Re- 
 gion where you dwell / may be very 
 temperate, the Sea Tons of it faire, and 
 the lands fertile: but you confider nor, 
 that while you live, you often figh 
 backe the ayre which you receive; that 
 ? his fweet time, which (miles on you, 
 
 entraines 
 
 
which flatters not. 
 
 entraines you in flying to the feafon of 
 teares , and that very foone the dung- 
 hill of your bodyes fhall perhaps ren- 
 der the lands yet more fertile. 
 
 The Rich Men of the world have 
 done nought but pafle away with the 
 ages , that gave them birth : you are 
 borne in this , and this very fame goes 
 away , and leads you with it, and all 
 the reft of Men, without skilling what 
 you are, or in what fafhton yon are ve- 
 tted , well may you pofieffe an infinite 
 number of treafures . you mu ft al- 
 wayes trot, and rife as foone i’the mor- 
 ning as others : but if you play the 
 flugs, and deep too long, Death comes 
 in the end to awake you, and interrupt 
 your repofe with an eternall difquict. 
 What will you fay to this ? The fable 
 of Midas comprehends in it important 
 verities ; ^ folio grants him all that hee 
 demands, he fatiates the appetite of his 
 unmeafurable ambition bv thevertue 
 which he gives to his touch, to be able 
 toturne all things into gold. See him 
 now rich for a day, his hands are as new 
 Philofophers-ftones , which make the 
 grofleft , and mo ft impure metal?, 
 \ - - G 4 
 
 77 
 
 The content of 
 riches is life an 
 odor ferouifkme, 
 but it paffes, and 
 fo doth their e n- 
 joyment aifo 3 and 
 there is all . 
 
 9 T is ft range, 
 whether wc fio ft 
 flue and (tat or 
 no y we yet mine i 
 incejjanlly to 
 Death* 
 
7 8 
 
 what pu/pefe 
 | kit ten he envi- 
 Yonedwlthnchetf 
 | they an z firtmge 
 i hind cf goody 
 | whir erf one can 
 \ en joy We ufage 
 ! but for a moment 
 one'y. 
 
 The MiRRO VR ] 
 
 change both nature and price, he fees 
 himieife enrounded in a moment with 
 fo great a number of treafures, that he 
 begms to apprehend the enjoyment of 
 thofe goods , which he defired with fo 
 much paffion ' and from feare hee 
 comes to aftonifhment : then ^ when 
 
 preft with hunger , all the Viandes 
 which he couches with his hands, lips, 
 or tongue, are metamorjphofed into 
 Gold. O infeparable amazement, from 
 a mortal! griefe , can fed by a fembla- 
 ble regreet, that hee could not limit 
 his ambition, but to the defire of his 
 
 
 owne ruine! 
 
 R’uh'men , you are as fo many Mi- 
 da fes , ft nee with all your treafures, 
 you never importune heaven for any | 
 other thing, bur to i^creafe their num- 
 ber, to which effect you deftinate your 
 cares, your watchings, and your la- 
 bours. But make no more imploring 
 vows 5 behold your felvesat la ft heard. 
 The glittering of your riches dazles 
 me, yourgreatneftes and magnificen- 
 ces give you cheerefull th’xfture ; yet 
 let us fee the reverie of the Medal!. 
 
 After your fo many ftrong wifties ; 
 
 for 
 
for Gold and Silver , their trea hires 
 remaines to you for to iatiate , at leaft 
 in dying, the unruled appetite of the 
 ambition of your life. Riches I fay 
 environ you on all fides, after your lo 
 paflionate covetize of them. But in 
 this laft inftant , their poffeffion is the 
 faddeft object, which can be prefented 
 to your thoughts. And notwithftan- 
 ding ’tis the onely nourifhment which 
 refts to you, amid the hunger which 
 torments you unceffantly ,as if for pu- 
 nifhmentof partofyour crimes , hea- 
 ven did permit , that the inftruments 
 of your pleaiures , ihould alfo be the 
 fameofyourpunitRments,confidering 
 the greatneffe of your miferies, by that 
 of your unprofitable treafures : for af- 
 ter all you muft dye, and though you 
 carry with you this defire, to beare a- 
 w ay with you your riches into the 
 tombe, they remaine in your coffers, 
 for to ferve as witneffes to your heires, 
 of the vanity of their enjoyment. 
 
 The Silke-wormes , which have fo 
 much trouble to fpin out their mouths 
 their little golden threads , thinketo 
 
 ftablifh to themfelves a flielter of ho- 
 
 % 
 
 noun, 
 
 The covet ova 
 growes poors in 
 meafure as bee 
 gr owes rich, fence 
 in encreafmg his 
 treafuresjnerea- 
 fes the famine of 
 bit infatiable 
 avar Iceland tbm 
 of what be pofief 
 feshe enjojies no- 
 thing. 
 
 sA Man carryes 
 
 away nothing 
 with him at his 
 Death Jbut either 
 a regreet or elfe a 
 fails f film of an 
 eviU or a good 
 Life « 
 
 
8 o 
 
 T® what effl Cl 
 k*l to fee\e repefe 
 m this world? 
 
 ■ never to be 
 found but in 
 God* 
 
 : 
 
 I *■ Seethe ambU 
 gultyof the 
 French word 
 Soucmfm the 
 firjl Chapter. 
 
 The, MiRRO v r 
 
 nour , to the proofe of all forts of at- 
 teints } and on the contrary, they warp 
 the web of their owne mine. Juft fo is 
 it with the Rich-ones of the world, 
 who an ingenious induftry , employ all 
 their aflayes, to lay folide founda- 
 tions here below ofan immortall life, ' 
 and yet all their a&ions cannot but \ 
 terminate in an end contrary to their 
 defignes 5 lince they fearch Eternity 
 in the circles of Ages , alwayes in re- ; 
 volution, and repole in the perpetuall 
 in ftabi lity of all world 1 y things. Info- 
 much, that they trouble themfelves to j 
 fuffer much , and all their cares and 
 paines, are but as frefh Ibwings of; 
 * Marigolds, which dying in their gar- 
 dens , refpring in their hearts, there to i 
 dye never. Behold the end of their jor- 
 ney-worke. 
 
 Trea fares, to what efferft ferveyou; 
 me , if I mu ft enter all naked into the 
 grave ? Pleafares , what becomes of 
 your fweets , if my Iaft fighs are but j 
 bitternefte ? Grandeurs of this life, in | 
 what ftead you me , if you cannot j 
 exempt me from the miferies of 
 Death l 
 
 LORD, 
 
8i 
 
 i0 ^5jlara rich enough in that 
 I ferve for an objeft of pity to thy ado- 
 rable Providence, w r hofeo’re»liberall 
 bounty furnifhes me for all my dayes 
 nourifhment enough to paffe them, 
 what can I wifh more ? on what fide 
 fomever I take nay way , to goe the 
 courfe of Death j I can never loofe from 
 view the heavens , which are the Gates 
 of thy Palace, Infomuch, as if any thing 
 faile me , 1 have but to ftrike there 
 with ray regards , thou art alwayes 
 upon a ready watch , to fuccour the 
 miferable. Supply me then, O LORD, 
 ifit pleafe tbee 3 with thy ordinary cba* 
 rides, and fince that hope dyes after 
 me, I will rather ceafe to be, then to 
 hope in thee. Thefe are thefirongeft 
 refolutions ofmy foule. 
 
 Wereade of the children of Ifrael. 
 that having received of God an infinity 
 of riches, at their camming out of the 
 red Sea, by the wracke of their ene- 
 mies , they made of their treafures, 
 Idols, and joyning in this fort Idola- 
 try to Ingratitude , they ere£fed altars 
 to their brutality, fince under reliefe of 
 
 a rute beaft , they reprefen ted rheir 
 God. - * But 
 
 Heav£nisanxib~ 
 jefi ofc&nfolation 
 tothemofi wife . - 
 table . 
 
 We begofGod 
 every day new 
 favoHXi evmy 
 day m render 
 our (elves un~ * 
 thanfa full for 
 thofe we have 
 received. 
 

 gl 
 
 Are m ’worthily 
 Chriftians, 
 -[when idolatry h 
 more familiar to 
 mbentojnfidels 3 
 fmce we mafye 
 idols of all the ok* 
 \jeffsofour paf- 
 " (lorn ? 
 
 1 
 
 ! 
 
 T^MIRROVR 
 
 But leave wee there the children of 
 lfrad $ and fpeafceoi the Fathers ofB a- 
 bylon,I meane chofe wicked rich 
 ones of the world , to whom God hath 
 done fo great favours , in heaping them 
 with fo many goods. Are not they 
 every day convicted of idolatry j . n their 
 unacknowledgement, fince the coffers 
 of their treafures are the Idols of their 
 temples > More beafts then brutes, in 
 their voluntary depravedneffe j they 
 offer incenfe to their brutifh paflions ; 
 and no othcrwife able, bat t© ered 
 them fecret altars in their foules , they 
 there facrifice every houre a thoufand 
 fighs of an unfatiable ambition. Info- 
 much, that the God of heaven is the 
 God of their diffimulation , and the 
 Caffe of Gold, the God of their beleefe, 
 and opinion. 
 
 Say wee then boldly , that the ©b 
 jeds of our paffioss are Golden Calves 
 to us, fince our hearts become their 
 idolaters. One here will figh for love 
 of honours, as well as for his Miftrefle, 
 with defigne to hazard a thoufand. 
 lives ,and as many foules, for the con- 
 quer! of their vaine felicities : and fee 
 
 here 
 
8 ? 
 
 which flatters not, 
 
 here his idolatry, tusking his God of 
 thefe Chimera's of honour , which va- 
 nlfhaway like a Dreame y ar, the rou- 
 zing up of our reafm. 
 
 Another, there , will lofe quite and 
 clesne, all the peace wherein he is of a 
 quiet life, for to fet up a reft purely 
 imaginary in the ^mafTemefic of trea- 
 fures. And if heaven hearing his votes* 
 with defigne to punifh him, give forne 
 favourable fuccetTe to his cares, and 
 watchings, hee becomes an Idolater 
 now indeed , an Idolater of thofe 
 goods, which as yet he adored but in 
 hope, and renders himfelfe miferable, 
 for having de fired too ardently felici- 
 ties, which onely beare the voyce to 
 befo, but their ufage and pofieffion 
 may prove as dangerous upon the 
 earth, as Rocks within the Sea. 
 
 One will have his heart wounded, 
 and his Soule atteinted with a new 
 tricke of ambition^ and as all his defires 
 & thoughts are terminated to the ob- 
 jects of his dfifignes, hee is never in 
 Jiealth, while the feaver ofhis pafilon 
 is continual!. 1 leave you to confider 
 pf what ratiocination hee can be capa- 
 
 ‘ ; . .. ble. 
 
 
 if hat foil)! iit 0 
 to feeder epofg m 
 ihe world 9 whkb 
 [tibfijls onely in 
 revolution# 
 
 The goods of tbs 
 earth are right 
 evils 5 and at 
 Death each cm 
 {hall fo expert** 
 mm ’em* 
 
 
 
T be MiRRQVR 
 
 ble, during the malady ©f hisfpirit.^ 
 All forts ofwayes feeme equally faire 
 unto him , for to guide him unto the 
 port whither hee afpires , having no 
 other ayme but this to acquire , at; 
 what rate fomever thatgood whereof he| 
 is in Queft ; and of this Good, it iswher-j 
 of he makes his Idoll, after a fhamefull 
 immolation of the beft dayes of his 
 Life, to the anxieties of its poffef- 
 fion. , | 
 
 Another willeftablifh his repofe in 
 the turmoylcof the word, turning his 
 fpirit to all winds , to be under covert; 
 from the tempefts of fortune. Blind as 
 he is , hee followes this Goddejs’e with; 
 the hoodwinckt eyes* Wavering as 
 he is , he afpires but after the favours 
 of this inconftant Deity , of which he 
 is fecretly an idolater, but if perchance 
 (lie elevate him very high, there is n© 
 more hazard of his fall , thelawesof 
 this necefficy are inviolable, and one 
 cannot avoyd the rigour of theno,ifnot j 
 avoyding their fervitude. Infomuch,| 
 that after hee hath fneak’t bimfelfe a 
 long time amongft the grandeurs of 
 the earth, hee finds himfclfe enlaby-: 
 
 . rinthed; 
 
which flatters not 
 
 rinthed in the miferies, wherein hee is 
 borne, without poffeffing any thing in 
 propriety,but the ufance of apuffeof 
 i wind , which enters once againe at iaft 
 into his entrals , to force thence the 
 llaftfigh. And thus hee becomes the 
 FiBime of the Idoll of his paflions, 
 without purifying ne'retheleffe from 
 the ftcrifice of his life, the foylc of 
 thofe offerings, which hee hath made 
 upon the altars of Vanity, Behold the 
 fad iffueof this Dedalean labyrinth, 
 wherein fo many of the world take 
 pleafure to intricate tbemfelves in. 
 
 O how Rich is hc,L O R D s who hath 
 thy love & feare for his treafure} O how 
 happy is he , who hath for objed of feti- 
 cide the contempt ofthefe things of the 
 world ! O how Contented is hee, who 
 thinkes alwayes of etern&U delights I 
 To have many riches for a hundred 
 yeeres, is not this to poffeffe at the end 
 of that terme a Good 3 which is as a 
 good,as never to have beene. To tafte 
 greedily the fweets of every fort of 
 profperity , during the raigne ©fa long 
 life . is it not already to dye by little 
 and little for griefe to abandon them, 
 
 fmce 
 
 if the fruition of 
 ail the wot Id to~ 
 get her were to be 
 Jold 3 it were not 
 worth fo much 
 troubles to open 
 the mouth onely 
 to(ay y i mUxot 
 buy it. 
 
7 be MiRRo VR 
 
 A willed rich 
 Man is much 
 aftoflijht at his 
 Death jo have his 
 conference voyd 
 of good WOt'kS} 
 and his coffers 
 fuU ofmmyffnce 
 withal! the gold 
 cf the world , bee 
 cannot pur chafe 
 the grace. of the 
 leajt repemme* 
 
 fince in flying away , they intraine Us 
 into the grave. To pant continually 
 for joy in the prefence ofa thoufand 
 fleafures , is it not to prepare in one’s 
 bread, the matter of as many griefs 2 
 fince every contentment is a difpofi- , 
 tion to a kind of marcyrdome , by the 
 neceffary and infallible privation of its j 
 fweets , whereof while we tafte cn’t, it j 
 menacethus. In fine, to have all things j 
 atwifh, is it not to poffefie vainebu- 
 finefies, fince the world has nothing 
 elfe to offer us ? The riches which 
 Fortune gives and takes away againe j 
 when (he will, can never enrich a Man, 
 it behooves him to feeke his treafure in 
 the mines of his confcience , foto be un- J 
 der covert from finne* for otherwife 
 hee runnes the fame hazard , as of the ll 
 goods which hee poflefses, I meane in : 
 their decay, to loofe himfelfe with] 
 them. The profperitiesof the earrh, , 
 are once more frefih flowers of the gar- ! 
 den, faire to the eye, and of good ftnt, 
 but *tis to much purpofe to gather j 
 them , and make nofe- gayes j in hoh 
 ding them one holds noth ing,becaufe 
 their fragility renders them fo flip- j 
 
 perie, 
 
which flatters noU 
 
 ■ i —nn— ■ ■ — - - - -- — - - ,nm T - 
 
 pcrie , that they Tcape both from 
 our eyes and hands , and though their 
 flight be flow , one day only is all their 
 durance. The plea fares of the world are 
 of the fame nature, I grant they may 
 have fame agreealltntjje to charme our 
 fenfeSj yet *twere too vaine to vaunt of 
 their poffeffion , though one enjoyes 
 them , forfomu ch as they flip away , and 
 vanifb without ceafe from our eyes, like 
 thealwayes-flitting water trills. Their 
 fw ay hath fo fhort limits, that each 
 moment may be the terme on’t. So- 
 lid contentments are onely found 
 in heaven , and the oncly meanes to 
 rellifh them beyond all fvre&tes , is 
 continually to Muze on them, for ha- 
 ving alwayes our fair it arrefled upon 
 meditation of an objett fo dtlitiotu , 
 our thoughts draw thence by their ver- 
 tue this efficacy, to ravifh us with 
 
 Joy. / return e to my firjl propositi- 
 on. 
 
 the dnwdll of 
 plea fur es annun - 
 dales sm aJtvajn 
 their fieeclie de- 
 parture* 
 
 V 
 
 Tl*at the greatefl MONARCH 
 of the world 9 after pofTefflon of all 
 things to his wifh, and having led a 
 thoufand times fortune herfelfe in 
 triumph, upon the territories of his 
 
 H 
 
 The good or \U 
 which we doe y&c~ 
 
 empam 3 m t& 
 
 ihe grave. 
 
 Empir 
 
 L 
 
 
88 
 
 The M l R R o V R 
 
 The tnifynyall of 
 riches 3 u the omly 
 ireafuYt of lift . 
 
 if we mu!d ac- 
 quire Heaven y we 
 ought to have no 
 pet cues to garth. 
 
 Empire fhould in conclufion be expo- 
 fed all naked in his S Hi R T,attheend 
 of his carreere , to ferve for a j>rey t© the 
 mrmes. and a (hitlecocke to the winds, 
 certesa man muft needs be very infen- 
 fible , not to be touoht with affright 
 at thefe truths. : 
 
 G R e JIT KINGS, if you have 
 not other M ines of Gold more precious 
 then thofeof the India's- you fhall dye 
 as poore as you were borne : and as 
 Teares were the firft witnefles of your 
 miferyj ighs (fliall be the laft ofyour po- 
 verty, carryifigwith you this regreetmto 
 the grave, to have poffeifed all things, 
 and now to find your felves in eftate of 
 enjoying nothing. 
 
 G re AT K IN G if you have 
 no other marks of foveraignty,but this 
 of the large extent ofyour territories, 
 the tribute which your fubjedts fhal] 
 render you at the end of the journoM, j 
 fhaii be very Httle, fincc the long fpa- ■ 
 ccs of your Empire fhall be bouftded 
 with [even foot. j 
 
 great icing s , if you have j 
 
 no other treafures then fhofe of the | 
 rentof yourDemeaneSjall thofegoods j 
 
 are i 
 

 which flatters not. 
 
 arc falfe , and the regreet of their priva^ 
 tion too true. But if you doubt of this 
 yet , confdlt the dumbe oracle of the 
 Lsdfhes of your Anceflours^nd the truth 
 will anfvrere for them, that they never 
 have had any thing more proper to 
 them then miferie 3 nothing more fen- 
 fiblethen difafters , and that with all 
 the riches which they have enjoyed du- 
 ring life , they have not beene able to 
 procure at thehotire of Death , more 
 thes that piece of litmen, wherein they 
 are inveloped, 
 
 GREAT KINGS, if you have 
 no other Philofopher-ftone but this, 
 the Concjueft which your Valour 
 may make , all ydur greatneflfe, and 
 all your riches , (hall bee enclo fed 
 In the coffins , wherein you fhall be 
 buryed. For, all that Fortune fhall 
 give you to day , D E A T H fhall 
 take from you tomorrow, and the day 
 after, one may count ydu in the ranke 
 of the mo ft miferable. I will againe 
 change tone. 
 
 What a contagious malddie in this 
 age, wherein we, are, is this pajjion of 
 ■ ama[[in<r tr'eafures ! All the world would 
 
 H 2 be 
 
 89 
 
 The rents of yet - 
 luc s Acme ants 
 arc notfiibjecl to 
 fortune* 
 
 True valour has 
 no other ob]e[j 9 
 but the conqacfi 
 oftUrnaU things. 
 
so; 
 
 if one knew the 
 pend of being 
 rich r he would 
 onely be in love 
 with povtrtic* 
 
 We may call Man 
 a Tree^whofe to< t 
 k the im mot tall 
 foule, and the 
 
 fruits which it 
 beam, are of the 
 fame name, ei- 
 ther for glory or 
 pimjhment' 
 
 The MiRRovR 
 
 be rich , as if Paradife were bought 1 
 with ready man ) , and that the com# 
 merce of out fafety were a publike 
 Bank * , where the moft covetous ren- 
 der tbemfelves the moft happy. Every 
 one makes bravado of his acquifts,and 
 poyzeth his felicities t© the balance 
 of his riches, being never able to be 
 otherwife content , but in reference to 
 the meafure of what he is eftated in. 
 
 There one will aftumea pride to> 
 have ten thoufand Acres oimod, whofe: 
 revenue, nourifheth his fajpons, and 
 entertains his flexures .Infomucb, thati 
 he confiders nofthat thcfeTreesare la- 
 den but with the fruit of thefe world- 
 miferies;& ofall together he fhal bear! 
 away, but the branch of one only^whichi 
 fnall ferve very foone for a Be ere to hiss 
 carhjfe. jSeeinwhat confiftsthe pro- 
 fit of his rents , after their account! 
 made. 
 
 A nother will be rich onely in Me- 
 doms , and changing his hay into Gold, 
 which is but Earthy he fills therewith! 
 his coffers. But Poole, that he is ,bee; 
 thinks not that his life is a Medow, his! 
 body the hay thereof and Time the! 
 
 Mower 
 
 i 
 
 
which flatters not. 
 
 Mower j who by his example makes 
 publicke trafficke of the fame mar* 
 chandize, changing by little and li tie 
 the hay of his body into Earth, And is 
 not this to be very ingenious to cheat 
 a man's felfe ? 
 
 Anothers aytne is onely to be rich 
 in buildings , fome ’the* Country, fome 
 *th’ City, and affirming vanity from 
 the number , as well as the magni- 
 ficence of his Pallaces , hee beleeves 
 that they are fo many SanBuaries of 
 proofe, againft the Broket of fortune, 
 or the thunders of heaven. What a fol- 
 ly ’s this, to eft eeme ones felfe happy, 
 for having diverfe Cabbins upon 
 earth , to put himfelfe under couvert 
 from the raine, and wind, during the 
 fhort journey of life ? The raine ccafes, 
 the windis paft, and life dyes, and 
 then the tempeft of a thou fand et email 
 anguifhes comes to entertaine him, 
 without poftibility ofdifcovcry , even 
 from hopc s one onely port of fafety. 
 To be onely rich then, in edifices , is 
 to be rich in caftles of paper and cards, 
 fuch as little children lodge their pety 
 
 The World u a 
 Medow , and all 
 the objeflls which 
 therein we ad- 
 mire ^are fluwen, 
 which fade every 
 bom • 
 
 cares in. 
 
 H 
 
 To j 
 
 

 We mufl build 
 upon the unfaakp* 
 able foundations 
 of etemitie, if a 
 man would be 
 fathered from all 
 
 forts of fames* 
 
 Though we fay 
 the Same jets 
 every nighty yet 
 h ref Is not : and 
 fa Man^though he 
 by himfclfe to 
 
 (teepee refa not 
 from hi* voyage 
 to Earth, 
 
 The MiRROVR 
 
 To what pqrpofe Heads it us to be 
 richly lodged, if every houre of the day 
 may be that of our departure l Men 
 trouble themfelves to build houfes of 
 pleafure, but the pleafures fadeaway, 
 and wealfo, andthefe houfes remaine 
 for witneffes of our folly , and for fen- 
 fible obje<9$ offorrow, and griefe, in 
 that cruell neceffity to which wee are 
 reduced to abandon them. It is to be 
 confidered , that wee are borne to be 
 Travellers and Pilgrims , and as fiich, are 
 wee confhain’d to march alwayes 
 firaight to thegijlo£ Death, without 
 ever refling , or being able to find re- 
 pofe even in repofe it-felfe. To what 
 then are all tbefe magnificent Palla- 
 ces, when our onely retreat beats on to 
 grave ? To what end are all this 
 reat number of flru&ures, when wee 
 are all in the way, and point to end 
 our voyage ? O how well is heehoufed, 
 that lodgeth his hope in Qod> and layes 
 the foundations of his habitation up- 
 on E T E R Nj TIE l A good cenfcience 
 is the richefl hsufe that one can have. 
 
 Another defignes his treafures in 
 numerous Shippings , traficking with all 
 
 winds j 
 
 I 
 
 I 
 
I whi ch flatters not. 
 
 winds, infpightof ftormes and tern* 
 pells : but be it granted a perpetual! 
 calme as heart could wilh, and ima> 
 ginewe, (ashimfelfedoes) thathee 
 fhall fifb with Fortunes nets , all the 
 Pearles of the OCEAN . what can 
 he doe at the end with all his ventures? 
 if he truckethem away, heecangaine 
 but ftuffe of the fame price, ifhee fell 
 them , he does but change white puri- 
 fied earth for yellow , which the Sunne 
 purifies as well within the mines : 
 what will hee doe now with this new 
 marchandife, or this his gold? behold 
 him alwayes in trouble , to difcharge 
 himfelfeoflb many burdens. If gold 
 were potable , hee might perhaps nou- 
 rifh himfelfe therewith for a while, 
 but as MID A s could not doe it in 
 die fable, he will ne're bring it to pa fie 
 in the verity j he mull needs keep watch 
 then day and night to the guard of his 
 riches • and well may hee keep fenti- 
 ncll. Death comes to rcbbe him of 
 ; them , fince at his going out of the 
 world fhe takes them amj from him. 
 
 I What apparence is there , that the 
 
 itreafures of the Sea Ihould be able 
 * u ^ to 
 
The MlRRoVR 
 
 The treafure of 
 goo 4 iv or 1(6 i, is 
 etcrnail riches* 
 
 
 Our life h a Ship , 
 which loafing 
 from th> Haven 
 of the Cradle , at 
 the moment of our 
 birth jiever comes 
 afoove againe; till 
 it run aground 
 
 w 
 
 .upon the grave* 
 
 to make a man ricb,lincc the poffeffion 
 ofallth emrld together cannot doe it. 
 A hundred thousand fhips are butaf 
 hundred thoufand fhuttle-cockes for 
 the winds, and a hundred thoufand ob- 
 jects of fhipwracke. Suppofe they ar- 
 rive to the Port, the life of their Ma- 
 tter is alwayes among rocks , for’tis a 
 kind offhip, which cannot arrive at 
 other fhore, but at thebankeof the 
 grave. And I leave you to confider 
 what danger he may runne , if there the 
 ftorme of his avaricious paflion caft 
 him. The fand-blind-fighted may 
 forelee his ruine, and the moft judi- 
 cious will beleeve it infallible. Be- 
 hold in fine a man rich to much pur- 
 pofe, that would have d ray n*d by his 
 ambition, the bottomlefle depths of 
 the Ocean , and now to find himfelfe 
 ith’end of his carreere , in the ahyfles 
 of heft, having an eternitie of evils for 
 rccompenfe °i an age of anxieties, 
 which hec hath fuffered during his 
 
 ! I Yf> ■ > 
 
 L O r d , if I would be rich in 
 wood, let it be in that of thy CROSSE , 
 and from henceforth let its fruits be 
 
9 5 
 
 Hewlftch pats his 
 truft in God>h 
 thcjkheft efthe 
 world, bow poors 
 {mover he he. 
 
 Tbbicb flatters not . 
 
 my revenues, and my rents. If I would 
 trafickc in meads 5 Let the meditation 
 of the hay of my life, be my onely pro- 
 fit. If I fet my felfe to build houfes, 
 let it be rather for my foule then for 
 my body , and in fuch fort , that my 
 good workes may be the ftones, and the 
 purity of my confcience the foundation. 
 
 And laftly, If I would travel! the Seas, 
 togoeto the con qu eft of their trea- 
 fures i let my team be the waves there- 
 of, and my fighs the winds , and thy 
 grace alone, the only ohjeBot my riches. 
 
 Make me then rich, O LO R D,if 
 it pleafe thee, by the onely miff rife of 
 all the treafures of the Earth) and teach 
 this fecret language to my heart , 
 
 never to fpeake but of thee in its de* , t 
 
 fires, nor of other then thy felfe in its re fi inCid 
 
 *T« almdie a 
 [ufficknt enjoy- 
 mm of refi and 
 ! qmetyto fet up 
 
 hopes, fince of thee alone , and in thee 
 onely lies the fulnefle of its ferfeB fe- 
 licity and foveraignerepofe. Let us not 
 refi our felves info fair e a way, 
 
 I cannot comprehend the defigne of 
 thefe curious Spirits, whogoe feeking 
 the Philofophers- ftone in that Spitlc, ’ 
 where an infinite number of their 
 
 companions are dead of regreet to 
 
 have 
 
The kve of God 
 is the ornly Phi* 
 lof&pher*ftone% 
 fme by it a man 
 may acquire cter* 
 nail treafareu 
 
 4n mdlnaim 
 rward the mif 
 ri\ t cf Earth 3 k j 
 prefage of the 
 'ttwgofHeav u 
 
 ♦ — 
 
 j The Mirrovr 
 
 have fo illinaployed their time. They 
 put all they have to the qaeft of that 
 which never was, and burning with de- 
 fire to acquire wealth , they reduce 
 all their owne into cinders , and their 
 /zwg/alfowith vehement puffing, with- 
 out gaining other recompence at the 
 end of their labours , but this* now to 
 know their folly : but the Sun fets,the 
 | candle goes out, the bed ofburiall is 
 prepared, there mufi: be their Enter at 
 thee.*;* offo many unprofi table pains. 
 To what purpofe ferves it now, to 
 know they are fooles , having no more 
 time to be wife. 
 
 What cruell Maladie of fpirit is it to 
 facrifice both ones body and foule in 
 anunluckie alymbicke , for to nouriih 
 a vaine ambition , whofc irregular ap- 
 petite can never be fetisfied > Is not 
 this to take pleafure in kindling the 
 fire which confumes us ? toburne per- 
 petually with defire of being rich in 
 this world , and yet get nothing by it: 
 And then to burne againe eternally in 
 bell, without poflibility to quench the 
 ardour of thole revenging flames : is not 
 this to warp ones-felfe the web of a fate, 
 
 the 
 
which flatters not. 
 
 97 
 
 the tnoft miferable that ever was? 
 
 Produce we then of nothing the crea- 
 tion of this Philofopher-ftone,& grant 
 we it made at prefent to the hearts of 
 the moft ambitious. I am content that | 
 from the miracles'of this Metamorpho- 
 fis they make us fee the marvels of a 
 new gallery of filver,like to that which 
 bare NERO to the Capitoll. I am 
 content that they make pendant at 
 the point of a needle, as SE MIR A- 
 M 1 Si the pripe of twenty millions of 
 gold. I am content that after the 
 example ot*ArabalipaSyihey pave their 
 haBs with Saphirs, I am pleas’d, that 
 imitating Cyrus , they enround their 
 gar dens with perches of gold. I am con- 
 tent, that the Dryades of their foun- 
 taines be compofed of the fame mate- 
 rial! , following the magnificences of 
 Cefar. 1 am content that they erc& 
 with' Empty an Amphitheater all cove- 
 red with plates of Gold. I am content 
 they build a Pallaceof Ivory , there to 
 to lodge another Melaus , ora Louvre 
 oichri&allto receive therein an other 
 DrufuSy and let (I am content ft ill) this 
 Louvre be ornamented with court- cup- 
 boards 
 
 * 
 
 i 
 
 * Atabali, Kjng 
 of Peru® 
 
 7 be World k 
 aptly compared 
 to the Sea y fmce 
 1 04 the forms of 
 this, (dare the mu 
 (cries of that 3 and 
 % the flitting 
 billown ever 
 tollingjo are all 
 the obje&s which 
 m here admire * 
 
 I" ~ 
 
9 8 
 
 The MiRROVr 
 
 *T» a 'Rule with- 
 mtexceptm y that 
 all that is inclu- 
 dkd. m the nvo* 
 hum of Time % is 
 futyeglta change* 
 
 boards of Pearles equall to thole of 
 Scaur hi , and with coffers of the fame 
 price as that of Darius. Towbatwill 
 all this come to in the end ? What 
 may be the reverfe of all thefe medals? 
 The Icortching heat of Time, and the 
 Suns-beames have melted this galle- 
 ry of filver, its admirers are vanifht, 
 and its proprietary. Even Rome it felfe 
 hath mnne the like fate, and though 
 it fubfift yet , ’cis but onejy in name, 
 its ruines mournc at this day the death 
 of its glory. That fo pretious Pendant 
 of s emir amis could not be exempt 
 from a kind of Death s though it 
 wete inanimate. 1 mean that in its infen- 
 libility , it hath received the attaints 
 of this Ficiffnude , which alters and 
 deftroyes all things, fince it now ap- 
 pearcs no more to our eyes. All thofe 
 Sapfjir-paved halls are palled away, 
 though Art had enchained them in 
 beautifull Workcmanlhips. They 
 have had otherwife a glittering lufter, 
 j like the Smnc v but this planet jealous 
 of them , hath refufed in the end its 
 clearenelTe, fo much as to their ruines ; 
 mfomuch that they are vanifhed in oh - 
 
 feuritie. 
 
*9 
 
 which fla tters not. 
 
 fcuritie. Thefe gardens environed with 
 railes of gold, have had (like others) 
 divers Spring-times , to renew their 
 growth, but one winter alone was 
 enough to make them dye. Thofe 
 Dryades which enricht thefe fountaines j 
 
 I are fled upon their owne water-trils, j 
 and fcarce remaines us their remem- 
 brance. That proud Amphitheater of 
 Fompey could not eternize it fclfc, but j 
 in the memory of men, & yet we fcarce 
 know what they fay, when they fpeakc 
 on 8 c. That Ivory Palace of Melaus goes 
 for a fable in hiftories, being buried 
 in the Abifles of non.entitie . That fa - 
 mous Louvre ofChriftall having been 
 buttled againft by Time is broken, and 
 fhivcred into fo many peeccs , that 
 not fo much as the very dufton’c fub- 
 fifts , but in the confus'd Idea of i 
 things, which havebeene otherwhile. 
 AH thofe high cup-boards of Pearle, 
 and all thofe coffers of great price have 
 indeed had an appearance like light- 
 ning, but the thunder-bolt of inconflan- 
 | fjhath reduc’tthem into afhes,andthe 
 I | memory of ’em is prcfeiv’d in cans, but 
 as a dreamt , fince in effe& it is no more 
 j at all. „^ l l t 
 
 Meditate ben a 
 littkjhowofi the 
 face of the Bafth 
 hath beenvavhd 
 fince in firjlcrea * 
 non* 
 
loo 
 
 There is nothing 
 fo certame in tk 
 worlds its un- 
 certainties 
 
 * Fu nihil 
 mfliu- 
 
 Ttt thin is it a 
 blefierincjje of our 
 condition , thm to 
 cfcape by Ink 
 and little the mi- 
 series which are 
 incident unto m t 
 
 | The M i R R o v R 
 
 But if the. precious wonders of part 
 Ages, have done nothing but pa fife a- 
 way together , with their admirers and 
 owners, is it not credible, that thofe co- 
 vetous rich ones , did runne the fame 
 fortune with all the treafures of their 
 Philofbpher- Stone , and at the end ©f 
 their Carreere, what device could they 
 take but this very fame of Sal a din b, 
 fince of all their riches, there remaines 
 them at their Death , but onely a poore 
 Shirty */ havebeene, faies this great Mo- 
 narch, and behold, heeres all . J 
 
 Why, Rich-ones of the World, doe 
 you trouble your felves fo much, to e- 
 ftablifh your glory here below, for to 
 per {wade us at the end of the journal! 
 Onely this , That you have be ene ? An a- 
 t°me has the lame advantage, for this 
 creatine pm?, which we adore, after he 
 had ta en it out of the -dbyft'es of nothing, 
 wherein youalfo were buried, made it to 
 fi-ibfift in nature. Bee it that you have 
 beene the great eft on Earth , yet now the I 
 faire light of your faire dayes , is extin- 
 guish t for ever . The Sun of your glory is 
 
 eclips r,and in an eternall weft. And that 
 your fate which interloomed the web of 
 
 — . ' ' ; ... your 
 
I which flatters not , ' * 
 
 your greatnefles , together with your 
 lives , lyes entomW’d with your Ajhes , 
 tofihewus that thefe are the onely un- 
 hallowed reliques which your Ambition 
 could leave us . 
 
 Y ou have bin then other while the only 
 ^Minions of Fortune^ like Demetrius^ but 
 he and you are now no more any thing , 
 not fo much as a hand full of Ajhes • for 
 lefle then with an Infinite power, ’twere 
 impoflibletoany, to reunite into a bo- 
 dy, the parcels of the !>«/?, whereof 
 your Carkafies were formed, behold in 
 what confifts at this day, the foundation 
 ! of yourpaft glory. 
 
 Y ou have bin then otherwhile the fame 
 | asS aladine, the onely Monarch of 
 the Eafl) and have pofleft(ashe)treafurcs 
 i without number , and honours without 
 parallel: But(as /fr)alfoyou have done 
 nothing elfe but pafle away, and like him 
 againe you have not beene able to hide 
 your wretchednefle, but under a Scrap 
 of Linnen , whereof the warmer have 
 repafted , to manifeft you to all the 
 World. 
 
 In fine, you have beene otherwhik 
 : the wonders of our dayes, but now you 
 
 ! ' a r e 
 
 if virtue tier - 
 tii\e not our we- 
 work-out life 
 paffith away lil{e 
 the wndjvithoin 
 leaving any trace. 
 
 m t m m 
 
10Z 
 
 He which efleem 
 himfelfe rich and 
 happy in ihk 
 world^mwei Ml 
 the nature of 
 worldh baffi- 
 nejfe and riches . 
 
 ■The Mirrovr 
 
 are the horrour of this prelent, for the 
 onely thought of the dung-heap of your 
 Ajhes poy fons my fpirit, fo delicate i‘ft, 
 and I leave farther provocation to the 
 incredulous, if they bee willing to bee 
 ftronger witnefles of it , but let us now 
 leave perfonall reflexions , and trou- 
 ble wee not the rcpofe of Cburch-yardes. 
 
 I grant that you may bee at this in- 
 ftantthatl fpeake unto you, forich and 
 happy, that you cannot wifh more of 
 Fortune , nor Shee able to offeryoii more: 
 Yet thus ought you to confider where 
 you arc, who you are, and what are the 
 goods which you pollefle. You are in 
 the World , wherelali things fly away > 
 and ’tis in this way of flying away, that 
 you read thefe verities : my meaning is, 
 you dwell upon the fame earth, whereof 
 you are formed, and confequently you 
 lodge upon your buriall-p laces , vvhofe 
 entrances will be open at all moments. 
 To fay who you are, lam afhamed, in 
 calling you by your proper names, for 
 t® remembrance you your naileries : 
 
 Corruption conceavesyou , Honour in- 
 fants you, Blood nomflfhes you , and in- 
 fection accompanyes you in the Coffin. 
 

 . „. inB — — _ 
 
 which flatters not. 
 
 The (reafures which you enjoy are bur 
 [Chimeras of greatnefleand apparitions 
 i of glory, whereof living you make ex- 
 periment, and dying you perfectly 
 Know the truth one. 
 
 To what end then can dead you 
 your prefent felicities, fincc at prelent 
 you fcarce enjoy them at all ? for even 
 at this very inflant another, which is 
 but newly uponp/fe, robs you of part 
 ofth em 5 and even thus giving you hint j 
 of the cofenage of his companions, 
 Cheates you too, as well as they ; and 
 thus they doe altogether to your lives ^ 
 as well as your contentments; in ra- 
 vifiiing thefe, they intraine the others : 
 then what remondrance can you exhi- 
 bit of edeeming your felves happy for 
 fdft felicities, and which you have not 
 enjSjed but in way of depart l And if 
 this Condition be agreeable unto you , 
 ftill there is a. nc'ceffity of fecting tip 
 your red at the endof the carreere, and 
 there it is, where I attend to Contribute 
 to your vaine wayiings , as many re- 
 fcncmentspfPity. Take wee another 
 tracke, without loo ling our felves. 
 
 How ingenious was that famous 
 
 Qiieene 
 
 M' 
 
 X > •;/ 
 
 There h faiklng 
 jo CGnftanlly pre<~ 
 fern with m> as 
 our miferies, 
 face alwayti we 
 me mifcrable 
 nough at befl. 
 
104 
 
 How much better 
 u it to be fo happy 
 in fifting, as to 
 angle for grace 
 in the team of 
 penitence ? 
 
 The M I R R O V R 
 
 to nopurpofe 
 to be pajjiomie 
 for jvcb goods 
 as a man may 
 lo&fe, and the 
 world can give 
 no better . 
 
 Qucene of Egypt , to 4mm *<$ 
 good grace her Lover. She caufed un* 
 derhand dead fiChes to be enfnared to 
 the hooke of Antonie , as often as the- 
 toy tooke him to goe a fifhing j to the 
 end to make him fome fpoit by thofc 
 pleafant deceits. May we not fay that 
 Ambition doth the fame? for when wee 
 cafl our hookes into this vaft Ocean of 
 the vanities of the world , wee filh but 
 Dead things without foul© } whole ac- 
 quirement countervails not a mo- 
 ment of the Time , which; we employ 
 
 toattaineit. 
 
 Had I all the gopdlfeft fardlesof 
 the world laded on my backs j Imeane, 
 had I acquir’d all the honours, where- 
 with fortune can tickle an ambitious 
 Joule , fhould 1 thence become greater 
 of body ? my growing- time is pa ft. 
 would my Spirit thence become more 
 excellent ? thele objects are tooweake 
 to erwobleher Powers, Should I thence 
 become more vertuous ? V ?rtui looks, 
 for no fat is fad ion out of it fe-lfe. 
 Should I thence be more efteemed of 
 the world ? This is but the glory ofa, 
 
 wind, which doth but pafle away* 
 * What 
 
which flatters nou 
 
 * ' ~ m e 1 1 | - III - | I - ■ ■■ 
 
 What happincffe, what contentment, 
 or what utility, would remaine me 
 then, that I might be at reft ? A Man 
 mu ft not fufferhimfclf thus to be fool’d. 
 All honours Can be bu t a burden to an 
 innocent foule , for fo much as they are 
 continuall obje<5£s of vanity , which 
 ftirre up the paflions , and onely ferve 
 but for nourifhmcnr to them in their 
 violences , to hurry them into all forts 
 ?f extremities. And after all , the nc- 
 ceffnie of dying , which makes an infe- 
 parable accident in -our condition, 
 glwmetthc glittering of all this vaine 
 glory , which environs a*. In the an. 
 guilhes of Death , a mandreames not 
 of the grandeurs of his life, and being 
 ever -and anon upon point to depart, 
 $ndshimfelfe often afflufted mo ft with 
 thole good things which hec ftjTejJeth, 
 meafuring already the depth of the 
 by the height of the place, whi- 
 ther he is exalted, 
 
 *Hee which found Fortune at his 
 gate, found no naile to ftay her wheeler 
 But if shee on the one fide takes a p l*a- 
 furc to ruine Empires , to deftroyi 
 1 Realises, and to precipitate her fa- 
 
 I 2 vorites .? 
 
 105 
 
 v Th an irtyfome 
 remembrance ef 
 pajl happwejje » 
 
 * Galba* 
 
 ' 
 
io<s 
 
 rkMiRRQVR ; 1 1 
 
 vourices : Death on the other fide par. 
 dons no body, alters the temperament 
 of all forts of humours, perverts the 
 order of every kind of habitude, and 
 not content yet to beate downe all 
 thcfe great Col&Jfes of Vanitie , vrhich 
 would be ta'en for the worlds wonders, 
 calls to the (haring of their ruine the 
 elements ,thus to bury their materials 
 in their firft abyfles , where fhe hath 
 defigned the place of their entombe- 
 
 All things paffc 
 away, and ky 
 then way ull us 
 that m mnfi doe 
 jo m • 
 
 .< 
 
 
 ment. 
 
 What can a Man then find C onftant 
 in the world , where Conftancy doth 
 no where refide ? Time, Fortune , Death , 
 our Pa (liens, and a 7 houfard other (tum- 
 bling "blocks (hall never fpeake other 
 language to us but of our mferks , and 
 yet wee will fuffer our felves like 
 LEX AND ER to be voye’d minor- 
 tall. Our pro fperi ties , our grandeurs, 
 our very delights thcmfelves, (hall tell 
 us, as they pafie, a word in our care, 
 that wee ought not tom*/? them, and 
 yet for ail this , we will never figh but 
 after them. Be it then at iaft for very 
 regrtet , to have vented to the wind fo 
 many vain .fighs, for Chimeras of (weets, 
 
 ; P'lTT- whereof 
 
 f 
 
 I 
 
"which flatters not. 
 
 whereof the remembrance can not be 
 I but full of bitterneJJ'e. 
 
 Tatne honours of the world , tempt me 
 no more : your allurements are power- 
 full, but too weaketovanquifh me. I 
 deride your wreaths of LaureU t there 
 grows more on’t in my garden then you 
 can give me. Ifyou offer me efteemc, 
 and reputation among men , what 
 fhould I doe with your prefents? Time 
 devoures every day the like of them , 
 and yet more precious. I undervalue 
 all fuch Good tbings , as It can take away 
 i againefromme. 
 
 Deceitful greatnefes of the Earth, 
 ceale to purfue me, you fha.Il never 
 catch me, your char me s have given fome 
 | hits to my heart ]® ut not to my foule,yout 
 fweets have touch’ t my f en fes, but nor 
 my Jpirit ; whar have you to offer me, 
 i which can fatisjie me ? Time and For- 
 tune lend you all the Scepters and 
 ; Crovvnes which you borrow, and as you 
 are not the owners , they take them 
 away againe when they will, and not 
 when ityleafeth you. So then, I will 
 have no Scepters for an houre, nor no 
 j Crownes for a day. If I have defire to 
 i I 3 raigne, 
 
 *07 
 
 No fccuritk of 
 pkafmC) to enjoy 
 inch things as 
 may ei t*y mo- 
 ment be loft • 
 
 Worldly Qreai- 
 mffes ate bid S[e 
 Maslii'ng-cloibes, 
 which fine him 
 and t'other but 
 fur that time* 
 

 raignc/cis y — 
 
 be under fhelcer from the incopftancy 
 of Ages. Trouble not your felves to? 
 follow me. This world is a Mafle of 
 mir jUpon which a Man may make im- 
 prcffe of all forts of Chara&ers, but 
 not hinder Time todeface the draught 
 at any time. Ambitious Spirits, faire 
 leave have you to draw the Stell of 
 your dcfignes upon this ready prim’d 
 cloth : Some few yeeres wipeout all. 
 Some ages carry away all ,and there- 
 membrancc of your follyes is only im- 
 mortal! in your foules, by the eternal! 
 regreet which remaines you of them. 
 
 S c I P IO made defigne ’t© con- 
 quer Canhagc } and after he had caft the 
 projed thereof upon mould , he after* 
 wards tooke the body of this fhadow, 
 and faw the effe6h of his defires : But 
 may not one fay, that the Trophies of 
 his valour have beenecaft in rubbidge 
 within that maffe ofdurt, whereof the 
 world is compofedjfinceall the marks 
 thereof arc effaced ? Carthage it felfe 
 though it never had life, could not 
 avoyd its Death. Time hath buried it 
 fo deep under its owne ruines , chat we 
 feeke 
 
feeke in vaine the place of its Tombe. 
 I leave you to ruminate, if its fubduer 
 werehimfclfe able to relift the a (faults 
 ofthis Tyrannic. 
 
 If ALEXANDER had fent his 
 thoughts into heaven, there to feeke a 
 new world , as well as his defires ©n 
 earth there to find one, he had not loft 
 his time -but as he didamuze himfelfe 
 to engrave thehiftory of his ambition 
 and triumphs upon the fame mafle of 
 clay, which he had conquered $ he writ 
 upon water, and all the characters on‘t 
 are defaced. The Realmes which hee 
 fubdued , have loft fomc of them their 
 names, and ofthis Triumpher (here re- 
 maines us but the idea as of a D reame, 
 fince men are ready to require Security, 
 even of his Memrie , for the wonders 
 which it preacbeth to us of him. 
 
 May wee not then agajne juftly 
 avow , that of all the conditions , to 
 which a man maybe advanced with- 
 out the aydeof vertue, either by nature 
 or Fortune , there is none more infoiv 
 tunatc, then to be to the fe a favorite, 
 nor any more miferable, then to be a 
 Great-one > This inconftant Goddefle 
 
 I 4 hath 
 
 There h more glo- 
 ry to defpife the 
 world, then to 
 conquer it : for 
 after its ccnqueft, 
 a man tyuws 
 not what to doe 
 rytib it . 
 
 e - i-iv ■ .’ n - r vr zc a 
 
no 
 
 All thofe who en- 
 gage thmfclves 
 to the fervice 
 fortune, ate 
 ili pi)d y and of 
 thtSj every day 
 giva m expert* 
 e:uc. 
 
 All thofe who 
 hound after 
 fortune* are 
 well pledfed to 
 he deceived face 
 her deceits anfo 
 well fnowne* 
 
 ! 
 
 The M l R H ovr I 
 
 hath a thoufand favours to lend, but to 
 give, none but haltars, poyfons, po- 
 oiards,and precipices. ’Tisa fine tiling 
 to fee Hannibal begging his bread 
 even in view of Seipie; after hehad cal’d 
 into quell ion the price of the worlds 
 Empire-dome. Is it not an object worthy 
 of compaffion, to confider Nietos upon 
 his knees before GtUippus, to beg his 
 otvne and the Athenians lives, after he 
 had in a manner commanded the winds 
 at Sea, and Fortune afhore, in a govern- 
 ment foveraignly abfolute? Who will 
 not have the lame tefentiments of pity, 
 reading the biftory of Craflw , then whe 
 by exccfie of difafier he furviv’d both 
 his glory & reputation, being conftrai* 
 ned to a Ifi ft at the funerals of his qwne 
 renow ne 5 and urdergoe the hard condi- 
 tions of his enemies, attending death 
 to free him from fervitude ? Will you 
 have no regreet, to fee enilav’d under 
 the tyrannic of the Kings o i Egypt , the 
 great )Agcjilaw , whofe valour was the 
 onely wonder of his Time i What wil l 
 you fay to the deplorable Fate of Cu- 
 m>ne< % to whom Fortune having offered 
 io often Empires , gives him nothing 
 
 in 
 
ypbich flatters not. 1 
 
 III 
 
 in the end but chaines, fo to dye in! 
 captivitie ? 
 
 You fee at tvhat price Mm have 
 bought the favours of this Goddelfe, 
 when many times the fcrenityofa hap- 
 py life produceth the ftornie of an un- 
 fortunate Death. You may judge aifo 
 at the fame time, of what Nature are 
 thefe heights of honour , when often the 
 Greatefl at Sun-rife, find themielyes at | 
 the end of the Day , the moit mum- 
 ble. And fuppofe Fortune meddle 
 not with ’em, to what «xtremitieof trsi* 
 ferie thinke you is a man reduc t at the 
 houre of his departure i Ah his Gran- 
 deurs , though yet prefent , are but as 
 pa ft felicities , be enjoyes no more the 
 goods which he poftefles, griefes only 
 appertains to him in proper, and of 
 what magnificences fo’ere hee is envi- 
 roned 9 this obje<ft fhovves him but the 
 image of a funeral! pompe , his bed 
 already Emblemes the Sepulcher, the 
 fheets his winding linnen , wherein 
 he mult be iaveloped. So that if he 
 yet conceit himfclfe Great, *cis one- 
 ly inmifery. Since all that hee fees, 
 heares , touches, fmells , and tails, 
 
 fenfibly 
 
 1 
 
 \ 
 
 i 
 
 |> 
 
 I wonder not if 
 rich men be a~ 
 [raid of death, 
 fmu to them it is 
 more dreadfull 
 then to an). 
 
 
11 & 
 
 The MJRROV.r 
 
 I Fortufte fells 
 ivtrjdsy the glory 
 of the world I# 
 any that will, but 
 mm hat fooles 
 mg hex chapmen* 
 
 & 
 
 . I • 
 
 fenflbly perfwades him nothingelfe. 
 
 Give Refurre&ion in your thoughts, 
 to great Alexander , and then againe 
 conceive him at laft gafpc, and now 
 confider in this deplorable eftate, 
 wherein hee finds himfclfe involv’d 
 upon his funerall couch , to what can 
 Read him all the grandeurs of his life 
 paft,they being alfo paft with it. I 
 grant that all the Ear be his • yet 
 you fee how the little load of that of 
 his body weighs fo heavy on his fbule, 
 that it is upon point to fall groveling 
 under the burden. I grant that all the ! 
 glory of the world belong to him in 
 proper , hee enjoyes nothing but his 
 miferies. I yeeld moreover, that all 
 Mankind may be his fiibje&s : yet this 
 abfolute foveraignety , is not exempt 
 from the fervitude of payne. Be it, j 
 that with the onely thunder of his j 
 voyce he makes the Earth to tremble : i 
 yet hehimfelfe cannot hold from fha- 
 king at the fioyfe of his owne fighs. I 
 grant in fine , that all the Kings of the 
 world render him homage : yet hee is j 
 ftill the tributary of Death. 
 
 0 grandeurs ! fince you fly away with> 
 
 out 
 
tern. 
 
 out ceafe, what are you but a little] Ooanis motus 
 wind ? and fhould I bean Idolater ofa' j «nd« ad quic- 
 litle tolled Ayre s and which only moves 
 but to vaniih to its repofe? 
 
 O greatnejfes ! fince you doe but 
 pafle away } what name fhould I give 
 you but that of a drettme ? Alas , why 
 fhould I pafie my life in your purfuite, 
 
 Hill dreaming after you ? 
 
 O worldly greatnejfes , fince you bid 
 Adieu to all the world, withoutbeing 
 able to ftay your felves one onely mo 
 naent 5 Adieu then , your allurements 
 have none for me, your fweets are bit- 
 ret to my tafte, and your pleaiures af- 
 ford me none. I cannot runne after that 
 whichflyesrl can have no love for things j Worldly Great - 
 which pa fie away ? and fince the world 
 hath nothing elfe, ’tis a long while that tvety wifiiMH 
 I have b idden eu to it. It had promi- j de^ifssthem. 
 
 fed me much, and though it had given 
 me nothing, yet cannot I reproach it , 
 finding my felfe yet too rich by reafon 
 of its hardnefie. But I returne to the 
 point. 
 
 UWen of the World would perfwade 
 us, that it is impoillble to finde any 
 quiet in it , to fay , a firme fettling of 
 
 Spirit, 
 
1 14 
 
 j . • 
 
 The mzly meanet 
 to he conlentyis to 
 fettle the confri- 
 me in peace. 
 
 t^Mirro vr 
 
 Riches are of 
 ufe to humane 
 life, hut not of 
 necefflti zffot 
 without them a 
 man may live 
 content. 
 
 Spirit,wherein 3 man may be content 
 in his conditio^, without ever wifhing 
 any other thing. And for my part, I 
 judge nothing to be more eafie , if wee 
 leave to realbn its abfolute power. 
 What impoffibilitie can there be, to 
 regulate a mans will to God's ? And 
 what contradi&ion in’t, to live upon 
 earth of the pure benedi&ions of 
 heaven ? what greater Riches can t 
 man mjh then this , to be able to under • 
 goe the Decrees of his Pate , without mur- 
 muring and comflaint i If Riches con- 
 lifted onely in Gold , Diamonds , 
 Pearles , or fuch like things , of like 
 raritie , thofe which have not of 'em 
 might count themfelves mifcrable. 
 But every man carryes his treafure in 
 hisconfcicnce. Hee which lives with- 
 out juft fcandall, lives happily ; and 
 who cancomplaine of a happy life? 
 
 But if to nave the hap of thefe feli- 
 cities of this life, a man judge pre- 
 fently, that hee ought of neceflity to 
 have a great number of riches : This is 
 to enflave himfelfe fohisowneopini- 
 on, abounding in his proper fenfe , and 
 condemning reafon for being of the 
 
 contra- 
 
which flatters not. 
 
 US 
 
 contrary part. I know well that a man is 
 naturally fwayed to love him lei fe more Philautb. 
 then ail things of the worid 5 & that this 
 love proceeds from the paffion of our 
 interefts , feekingwith much care and 
 painc , all that may contribute to our 
 contentments 5 and whereas Riches 
 fee me tobeNurfesofth^m, thiscon- 
 fequence is incident to be drawtie, that 
 without them is no contented living. 
 
 But at firftdafh, it is neceflary to di- 
 ftinguifhthis love into Naturall and 
 Brutall, and beleeve, that with the illu- 
 mination of reafon , wee may purifie when. Reafon 
 the reWhcs of the fitft , even to the j '*£*** 
 point of rendring them innocent, 
 without departing from our interefts, 
 and confequently the enjoyment of 
 our pleafures , giving them for ob- 
 je&, the eftablilhment of our fetled 
 content, in mifprillon of all thole 
 things of the world, which may de. 
 ftroy it. 
 
 As for this brutifh Love, which e- 
 
 ftranging us from God, leparates us 
 
 alfo from our felves 5 the paflion of it 
 
 becomes fo ftrong by our vveakenefte, 
 
 that without a fpeciall grace wee grow 
 
 old 
 
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 £ 
 
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 V. 
 
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 : He whofe will 
 fubmti /a Gods 
 will, lives ever 
 content* 
 
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 f 
 
 The Spirit of a 
 • Man mU beau 
 | hU infimitk . 
 
 The M i R R o v R 
 
 old in this maladie of Spirit, of Con- 
 i tenting our Senfes, rather then obeying 
 ourReafon, making a new God of the 
 Treafures of the Earth. But incondu- 
 fion,chefc Gods abandon our bodies to 
 the W ormesjarid our foules to the De- 
 vils. And forall their ricbes^the greateft 
 Great ones can onely purchase a glorious 
 Sepulture. Is not this a great advan- 
 tage, and a goodly confolation > 
 
 Maintaine we boldly, that a man may 
 
 finde quietneffe of life in all forts of 
 condition, with the onely ricbnejSe of a 
 tradable Soule, refign’d to take the 
 time as it comes, and as God lends it, 
 without ever arguing. with his provi- 
 dence. There is no afUi&ion, thereto 
 our Soule cannot give us altwage* There 
 is no ill whereto it lei fe is not capable •, 
 to furnifh us a remedid A man , how 
 milerable fomever , may finde his con- 
 tentment am id ft his milcries, if he lives 
 for his foule more then for his bodies 
 behalfe. God makes us to be borne 
 where he will, and of what Parents hee 
 pleales : if the poorenefle of our birth 
 accompanie us even to death 3 hee hath 
 fo ordained it 5 what Can wee die doe. 
 
 bift 
 
whi ch flatters, not. 
 
 but let him fo doe ? Can he be accoun- 
 ted miferable , that obey’s with good 
 grace his foveraignes decrees ? 
 
 O, how is it farre more eafie to un- 
 dergoe the burthen of much poverty 
 then of great tithe* 1 For a man ex- 
 tremely peere t is troubled with no 
 thoughts more important, then onely 
 how to finde mcanes topafie his life in 
 the aufterities whereto hce is alreadic 
 habituated, without repining after o- 
 ther fortune, as being eftrangcd equally 
 both from his knowledge and reach ; 
 in which refpe$s>hee may well be ftil’d 
 happie. gut a man very rich> drcamqs of 
 nothing but to eternize the continuance 
 of his dayes (although this fancie be 
 invaine) in ftead of letting them qui- 
 etly Aide away j infomuch , that being 
 pofleft with no paflion more then love 
 of life, hee thinkes alwayes to live, and 
 never to die. But Death comes ere hce 
 thinks on t, and taking from him all to 
 his very Shirty conftraines him to con- 
 fefle, that riches are onely profitable bv 
 mifprifion,fince by the contempt a man 
 makes of them, he may become the ri- 
 cheft of the world. 
 
 Jl 7 
 
 a greater 
 danger to bo very 
 rich ,tberi very 
 poore: for ri- 
 ches often ma\t 
 men loofe their 
 way Mt povcr- 
 ti efcepes'emin 
 the freight paih* 
 
 Death cannot be 
 f aid to dtcihc 
 any body, for it is 
 in fallible ^and yet 
 the world com- 
 plaints of it* 
 
1 18 ’ 
 
 
 The MiRRovR 
 
 O what a fenfible pleafure’tis to be 
 Rich , fay word ly men alwayes { but I 
 would faineknow, in what confifts this 
 contentment ? what fatisfa&ion can 
 t here be had to poflefle much treafare; 
 knowing what an infinic number of our 
 companions are red uc’d c® the 14 ft 
 point of poverne l Some in Hofgu 
 where’ they lye in ftraw , o’rewhel* 
 me cl with a thoufand frefh griefes. 
 Others at the corner of aftreet, where 
 a piece of a Dung-bill ferves them at 
 once # both for bed and board. Some 
 againe in Dungeons , where horrour 
 and affright, hunger and "defpaire' ty- 
 rannize equally over their unfortunate j 
 fpirits. And others in fome^e/^rr, to 
 which ill fate has confined them, to; | 
 
 make their ills remedileffe , as being 
 farre removed from all forts of fuc- 
 
 Then h no mp» 
 fmffein nature, 
 for miferks fill 
 all* 
 
 corns. How with the knowledge of 
 thefe truths, a man fhall be able tore- 
 lifh greedily the vaine fvveets of word- 
 ly riches, it mu ft needs be for want of 
 reafon or pity, and confequendy to be 
 altogether brutifh or infen fible. I fhall 
 have ( fuppofe ) a hundred thoufand 
 crow ties' in rents, and all this revenue 
 
 Hi ali i 
 
which flatters not . 
 
 lhall ferve but to nourifh my body and 
 
 its pleafures, without confideringjthat 
 
 a hundred thoufand poore fdules figh 
 under the heavy burden of their milc- 
 ries every Day : and yet men Avail 
 efteeme me happy in being rich in this 
 fate. O how dangerous are the treasures } 
 which produce the fe felicities ! 
 
 Is it polfible } that the Great-ones of 
 the world doe not thinke at all in the 
 middle of their Fea&s, of theextreame 
 poverty of an infinite number ofper- 
 fons , and that in therafelves they doe 
 not reafon fecretly in this fort. What ? 
 in this inflant that we fatiate the appe- 
 tite of our fenks j with all that Nature 
 hath produced moft delicious for 
 their enterraine 5 a million and many 
 more poore foules , are reduced to this 
 cxtremitie, as not to have one ondy 
 crumme of bread. And in this fen'ous 
 thought what relifh can they find in 
 their heft -cook’d cates , and in their fwce- 
 tcft condiment? does not this impor- 
 tant confideration, mingle a little bit- 
 ternelfe ? But if their fpirits eftrange 
 tbemfelves from thcfe meditations, 
 and fallen to objedls more agreeable. 
 .. R ‘ O 
 
 *7k a brave ge- 
 
 veroftky to be 
 fenfibk of other 
 mem miferies. 
 
12,0 
 
 The MiRROVR 
 
 All in God is 
 adorable, and all 
 incomprehenfibki 
 we muji then 
 adore a and hi 
 [dent* 
 
 0 how hard of digeftion is the fecond 
 fervice of their collation ! Hee trhich 
 
 cannot love bis neighbour > ha’s no love for 
 himfelfe . j 
 
 To fpeake ingenuoufly , every time 
 when I "coafider in that condition, 
 exempt from want, wherein God hath 
 given me birth , and wherein his good- 
 neffe ( which is no other then him- 
 felfe ) keeps me ft ill alive. I fay, when 
 
 1 consider the mifery to which the 
 \greatejl ofthe world is reduced, I 
 I cannot be weary of blefling this ado- 
 rable Providence, which grants me to 
 fee from the haven, the tempefts where- 
 in fo many fpirirs are tofled : which 
 grace ro me alone (me thinks ) is all 
 extraordinary to fee my felfe under 
 fhelter, from fo many evils, wherewith 
 fo many perfons are ajjlitted. By what j 
 meanes could I deferve.before theCre* 
 
 * a t 
 
 atio'n of all things, that this foveraigne 
 Creator fnoold deiigne mee from the j 
 AbyfTes of nothing, to give me Xcing, 
 and a being moreover of grace , making 
 me ro be borne in a Golden age , in a 
 Chriflian Kingdom and in a City of the 
 Catholike Faith, for to be inftrudled and 
 
 brought I 
 
I 
 
 which flatters nou 1 
 
 — V — — 
 
 til 
 
 bfbught Up as I have beene in the only 
 Religion, wherein a man may find his 
 Salvationi and with ail thefe "benefits, 
 moreover , to elevate me above the 
 temptations of poverty and mifery. 
 Are not thele mo ft pure favours, 
 which would require of this Et email 
 O n e, (who hath bellowed them me ) 
 the tearme of an Eternity that I might 
 be able to arrive to fome fmail con- 
 digne acknowledgement of them?The 
 moft miferable wretch of the world, 
 wherein did he differ from me in way 
 of merit of fome portion of thefe fa- 
 vours, which he po ffe fie th not; fince 
 that before time was, hee and Ivrere 
 nothing at all 5 and yet from all eremi- 
 tic God hath | bellowed thefe things 
 on me in precedencie, rather then on 
 him? Atleaft ( fay I) it did behoove 
 me , that fince the fit ft moment , I was 
 capable of reafon ; I had employed all 
 thole of my life pall in the continual! 
 meditation of fo many , and fo great 
 benefits, whereof to reach the reafon, 
 ’twere to find the bottomes of the 
 Abylfes of this infinite mercy , to 
 which I remaine infinitely indebted ? 
 
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 Tbs M I R R O V R 
 
 The neerefi way 
 from Earth to 
 j Heaven, it iy 
 Chantie, 
 
 
 Earthly gnat* 
 neffe u the leaft 
 gift of Heaven, 
 
 And comming to the point, ought not 
 I in this preheminence of mine, coil- 
 tribute all my power to the fucepurof 
 him jwhoenjoyeth not my happmeffe, 
 to the end } thus to deferve in a man- 
 ner s fome partle of them under the fa- 
 vour of merits from this great God, 
 who onely gives reward to.thofe good 
 a&ions , which he makes me doe. Can 
 I refute to be charitable to him, who 
 onely begges fome good of me, but to 
 render me worthy o f that ^ which I have 
 received from heaven 1 I (hall have all 
 things to my with amid ft my plea- 
 fares, when Death it felfe is deafe to 
 his plaints, in extremitie of his paines : 
 And lhall not I give him fome fort of 
 confoladon, either in good office, or 
 in pity, being thereunto obliged by 
 yet more powerfuil reafons ? 
 
 Great-ones of the World , you are 
 more miferable then thefe miferable- 
 ones , even in the mid’ ft ofyourfelo 
 cities , if the recite of their evils give 
 you not fome touch. You have riches 
 more then they , but God hath given i 
 you thefe, but to cheer e their pover- j 
 xy. As well alfo, though they now are j ; 
 
 yours I j 
 
 
i 
 
 niters not. 
 
 jyo^js, lhall they take leave of you , ar 
 jthe £twof your depart, and if of them 
 ( yod carry any thing away, it fhall be 
 jOnefy the interefts of that which you 
 Mve lent thefe Poore-ones. 
 
 Great worldly-one s , how is your fate 
 worthy of companion rather then En« 
 vie, if you have no other Paradife then 
 your riches ? 
 
 Grandees of the World , how foone 
 will the fource of your contentments 
 dry up, if onely your treafures give it 
 fpring-head? 
 
 Great worldh-onesl of how thorten- 
 
 12 . $ 
 
 I 
 
 durance fhall be your profperities, 
 though an Age fhould bee lifnit to 
 their courfe, iince at the end of that 
 tearme you mud dye eternally, and 
 dye in a paine alwayes living. Sagged 
 to your felves often rhcie importan- 
 cies. F'ifit'and titrne over the leafejo reads 
 mors of them. 
 
 When I confider the great number 
 of Emferours , Kings , Princes^ and Lords, 
 which have governed the World, and 
 the Battels which they Lave given for 
 its conqucfts , iince the reomens of its 
 creation , I remaine all amaz’d , nor 
 
 K 2 able 
 
 He whore hopes 
 are onely on the 
 mild yjnuji needs 
 at lajt de^aire* 
 
H4 
 
 Heatc^ DayeSy 
 'Tmc$\and ^Ages 
 may mU be diffe- 
 rent, but the 
 world u fiiH the 
 fame , 
 
 MlRROVR “ 
 
 able to find bounds nor meaf^re in | 
 
 amuzement. H®w many fevefall £la- ; 
 flers may a man imagine then, that tht$ 
 World hath had? and how many times 
 conquered, dividing it into divers Em- 
 pires, Kingdomes, and Lordfhips ? 
 Well, yet the World hath ftiil remai- 
 ned the fame , and in the fame place 
 ftill : but its Empeiours , Kings, Prin- 
 ces, and Lords, are vanished away, one 
 at the heeies of other, and all their con- 
 qoefts have ferved them only as matter 
 of Pa fie- 'time , fince all their combats 
 and battels, have had no other price of 
 Vi dory , but upon the fame earth, 
 where their glories , and bodyes re» 
 maine together enterred. 
 
 O goodly childifh fport , to amuze 
 themfeives about conquering fome 
 little point within the limits , where- 
 with the tlniverfe is bounded/ Ask but 
 Alexander .what bee hath done with the 
 bootyes of his Conqueft. When he 
 had ta’en away all, he had yet nothing, 
 and of himfelfe now remaines there 
 nothing at all. Ambition , behold the 
 reverfe of thy Med&tl. ; 
 
 LO rd } Prefcrve to me alwayes, 
 
 ' ‘ ’ ^ ‘ if 
 
which flatters not . 
 
 Ig- 1 ' " I ■ ^ • ' ~ ■ — «— - — — — 1 ' 1 ' 
 
 ( if it pleafe thee ) this humour where* 
 in I now finde my felfe, to mifprize all 
 the things of the world , and / 1 too 
 with paflion. Give me a heart wave- 
 ring and inconftant, to this end , that 
 it may unceffantly change from all 
 worldly Love, till it be fubje&ed to 
 thefweetEmpireofthy Love. Render, 
 render evermore my fpirit unquiet, un- 
 till that it hath found its repofe in thee 
 alone, the foundations of fuch a reft 
 are unremoveable. 1 will give for no- 
 thing all my pretentions on earth , for 
 thereto pretend I nothing at all. Hea. 
 ven onely is my marke and ayme. Now 
 you (ball fie, fione the end of the chap- 
 ter. 
 
 How was it poffible that the glory 
 of thofe brave Romanes of former 
 
 115 
 
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 Why fhould any 
 love thewfjvldy 
 which deceives 
 all that truflint? 
 
 time, could any way arrive to that 
 point ( though they aym’d it ) where- 
 to the renowne of Rome it felfe could 
 never attaine ? What a folly was it, 
 that they fought immortality amid’ft 
 this inconftancyof Ages, v/hetc D eath 
 onely was in his Kingdome, for they 
 alfifted every day , at the funeral! of 
 their renowned companions, and after 
 
 K 4 ‘ they 
 
 Theft wife world 
 ly ones have had 
 no other recem* 
 pence of their 
 folly , but fuch a 
 bla(l of fames 
 Trump. 
 
The MiRRovr 
 
 w Ambhhn never 
 
 ■ - 5 
 
 elevates, but to 
 qjve a greater 
 fall* 
 
 they had feen their bodyes reduced into 
 
 allies , they might with the lame eye-, 
 moreover , contemplate their fhadows , 
 I rneane their ftatues , metamorphofed 
 into dull, and all their reputation ferved 
 but as a wind to beare them away into an 
 infinity o£AhyJJe.- 3 r mcQ as aW ind,being 
 nothing elfe , it tiyes away with thefe 
 heapes of mine, fo farre both from the 
 eye, and all memory , that iti the end , 
 there is no moreth»ught on’t. 
 
 In effect, all thefe great men of the 
 World did fee buried every raomentthe 
 hope ©f this vaine glory, whereof their 
 ambition was alwayes labouring to make 
 acquift 5 and yet not one of the® for 
 all this, ftept backe j as if they tooke a 
 pflde in their vanities , and the folly of 
 them were hereditary. C S A R had 
 feene the death of Pompey, and with him 
 all the glory of his renowne, and P'mpey 
 had feene buried in the tombeof Time 3 
 and ohlh'iwy the renowne of that great 
 Sclpio , whofe valour more redoubted 
 then the thundcp had made the Earth 
 tremble fo oft. Scifk in his turne might 
 have read the Epitaph, which defpaire, 
 iliame, anddiiafter had graven in letters 
 
 ofJ 
 
iV'ir -in*' -y • - . 
 
 of Gold upon the Sepulture of Hanni - 
 bal } and Hannibal might have learn’t to 
 know by the unconftancy of the Age , 
 wherein he liv’d, before he made experi- 
 ment of them, the mif fortunes, and mi-* 
 feries, which are in fe parable to our con- 
 dition. And yet notwithftandjng, all of 
 them have {tumbled one after otlier 5 upon 
 one andtheiame StumbHng-ftone. 
 
 I am not come into Perfia, for the 
 conqueft of treafures, laid Alexander to 
 Parmemo: take thou all the riches , and 
 leave mee ail the glory : but after good 
 calculation, neither of them both had a- 
 ny thing at all. Thefe riches remained 
 in the world ftill , to which they pro- 
 perly appertained, and this vaine^glory 
 fa wits lover dye, without it fe.lfe being 
 feene.Infomuch that after fo great con- 
 qudfts, the wormes have conquered this 
 great -Monarch , and as the dunghill of 
 hisafhes ha’s no fort of correfpondence 
 with this fo famous name of Alexanders 
 which otherwhile he bore, tis not to be 
 laid, what he hath beene, feeing what he 
 is now , I meane his prefent wretched- 
 neiles efface every day the memory of 
 
 his paftgrcatneffes, : . t . 
 
 Ambi- 
 
 The rkheft of the 
 world at lafi it 
 found as poors m 
 the poor eft com* 
 pamn. 
 
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 \tk thigmtifl 
 Ihmwof death* 
 
 to render account 
 )ef all the tn&- 
 [menu of fife. 
 
 The MlRRO VR 
 
 Ambitious fpirits,though you Ihould 
 conquer a thouland worlds, as hee did 
 this one, you Ihould notbea whit rich- 
 er for all thefe conquefts. The Earth is 
 ftillas it was, it never changes nature. All 
 her honours are not worth one teare of 
 repentance : all its glory is not to bee 
 prized with one figli of contrition . I 
 grant that the noife of your renowne 
 may refound through the foure corners 
 of the llniverfe : That oiSdLAblNE 
 which went round it all, could not ex- 
 empt him from the mifhaps of life, nor 
 I naileries of Death. After he had encof 
 fered all the riches of the Eaft, yet 
 findes he himfelfe fo poore for all that , 
 hardly can he take along with him fo 
 much as a Shin, 
 
 Embalme then the Aire which you breathe, 
 with a thouland Odours , bee Served in ; 
 Plate of Gold, Lye in ivory , Swimme 
 in Honours, and laftly, let all your acti- 
 ons glitter with magnificence ; the laft 
 moment of your life fhall bee judge of 
 all thole, which have preceded it : then 
 fhall you be able at your Death, to tel me 
 the worth ©f this vaine glory, whereof 
 you have beene idolaters , and after your j 
 
 Death, j 
 
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"tobich flatters not • 
 
 Death, you {hall refent the paines of an 
 prernall regreet^iaving now no more op- 
 portunity to repent you to anyeffed. 
 
 Beleeve mee, all is but Fanity , Honour, 
 Glory , Riches ,Praife, Efeeme , Reputati- 
 on, All this is but fnaoake during Life , 
 and after Death , nothing at all. The 
 Grands of the world have made a little 
 more noyfethen others by the way. But 
 this Noyfeis ceas’d, their light is extin- 
 guifh't, their memory buried. And if! 
 men fpeake of them fometimes,the an- 
 swer is returned with a (hake of the 
 head, intimating po more words of] 
 them, fince fuch a Law of filence , Time 
 hath impofcd hereon. Seeke your glo- 
 ry in God, and your Honour in the con- 
 tempt of this earthly Honour, if y ou 
 will eternize your renowne , in the 
 perpetuity of Ages. / have no 
 more to [ay to you, after 
 
 thefe truths. 
 
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 The M IHROVR 
 
 #§§§••$«§ t< 
 
 <8* 
 
 A PROLVS1VE 
 
 upon the E M B L E M B 
 0 / the third Chapter , 
 
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 *AfoI« A- 
 
 DRIANI 
 
 nunc fafiyi 
 S.Angciu 
 
 * Pom Bk 
 
 Ui* 
 
 l * f V 
 
 A Funeral/foy? with wreaths of Cypres 
 
 •**A Skeleton with Roabes imperial! veiled, 
 Dead marchdad lookes>no glorious circumftance 
 Of high Atehievements,and victorious Chance ; 
 Are thpfe fic Trophy’s for a Conqmrom •• 
 
 Tfaele jare the Triumphs qf the Emperottr 
 A D r r a n, who chofe this Sable Heraldry 
 Before the popular guilded Pageantry. 
 
 ’Stead of Triumphall Arches he doth reare 
 The Marble Colutnnes of his Sepulcher . 
 Noipublike honours wave his ftridt intent, 
 
 To flirine his Triumphin his Monument , 
 
 The Confcript Fathers and Ottirttes all 
 intend his welcome to the Capitdf, 
 
 The vaft expence one day’s work would have coft, 
 He vvifer farre (fince t’other had beene loft) 
 
 To build a Manjohum doth beftow, . . 
 
 Which now at %ome is call’d Saint * Angelo ; 
 Where to this Day>from tsElim Adrian s Name>. 
 ’Hie lAlUm * Bridge doth ftill revive his fame. 
 Now was the peoples expectation high. 
 
 For wonted pompe and glitt’ring Chevalry : 
 
 But Joe thdtEmprotir doth invite ’em alb 
 Not to a Shevvj but to his FmeraU, 
 
 They 
 
. which flatters not. 
 
 They lookc for Gew+Gm-fancizs', his wife Icorne 
 Cbnremnes thole Vanities, leaves their hope for- 
 Forfiate all’s ftftother’d in thtFmerallPikyQomo. 
 He will not daily with ’em for a while. 
 
 This was Selfe-ViUbxy > and deferveth more f h; 
 Then all theConquetts he had woon before. 
 
 ♦ W hat can Death doe to iuch a mamor FW, 
 Whole Refolutioris them anticipate ? 
 
 For iince the ijrtive muft be the latter end , 
 
 Let our preventing . thoughts firft thither tend. 
 Bravely refolvd it is* knowing the worfi 
 What muftbe doneat la.fi> as good at f.rfi. 
 
 
 THE 
 
 
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MIRROVR 
 
 \V HlCH 
 
 FLATTERS NOT. 
 
 155 
 
 CHAP, III. 
 
 How glorious is the 
 T riumph over Death ? O 
 how brave is the VtBovie 
 over a Mans felfe ! You 
 iee how this great * c JMo- 
 narch triumphs to day over that proud 
 Triumpher Death , after the happy van* 
 quiihmentofhispaflions. Hee enters 
 into his Empire by the Port of his 
 Tomh, thus to raigne during his life, 
 like a man that dyes every moment ; 
 he celebrates him felfe his owne Fme- 
 rals , and is led in Triumph to his Se- 
 
 pnhhe r 
 
 * Adrian « 
 
1 5 4 
 
 7 he MiRR qvR 
 
 mlcher to learne to dye getieroufly. 
 What a glory’s this to over-awe That^ 
 which commands the whole world ? 
 what Courage is this, toafTaile and 
 combate That, which none could ever 
 yetrefift ? and what a power is it to 
 tame That which never yet yeelded ? 
 Echo her felfe hath not rebounds 
 enow to re found aloud the wonders j 
 of this Vi cloy ie. ' \ 
 
 This is not the Triumph of Alexan- 
 der , when he madehis entry intoBahy~ 
 lon, mounted upon a Chariot as rich 
 as the Indies , and more glittering then 
 the Sum?, 
 
 In this we fee no other riches, but 
 the rich contempt , which ought to be 
 made of them; no other luftre, but of 
 Venue. • 
 
 This, is not the Triumph of C&far 
 then , when he was drawne unto the Ca - 
 pitoUby forty Elephants, after he had 
 wonne twenty foure battels. In this we 
 fee nought elfe but a funerall pompe, 
 but yet Co glorious, that Death her 
 felfe ferves for a Tf-ophu to if, | 
 
 This is not die Triumph of Epami.\\ 
 nondas , where the glorious luftre of the 
 
 magnifij 
 
which flatters not. 
 
 magnificence fiham'd the Ipicndour 
 ■ ofthe day, which yet lent its Ightto 
 it. The marvels which appear’d in this 
 here, fecm’d as celebrating in blacke 
 the Exequies of all the other brave- 
 ries of the world , fince nothing can be 
 
 13 5 
 
 feene more 
 
 This is not the Triumph of. Aurdian, 
 where all .the graces are led captive 
 with Zenobia. In this are to be feene 
 no other captives but the world , and 
 all its vanities, and their defeat is the 
 ! richeft Crowne of the ZiBor. 
 
 This is not the Triumph of that 
 pompeous Queene of Egypt entnng in- 
 to Cilicia , where fhee rays’d admira- 
 
 tion to her fclie in a Galley 01 unutte- 
 
 To triumph ever 
 vice, u the no- 
 b'ejl Trophic, 
 
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 rable value , but in this wee contem- 
 plate the more then humane indufttie 
 ofa Pilotc, who from tbemid’ft of the 
 ftormesand te m pe ft s of. the w o r 1 d , re- 
 covers happily to the Port , the fnip 
 of his life , though yet but in the way 
 to approach to it. : 
 
 : In fine , this is not the Triumph of 
 
 Se/ofifaif , whofe ftately Chariot foure - 
 Kings drew: Faffions are the cnely 
 flaves of this , and Death beidg hoc 
 I . L vanquifnr 
 
>Att the glory of 
 men van jhctb 
 away with them. 
 
 
 vanquifht , this honour remaines im- 
 mortal! , and the name of the Trium- 
 pher. 
 
 Say we then once againe , O how 
 glorious a Triumph is this , over 
 Death ! O how brave is the viBorie over 
 our [elves ! and the onely meanes thus 
 to vanquifh a mans-felfe , is to bury 
 his ambition before his body be enfe- 
 fulchred , preparing ne’rethelefle the 
 tombe of both j to the’nd , that the 
 continuall remembrances of Heath, 
 may ferve for temperament and mode- 
 ration to the delightsof life. 
 
 We reade of Paulas ^Emilias , that 
 returning to Rome laden with wreaths 
 ofLaurell, after the famous vi&orie 
 over the Persians ; he made his entrance 
 of triumph with fo great pompe and 
 magnificence, that the Sunne feemed 
 to rouze it felfe many times, as if upon 
 defigne to contemplate thefe won* 
 ders. 
 
 Pompej defirous to expofe to the 
 view of day , all the magnificent 
 prefents , which Fortune had given 
 him in his laft conquefts, entred now 
 the third time in Triumph into the 
 
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which flatters pou 
 
 f 3 7 
 
 City of Rome, where the noyle of his 
 valour made as many Idolaters , as ad- 
 mirers , gayning hearts , and now con- 
 quering foules,as well as before Real ms 
 and Provinces ; Rut it feemes , that the 
 glory 3 which accoropanyed him in 
 this action had this defed 5 not to be 
 fufficiently worthily knowne, even of 
 thofe that were witnc Res of it , as fur- 
 prizing by much, all that they could 
 poffibly expreffe ofit. 
 
 There was feene advanc’c before his 
 C Harriot , in ofienratioh, a Checker- 
 worke compofed of two forts of pre* 
 l cions ftones , whofe beauty fee them 
 beyond all price : But yet (me thinks ) 
 their fparkling might have in good 
 time beenea light to him , if by a fee- 
 ling of fore-fight, touching the incon- 
 ftancie of his fortune, hee had can- 
 ted to have beene graven thereon the 
 hiftoric of his mifhaps. There was 
 admired in fequell , a statue of the 
 Mcone , all of Gold , in forme of a 
 Crefcent , and ! am aftooifht , that 
 this linage of change and ricifft- 
 tt*de 5 made him not fore-fee the de. 
 turning of theWheele, I meane the 
 
 t i forme, 
 
 ' 
 
 Vtniueiiadtm- 
 gerom enernie, 
 it flatter sanely to 
 fntprfag. 
 
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Ambition u an 
 incurable clifeafe 
 of the ioule, if in 
 goodtimeitbe 
 not lookt too* 
 
 
 The MlRROVR 
 
 ftorme, that was to fucccede the calme 
 ofhishappineffe- Hecaus’d moreover j 
 to be caried be fore him a great number j 
 ofVeflelsof Gold, never thinking that 
 Death might foone rcplenifh fome part 
 of them with his afhes. There was feene 
 to follow a Mountaine all of Gold, 
 upon which were all forts ol animals, 
 and many Trees of the fame matter,, 
 and this mountaine was enroundedi 
 with a Vine , whofe golden glittering; 
 dazled thceycs of all that confidered' 
 its wonders. This proud Triumpher; 
 was the Orpheus , which to the Lyricfr 
 found of his renowne, attra&edthisi 
 Mountaine , thefe Animals , thefe- 
 Trees, this Vire. Butas Orpheus, fo 
 him aifo, Fortune deftinated a Preyto 
 the fury of Bdcchinals , I meane the Hu- ! 
 nuchs which put him to Death. Three: 
 Statues of gold , firft lupiters , ther i 
 Mars , and then of f alias, came after. 
 Thefe were his Gods and his God-i 
 dcffe : what fuccours could bcexpedlj 
 from thefe Deities , which had no Tub-* 
 
 I Offeree, burin ftatue, and the copy 01 
 whofe portrait had no principal! ;| 
 There was had in admiration mote j 
 
 over 
 
7»hich flatters not. 
 
 over, thirty Garlands all of gold , and 
 dearies : but thefe Crownes were too 
 weighty for his head , from whence it 
 came to paffe , that hee fell under the 
 burden, A golden Chappell follow- 
 ed after, dedicated to the Mufes , upon 
 which was a great Horologe of the 
 lame materials. And as the Index ftill 
 turned, ought not he to have confide- 
 red, that the houre of his triumphing 
 began to paffe away, and that of his 
 overthrow would prefently found , be- 
 ing fequell to the Lawes of thatvicif- 
 jfitude, to which fate hath fubje&ed 
 all things? His ftatue of gold cnrich't 
 with Diamonds , and Pearles, whereof 
 nor hee himfelfe , nor hee that en- 
 wroughtthem , knew the value, fol- 
 lowed in its courfe, and in fine, this 
 his fhadow , was more happy then the 
 [true body , as having never beene fcuf- 
 fled with , but by time , and the other 
 was vanquifht with rniferie. Then ap 
 peared the great Pom-yey , feated upon a 
 Throane, where bee and fortune Ite- 
 med to cr ive Laws to the whole world, 
 Tor his = TriumphalI Charriot was fo 
 richly glorious, fo’magnificent in rari- 
 
 i 
 
 A man bad need 
 to have an excel - 
 lent memorie, 
 not to forget him- 
 felfe among hh 
 honours. 
 
140 
 
 Be it ouiconflant 
 meditation^/ 
 the inton ft uncic 
 to which all 
 worldi) things 
 are fuhjefded. 
 
 Sec Pliny’s 
 Nat. Hiftorie, 
 
 7 BocI( 3 i6 Chap- 
 ter. 
 
 Pride U the pa f- 
 (ion of looks : 
 for rvhat a fen fe- 
 te frelfe is h,to be 
 proud y having Co 
 many mifenes 
 about which 
 are incident to 
 monall aian ? 
 
 rbe MlRROVR 
 
 — ■ ....... . i i " 
 
 ties, )o ipJendide in new , and ne’re-be- 
 fore-feene wonders , that aravifhment 
 furprized mens (pints, elevating them' 
 at once from admiration to extafie, 
 not giving them leafure to make refle- 
 xion upon the prefent realties. But 
 this Triumphal! Cnarriot ft ill rout'd 
 about, and though the Triumpher re- 
 main’d feared in his place, yet his For- 
 tune turned about likewife. Infomuch 
 that in going to the Capitoll, hee ap- 
 proac’n’t by little & little to the bank, 
 where his life and happinefle, were 
 equally enterred. 
 
 In fine, for the fulnefle of Glory, 
 Thefe proper names ofthe conquefts, 
 which he had made, were read in gol- 
 den Charters ; The Kingdome of 
 Pontw, -Armenia, Cappadocia , Paphlago- 
 nia , Media , Colchis , the H Iberians , the 
 Albanians. Stria , Cilicia , Mesopotamia , 
 Phoenicia , PaleJUna , ludea , Arabia , an d 
 the Rovers of all the Seas. Who can 1 
 be comparable to this proud Conque- j 
 roar ? and yet (I fay it) having conque- 
 red and fubjugated the greareft part of 
 the Earth, Fate permits him not fo 
 much , as to expire upon it, and the 
 
 Sea 
 
which flatters not. 
 
 Sea yet more treacherous , prepares 
 him fhipwrackc in mid’ft of the Port. 
 
 What refemblance, and what cor- 
 refpondence can there be now, be- 
 tweene this Triumph fo fumptuous, 
 Co (lately, and magnificent , and that , 
 whofe prefen cation I fhow you, where 
 lowlinejZe , humilitie , and miferie hold 
 the fir ft ranke, and pofleffethehigheft 
 places. Afiuredly the difference is 
 great, but yet this inequalicie here is 
 glorious, fince it brings along withit 
 the price of that vertue, whereof Pempey 
 defpifed the conqueft. Hee in his 
 Triumph, rays'd wonder to the beauty 
 of thofe two great precious ftones. 
 But the Sepulchrall Marbles, which 
 appeared in this of AD ri A iV, were 
 of another eflimate , becaufe Pru- 
 dence values them above all price, 
 putting them to that employment , to 
 which (hee had deflanated them. 
 Againe , ifhe cxpofe to view in ve fie Is 
 of gold, Mountaines, Animah, Trees, 
 Vines , Statues of the fame matter. 
 This Herfe covered with blacky which 
 j ferves for ornament to this Funerali 
 Pompe , containes yet much more 
 ; L 4 tteafire,, , 
 
 
 T4t 
 
 How poor e uibe 
 van'iucof men, | 
 having no otbsr j 
 grounch but te- 
 ntane fra 'Utk ? 
 
I4& 
 
 Except the Crown 
 ef\ r cnuc 9 dll 
 Mber are fubjecl 
 to change. 
 
 * Ad rian. 
 
 i 
 
 Th e M I R R o V R \ 
 
 treafure, fince the contempt of all to- 
 gether is graven therein. Hee makes 
 oftentation of his Statue of gold, en- 
 rich’ t with Pearles: but our Monarch 
 takes as much glory without them^ 
 (hewing in his owns bare Portrait, 
 the originall of his miferies. That 
 proud Conquerour had a thousand i 
 Garlands and golden Coronets, as a 
 eovell Trophy: But ours here crownes 
 himfelfe with Cyprcfie during bis car- 
 recre of life, to merit thoie palmes 
 which await him in the end. In fine, 
 Pom’pey is the Idol! of hearts, and foules, I 
 and his Triumphall Chariot ferves as 
 an Altar , where he receives the' vowes 
 and Sacrifices: But this Prince, in (lead 
 of caufing Idolaters , during the (way 
 of his Majeftie, immolates- himfelfe 
 up to the view of Heaven , and Earth, 
 dying already in his'owne Funerals, 
 and fuffering himfelfe to be as is were 
 buried by the contiruall objedt, which 
 dvvels wish him of Death and his 
 Tomhe. But if Pompey daftly , boafi- 
 himfelfetohaveconqueredan infinite 
 number of Realmes , or all the world 
 together :*This Man havitig never had 
 
 worfe ' 
 
which flatters no t. __ 
 
 worfe enemies then his paflfions, hath 
 *]. fought no other glory but to over- 
 come them, and in their defeat, a Man 
 may well be ftii’d the Conquerour of 
 Conquerouts • for the Coronall 
 wreaths of this Triumph , feare nor 
 the Sunnes extremity , nor the Ages 
 inconftancie. Wee mutt pafle on far- 
 ther. 
 
 ifidore, and Tranquillw , doe a fibre 
 us, that to carry away the glory of a 
 Triumph , it was neceffarily required 
 to vanquish five thoufand enemies , or 
 gaine five vi dories, as it is reported 
 of Cdfar. The confent of the Senate 
 was alfoto be had. And the Conque* 
 rour was to be clothed in Purple , and 
 Crowned with Laurell , holding a 
 Scepter in his hand , and in this fort 
 hee was condu&ed to the Capitoll 
 of I up iter , where fome femous Ora- 
 tor made a Panegyricke of his prow* 
 
 ■ 
 
 All the objeftsef 
 Varutic arc fo 
 many enemies, 
 agamfi which we 
 ought to be al- 
 wayes m zrmes* 
 
 
 efie. 
 
 What better Allegory can wee draw 
 from thele propbane truths , then this 
 of the viBory , which wee ought to have 
 of out five Senfes ( as of five thoufand 
 
 enemies) whole defeat is neceffary to 
 
 our I 
 
144 
 
 5 Still to mage 
 war re aqainjl 
 mr paffions, is 
 itheway to live 
 m peace* 
 
 
 fTi$ not allyto- 
 love Vertuc/f# 
 the- paliia-. 
 
 The MlRROVR 
 
 ■°at triumph. Thefe are the five Fifto- 
 r ies, which he mud gaine , that would 
 acquire filch Trophies , whofe glory is 
 taken away, neither by time nor Death . 
 
 This confent of the Senate is the Au- 
 thority of our reafon , which alone gives 
 value and efteemetoour adions,and ’tis 
 of her that we may learne the raeanes in 
 obeying her to command over our paf- 
 hons, and by the conqueft of this fway, 
 triumph over our felves , which is the 
 braved Vi&ory of the World. 
 
 Thefe Scepters and Grownes are fo 
 many markes of Soveraignty, which re- 
 maine us in propriety after fubje&ion of 
 fo many fierce enemies, Heaven is the 
 Capital, whither our good workes con- 
 dud us in triumph, ana where the voyce 
 of Angels ferves for Oratour to pub- 
 Ii lli the glory of ourdeedes , whole re- 
 
 nowne remaines eternal!. 
 
 \ Thefe great Roman Captaines, which 
 made love to vertue , though without 
 perfed knowledge of it, have fought for 
 honour and glory in the overthrow of their 
 enemies, but they could never finde the 
 fhadowes of folid Honour , which thus 
 they fought j from whence it came to 
 
Tthich flatters not . 
 
 pafle , that they have fafhioned to 
 themfelves diverfe Chimeras , for to re* 
 pa ft their fancy too greedy of thefe 
 cheating obje&s. Not that there is 
 no glory in a Conqueft : but ’twas 
 their Ambition led them along in 
 Triumph, amidft their owne Trium- 
 phing. ' ' 
 
 What honour had Cafar borne 
 away 3 ifhee had joyned to his Tro- 
 phies the flavery of Cleopatra l hee had 
 expo fed to view a Captive-Queene, 
 who otherwhile had fubje&cd him to 
 her Love-dominion. But if the for- 
 tune of the warre had delivered him 
 this Princefle, the fate of Love would 
 have given , even himfelfe into her 
 hands. Inlomuch, that the Death of 
 Cleopatra 3 immraortaliz’d the rcnowne 
 of Cefar. 
 
 Afdrubal) accord ing to Tttflln , trium- 
 phed foure times in Carthage , but this 
 famous Theater of honour , where 
 glory it felfe had appeared fo often 
 upon its Throne, ferves in conclu- 
 fion for a Trophy to a new C on- 
 querour, infomuch, that it buried at 
 once the renowne 7 and memory 3 even 
 
 of 
 
 - ■■ 
 
 145 
 
 He triumphs with 
 an ill grace, o'ye 
 whom hh vices 
 triumph* 
 
 
The M IRROVR 
 
 of thofe, that had prefented thetnfelves 
 triumphant perfon&ges. 
 
 Today Memphis is all-Triumphant, 
 and on the morrow this proud Citie is 
 reduced to flaverie. Today the report 
 of its glory jmakes the world fhake,and 
 on the morrow Travellers feeke for it 
 upon its owne fife, but finde it not. O 
 goodly triumph ! O fearefull overthrow ! 
 What continuall revolution of the 
 n’heele 1 Marc ell m fhewes himlelfe at 
 point of day upon a magnificent Cha- 
 riot of Triumph , and at Smne-fet his 
 glory and his life finifh equally their 
 carreer e. I meanc, in the twinckling of 
 an eye, Fortune takes away from him all 
 thofe Laurell-wreaths which fhee had 
 given him, and leaves him nothing at 
 his death 3 h\M the regreet of having liv’d 
 too- long. 
 
 Marius trium phed diverfe times, but 
 with what tempers was the Ship of his ; 
 fortune entertained ? Behold him now . 
 elevated upon the highcft Throne of | 
 Honour $ but if you turne but your head, 
 you {hall fee him all naked in his fkirt 3 
 halfe-buried under the mire of a com- 
 mon sinke where the light of the day 
 
 troubles I 
 
 no may vc jomt 
 
 ! eoKfolaUon in all 
 mr mifericsj to 
 fees H elfe have 
 their changes* 
 m mil 04 we* 
 
I which flatters not, ] 
 
 troubles him, not being able to endure 
 the Sunne# witneffe of his misfortunes. 
 Behold him firft* I fay, in all abundance 
 of Greaweflt f, and Soveraigntie , whereof 
 the ft lettdour dazles the world ; but flay 
 a little, and you fhall heare pronounc’d 
 the fentence of his being abando- 
 
 ned even of himfelfe , having no more 
 hope of fafetie. ! 
 
 How pompeous and celebrious was 
 the Triumph of JLucuUta / In which, 
 hee rais’d admiration to the magnifi- 
 cence of an hundred Gallyes all-armed 
 in the Prow ; a thoufand Chariots, char- 
 1 ged with Pikes, Halberts, and Corfe- 
 lets,whofe fhocking rumbles founded 
 fo high, it frighted the admirers, though 
 they celebrated the Festival/ of the 
 FiBorie. The number of Velfels of 
 Gold, and other Ornaments of the T ri- 
 umph,was without nnmber.The Statue 
 ! of Mitbridates alfo of Gold , fix foot 
 high, with the Target all covered with 
 i precious S tones, fcrv’d anew to the Tri- 
 umph. And of this Glory all the world 
 ! together was an adorer , for the renownc 
 of the Conquerour had diverfe times fur- 
 
 rounded the F niverfe, 
 j Buti 
 
148 
 
 Great Men 
 cannot commit 
 little faults. 
 
 Plutarchus in 
 Apophtheg. 
 Rcg.& Imp, 
 Triftii folkcit uf 
 chcwimt urbem* 
 
 The Mirrovr ' 
 
 But, what fhame after fo much glory ! 
 What infame after fo great honour ! 
 Lucullui , vi&orious over fo many Em- 
 pires, is found in fine fubje&ed under 
 the dominion of his pleasures : his valour 
 has made many flaves every where, and 
 yet his fottifhnejTe renders him in the 
 end /lave to his owne pdfions. InComuch, 
 that after hee had exalted the ftlendour 
 of Romes beautie , by his brave anions, 
 worthy-admiration, he againe blouzcth 
 it’s lujfre by his exceflive debojhes , all 
 blacke with vice. And now tis in vaine 
 to feeke for Luiullm triumphant, fince 
 hee is onely to be found overthrowne j 
 in reputation, in which hee furvives • 
 thus rendring himfelfe doubly mife- 
 rable. 
 
 Wee reade of Ep ammonias , that re- 
 turning victorious from the LeuB riant, 
 hee received with regreet the Prefent of 
 the honour of Triumph, which the Senate ; 
 had prepared him, apprehending ever- 
 more the deturne of the wheele : fo that 
 the next morrow after the Feftivafl, hee 
 tooke on him mourning habit, to prepare 
 
 himfelfe betimes to fuffer the change of \ 
 his fortune , | 
 
 
which flatters not 
 
 H9 
 
 It is remark’t in the hiftoryof De* 
 metrim, that entring in Triumph into 
 Athens, the people caft flowers, and 
 an infinite number of golden Globes 
 up and downe the Greets, forafigneof 
 | a fumptuous congratulation. But 
 what figne of Fictjflmde and frailty, 
 could there be more apparent, then 
 this, which thefe flowers repre fen ted, 
 fince there is nothing more fraile in 
 Nature then they? And thefe balks 
 fhewed alfoby their round, and ft ill 
 rouling figure , that the Glory where- 
 of they were the fymbole, and Hiero. 
 jfljpbicke, could not be firme, and fta* 
 ble according as Truth itfelfe foone 
 after publifh’t by a fudden change , 
 which rendred the fate of this Vidor 
 deplorable. 
 
 Confider a little upon die fame fub- 
 jed, what ’revolutions has the Ball of 
 Empire, made fince the firft Monarch , 
 let it fall at his Death, Is it not credi- 
 ble , that it hath runne over diverfe 
 times the circuit of the Univerfe, and 
 its figure inftruds us, that in the in- 
 con ftancy which is proper to all crea- 
 ted things, it will ftill rowle incef- 
 
 •- • fantly 
 
 JVc an but as fs 
 Many Sowers 
 planted by Na- 
 ture in the Gar- 
 den of the Sartb^ 
 and onely Death 
 gatben m« 
 
 In $\e Yefpeft 
 al(o we are as 
 Bowleg for fill 
 we rowle along 
 to theQ rave. 
 

 TfcMlRROVR 
 
 Worldly favours 
 are fo maty temp- 
 tations > to mafa 
 m tdolatri^e out 
 (elves* 
 
 fantly from one to another , Without 
 ever {laying , fince its Center is no 
 Where at ail ? For fo long as the world 
 fhall endure, a continuall viciflitude 
 will be its foundation. And what 
 cneanes can there be to find a feat upon f 
 thcearth, which may be fheltered from 
 inconftancy, which raignes foveraign- 
 ly and neceffarily , as effcntiall to all 
 whatfomever fubfifts here below? / 
 have not beetle fane , beheld mee upon 
 retutne. 
 
 Tertullian a fibres us, that in the 
 Triumphs of the Romans, there was 
 a man waged to cry aloud to the 
 Triumpher, 
 
 Remember thou art tt Maw. 
 ptinie paffeth farther yet ,and tells 
 us, that they were accu. domed to put 
 an iron ring upon the Conquerors finger 3 = 
 in figre of fervitude.as if filently to in- 
 timate unto him, that he was befides 
 himfelfe,by an excefie ofvanity in this 
 amplitude of honour, wherein he faw 
 himfelfe elevated above his compa- 
 nions. And upon the fame fubjeft, a 
 great number of Hiftorians doe adde, 
 
 that about the Charriot of the Trium 
 
 fher , 
 

 ° which flatters not. 
 
 fher\ there were two men afligned,the 
 one carrying a Deaths-bead, the other 
 the Image of a Peacocks, and both con- 
 
 crymg, 
 
 remember that THOV 
 
 A RT A M A N t r. 
 
 . 
 
 Certainely , Vanity makc-s great 
 Prize of us, then when we are elevated 
 to fome eminent degree of honour. 
 And though our heads be but as of 
 dead-mens , for wee are dying uncef- 
 fantly , and our miferies referable us 
 tothofe Images of Peacockes , which 
 cannot beare up traine , bur upon 
 ugly Feete ; Yet ourBlindneife is fo 
 great^and this Selfe*love fo extreame, 
 that men are dazled with too much 
 Splendour , and a Man becomes 
 Have to himfelfe by loving himfelfe 
 w ith too much paflion. Gredtnefle and 
 profperity , never let themfelves be 
 poffeft , bur to take greater pofikflion 
 of us. And as they have allurements to 
 charme us , and (Wests toravifh us, a 
 Man had need implore the fuccour of 
 Divine grace , if hee would efcape their 
 
 M p leafing 
 
 \ 
 
 Van luck a dan- 
 ger enernie, 
 jince it be tray es 
 m while hfeemes 
 to oblige mJ)j 
 the complacence 
 which it gives m* 
 
gk!ui Jiff Tl ■ m i i. i . ...... , -wr^Bi 
 
 The MiRROVR 
 
 pl^afing tyrannic, and nothing but 
 flight from them j or contempt, can 
 give us weapons to refill them. Let us 
 fill returne to the point. 
 
 We reade of Judas M&cbabeut^ that 
 returning vi&orious from Galile , 
 the people conducted him to the 
 Temple, by a way all tapiftred with 
 flowers. Abraham after hee had van- 
 quished five Kings, was received in 
 T riumph into Salem , now called Hie- 
 rufatem . 
 
 Judith received the honour bf 
 Triumph by the definition of Hole- 
 femes , and all the people of Bethulia 
 laden with Palme , to make her trium- j 
 phall wreaths, cryed out in her favour, j 
 Behold the glory of Hierufalem } and the joy 
 of aft her Nations. j 
 
 Jofeph fhewes himfelfe in Triumph 
 alfo upon the Chariot of Pharaoh, who 
 puts his Royall Ring upon his finger, || 
 j gives him his Chaine of gold , and 
 makes him publikely to be acknow- i 
 ledged for the fecond perfon of Egypt. ] 
 David triumphs o’re Goliah , with a j 
 magnificerce worthy of his vidory, ■ 
 and the Virgins chant to his glory, j 
 
 Saul I 
 
which flatters not. 
 
 Saul hath kill'd his thoufand, and Dav/d 
 his ten thoufand. 
 
 *53 
 
 - -■ _____ 
 
 X Sam. 1 8 . 7 , 
 
 CMordecai aifo had his turne of Tri- 
 umph, mounted upon the horfe o f-Aha. 
 \fuerm, and had his prayfes Heraldizcd 
 by Haman, in thefe rermes; Ihm [ball it 
 he done to the man , whom the King willho- 
 [hour. 
 
 \ 
 
 Eflber 6.i t* 
 
 All thefe Triumphs are worthy of 
 admiration , I avouch it • but the 
 | Triumph over our {'elves , is worth v 
 j aftonifhment, as having to combate 
 our paflions , and coniequently the 
 winning’ll: enemies of the world, I fay, 
 
 | the winning']!, orthe pleafing’ft, fince 
 they guard themfelves onely with fuch 
 kind of weapons whofe huttings 
 makes us often figh rather for joy 
 thengriefe. 
 
 | Certainely 3 the ViBory of Sea fin 
 Over all the revolted faculties of our 
 foules, merits alone the honour of a 
 j Triumph • and what advantage fora- 
 ever a man has over his enemies , hee 
 himfelfe is yet ftill vanqaifht, if his 
 vices be not fubdued. I purfue my de - ! 
 figne 
 
 | T hey which have enthronized Venue 
 
 M z .•,% in 
 
The M i R R o VR 
 
 in their breafls, have laid their foun- 
 dations upon the ruines of their paf- 
 (ions , totcftifie to us, that a Man can- 
 not be vertuous with their predomi- 
 nancy® And after effay of diverfe 
 roeanes upon defigne to vanquifh 
 them , I have found none more power- 
 full, then this, The Meditation of Death, 
 but if any doubt this, the tryall on’t 
 wili be profitable for him. 
 
 How is it pofiible that a Man fhould 
 lethtmfelfe be mattered with the paf- 
 (i on of Revenge , if he but muze of that ! 
 Vengeance, which his fins may draw 
 downe every moment upon his head, 
 as being every houre in cftate to dye? 
 Hee fhailheare rumble in his cares the 
 thunder of Divine Juftice, by the con- 
 tinual! murmur of his fighs, which ad- 
 vertize him of the approaches of 
 Death. What courage can he have to j 
 avenge himfelfe , being upon point 
 himfHfeto fuffer the torment of eter- 
 nal 1 vengeance ? 
 
 Thou that art Vlndicativt^Wl thou ; 
 then quench the ardour of thy Chi- 
 ller , fee'e thine owne pulfe , and 
 confider that this pety flow leaver, 
 
 I .1 ’ where- 
 
wherewith thou art {formed , leads 
 thee by little and little into the grave. 
 
 Who can be Ambitious , if rau- 
 fing of fince hee jimift quirt all 
 with his life ? Let us ponder a while 
 the fate of thofe arrogant fpirits,w hich 
 ha’ muz’d the mfe Ives to conquer the 
 vaine greatneffes of the Earth. What 
 hath beene in fine their fhare at the 
 end of the carriere ? They have had 
 nothing but Unprofitable regreets, to 
 have fo ill employ’d their time , fin- 
 ding themfclves fo poore with all 
 their treafure , as if they had becne 
 borne the wreched’ft of the world. 
 Thou Amhittous-one , will t thou be cu- 
 red of the difeafe of thy Pafiion, think 
 each houreof the day,* that that which 
 thou now heareft ftrike, may be thy 
 Lafi. 
 
 Who would figh for prophane L ove, 
 after thefe objects of duff , and allies, 
 if he often confidercd , that bee him- 
 felfe is made of nothing elfe and that 
 this noyfome and corruptive matter 
 feekas nothing more, then aby fifes of 
 the grave , there to hide within its 
 Ioathfomdnefle, inelFeft who would 
 
 M z gi'*c 
 
 i ,11 ----m i . | r . — • - — 
 
 ’TI& more honour 
 for a man to re- 
 venge hlmfelfe of 
 bn choler jben 
 ofbu eucniic. 
 
 Mortal! frall^ie 
 brings blcwifh to 
 the fair eft vi Ca- 
 ges % and mightily 
 takes fvom their 
 ofwnon^bting 
 well cm fidered . 
 
15 6 
 
 
 Be which cow ft* 
 dci s of > thatwret - 
 chedMfc which 
 u ad'pmci ts 
 Death, eafily 
 mifprifctb the 
 riches of this 
 Ilk. 
 
 he MlRROVR 
 
 f 
 
 I 
 
 give his flefh a prey to pleafures , i 
 he would consider that the wortnes do 
 in expedition, make their fees there- 
 of already. The Meditation of Death , 
 fervet for temperament to all forts of de- 
 lights. And j if a Man bet capable of 
 love in xbhmuze^ it cannot be other 
 then of his Salvation , {ince this obje& 
 is eternal! , but all others of the world 
 perijfhable. Infortunate Lovers fearch 
 the folace of yourimmodeft paffions 
 in the Anatomy of the luhje&, where, 
 of you are Idolaters, fee afliftant at that 
 dead view. Thinke of your mite Death. 
 Behold you are cured. 
 
 What wretched Rich man would 
 be fo much in love with his treafures, 
 ifhe would confider, that Death robs 
 him from them every day , making 
 him dye continually , and that at the 
 end of the terms of his life ,hee car. 
 ryes along with him but the good , or 
 the eviil which bee hath done , to 
 be either recommenc’d , or punilb'd , but 
 with a glory or a punifhment, where- 
 of Eternity alone muft terminate the 
 continuance ? Covetous Mifers 9 the 
 onely meanes for you to be fo no 
 
 more. 
 
which flatters not . 
 
 more, is to celebrate your owne fune- 
 rals , by your Meditations , and often 
 to confider the Account , not of your 
 riches, but that which you muft render 
 one day of their fruition , fince yoor- 
 Salvatun depends thereon. 
 
 Who, in fine, would make a Godof 
 his Belly , feeking with palfion all the 
 delights , which may tickle the fenfe 
 ot'Tafte , if he repre fented to himfelfe 
 the miferies of the body, which hec 
 takes fo much paines to nourifh , and j 
 the rigour of thofe inviolable decrees,* 
 which deftinate him a prey to the 
 mrmes , and the remaines of their lea- 
 vings to rottemtgel This confideration 
 would be capable to make him loofe 
 both appetite , and defire , at the 
 fame time, to nourrifh fo delicately 
 his carkafife. O joules all of fiefh, repa- 
 iring your felves with nothing e/fie, 
 there is no invention to make you 
 chang#nature,but this, to Heare your 
 felves dye by the noy fc of your figbs, to 
 See your felves dye by the wrinkles 
 which furrow every day upon your vi- 
 fages,and to peek your felves die by the 
 beatings of yourf 
 
If a mm Jhoidd 
 foYgei all things 
 \ el[e but the mife- 
 ties of hk ccndu 
 ; ticn 3 this la# 
 
 ' wen enough to 
 : exevcife the vaft~ 
 ] eft mmrie. 
 
 The MjRRovr l 
 
 this your he&icke feaver , wherewith 
 you are mortally attainted. This is a 
 Probatum remedy , the experience 
 thereof is not dangerous. 
 
 May not a raantheti maintaine with 
 much reafon ? that the thought of 
 Death alone is capable to cure our 
 foules of the difeafe of their paeons in 
 dofeing them both the meanes, and 
 the Vertue to triumph over them. But 
 if of this you delire an example, call 
 to mind that, which I have propofed 
 you in the beginning of the Chapter. 
 How marvellous Is it that a great Mo, 
 natch > who is able to hire up all manner 
 of pleaftire in his hearr,with all the de* 
 lights , which accompany it ; cele- 
 brates bimfelfe his BuneraUs in the 
 midflofhis carriereoflife, beginning 
 to raigne at the end of his raigne, fince 
 that laft objed is alwayesprefent be- ; 
 fore his eyes. H is Paflions doe aflaile 
 him, but heevanquifheth th#p,they 
 give him combatc, but he leads them 
 in triumph, and buryes them altoge- 
 ther in the Tembe ? which hee prepares 
 himfelfe. Confider a little the glory, 
 which is relucent in this adion. 
 
 We 
 
‘which flatters not . 
 
 We read of the Kings of ^Arabia y 
 that they triumphed upon Dromeda- 
 ries, the Kings of Perfia upon Ele- 
 phants , of Croatia upon Bulls, the Ro. 
 manes upon horfes, and yet’tis remark t 
 of Nero, that hee made himfelfe be 
 drawne in Triumph by foure Herma- 
 phrodite Mares. Camitlm by foure 
 white Horfes. Marke Antony by foure 
 Lions , Aurelian by foure Hearts , C<e- 
 far by forty Elephants Heliogabalm by ) 
 foure Dogges. 
 
 Moreover, the Poets doe affure us, 
 that the triumphant Charriotof Bac- 
 cbm was drawne by Tygers, Neftunes J 
 by Fifties , of Thetis by Dolphins,* 
 Diana’s by Harts, of venm by Doves, 
 
 I mo's by Peacocks . I 
 
 All thefe obje&s of pompe, and 1 
 magnificence, whereof hiftories , and 
 Fables would eternize the vanity, have 
 for all that done nothing but paffe 
 away, and though a little remem- 
 brance of ‘them flay with us * *tis but 
 thememcriall of a Chimera , and ofa 
 fantofme , fince it preaches nothing 
 elfe to us , but the mine , and non-en- 
 tity , of that which hath beetle other- 
 
 wife 
 
 
 
 This Vani tic u j 
 a mofl contagious j 
 ma!adie 9 W 
 the onely prefer- 
 vativc, is the 
 remembrance of 
 Death* 
 
J6o 
 
 Thefe things 
 mrnted on , mU 
 \ma\emwife* 
 
 
 i 
 
 i 
 
 t 
 
 ! ‘ 
 
 let the fire of 
 I Divine Love 
 igbw upon our 
 f allies* 
 
 The MlRROVR 
 
 while. O how glorious a Triumph is 
 it 5 when wee our felves arc enchario- 
 ted over our paflions , now enflaved 
 and fubje&ed under the Empire of 
 ■^eafoni There is nothing fo glorious 5 
 there fis nothing fo magnificent : for 
 thefe Dromedaries j thefe Elephants, 
 thefe Bulls , thefe Horfes , thefe Herma- 
 phrodite Mares, thefe Lyons, Stags, and 
 Tygres afore-mentioned, are but brute 
 bcafts , which draw along in traine af- 
 ter them others as brutifh as themfelves, 
 as fuffering themfelves to be tranfpor- 
 ted with vanitie , which onely reduceth 
 them to this beaftly-femblant vanitie. 
 Let us turns surface to another fide. 
 
 Sab ELllcUs in his N N E A D s , 
 actively perfwades us to beleevc , that 
 the Chrifiians of c Ethiopia doe carry in 
 their proceffions, great veffels full of 
 afhes , to emblematize apparently the 
 frailty ©f our nature. But may not wee 
 fay upon too much reafon , that me are 
 earthen veffels full of afhes j and what 
 objed more fenfibly can be prefented 
 before our eyes , to fhenr us the truth 
 ofour miferies, then this of our felves » 
 From Earth is our production, and the 
 
 fame 
 
Which flatters not* 
 
 i6j 
 
 fame ferves us with nourifhment , and for 
 fepulture alfo j as ifafhamed the Sunne 
 fhould afford his light to our wretched- 
 nefle. 
 
 Make we then every day Tuner all pro- 
 cefflom , or at leaft vifit in meditation 
 every houre our Tombe , as the place 
 where our bodyes rauft make fo long 
 abode. Celebrate we our (elves our owne 
 Funerals, and invite to our exequies, Am- 
 bition, Avarice , Pride , Choller , Luxurie , 
 Gluttony, and all the other Pa(fons,w here- 
 with we mav be attainted , to the end to 
 be Conqtierours, even by our owne pro- 
 per defeate : For when a Man yeelds to 
 the ^Meditation of Death , then reafon 
 commands fenfe • All obey to this ap- 
 prehenfion of frailty, and feeblenefle. 
 Pleafures by little and little abandon us, 
 the fweets of life feeme fowre , and wee 
 can find no other quiet , but in the hope 
 of that , which Truth it felfe hath pro- 
 mi fed us , after fo much trouble. 
 
 Proud Spirits , be ye Spe£iators of 
 this Tuner all Pompe , which this great 
 ' Monarch celebrates to day : Hee invites 
 the Heaven and the Earth to his Exe- 
 quies, fince in their view hee accompa- 
 : ... ?/. flies 
 
 i 
 
 . f. ' 
 
 4 
 
 The thought of j 
 our end is a fo- j 
 veraigne rc me- 
 dic again ft our 
 paifions* 
 
 \ 
 
 • 
 
 | 1 
 
 $ 
 
 I 
 
The MlRROVR 
 
 nies his pourtrayed skeleton unto the 
 T ombe : his Body condu&s thither its 
 fhadow , theoriginall the fainted figure 
 in attendance , till a Metamorpbofit be 
 made both of one and t'other. O glo- 
 ria m aBion ! where the Living takes a 
 pride to appeare Dead t as dying alreadie 
 by his owne choice, as well as neceffi- 
 tie. O glorious aBion ! where the Tri- 
 umpher takes a glory in the appearance 
 of his overthrow. O glorious aBion ! 
 where all the honour depends upon the 
 contempt of the worlds honour. O 
 glorious aBion ! where Garlands of Cy- 
 frejfe dilpute the preheminence with 
 Laurell and Palme. O glorious aBion ! 
 where the Conquerour under-going 
 the Lawes of Nature, elevates himfelfe 
 above it , making his puiffonpe to be 
 admired , in his voluntaric weakeneffe. 
 But / engage my felfe too farre in't. \ 
 
 Herodotus remarkes, that the Queene 
 S emir amis made her Sepulcher be ere&ed 
 upon the entrances of the’ principall 
 j Gate of the *Citie } t o the end, that this 
 \fad objed of wretchednejje might ferve 
 | for Scheole-maTler to paiTengers , to 
 teach them the Art^to know themfehes. 
 
 ! ■ G 
 
which flatters not* 
 
 O blefled Leffon is chat, which the Tombes 
 can afibord us I O gracious Science is 
 chat, which they inftrud us ! 
 
 Strabo teftifies,that the Persians made 
 Pipes of dead-mens bones, which they 
 ufed at Fetfivah . to the end, that the 
 fad harmonic which i filled thence, might 
 temper the excefle of joy. But may not 
 we my our Lungs to be to us fuch kind 
 of whiBles , and that our dolomts jigbs, 
 which produce thence the harmonic, are 
 capable to moderate the violence of our 
 contentments l A ftrange thing it is, that 
 all the animated obje&s, which are af- 
 feded by our fenfes, beare the image of 
 Death , and yet wee never thinke but ©f 
 Life. Let our eyes but fairely turne 
 their regards on all fides , All that lives, 
 they may lee s dyes ; and what ha’s no 
 life , pafies away before ’em. Our eares 
 are tickled wfith the fweet harmonic of 
 Voices, or Inftruments, or Tabors, or 
 Trumpets : But thefe founds are but Or- 
 gans fpirited with blails , whole bor- 
 rowed wind is loft, when the motion 
 cealeth *, and there behold the Settle of 
 their life. And for Inftruments , ’tis true 
 
 they warble delightfully, yet their rne- 
 
 Iodic 
 
 1 
 
 better 
 
 Schoole then 
 the Church- 
 yard. 
 
 I 
 
154 
 
 The cbjeft of our 
 nothmgnefft ha*$ 
 a grace and al- 
 lurement capable 
 to ravifh the bejl 
 fpirits. 
 
 
 Death is ever 
 prefent, and at 
 hand) to our 
 heart, but (lift 
 abfent from our 
 BQemorie. 
 
 The M IRROVR 
 
 Iodic is often dolefutt to the mind, when 
 it confiders that it proceedcs from cer- 
 taine guts of dead beads, which Art 
 hath fo contrived. Tatars being of the 
 fame nature, muft alfo neceflarily pro- 
 duce the fame effeds 3 and Trumpets 
 alfo doe but fibbe in our eares , fincc 
 their clangor is forced onely by the vio- 
 lence of a blaff of figbs : Our Tafie can- 
 not fatiate the hunger of its appetite, 
 but with dead and breathlefle things: 
 and all our other fenles are fubjed to 
 the fame neceffitie. Infomuch , that 
 Death environs us on all fides , though 
 we be alwayes her owne , and yet wee 
 never thinke on't , but in extremities : as 
 if wee were onely to learne at the laft 
 inftant , that wee are Mort all , and the 
 hard experience which wee make on’t, 
 were the onely L efon i which by Nature ! 
 is given us. ; 
 
 Lord render me capable, if it pleafe 
 • thee, of tkiisScience^ which may effeftu- 
 aUy teach me the Art, to know my felfe . 
 to the end, that this knowledge may 
 reprefent to me alwayes the realitie of 
 my wretchednefle. Make me that I may 
 fee my felfe, may underftand and feele j 
 
 s 
 
 my 
 
which Jitters not, 
 
 mylelfe to dye every moment ; but lb, 
 that I may fee it with the eyes of my 
 heart y perceive it with the eyes of my 
 f?u/e 9 and feele it by the fenfe of my 
 tonfcienccy therein to finde my repole 
 and lafetie. I know well, that Nature 
 Jmournes unce Handy the death of its 
 workes, which are devoured every houre 
 by time • and though no where thus 
 can I lee but Sadnejs'e it lelle, yet ne’re- 
 thclefle remaine I infcnfible of the 
 horrour of thele obje&s 5 and though 
 they be terrible, my fpirit not affrigh- 
 ted. Render me therefore, if it pleale 
 thee, render me fearefull, and make me 
 even to tremble in thinking of it % fince 
 the thought of it is lb important, and 
 liiffcr me not to live a kind of Death , 
 
 ! without meditating o( that life which is 
 exempt from Death 5 and whereof Eter- 
 nitie is the Limit. All my votes doe 
 terminate at this , and all my mjhes , 
 which I add re He to thy bounty, that 
 si may one day fee the effe&s of my 
 hopes. Let us advance on our fir & prepos- 
 ition. 
 
 O how celehriom , and glorious is the 
 Triumph over our [elves i Let us leave 
 
1 66 
 
 A Man bath no 
 greater enemy 
 then himfelfe * 
 
 * T O M Y K I S. 
 
 There h nothing 
 more vdine , then 
 Vaine- glory : 
 'tisa body with- 
 out foule or life , 
 hazing rio iubfi- 
 {laiice 3 but in 
 Imagination* 
 
 The MiRR Q VR 1 
 
 the Laurels 3 and Palmes to thofe fa- 
 mous Conquerours of Sea and Land. 
 Their Crownes are now metamorphofedi 
 into dttfk j their renowne into wind, them* 
 felves into corruption, and for a furpluf- 
 age of mifhap after the conqueft of the 
 whole World , they dye in the miferies, 
 whereunto they were borne. 
 
 Cyrus could not bound his Ambition 
 leffe , then to the vaft extention of the 
 Univerfe^and yeta *fimpl e woman one- 
 Iy preferib’dhim an allay , and placed 
 his head in the range of his owne tro> 
 phiefa Arthomides playes Iupiter uponij 
 Earth , his portrait is the onely Idoll 
 of his fubje&s : andyetoneturneofthe 
 wheele calls him a facrificc upon the 
 lame altar, which hee bad erected to 
 his Glory, his life glittering with 
 triumphs, but his death in fucharuine, 
 clouded even the memory of his name. 
 All thole {lately T riumphers , of whom 
 Antiquity trumpets-out wonders , have 
 had no other recom pence of their la- 
 bours , but this vaine conceipt, that om 
 day men would talke of them. But what fe 
 heity is it to be prat fed in this world, tc 
 which they are dead , and tormented ii 
 
ers not . 
 
 167 
 
 the other $ wherein they live even yet, 
 and ever. I care very little . that men 
 fhould talke of me after my Death , the 
 efieeme of men is of fo fmall importance , that 
 / mould not buy it fo dears , with 4 wifh 
 
 It behooves to Jcarch reputa- 
 tion in the pstritie of the confcience 5 if a 
 man would have the glory of it lafi 
 for ever. The renowne of a good man is 
 much greater, then that of Ctefar or 
 Alexander 5 for this has no other foun- 
 dation, then the foyle where it was 
 fowed , and where the goodlyeft 
 things difplay themfelves like flowers, 
 and like flowers alfo have but a mor- 
 \ n\ng- flour ifb : But the other having 
 i for a firrae flay Eternitle , this object 
 ennobleth it to perfe&ion , and thus 
 ! defiring nothing elfe but heaven, it re- 
 maines to us at the end for recon> 
 pence. 
 
 Blondus in his Treat ife of: -Rome, in 
 its triumphant glory, reckons up three 
 hundred and twenty triumphs, all re- 
 markable : but where are now fhefe 
 pompes,thefe magnificences , this in- 
 1 finite number of Trophies, and a thou- 
 1 fand other ornaments , which rattled 
 [/ , N . .. o ut 
 
 The rciiowiic 
 of a good man 
 onely tafls d- 
 mycso 
 
f 68 
 
 The MiRROVR 
 
 ’ Tis feme tm~ 
 
 1 fort yet to a wile 
 
 nvan jhoughhm 
 felfe fade away, 
 to fee that aU 
 things elfc doe Jo 
 tOOm 
 
 out their glory. W here are I lay thefe 
 Conquerours ? where are their (laves ? 
 their idolaters, their admirers > Thele 
 pompes have but fiam’t like light- 
 ning, and (o paded away with the day , 
 that accompany ed their luftre. Thefe 
 magnificences have beene but feene, 
 and fo tooke their paflage in flight. 
 Thefe trophies being ondy bravadoes 
 of the time , times inconftancy made 
 them van ifh in an inftant,8ta!l rhofeo- 
 ther ornaments made but oftentation of 
 rhpir rontinuall viciffitude.as being an 
 
 irreparable accident of their nature. 
 Thde vanquifhers onely had the name 
 on’c, fince Death led thefti away alfbi 
 in triumph, for all their triutnphings. 
 Their captives were rather (laves of the 
 mi feries w hereunto they were borne,; 
 then fo by the abfolute power of him ! 
 who c apt wed the. Their Idolaters have 
 I beene immolated to the fury of yeeres, 
 which fpare none \ and rheir admirers 
 have incurred the fame f»te with the 
 fubjeft , which they admired : Info- , 
 much, that of all together, remaine;; 
 nothing but a faint remembrance 1 
 
 which as it waxeth old , is efiac t b} t 
 
 Htth 
 
V 
 
 which flatters nou 
 
 little and little one of memory, ant 
 fcarcely willic fubfift (o much in the 
 imagination, as to be in the end bn- 
 ryed among fables. Behold here the 
 ■Anatomie of the glory of die world, fee 
 the true portraia of its falfe Imao- e . 
 Contemplate, meditate, you will avouch 
 with trie , that All is full of vanitie. 
 
 - ° how (lately and magnificent is 
 tile Triumph of Ages ! what trophies 
 may a man fee at their ever-rowling 
 Chariot 1 what Conquerours are not 
 in the number of their fubje&ion ? 
 what foveraigne power can refill their 
 violence ? what newer Triumph then 
 this of yearcs ? Who can give in ac- 
 count the nutriber of their vi&ories 5 ahd 
 Ioffe the captives which Death ferVes 
 in for their trophies > What newer 
 triumph againe evermore then of 
 
 neths, of days, of homes , and mo. 
 ments l For consider to your felfe, how 
 many Kings , Princes , and Lords, die 
 in one age in all the placesof die world . 
 All thefe vanquifhers a^e vanquifht, 
 and led in triumph to the grave. Every 
 Yeare makes itsconqueft a parr, gives 
 tjattellj and carryes a way the victory 
 
 H 2 oyer 
 
 169 
 
 Since Hternitic 
 one!) triumphs 
 over l ifDc t wcc 
 Jhould mcly 
 ftnve to attains 
 thac. 
 
1/0 
 
 A ligbteous 
 S man and) (lands 
 exempt from the 
 
 tcmrofdwh 
 
 The M I R R o V R 
 
 I 
 
 i 
 
 A rood co fl- 
 ick nee u ever 
 .untie* f belter 
 from all the tn- 
 confUrt umjefls 
 i/agcv 
 
 over fo many , and fo many men, that 
 hardly can one conceive fo lamentable 
 a truth ; Months, Daycs, Houres, and 
 Moments, triumph in their courfes; 
 who can number all thofe who dyed 
 ycflerday outfight , or aTe dead to 
 day ? Nay more, how many dye at this 
 boure , and at this very in&ant , that I 
 entertaine you with this difeourfe. 
 And all tbe-c defeats of mortalitie mark 
 out to us the Triumphs, whereof time 
 
 onely beares away the glory : But let 
 us not pretend to fhare in’t j tis not 
 worthy cur Ambition. Let Agts^TeereSy 
 MoncthS) Dayes , Howes ^ and Moments^ 
 triumph over us : Vertue alwayes li- 
 mits their puiffancc , and with it wee 
 may prefcribc a bound to all thefe 
 Triumphanis. Fairs leave may they 
 take to ruinate out-ward beauty , but 
 that of innocence is of proofe ’gainft ; 
 all their ftiokes. Well may they im- 
 paire outward graces; but thofe of hea- 
 ven contemnc their a (faults. No doubt 
 they may change the vifage of all the 
 man; els of Art , and miracles of Na» 
 ttirc : Our Refolunon is a rockc in 
 
 mid ft of all their ftormes , and may re- 
 
 niaine 
 
 ■ — w — 
 
 i 
 
yphicb flatters not. 
 
 > ' ' " 
 
 maine alwayesit felfe without under- 
 going other rules then its Q/rne. So 
 that thus wee may lead Time it felfe 
 along in triumph , if wee live for no- 
 thing more then for Eternitie . 
 
 Ifcorne the Tyranny of Ages, my 
 ayme is beyond ’em all. I defpife the 
 power of yeeres s my Ambition raignes 
 already out of their reach. Let Months, 
 Dayes , Hourcs , and Moments , en* 
 traiie all things along with ’em • I for 
 my part , franchife their carreere , fince 
 myfeopeis much more farther yet. 
 Let them triumph fully , my very de- 
 feat fliall lead them in triumph at the 
 end of their terpie , for the eternity 
 whither I afpire, already alfignes out 
 I their Combe. Let m flay no longer info 
 cragged a my. 
 
 The Emperour Trajan caufed his 
 | Sepulcher to be enfram’d in the midn 
 of Rome's greateft placets upon a (late- 
 ly Theater, on which his fticceffors 
 were to ad their parts. Every mandies 
 for himfelfe ; fooner or later tree mull 
 arrive to the flace^ to which uncefiantly 
 | wee walke. Be it to morrow, or today, 
 at the end of the terme all’s equal). 
 1 . , N % Nor 
 
 He which lives 
 for ecernkie, 
 dreads no death. 
 
 Serius aut ci~ 
 cius mecam 
 proper a Hus 
 ad unaiu. 
 
 4 
 
172 - 
 
 Tbe MlRROVR 
 
 — “ w“ — — — — — - ' ' * 
 
 Nor ©!d eor yong can marke the diffe- 
 rence in their courfe, being arrived to 
 the end of their carreere, for a him-' 
 dred Ages when paft , and one inftant 
 make but the fame thing. ‘Tis onely 
 neceffary to muzc of our Jaftgift in the 
 grave, fince thither we runne till wee 
 | are out of breath, from moment to mo- 
 j ment. 
 
 The Trojans would have the bury- 
 mg-places of their Princes to be in the 
 moft remarkable place of the City, to 
 the end, that this fad objeft might 
 ferve as a fixt Memento to remem- 
 brance them, that the T raged ie, which 
 had bcene a&ed by thefe yefterday, 
 might againe be rep refen ted by fome 
 other to day. 
 
 The Phibfbpbers know that ob- 
 jedts move the faculties, and that ac- 
 cording to the quality of their impref- 
 fions , they worke upon the fpirirs, 
 which contemplate them. Let us fay 
 now, that of all the direfull obje&s, 
 which are prefented to our eyes , there 
 is none more powerful! o're our appre- 
 henflons, then this of Meditation of 
 Death, and the horrour of the grave. 
 
 Plac $ of burl all 
 art fad f hea- 
 ters .where every 
 day qjc ailed 
 none bid Iia- 
 g?dies a 
 
«» 
 
 wbtcb flatters not . 
 
 *7$ 
 
 The naoft couragious yeeld chem- 
 felves to thefe affaults, the moft va- 
 liant refift nor their violences. All 
 droop at approach of an enemy fo re- 
 doubtable. But our defeat , if rightly 
 carryed, is more glorious then our 
 Triumph. What fuccefle is this, by 
 being overcome, to bcare away the 
 crowne of vidiory ? fuch fubmifiion is a 
 marke of Soveraignety. 
 
 Petrus Gregorius tells us of the Em- 
 perour Charles the fift, that hee can fed 
 his winding head-kercher to be car- 
 ryed before* him for a ftandard in all 
 his Armyes, fix yeeres before he dyed, 
 to the end, that the continual! objedfc 
 of his grcatnefie , might not be too 
 powcrfull to tempt ham to mifcon- 
 ceivehimfelfe. 
 
 Wc doe the fame every day , with- 
 out thinking on’t , for our fbirts are in 
 a manner as fo many winding jheetes 3 
 which wee carry alwayes with us in all 
 places where we goes But if this fad 
 object be not enough to moderate our 
 ambition , and rebate our vanity , this 
 voluntary is infeparable from paine, 
 we mu ft needs undergoe the Law, 
 
 I N 4 which 
 
 4 
 
 t 
 
 If the meditation X 
 of death ma^e 
 not a [inner 
 change his life, 
 miking Will doe 
 
 1 
 
 % 
 
174 
 
 *Tis heft t$. let 
 Death be wel- 
 come to m, fmce t 
 inevitable. 
 
 
 :ju : 
 
 -i .fk 
 
 t y ✓v ,/ l, ' ] 4/ 
 
 '.’fW 
 
 d j c f', 
 
 T/^MiRRovr 
 
 i 
 
 which wte impofe upon qur felves. 
 
 lord fuffer me not , if ic pleafe 
 thee, fo fatreto miftake my felfe,as 
 never to come to the point of medita- 
 ting of this blefled Deci’ee , which 
 thou haft impofed on me, to dye one 
 day. But illuminate my fpirit with 
 the light of thy grace , which may 
 ftead me as a Pharos , to {hew me the 
 haven of the grave, where the Chip of 
 my life muft put afhqre. Make me al- 
 fo, if it pleafe thee, robe ignorantof 
 all things elfe, buf the knowledge to 
 live that I may alfo Aye fo ; and 
 thus , let the miferies which accom. 
 pany me, the miftiaps that follow me, 
 and ail the other affiidions which thy 
 goodnefte hath fubjeded me to, be 
 the ordinary objed> of my thoughts, 
 to the end, that I ftray not from the 
 way of my falvation. And now have 
 have I no other paffton, but to fee the 
 ’effeds of thefe prayers. Let us nee to 
 
 jj 5 f * ' * > e . ' O 
 
 | the end , 
 
 Thole that have averred , that the 
 I world is to us anhoftile Army,com- 
 I pofed of fo many Souldiers as there 
 objeds in nature, capable to agi- 
 tate 
 
 q t p 
 
"which flatters not. 
 
 tate the power of our paflions , had ve- 
 ry good reafons to defend the truth of 
 their rbefis. Thefe obje&s of it make 
 warre againft us continually , with all 
 the aflaults , inventions , and ftrata- 
 gerns of a cruel 1 enemy. Beautie , that 
 aflaults our foules, by the way of our 
 eyes , with as much cunning as force • 
 for at firft view , it amufeth the Settee 
 with admiration, by a flight of com- 
 placence, to which its fweets and al- 
 lurements infenfibiy engage it. After- 
 wards the Senfus Communis , receiving 
 the faire Species of the Idea of this 
 faire enemie 5 prefents them to the Fan. 
 cie , the Fancie to the Fnderftandin g } 
 which after it hath examined them ac- 
 cording to its capacitie>ofifers them to 
 the mU) which by a naturall appre- 
 | henfion, Andes it felfe obliged to love 
 thefubjeft from whence thefe am ta- 
 bles doe proceed. And now then it is 
 the Cue of Reafon, ether to condemne 
 i or authorize this Love ; but moft of- 
 ten that becomes charmed it felfe, and 
 wee xanquifh’r. Not that Reafon is 
 not fufficiently ftrong and powerfull, 
 but whereas its force and vertue de- 
 
 rendSj 
 

 'par padions 
 are the flute- 
 mg* (l enemiss 
 of the world* 
 for they ajfault 
 m mth thofe 
 jemblane fads* 
 fa&ions to 
 m may feme 
 mH agreeable i 
 md thas they are 
 1 mfi to be feared. 
 
 | wfycatmt juUly 
 j smpkine of our 
 defeat, fines Hk 
 vdimtmk* 
 
 I 
 
 * 
 
 | 
 
 The M I R R O V R 
 
 pends tneerely upon grace , the con- 
 tempt which ordinarily it makes of 
 this, renders both alike unprofitable. 
 This is that which obliges us in all 
 thefe confli&s , to implore the helpe 
 of heaven, rather then to trad upon 
 our ftrengths , and evermore to have a 
 jealous eye to this our lubtile ene- 
 m ie, which yet can never get other ad- | 
 vantage upon us 5 then that which our 
 wretchlefnefle fuffers it to acquire. 
 
 The very fairefl: obje&s of the 
 world , may well enforce admiration, 
 but not love, fince love cannot be for- 
 med in our hearts, but by a powerfoll 
 reflexion of the amiable qualities 
 which are found in the fubje£t , and in 
 this it is neceflary, that the underftan^ 
 ding doe operate, and the will con- 
 fent. And this cannot be done with- 
 out a free deliberation, which wee ab- 
 folutely authorize. Infomuch, that we 
 cannot be overcome, if we ru fh not in** 
 to‘t with defire of our owne overthrow. 
 And this not fo neither, as if there 
 were no trouble in the refiftance • but 
 rather "cis away to acquire much more 
 glory in the vi&ory over beauteous J 
 
 obje&s, 
 
Tbhich flatten not . 
 
 objedSjby the power ofreafon, which 
 is more troublefome and difficult, 
 then that which one gets o’ re an ene- 
 my by force of armes. But the honour 
 alfo furpafleth alwayes the difficulty, 
 and what paine foevera mancanpoffi- 
 bly take , the Prize and Crowne at laft 
 can admit of no coraparifon. 
 
 Wee muft then bravely cotnbate 
 thofe proud beauties , which make pub- 
 lick profeffion toenchaine our hearts in 
 irons, and put our loules upon the rack, 
 and let them fee, to their confu lion, that 
 the natural! Magicke of their charmes 
 is tous a new Art of Logicke, which, 
 informes us to make Arguments, both 
 to give for granted their power, and 
 yet deftroy their force. Faire leave 
 ! have they to expofe to view their blan- 
 I difhments, and graces: the light of 
 ISjafon producer!! a livelyer Day , 
 
 I whofe lufter duskes the midday-fplen- 
 dour. for by the ayde of this light a 
 man may fee, that all their quaintneffes 
 arebutdawbings, their delicacies but 
 artifice s and their attra&ives , but 
 onely compofed by diftillatories. 
 And how can one Idolatrize them 
 I then. 
 
 177 
 
 The rewards 
 which God bath 
 prepared after all 
 our troubles, 
 doc infinitely fur* 
 paQhour defer ts. 
 
 % 
 
178 
 
 Hi commands 
 heft, that can 
 dej rcafon* 
 
 T^MirRovr 
 
 then , after meditationall preferment 
 of theft verities ? Behold the onely 
 meanes to preferibe a rule Over thefc 
 Soveraignes, who would impofe it on 
 the whole world. Not that this kind 
 of combate requires force of courage, 
 but rather of prudence , after firft a 
 mifprife of them to fly away i and not 
 to put the victory into hazard. 
 
 There are yet other enemies , which 
 render them fe Ives as redoutableas the 
 former, fuch are Ambition , riches y &c* 
 what meanes is there to refift them, 
 or to fpeake better, tovanquifh them ? 
 they have no leffe allurements, and 
 fweets, then the beautief afore-fpoken 
 of, and though the force of them be 
 different , they ceafe not ne’re the leffe, 
 to excite and move the paffions with 
 
 all fort of violence. 
 
 Ambition ha’s its particular delica 
 cies , and charmes , to ravifh mens 
 hearts , and foveraignize o’re their 
 foules ; and I beleeve , that its Em- 
 pire extends it felfe farre beyond that 
 of Love: for all the world is not capa- 
 ble of this latter pajjion, but of the other 
 
 every man has a fmatch from that de- 
 
 * fed. 
 
 
 . .'.X l /j i. 
 
* - 
 
 which flatters not. 
 
 17 9 
 
 fed, from our originall wherewith a 
 man is tainted. And this paffion is fo 
 much the more to be feared, as it is 
 natural!, and growing up with us in 
 meafure as wee grow our felves. The 
 meanes to vanquish it, is to ftudy to 
 know ones-filfe , and thus plainely to 
 fee the frailty of our foundation. 
 
 •What Ambition can a man have, 
 that knowes the number of the grea- 
 teft part of the miferies and mifi 
 haps which accompanie his life? To 
 what can he pretend , being not able to 
 d ifpofe of one oncly moment ? Nay, 
 what can he wifh for beyond himfeife, 
 fince for any long time together, hee 
 ha’s not ftrength enough to looke 
 downe to his owne feete ? What high 
 ayme can hee give his defignes, fince 
 all his thoughts , his defires , and 
 hopes, have their limited fcope be- 
 yond his power, as depending upon 
 the Future , whereof hee cannot difi 
 pole. All lyes then in this , to know 
 our felves , that is , to confider the cer- 
 taineties thus feafiblc,both of our ae- 
 fedsand infirmities. 
 
 The Paffion for Riches is always s 
 
 Vanicie is bred 
 and borne with 
 ws> but *tis in our 
 cboifi) whether to 
 let it ever 
 us companies 
 
 f Ii& tbebcfl my- 
 fterie of all hu - 
 MineTi&dcflo 
 learnc to die 
 dayfyt and in this 
 Vocation they 
 that are active 
 apprentifes, 
 are Makers. 
 
 extrearru 
 
 
 isaahaafefflSife ai i tt TSi't iifif'i 
 
7 he true fcw- 
 ledgc of Vertue 3 
 would foene in - 
 [mate its love. 
 
 extreame, allowing no moderation in 
 our hearts. Tisa kind of hydropicke 
 maladie , wherein third increafeth the 
 more one drinks. A rich man of ten 
 thoufand pounds a yeere , wifhcth 
 thirtie thoufand, and if perhaps hee 
 fee the effe&s of his defires, hee foone 
 conceives new ones , being never able 
 to find content in the enjoyment.of 
 the goods which hee already pofiefi. 
 feth. 
 
 That temperament of fpirit, which 
 Philofophie teacheth us to live con- 
 tent in j whatfofinever condition a man 
 is in , is a vemie fo chaft , that it dif- 
 fers it fehfe to be poffeft by no body in 
 this age, wherein wee are^ not that a 
 man cannot enjoy it , but ’ti$ to be 
 fought in the purity of the conic fence, 
 rather then in the world, where it is un- 
 know ne but onely barely in name. 
 
 This greedy paffion of heaping trea- 
 fure upon treafure, is fo proper to our 
 criminall and corrupt nature , that a 
 man cannot guard himfeife from it, 
 without a fpeciall helpe from Beaten, 
 Since that robbery, which our 
 Parents made in the terreftriall para- 
 
 difc/ 
 
 \ 
 
which flatters not , 
 
 ( m 
 
 dife, all our thoughts and hopes are lb 
 theevifli, that they would rob the future 
 of thole goods, which we wilh for then, 
 making no efteemc of thole which wee 
 already polfelle • our hearts figh uncef- 
 lantly with impatience, in attendance of 
 a new acquift. What remedy now is 
 there to cure fo contagious a malady, 
 whole inlenfible dolour makes us often 
 contemne a remed y ? w hat meanes I lay, 
 to triumph over a paffion follrongand 
 puiflant, and to which our nature it lelfe 
 lends a hand? ’Tis certainely an adlion 
 offtudy, where reafonwith timemuft 
 get the advantage. It is neceflary to con- 
 fider every time that this delire to amaflfe 
 riches, doth prefie and force us : what 
 lhall we doe wit h all thefe treafures , af- 
 ter wee have heapt them up ? To leave 
 them to our heires , it is to make them 
 rich with our owne lofle , which they 
 too perhaps will laugh at, in the polfef- 
 fion. ’Tis I lay , to damneour felves for 
 others profit, as if we had never lived for 
 our felves. To carry them into the grave 
 with us, is to have laboured for wormes : 
 what lhall then become on ’em ? Wee 
 muft of necelfity leave them behind. 
 
 0 
 
 Pevenie of fpi- 
 lit ii the gmtejl 
 riches, 
 
 1 
 
 ' 
 
1 82. I 
 
 *Tis the befl pro- 
 vidence in this 
 worlds lay up 
 treafures for 
 Mother, 
 
 T^Mirkovr 
 
 O cruell necelfity ! but yet moft %eet 
 and pleafing in its continuall medita- 
 tion , fince it teaches us to under-value 
 all that may be loft. 
 
 There are a great number of other 
 Paffions , which may mafter us withtbe 
 lame violence, according to the difpo- 
 fition of the predominating humour 
 which poftefteth us ; fuch are Cboler , 
 Envie, Detraction, &c. but with the only 
 force ofReafon, aflifted with the ufuall 
 grace, which concurres in all good a£H- 
 ons , we mayeafily be able to triumph 
 
 over them. 
 
 Wereadeof P grander King of Egypt, 
 that being one day in choler againft one 
 of his llaveSjhe heard a clap of thunder fo 
 terrible, that he became fuddenly quite 
 appealed ; as if he had had this thought, 
 that the Gods were angry with his fury, 
 fince they clamoured louder then hee. 
 Let us have often the fame thoughts, 
 but with more truth and illumination, 
 every time that this blind palfion would 
 exercile over us its tyrannie. My mea- 
 ning is , that in the violenteft heat of 
 our choler , wee lend an eare of imagi- 
 nation to the noife of the thunder of di- 
 
 vine 1 
 
 : 
 
 — 
 
183 
 
 which flatters not. 
 
 vine Juftice, that thus we may be appea- 
 led at the fame time, fir what ground hare 
 we to be armed with fury , againjl our neigh- 
 bour s^when heaven is animated with iuji ven- 
 ■ geance again(i our felves } 
 
 The Paflion of ErrVy as blacke as bell, 
 & the moft criminal ofall together pro- 
 ceeds from an invenomed milchievouf- 
 nes, to which nature contributes nothing 
 atall. 'fis a devillifh pafsion,whofe fury 
 & rage keepes the foule in fetters , ana 
 whole theevifh jealoufie robs away the 
 goods of others in a hounding after em,& 
 yet poflefles none of ’em. What meanes 
 is there then to vanquifh this untameable 
 vice? Nootherbut this, toconfider the 
 Juftice of that adorable Providence which 
 imparts never its favours and graces, but 
 with weight Sc meafure. Go/ cannot doe 
 but iu(lly , (ince his luflice is no other then 
 himjelfe . Thenifthis man have ioooo 
 pounds ayeerc, and I but a ioo, where- 
 of can I complaine ? fhall I doubt 
 the reafon from Reafon it felfe ? (hall 1 
 accufe juftice of In juftice ? To take for 
 granted ,that the Soveraigne of alldpes 
 I what hee will, and the Almighty what, 
 he plealeth, I will alwayes relye to that 
 
 O bailar.e e 
 
 I * 
 
 risa good me- 
 thod, fit (l t9 fcarc 
 
 God 9 tlffl [0 Jove 
 
 him* 
 
 knvhm men *re 
 mofl their mne 
 enemies, and 
 rob them felves of 
 %ht t otiwc quiet 
 
T be envious 
 man is nwer in 
 health, tortured 
 with the Heftick 
 Feavcr of this 
 ever-bwning 
 I patTioft. 
 
 BeMlRROVR 
 
 ballance , which God beares in his 
 hand, and by which himfclfe weigh- 
 cth his actions to the poize of his will, 
 and confequently to the meafure of 
 his Juftice. What objedion can be 
 made againft this truth ? 
 
 Envious Maligner t afore that , 
 which thou can'll not comprehend , 
 and then inftead of pining for the 
 goods, which thoU enjoyeft not ; give 
 thankes to heaven for rhofe which 
 thou pofleffcft, andhowfmali fome- 
 ever they be, they are ever great enough 
 toarnuze thee all thy life-long to the 
 ftudy ofrhankcfuil acknowledgment. 
 
 The Paffion of VetrafUon is eafily 
 overcome by a freili confederation of 
 our owne proper defeds,/0r of all the 
 Vices i rkereof tree accufe one another , 
 our hearts may convince us. If I cal! 
 a man thcefe, am not I a greater theefe 
 I then hce , fince againft the Lawes of 
 ' charity I rob him of his henort by this j 
 injury? Suppofe he.be a falfe villa ine, 
 yet in calling him by v rhis name, I be- 
 rray thefecret, which his faultfhould, 
 in ebar’ty impofe upon me. But if he 
 be nothing 1 q . loe I my felfe ana now 
 
 a 
 
 - rw n i n B I 1 n Ih.- aihm II* an ». > vCA k- l . Wl l| | lti . ( (ili r r . ||(|||| * )|| — j— ~ ^i nn-T^Tr^fBur-ii \ uiuiiLtilijtj.. iu.-juu 1 
 
which flatters not * 
 
 a Tray tor both at once of his reputa- 
 tion , and mine owne confcience. 
 There i$ no fault more unpardonable, 
 then this of obhqme , and in regard 
 that for a juft expiation of the crime, it 
 is fitting that the tongue which did 
 the hurt j fhould give the remedy. 
 
 Thou DetraBour , if thou canftnot 
 moderate rhy paffion, fpeakeilionely 
 of thy felfe , study thine ownc vices, 
 Meditate thine oyyne faults , and *rfc- 
 ctt fi s thy felfe of them before heaven, 
 which is already witnefle of thy 
 crimes ; and by this way of reproach- 
 ing, thou fhalt obtaine one day to be 
 prai fed eternally. Behold wee now at the 
 end of the chapter . 
 
 After all thefe particular remedies 
 with which a man may learne eafily to 
 refill the tyrasny of the Paffions, there 
 is none ns ore foveraigne then this of 
 the Meditation of Death. All the reft 
 abbut at this, onely ^ as the tnoft au- 
 thorized, by daily experience. 
 
 Great Kings , fufferyour felves to he 
 trni imphby youi owne thoughts 
 rb the grave, and bv the way coniider 
 how your grearneftH , your riches, 
 
 — m i ± 
 
 i«5 
 
 *Tis more impor- 
 tant to learne to 
 hold ones peace, 
 then to hold up 
 the talkc. 
 
 He which often 
 Death, 
 Will every day 
 leaine to live" 
 well* 
 
 o 
 
 2 
 
18 6 
 
 The M I R R O V R 
 
 * Caliditas, 
 Frigiditas, 
 Htitniditas, 
 Siccitas. 
 
 - i , - - - 1 
 
 your delights, and all the magnificence 
 of your Courtjlollow you ftepby ftep, 
 .being brought along by the lame fate, 
 whofe abfolute Tyranny fparcs noae. 
 And fincc you may dye ever) houre 3 think 
 at the leaft fometimes of this truth , to 
 the end that that hare of your life* dy- 
 all fur prize you not. Much good doc’t 
 you to nourifh up your lelves delici- 
 oufly , yet all thefe Viands wherewith 
 yourcpaftyour felves are empoyfoned 3 zs 
 containing in ’em th e*foure contrary qua- 
 lit^ whole difcord puts intoskirmifh 
 your humours, and thisbattell is an in* 
 fallible prefage of your overthrow: wel 
 may you chafe away Melancholy ,by ver- 
 tueof frefh pleafures 3 thefe very content- 
 ments cheat may your life for though you 
 thinke of nothing but how to paflfe a> 
 way the timejtpafles ere you think on’r, 
 & Death comes before you have forfeen 
 hisarrivall. Well mayydu cocker up 
 your bodyes, content your fenfes , and 
 latiate the appetite of your defires 
 pkafurr *«k* the Taper of your life has its limited 
 m pow o\6,as j courfc , as well as that of the day. 
 well** gnefe*. j p^ er y man purfues his carrecre, accor- 
 ding to the inviolable Lawes of hea 
 
 ven, 
 
 • • 
 
"tohich flatters not . 
 
 ven, which hath aligned ’em out at 
 once, both the way, and the bounds. 
 Suffer Time to lead you by the hand 
 to the Tombe , for feare he hale you thi- 
 ther. But in dying muzeatleaftof that 
 Life, which never fhall have end. All 
 the felicities which you have poffeft, 
 are vanished with tne flower of your 
 age, and 3llthofe ; which you will yet 
 enjoy, will flye away with the reft. 
 What will remaine with you then , at 
 the laft inftant of your life, but an irk- 
 fome remembrance , to have tailed a 
 thoufand pleafures , which are paft, 
 and to have loft fo many meant s of 
 having had others , which would have 
 Iafted eternally. Disinveft your felves 
 then, for one houre every day, of alJ 
 your greatnefle , and in the prelence of 
 your owne felves, meaning m review of 
 all your miferies,& mifhaps^hichare 
 proper to you , confejTe the truth of your 
 nullitie^ and of your corrupt ion j by this 
 fearch you fhall recover your 
 i felves, and by this confejji- 
 on thus fhall you Tri- 
 umph ore your 
 felves . 
 
 L | — f mu t m i Hu,, i i Ll m iff . _ u i h i - - m i i i « 
 
 187 
 
 Fata Yolcntem 
 ducuntjno- 
 lentem era- 
 hunt. 
 
 
 Tbofc pleafures 
 coft very dcarc, 
 which art worth 
 nothingbni re- 
 pentance. 
 
 1 
 
i8S The MlRRQ V R 
 
 A PRO LV SION 
 
 upon the Embleme 
 
 of che laft Chapter. 
 
 • ■ ■ ■■ i ' 
 
 V iewing the Tfanges of a Libtarie \fi J 
 
 Of Dead-mens bones fil'd in a (foemitarie, 
 
 Great Alexander findes Diogenes.1 
 jind thus they ‘Dialogue. 
 
 Alex. Cynick, among the fe 
 
 %uines of frails Mortalities what do fi looke? ; 
 
 DiOg .For that, wherein I fear e to be miflooke , 
 
 l fake thy Father Phi l % p’s Sat It among 
 Th is p ell~me U undifi in gut ft a ble Throng . v / " • * J 
 
 Alex* Lets fee-, which is it ? (hew me. (Diog.J Sure'tis that, | 
 Whop? nefie is bridge -fain e. ; . " 
 
 ■ , Alex. ‘Dead-men s ail are fla t. . 
 
 Diog. Why then ' tis that where fhrowds perpetuall night, 
 j Cava in thofe hdlow eye-holes* void of fight. 
 
 C Alex. Still all are fo, I 
 
 j Dice* Why 'tis yon skmleffe brow y 
 
 Chap -faint, hp-funkg with teeth-difrankedrow. 
 
 Tend* peeled {calve 
 
 Alex. Thus fitil l all are alike* 
 
 IDiog . S o fhallboth Yo rxand I, and let this firike^ 
 
 ■ Thy 
 
189 
 
 « 
 
 which flatters not. 
 
 Thy ktfevkdjre AUXanser, WThy /«;«>, 
 'Twixt King And jhtvc ones ‘Dead s’ no difference, 
 
 UerPtoy. 0 
 
 T Herc is no difference, Dotri; hath made Mms 
 Equallthe Sceptred the Spade, fc^ira 
 Noe Dreader M’ajeftie is now J‘^ oni - 
 
 I’th’ Royal! Scafathen Rujiick brow. 
 VaiteNEREFs has no beauteous grace, Hor ‘ 
 More then Therfncs ugly face, 
 
 Now hath are dead, odds there is none 
 Betwixt the fair’]}) and fotrlejl One. 
 
 Tell rae anaong’ft the hudled pile 
 O f Dead-mens hones, which was ere while 
 The fubt if ft Lawyer's, or the Dull 
 And Igwraman Empty Skull ? 
 
 Was yond’fome vafourout Samfons arme? 
 
 Or one that ne’ re dmy faord for harme. 
 Orwinkeand tell me, which is which, 
 
 /m the poore, or ertsfm neb ? 
 
 What are they now .who fa much ftood 
 On Riches , Honours, and high Blood .fo 
 Ther's now no Diffirence, with the Dead 
 Diftin&ionsal] areburyed, 
 
 Onely the Soule as iU^oxWell, 
 
 Is Diffrew t o rin Heaven, or Held. 
 
Alexander, anc) Dio^ejaes courftkg among tfle^ 
 Sepulckers oftdc Dead , tEc C?ymcic telfe tfc~Kxng 7 
 rflicvt In tfie, Graue, Monarcks cui£ Meaner Men 
 
 ^ — o/[C 7 ) 
 
 
 iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiJiiutiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiliiiiiiiiiiiir 
 
W HIGH 
 
 FLATTERS NOT 
 
 CHAP. IV 
 
 [Hat a horrid fpe&aclc is 
 this ? what a frightful! 
 objeft > See you not this 
 great number of Dead 
 Mens [culls, which heap’d 
 one upon another, make a mountain? 
 ofhorrpur, and affright, whofe bale- 
 full , and contagious umbrage, infem 
 fibly invites our bodies on to the 
 grave. What a viBorie is this over 
 thefe ? but what an inhumanitie ? 
 what a defeate ? but what a butchery. 
 May wee not fay, that fury and rage, 
 ■ have 
 
Jpl 
 
 The MirRovr 
 
 eath k * /£- 
 ludgCj *nd 
 is mm* 
 
 i 
 
 : 
 
 have alfefOnatcd , even NatureS-fclfe, 
 asd that we now alone remainein the 
 world, to celebrate its funerals by our 
 lamentations, and regreets. Fakers, 
 ^fathers, Children, Nobles, and Plebeians , 
 Sings, and their fubjefts arc all pell-mell 
 in this ftacke of rotten wood , which 
 Time I&ea covert , but burning fire 
 coafumes by little and little , not able 
 to (offer, that ajhes fliould be exalted 
 above duff, 
 
 Freud sprits , behold here the dread- 
 fall reverie of the medall. All thefe 
 lad objects of mortality, and yet active- 
 ly animated, with horror & affright, by 
 their own filence enjoyoe the £«»rtoyou 
 thus to amuzeyour Spirits in the con- 
 templation of their deplorable ruinies. 
 If you be rich. See here thofe, who Have 
 pojJcJJed the greateft treafures of the 
 world , are not mw worth the marrow of 
 their owne bones , whereof the wormes 
 have already Chared the fpoyle. If you 
 be happy • The greateft favorites ©f for- 
 tune , are reduced to the lame noyfomneffe 
 as you fee the filth that enrounds them. 
 If you be valiant , HeBor , and Achilles, 
 are thus here overcome , behold the 
 
 flianaefull 
 
tybieh flatters not. 
 
 fhamefull markes of their overthrow. 
 If you be men of Science , Here lyes the 
 nstoft leaned of the world. ’Ti$ the EPttafh 
 on their tombe, Readeit. 
 
 I grant njore-over, you may be the 
 greateft Princes of the earth. An infinite 
 number of your companions are buried 
 under thefe corrupted mines . Suppofe 
 in fine, that your Soveraignety did ex- 
 tend it fclfe over all the Empireofthe 
 world A thou land and a thouland too 
 of your femblables , have now nothing 
 more their owne, then that corrup- 
 tion , which devpurcs , even to the very 
 bones. 
 
 Ambitious Heart , lee here a irrour 
 which flatters not , fince it reprefents to 
 the lifethe reality of thy miferies. Weil 
 maift thou perhaps pretend the con- 
 quelf of the llnivcrfe *, even thole, who 
 have borne away that univerlali Crowne, 
 are now crowned , but with dujl , and 
 'afbes. 
 
 Covetous wretch , behold the bookcof 
 thy accounts, calculate all that is due 
 to thee , after payment of thy debts : 
 lcarne yer after all this, that thy foideis 
 already mor gaged to devils , thy body to 
 ‘ ■ • wormes, 
 
 19 * 
 
 ' - " M 
 
 Death my be 
 contemned^ 
 wi avoided. 
 
 . 
 
 L 
 
 # 
 
 ; 
 
 I 
 
 'Tie no wonder 
 the Mifer ntre 
 thinks o/Death, 
 bid thoughts are 
 onsiy tai\en up for 
 ilm Lite. 
 

 I94 I The M I R R O V R 
 
 - V ■ - s& r ~ j ssst 9 c^sai jsgaaSSagaiHBga mam ^ — ^ -- me r ; - — - pft mm .. 1 — — mss*** 
 
 vvorraes, and thus , notwithftanding alf 
 thy treasures , there will not abide with 
 thee one haire upon thy head, one tooth 
 in thy chops , nor one drop of blood in 
 thy veyoes , nor ne’re fo little marrow 
 in thy bones , nay the very memory of { 
 thy being, would be extinguish if thy 
 crimes did not render it eternal! , both 
 here, and in the torments of hell. 
 
 Briiehbutti\e 
 \ the imne*fUib 
 tfiower, 
 ! whicb«at Sun-* 
 
 ! fee pcrijheth. 
 
 I SCMCA Ep%k 
 
 f Qaotidie mo. 
 
 i nmur^uotidie 
 enioi demitur 
 aliqua pars 
 ¥1KE. 
 
 
 Proud arrogant man, meafiire with thy 
 briftled browes , the dilatation of the 
 earth, B rave with thy menacing regards 
 the heavens , and the ftarres. Thefe 
 
 mole-hWs of rottennefle , whereof thy 
 carka£e is fhap‘t , prepare toward the 
 tombe of thy vanity. Thefe are the 
 (hades of Death infeparable from thy 
 body, fince it dyes every houre. If thou 
 elevate thy (elfe to day , even to the 
 clouds ; to morrow thou (halt be deba- 
 ted to nothing. But if thou doubt of 
 this truth, behold here a thoufand wit- 
 nefleswhich have made experience of it. 
 
 Luxurious wanton, give thy body a 
 prey to voluptuoufheffe, deny nothing 
 to thy pleafures ; but yet confider the 
 horrour , and dreadfulnefle of that c JMc- 
 t amorphous , when thy fiejb (hall be tur- 
 ned 
 
 I 
 
 i 
 
 i 
 
 ■ 
 
 I 
 
which flatters nou 
 
 195 
 
 ned to filth, and even that to wormes, 
 and thole ftill to f reft) ones , which fhall 
 devoure even thy coffin , and lb efface 
 the very ktfi markes of thy Sepulture. 
 
 Ho* remarkable is the anftvere of Dio- 
 genes to Alexander > What art thou 
 mufingon , Cynicke, lays this Monarch 
 to him one day , having found him in a 
 CkarneG-yard , lamuze my felfc here 
 ( anfwers he ) in fearch of thy father Phi- 
 lips bones among this great number, 
 which thou fee’ft • but my labour is in 
 vaine, for one differs not from another. 
 
 Great Kings , the dilcufle of this an- 
 fwer, may ferve you now as a frefh in- 
 ftru&ion, to infinuate to you the know- 
 ledge of y@ur lelves. Youwalke in 
 triumph to the Tombe , followed wkh 
 all the traine of your ordinary magnifi- 
 cences: but being arrived at this Port, 
 blowne thither with the continuall gale 
 of your fighs, your pompe yaniftjeth away, 
 your Hoy all Majefite abandons you, 
 your greatnefle gives you the lafi -Adieu, 
 and this your mortal! fall equals you now, 
 to all that were below you. The dunghill 
 of your body , hath no prehcminence 
 above others , unlefie it be in a mrfede- 
 
 aree 
 

 
 | The MiRROVR 
 
 Corrupt!© ©p® 
 simi pcffitira# 
 
 1 | ' 
 
 gree of roltemejje , as being of a matter 
 more dt-fpofed to corruption : But if you 
 doubt of this truth , behold and con- 
 template the deplorable eftate , to which 
 
 S 
 
 ? / 
 : { 
 
 i • 
 
 are reduced your femb tables. Their bald 
 fealps have now no other Crmrte , then 
 
 
 the circle of honour , which environes 
 
 i 
 
 them • their difnearnated hands hold 
 now no other Scepter , but a pile of worms , 
 and all thele wrerchednefles together, 
 give them to lee a flrange change , frotri 
 what they were in all the glory es of their 
 Court. Thefe palpable and lenfible ob- 
 
 The [emits medi- 
 tation of bis mi- 
 ferable condi- 
 tion,^ capable 
 U maty any man 
 wife. 
 
 t 
 
 ;c£ts, are withelles not to be excepted 
 again f. Let then yourfoules fib mi t to 
 the experiment of your fenfes. 
 
 But what a Prodigie of wonder’s here! 
 doe I not lee , the great Army of Xerxes , 
 reduced and metamorphofed into a 
 hand full of duf ? All that world of men in 
 thole dayes, which with its umbragious 
 body , covered a great part of the earth, 
 
 r ' 
 
 lhades not lo much as a foot on t with its | 
 prelence. Be never weary of thinking of 
 thefe important truths. 
 
 In Herfiule 
 QctXQ. 
 
 i , - 1 
 
 Seneca in the Tragedie of Hercules 
 bring? in Alcmena , with grievous lamen- 
 tation , bearing in an itrne , the afoes of 
 
 - • ' iratlj 
 
which flatters not. 
 
 wn.nn.li, i i .W i . » n , li mn I ...i.. i i i " i l, , 
 
 that great Monfier-Tamer . And to this 
 cffcd makes ber fpeake * Behold , how 
 e *fily 1 carry him in my hand , re hi bore 
 the Heavens upon his (boulders. The 
 fenlfc of thefe wordes , ought to engage 
 our spirits to a deepe meditation upon 
 the vanity of things , which feeme to us 
 moft durable. All thofe great Monarch s 
 who fought an mmortalitie in their vi 
 dories and triumphs , have mifs't that, 
 and found Death the enjoyment 
 of their Crownes and fplendours, being 
 buried in the fame Tombe with their bo- 
 dyes. See here then a new fuljeB of aflomfb- 
 mtnt. 
 
 The Mathematicians give this 
 Axiome, All lines drawne from the 
 Center to the Circumference are equal!. 
 Kings 8t PnW/, abate your haughtines_, 
 you i fubjeHs march fellow-like with you 
 to the Center of thegwe. If life gave 
 you preberainenccj Death gives them 
 now equality . There is now no place of 
 affe&ation, or range to be difputed: the 
 heap of your allies, and their duft, make 
 together but one hillocke of mouldywhofe 
 infedion is a horrour to me. I am now 
 of humour not to flatter you a whit* 
 
 
 1 9j 
 
 Hccc iix te~ 
 tana Hercules 
 Complevit ur- 
 na*n, quart* 
 lcve eft pcfiikis 
 mihi,C*i tetus f 
 xther pendja^ 
 incubuit levc? 
 
 The rmtd ii a 
 Game at 
 Chcfle, wbqrt 
 entry (f the Sett 
 hA'$ hi* particular 
 Natae and 
 Place dtfened: 
 but tbi GsmQ 
 dene , all the 
 Pieces are peU* 
 melTd into the ) 
 Bsgge: and | 
 
 even fa are aM f 
 mortals into I 
 the grave, f 
 
 t tl 
 
* Ihwellmcn 
 bide tbemfelvts 
 after death in the 
 Earth, m the 
 emlolure of 
 Tombes, their 
 filth and nojfotn~ 
 mficwtwldetje 
 betoodificwcrt' 
 
 The Mirro vr 
 
 Wc read of the Ethiopians ,that they 
 btiryed their Kings in a kind of Le- 
 ftall : and I conceive there of no other 
 reafon, then according to the nature of 
 the fubje& , they joyned by this acti- 
 on, the ihadovv anefthe fubftance, the 
 effe& with the caufe »the ftreame with 
 its fource j for what other thing are 
 we then a mafic of mire, dryed and 
 bak'd by the fire of life; but (battered 
 againe and difiolv’d by the Winter of 
 Death % and in that laft putrefa&ion, 
 to which Death reduceth us, the filth 
 of our bodyes falls to thedurtofthc 
 earth , as to its center , for fo being 
 conceived in corruption , let ns not 
 thinke Grange to be buryed in rotten- 
 nefie. 
 
 Earthy dujl , and afbes y remaine fiil! 
 the fame , be it in a veJfeS of gold , or in 
 a coffin of mod , or in a UWaufolcan 
 Tombe ©f marble. Great Kings, well may 
 you cover your wrctchedneife , with a 
 magnificent Sepulcher , they will for 
 all this not alter condition , the noyfom- 
 nefie of your bones is never without 
 theabhorrement, and putrefa<9tion pro- 
 per to them. And if (fuppofe) their 
 
 mafic 
 
t 
 
 which flatters not . 
 
 199 
 
 mafle be reduced into duft. and the 
 wind carry it away , the very wings of 
 the wind arc laden with rottennefle, 
 and can fcatter nothing elfe in a thou- 
 sand places , where ere they fall. / will 
 A little fir aggie out the way without loafing 
 my ayme. 
 
 Pabim Paultu reports , that upon the 
 TombeofJ/wjvire/, there was a Syren 
 feared upon a Ram^ and holding a Harp 
 in her hand. And this gave to under- 
 hand , That this famous Orator charmed 
 mens foules through their earcs,by the 
 found of his admirable eloquence. But 
 whereas no melodious ayre was heard 
 from the ware Harp of this Syren , it 
 was required of the SpeBdtors > to take 
 for granred in imagination, the har- 
 mony of her (weet touches, as cmhteme 
 of the fweetnefleofthis great Orators 
 voyce : But Death impofeth fileneeon both , 
 and thus [remained they a fad fight, 
 bothinobje<3:, andmyfteries contai. 
 ned under • fincenowofthefe pafiages 
 remaines no more but a weake remem- 
 brance, and whereof Time by little, 
 and little effaceth even the Ideas. 
 
 Johannes Baptifia Fontanm relates, that 
 
 P upon 
 
 1 . — — 
 
 W utifujfcra- 
 
 bleu the vanii* 
 
 */• 
 
 bf mtn>rvbotvin 
 u an their 
 loffsbei) voitt 
 have the d'fp'ay 
 of their vauii 
 list). 
 
 / 
 

 200 
 
 The MiRRovr 
 
 . ... 
 
 l 
 
 upon the Sepulcher of ^ Martim 
 there was ’graven a Ramme fupported 
 upo n the two fore-feet, and a Hare dead j 
 by its fide. , The Ramme reprefented 
 the generality offthis great Captainem 
 all combats , and the dead Hare , his 
 vanquifht enemies : But what honour 
 now remaines him after their de- 
 feat? This vanquifher of an infinite 
 number of miferable wretches, is at 
 the la ft overcome with his owne mi- 
 feries. Though Triumphant in a 
 thoufand combats , one marble Bone 
 novo container alibis trophies , and glory. 
 O deplorable fate ! to have but feven 
 foot-earth , after conqueft of the grea* 
 teft part of the earth. 
 
 Plutarch allures us, that upon the 
 Tombe of Alexander , there was repre- 
 fented in Embleme 4fia t and Europe ,, 
 appearing vanquifht , and in the 
 chaines of their captivity , with < 
 l this mot , which ferved as a frefh 
 Trophy , The viBorie of Alexander. O 
 poore vi&orie ! O forry triumph ! for 
 where are now irs Laurels, and Palms ? 
 This crreat Monarch conquered the 
 whole world, but being never able to 
 
 conquej;j 
 
 
which flatters nou 
 
 lot 
 
 The mifpifeof 
 
 conquer his ambition , This in the end 
 hath taken away all the glory , which 
 it made him acquire. C reat Princes 
 advance then on to the conqueft of the'' 
 
 Hniverfe, but I advertife you one thing, 
 
 All thofc that are returned from the t!u wo,ld u mort 
 fame adion, hate much repented 
 tnemlelves , to have taken fo great 
 paynes for fo fmalla matter. *rhe. 
 
 Game’s not mrth the Candle , a s the Pro- 1 Le i eu ne 
 verb: But if you love to Conquer, and cSnSSfr 
 triumph; you? palfions will furnifh 
 you with fufeh -fubjetf: every houre 
 Let's once fee the end of our carriere. 
 
 We read of Cyrus , that he caus'd to 
 be engraven thefe words upon the 
 ftone of his Monument , HERE 
 LYES THE C O JV 6) VE R O p r R 
 Of the Persians, But vrhat 
 exceffe ofmifhap could have reduced 
 fogreac a Monarch to fuch an exceffe 
 ofwretchednefTe, muft icbe fiid? Hen 
 lyes, of one that lately flood fo trium- 
 phant ? Would hee have men admire 
 his pafl: glory in view of that vault, 
 where hewasenterred ? would behave 
 men adore the magnificences of bis 
 Life upon the fame Altar, where , D mh 
 i v P x exhibircv* 
 
lot, 
 
 The MiRRO v R 
 
 ! 
 
 Ti* but a fenre 
 (atisfattwn to y 
 have /of ucom- 
 penceoffi much 
 piinti 9 but ihe 
 ofle*tation uf a 
 glarioui Sc pul - 
 then 
 
 < 
 
 
 loft, lo. II. 
 
 • i 
 
 exhibits him zsAtiBime } Is not this 
 a vanity more worthy of companion, 
 then envy ? ' I 
 
 The HiBory of the life of Them Bo- 
 des was to be read upon the ma&le of 
 his Sepulcher, but 'twas forgotten, 
 there to depaint alfo the ftory of his 
 Death. Behold the high deeds of Themi (lo- 
 des, this was the infer iption. Buttoi 
 us it may be of importance toconfi- 
 der, that although the wonders, which \ 
 he had done, were onely graven upom 
 the port of his Monument, yet for all! 
 that, they alfo made their en trie into 
 it, and followed the fate of their au- 
 thor ; fo that now refts nothing of The- 
 mijlocles , but Name , for of all that hec 
 hath done , the wind hath carryed 
 away the glory , and the fmall remem- 
 brance on’t , which fticks by us , is but 
 a portrait of vanitie. 
 
 There was reprefented upon the 
 Tombc of hjhua, the Sunne with this! 
 in feri prion. Sunne (land thou (till upot 
 Git eon. True it is, the Sunne flood ftil. 
 in the mid* ft of his carreere, to give 
 full Triumph to this great Captaint : 
 I over his enemies : But after they wer< 
 
 ove* 
 
j which flatters not. 
 
 . — ■ ■ ■ — 
 
 overthrowne, this Planet jealous of his 
 j glory condu&s him alfb to his grave, 
 as not enduring to fee any thing upon 
 earth, as durable as it felfe. So true it 
 is , that all things here flit away , with the 
 \fmftnefe of a Torrent • though their 
 flight to us feeme much more flow. 
 
 The Epitaph , which feme * wri- 
 tings report us of Adam , has not fo 
 much fplendour and magnificence, as 
 the others. HeeisDead y fayes his Epi- 
 taph, fpeaking onely of him* O excel- 
 lent Epitaph! Men fhall fay no more 
 ofyou one day. Great Kings . Well 
 [ may you with Martins come offvi- 
 
 | Morions from all combats , and enter 
 in triumph into Cities with lex an 
 
 der.- Well may you caufe to be in. 
 fculp’c the H iftory of your ABs , upon 
 the marble of your Sepulchers, Iskeas 
 Themiflocles • and may you Sub-poena the 
 Sun for a wirnefle of the reality of your 
 triumphs, like lojbuah: Yet for all this, 
 men {ball fay rrf> more of you, then 
 was faid of AD a M , H EE IS 
 DEAD, They are dead , and there is 
 all. 
 
 The Epitaph of David compofed 
 ,_p P 3 by I 
 
 205 
 
 Thereis no course 
 frvifterjbentbat 
 of Life t$ 
 Death. 
 
 * Sit fides pe- 
 nes Authorcm. 
 
 1 
 
2-04 
 
 she MlRROVR 
 
 $ 
 
 W .. ■■ nr,-. -■ — - - - - - ■ - — I ’ 
 
 by fome , from confequence of Scrip* 
 ture , is worthy remarke : Here lyes the 
 invincible Monarch , who in his child-hood 
 orec&me Beares , in his adolefcency Lyons 
 in his youth Gyants , and in his age himfelfe. 
 7 ravellour envic not his repofe , for they 
 art in the my to it thyfelfe. Tbefe words 
 arc exprelTe in a neerc regard to the 
 . fenfe of thofe , which are coucb’c 
 in Scripture upon this fubje$ , and I 
 thereto can addc no more then this 
 I difeurfe of my afioniftiment , and rap- 1 
 ' cure. - • 
 
 I -, incorSlanquthe 
 ■onely foundation 
 of cvecucd things 
 
 
 
 What ! fc great a Prince as David , 
 favoured by heaven , and redoubredj; 
 upon earth , and lo endowed by Na- J 
 cure , Thai I heglytnpfeouca little but ! 
 like a flafh of lightning , and pafle | 
 away like a puffe ofwirid ?. where then 
 diall a man find conftancy and afilt- 
 rance > What can be the fite and. foun- 
 dation of all tbefe our new wonders of 
 the world , whofe beauty feeraes to 
 con feft forlufter with t’nev^y Stinnef? 
 
 O L O R D , to me it is a moji agreeable 
 confolation , to fee in my race to the tombe , 
 how all things follow me. I am well apayd, 
 that there is nothing here below dura- 
 
which flatters not. 
 
 hie but thy word alone , free this 
 makes me hope for an Eternitie^ which 
 fhall never be fubjedi to the inconftan- 
 cy of times. Let all things lord 
 change with me , and thus I love this 
 change, for in rowling along , from 
 time to time toward the grave , / ftiS 
 approach towards thee 9 and conlequenr- 
 ly to my foveraigne rcpofe, and la ft 
 felicitie. Let tu follow our firfi tra- 
 ces. 
 
 The firfi Epitaph which was put upon 
 Tombes, was that of the faire RA- 
 CHEL, as is partly remark’c from 
 Scripture, and Borchardw allures us 
 it was a Pyr amide , which Iacob ere&ed, 
 fuftained upon a dozen precious ftons, 
 with this infcription, 
 
 HERE LYES B E A VT IE 
 
 j and LorE. 
 
 Ladyes , let your fwcetncfte and 
 bland iftimenrs now change language, 
 and let ’em tell us no more that you 
 are faire , fince Beautie is buried in the 
 Tornbe ofthe faire Rachel : Buz if you 
 make bravado of your crifped haires, 
 whole gliftering charmes dazle the 
 eyes , & captivate mens foules at oncer 
 \' I 5 4 Her 
 
 1 1 ' ■— r i ■ ■■ mmm i . i ■ — * — ■ mm imam ■ - -- -- - - - , ■ m — - n n 
 
 . \ W ■ N , - ^ 
 
zoS 
 
 s 
 
 tad}($ 9 if you be 
 fain to tlay jhere 
 is a to-morrow 
 when you fhatl 
 mu 
 
 lAliihe tenures 
 of bodily f/e if e- 
 £li’ m a n held of 
 time , rvUgfe 
 c-kiiancyjitaUs 
 axvc.y iv ub them 
 evoy moment. 
 
 __ The Mirro vr 
 
 Her bright Jockes difperfed into a 
 thoufand golden wreaths, had the pow- 
 er to enchaine mens hearts, and yet her 
 vertue was to defpile this power. But 
 for all this , notwithftanding Nature 
 was never able to exempt from rotten- 
 neilc this Afiitiris^ or Matter-piece of 
 
 the workes of her hands. Suppofcthat 
 M a je ft ie it fclfe, has no better Mirrour 
 then from the cleere reflexions of 
 your ivoric fore-heads • Rachels wasfo 
 perfcX , that ’cis in vaine to feeke 
 termes to exprdTe its accuratnefte, 
 and yet now tis nothing but afhes, if 
 fo much. 
 
 Let your Eyes ( fuppofe ) be more 
 cleere and beautifull then the Sunne, 
 able to make a rape upon mens liber,. [ 
 ties ,■ and enamourate the fterneft: 
 hearts : thofe of Rachelwc re fo admira- | 
 ble and bewitching, that fhe her felfe 
 redoubted their force and power. 
 Looking her felfe in a Min our, her 
 own c eyes enflamed her, and of this 
 pleafing hcate , fhee apprehended the 
 influence, being her felfe even tempted 
 rodefire tr:But for all this, thole two 
 fparkling wonders , quickncd with 
 
 Natures^ 
 
 — — — — *\ 
 
 . : " “ : :: :Wm 
 
Tobicb flatter s not . 
 
 Natures fwecteft, and moft aymiable 
 graces, are now nothing but rottenneffe 
 and corruption. 
 
 Be your Cheeks halfe Li lyes, halfe 
 Rofes, your iippes Carnation- Gilly- 
 flowers , your teeth Orient Pearle, 
 your bofome purcft Alabafter, and 
 all thefe lovely parts enlivened with a 
 fpirit divine : fairc Rachel pofleft all 
 thefe perfe&ions foveraignely , and 
 more then e’re youfaw, orwifht, as 
 elevated above your knowledge. But 
 ( O mijhafi ) fhe herfelfe , in whom all 
 thefe rare beauties were united , and 
 affembled , is now no more ought at 
 all .or if fhe be fomewhat, it can be 
 but a little duft , and earth , and afhes, 
 which the wormes keepe pofleflion 
 of in depofi tc. O fearefuU metamorpho- 
 
 /*'• 
 
 Ladyes, will you yet prefume your 
 felves faire , after you have thus now 
 afflfted in imagination and thought, 
 to the funerals of Beautie it felfe after 
 you have read, I fay, the Epitaph, 
 which Truth it felfe hath written 
 upon her Sepulture. I grant you have 
 a thoufand fweets,and graces : yet now 
 
 107 
 
 A 
 
 j 
 
 \ 
 
 i 
 
 Every thing 
 fadeifoontrintHy 
 then vanity and 
 fume . v 
 
 wap 
 
The MirRovr | 
 
 at leaft confefTe yee, that thefe blan- 
 difhmencs are but of fo thinne aeriall 
 worths , that the wind carryes them 
 away, as if they were com poled of 
 nought elfe . for fcarcely have they 
 birth, but you fee them decay, and 
 then the tnilprife, that each one makes 
 of them , renders ’em more capable to 
 produce pity then love. 
 
 Tis remark Y; in the "life of the 
 happy Francis Borgia 3 of the Socie- 
 tie of the Jefuites , that being en- 
 gaged in the world to ieeke a for- 
 tune, although the greatnefle of his 
 birth , and merits , were of very 'great 
 confederation ; the Emperour Charles 
 the fifth committed to his charge the 
 dead body of hisdeareSpoufe, to be 
 condu&ed and carryed to the Sepuh 
 cher of her anceftours, which hevnder- 
 tooke, holding for an excefTe of ho- 
 nour the commandement which hec 
 had received, and the particular choife 
 which his Ma jeftie had made of his 
 perlbn. But then, when being arrived 
 to the place , where were to be perfor- 
 med the laft Exequies ofthisPrinceffe, 
 they were defirous to vifi t the corps, 
 
 • accord- 
 
according to the ordinary formallities 
 accuftomed to be pra&ifed in an a&i* 
 on fo important. Never was feenefo 
 much horrour, and difmay, as upon 
 overture of the Coffin, on the coun- 
 ! tenances of the Spe&ators. They 
 ! {poke for the body of this Princefle 
 in his prefence , and *tis not ro be 
 found } for none can know it ; hervi- 
 fage heretofore full of blandishments, 
 and all the graces , both of Maje- 
 frie,and fweetBefle is now but a heap 
 of filth, whereof the worms in (warms, 
 and ftill cncieafing , keepe the Court 
 of guard upon the putrefa&icn. And 
 the reft of her body is (till a freSh 
 ftocke for thefe vermine, who have 
 now already realbnably well lacisfied 
 theirhungerwith this prey. 
 
 Ei/en thole that enwrap’c this 
 Princefse in her winding linnen,dare 
 not maintaine twas fhee, and hee to 
 | 'whole care the body was depofited, 
 knowesnot what to fay, finding him* 
 j felfe fo confounded, and aftonifii’d 
 with fo foddaine and affrigbtfull a 
 Metamorpliofis, that hec ftreightre- 
 folved at that inftant , to quit the 
 / ' v world,' 
 
 5 
 
 \ 
 
 There k mob-* b 
 jefimoreaf- 
 fngkfuttthm 
 mortal! mi forte, 
 hut the daily ha- 
 bit of our fad 
 experiences , 
 ta\esawg$ the \ 
 honour* ! 
 
 But 0 the worm 
 of confidence is 
 to vacate foules 
 much more 
 dreadfulf then \ 
 tbofe which de- 
 vours the body. \ 
 
 I 
 
 ■ 
 
 i 
 
 
i io | The M IRROVR 
 
 I world , and deveft himfelfe of all 
 his greatnefles , fince they are not 
 able to exempt the body from corrup- 
 tion. 
 
 Ladyes, fnffer your felves to be no 
 I more furprifed by vanity , you fee to 
 what extremitic of honour and mile* 
 rie » are reduceabie your allurements 
 (tis changing, and charmes. The greatest Prtncefe 
 
 of the world , and one of the faireft as 
 hath beene , being now fall’n from her 
 Imperiall Throne into the grave, not 
 one of her attendants can retainc 
 any knowledge of her in fo fhort a 
 fpace. The wormes having effaced the 
 lineaments of her refemblance, have in* 
 
 veloped it fo deep into corruption,that 
 
 no where is it to be foundelfe beingbut 
 Rottennefse. Reader, render up thy felfe 
 I to the hits of a Truth fo fenftble . ' 
 
 ’T is reported of S emir amis , that fhe 
 | caufed to be put upon her Tombe this 
 I n fieri pt ion. The King that fhall have 
 need of money } foatt find within this Sepul- 
 cher as much as he mould have on't. And r ! 
 fome time after, King Darim tranfpor* 
 ted with a violent paflion of Avarice, 
 caufed this Sepulcher to be opened * 
 
 but ^ 
 
ess 
 
 I which flatters not . j 
 
 but found within no other riches, then 
 of fo much gold as was necefsarily 
 employed , in the engraving of thefe 
 words. Covetous wretch , which came ft to 
 di&urbc the repofe of the dead , fatiate thy 
 greedy faff ox ufon the treafure of my mife- 
 ries , fnce this objeB is powerful? enough to 
 make thee undervalue all the riches of the 
 world. 
 
 You that are Covetous , Enter of- 
 ten , at leaB in Meditation, into Tom bet . 
 vilit to fuch effect the Church-yards , 
 and you (hall find therein more riches 
 then you wifli for, confidering the 
 honour of that rotten earth , wherein 
 your femblables are enterred , you 
 will reafon without doubt thus; 
 
 To what purpofe at laft will (lead 
 me all ,the treafures, which I amafse 
 up in my coffers , ifthevery richeftof 
 the world be but earth , and afhes be* 
 fore my eyes ? What fhall I doe at 
 thehoure of my death, with all the 
 goods which I now pofiefse, if even 
 my body be a prey deftinatedto worms 
 and rottennefle ? 
 
 LoR Dyl aymeat nothing of this world ^ 
 j?Ht that glory alone , which a man may 
 
 acquire 
 
 / 
 
 Zll 
 
 'Tk antnfekntt 
 totbtpriyiledgti 
 cf Nature y t§ 
 trouble the rcpgfc 
 *f the Dead* 
 
ZIZ 
 
 xAU our hopes 
 depend from 
 grace, nothing 
 from our [elves. 
 
 y \ 
 
 He which mdu 
 j totes of ano- 
 thers mans 
 death, put shim* 
 felfe in mind of 
 his own e,/mce 
 we are all flaves 
 to the (amc face. 
 
 The Mirrovr 
 
 acquire by the contempt of it, butas 
 is a glory, whereof the acquisition de- 
 pends of thy grace , more then my 
 force; give mee the Courage ^? it pleafe 
 thee, to fur mount all the temptations, 
 
 my defigneof V i&orie,to theetid, that 
 my vowes may be heard, and my paines 
 recompenfed. / retume to my felfe. 
 
 When Iconfider 5 thatalltheworldto* 
 
 getheryis but as it were a C&mitarie or 
 Churchyard , vv herein every houreof the 
 day j fome wrecchednefse , or other, 
 brings to the grave thofe whom fuch 
 theirmiferable conditionhath dellroy- 
 ed , 1 have no more pafiionate defire of 
 life j fince evils and troubles arc pro- 
 prietaries of it* rather then we. who 
 can keeps account of the number of per font, 
 that expire at this very moment , that I am 
 now ff caking to you , or the different 
 deaths, which terminate the eourfe of 
 theircarreere? All is univerfally dread- 
 i full y and yet wee quake not, either in 
 honour , or aftonifhment. 
 
 A Walke into Church-yards , and 
 Charnels , though it be fad and melan- 
 choly,by reafon of the doleful 1 objeBs 
 
 there'! 
 
fc 
 
 which flatters not. 
 
 there obvious , hath yet ce’rethetlefle 
 fomething in it agreeable to content 
 good foules , in the contemplation of 
 thofe very obje&s , which they there 
 find. How often have I ta’en pleafure 
 to confider a great number of Dead- 
 mens Iculls arranged one in pile upon 
 another with this conceit of the vanitie^ 
 and arrogance , wherewith otherwile 
 they have beene filled ? Some have had 
 no other care but of their Haire , em- 
 ploying the greateft part of their time, 
 either to frizle or to empouder them* and 
 reprefent unto your felves by the way, 
 what re'compence now betides them for 
 all their pa 'tnes. Others all full of 
 tion, had no other ayrnes but at Co- 
 ronall wreaths, confider a little in this 
 their miferie 3 the injuftice of their 
 pretentions. 
 
 • I ha’ remark't in fequellhow a little 
 mr me did gnaw the arme of fome late 
 Samfon , reducing thus all his force to 
 an objed of companion , and wret- 
 chcdneffe, fince that arme heretofore 
 fo ftrong, and dread full , had not now 
 force enough to refijl a little worme. 
 Reader mute often of theft truths , and 
 
 thou 
 
 21 $ 
 
 In many of the 
 Church -yards of 
 France, are 
 thoufands of 
 dead mens %\uUs 
 and bones, 
 fifed up, as at 
 S. Innocents 
 tf/Pari $ 3 Saint 
 Croix at 
 lean 
 
 Medication 
 upon the vani. 
 ties of life is a 
 piece offertom 
 tcliciticbefore 
 death . 
 
 r 
 
2.14 
 
 7he M i R R O V R 
 
 Hodxc Lilium, 
 CrasNihiluni. 
 
 Even theft 
 things 3 which 
 feeme moll data* 
 bk t hxvemef - 
 feft but a mor- 
 ningprime Ufa 
 fiowcru 
 
 thou fljalt fade therein more joy then fad- 
 
 Typotius reports of John Duke of Cleve- 
 land y that to teftifie the frailty of our 
 nature and the miferies of our condi- 
 tion ,hee had ta*en the Embleme of a 
 Lilly , with this device. 
 
 Hodiehoc , eras nihil. It flourifhes to 
 day, to morrow ’tis nothing. 
 
 Great Kings, your life is like this Lily, 
 it appeares like this flower, at Sunne- 
 rifewith glittering and pompe, but at 
 noone its vivacitie and lufter begin 
 to fade, and at the end of the day itva- 
 nifheth away with it, and fcarce its be- 
 ing is remembrcd. 
 
 We read in ^ppiamu of P empty, that 
 after he had triumphed over three parts 
 of the World, he carryed nothing away 
 with him to the grave, but thefe words* 
 Hicjitus c& magntts Pompeius, Pom- 
 pey is here bury edxoith all htspompe. 
 
 O World, how poore art thou , fince 
 thou haft but fucha thing of nought 
 to give? O Fortune, how rrtiferable 
 art thou , when thy favorites ate expo- 
 fed to publike view , as obje.fts of 
 
 in ’em who |j 
 
 Will} 
 
 companion ? Let him Cruft 
 
 : 
 
which flatters not . 
 
 will, a man ftiaH never be able to ef- 
 cape their tromperies , but by defpi- 
 ting theirfavours. 
 
 Here lyes Hannibal: Behold all the 
 honour , which pofteritie rendred to 
 the memory of fo great a Captaine. 
 And Time, even jealous ofthe glory of, 
 his name, though notable to bury it 
 in the Abyffes of Oblivion , hath yet 
 devoured the very marble of h is Sepulcher. 
 Are not thefe things truths worthy 
 to raiieaftonirhment ? 
 
 ’Tisremark’t in Suetonius, ofonc of the 
 Romane Emperours, that being now 
 
 iaft gafpe j an< ^ as were ac a hay 
 with Death , he cryed out in exceffe of 
 aftonifhment • Fui omnia, fid nihil exve- 
 dit : I have beene all in alt , but now i t no- 
 thing belpeth me. I have gifted all the 
 pleafurcs of all the greatneile of the 
 world, butthe^s’e^er are changed in- 
 to firms, and onely their bitter dilguft 
 
 ftayeswithme. 
 
 Experiment all the delights of the 
 Earth, Great Kings, thediftaft will ever j 
 at laft only remaineto your mouths, & 
 forrowesto your hearts, and if theft 
 doe no good on you , athoufand cter 
 ^ O nal 
 
 ZU 
 
 Timti&asmxO' 
 table as Death $ 
 and n either of 
 them $are any, 
 
 ri 
 
zl 6 
 
 
 Contenimmti 
 cnufeintheiY pri- 
 z'ttt’m as cx* * 
 trcmc dijcon - 
 
 items. 
 
 
 The MiR Ro v R 1 
 
 nail punilhments will pofleffe your 
 foulcs. Reprefent to your felves , that 
 all the felicities of Life y are of the fame 
 nature as that is^That decaies every mo- 
 ment ,and they flit away without ceafe. 
 The contentments which men receive 
 here below , are like the pleafures of 
 the Chace , which are onely rellifh’t 
 running. I draw to an end . 
 
 Belon in his Monuments ofth e Kings \ 
 ofEgyyt , fayes , that they were enterred j 
 with fuch a fplendour of pompe and ' 
 magnificence , that even thofe who 
 haddiverfe times before beene admi- 
 rers of it, were for all that often in 
 doubt, whether the people west to 
 place the corfs in the Throne againe, 
 rather then in their Sepulcher. O how 
 ill to the eyes is the lufter of this fad 
 kind of honour ! For if van i tie bein- 
 fupportable barely of it felfe, thefe ex- 
 celTes of it, put the fpirits upon the 
 racke. 
 
 Dio dorm Siculus , fpeaking of the 
 Tombe which Alexander cau led to be 
 ere<fled , ,for his favorite Ephefiion 3 af 
 fares that the magnificences , which 
 w ere there to be adrmredjwege beyond 
 
which flatters not. 
 
 as well all vale vsr, as example, c Marble, 
 Brafle 3 Gold } and Pearles , were profufely 
 offered to moft cunning Artifans, to 
 frame thereof fuch workes, wherein 
 fadnefle and companion, might be fo na- 
 turally reprefented, that they might 
 affed the whole world with the like. 
 Diamonds , Rubies , and all other pre. 
 cioufftoneSjWexe there employed, under 
 the Imageofa Sunne , Moone^md stars. 
 It feemes this Monarch blinded with 
 Love, thought to hold the planets cap- 
 tive in the gloriqus enchainments of! 
 thofe faire Matter-pieces , as if hee 
 Would revenge himfelfe of them for 
 their maligne influences , which they 
 had powred upon the head of his deare 
 Epheftion, But this conceite was vaine, 
 for the fame fiarres y whofe captivity 
 hee oftenred upon this Tombe , con- 
 d uded him alio by little and little to 
 his grave. 
 
 The Romanes tranfported with paf- 
 fion, to honour the memory of the 
 Did at or SyUa, caufed his ftarue to be 
 framed of a prodigious height, all 
 com po fed of pcrfumes,and caft it into 
 the funer ail pile } where his body, where 
 
 ' Q.* 
 
 
 i ; 
 
 A Man jbouli 
 never be angry 
 with bis bard 
 fata the decrees 
 ont y are i* wo- 
 
 ol 
 
 a: u 
 
The MlRROVR ( 
 
 ofthis wasalfo buta {hadow,was to be 
 burnt toadies : Being dcfirous by this 
 ad ion 3 to give to underftand , that as 
 the odour of his ftatue difperft it felfe 
 through all the City of Rome , the 
 much more odoriferous favour of his 
 I peculiar vertues would fpred it felfe 
 through all the world. But to goe to 
 the rigour of the liter &U fenfe , it is ere- 
 dible , they had not caft in thisaro- 
 maticall ftatue into the fiacke ,but on- 
 ly to temper the excefle of the ftench 
 of the body , which was to be confu- 
 med with it. And I proceed to ima- 
 gine befide , that the odour ofthis fta- 
 I tue, the cinders of his body , and all 
 I the glory of the adions of Sytfa , had 
 all the fame fate > fince the winde 
 triumph’t ore ’em altogether. Beheld 
 I the reverfe of the Medall off am tie, j 
 
 I *Tis remark’t in the life of the Em- 
 pcrourseier#^ by the report of T>lON , 
 that bee made to be fetat the gate of 
 his Palace an Vrne ofmarble , and as 
 oft as he went in or out , heewas accu- 
 ftomed ro fay, laying his hand on it ; 
 Behold the Cafe that fhaU encloft himpbom 
 all the Korld could not containe, \ 
 
 GreSt 
 
lohich flatters not. | 119 
 
 I Great Kings , have often the fame 
 
 I thoughts in yourfoulcs, ifyouhave 
 not the likedifcourfesin yourmouths, 
 the fmallefl veftett of earth is too great for \ 
 the afhes of your bodyes , which (hall re- 
 maine of them , after the wormes have 
 well fed on them : for the wretched- 1 
 nefle of your humane condition, re. 
 duceth you at Iaft to fo fmall a thing, 
 that you are nothing at all . • But if I 
 muft give a name to f thofe graines of 
 corrupted duft , which are made of 
 your deplorable rcmaines, I fhall call Mmoneiy* 
 them the ideas of a dreame, fince the I anfiderable in 
 memory of your being can pafle for J r ^ e a fi^ u 
 no other together with the time. Be- j 
 hold afrejh fubjeB of enter taine. j 
 
 Some of our Ethnickc Hillorians I 
 report to us, that the 7 rogloditesbarycd 
 their kindred and friends, with the 
 tone ofjoyfull cries, and acclamations 
 of mirth. 
 
 The Lothophagi caft them into the 
 Sea, chooiing rather to have them ea- 
 ten of fifhes in the water, then of 
 wormes in the earth. 
 
 The Scythians did eate the bodyes 
 of their friends, in figne of amitie, in- 1 
 J 0^3 fomuch, ' 
 
ZZQ ,* 
 
 
 There U mate to- 
 temment to die 
 then to live jf we 
 conftder ike end, 
 for which man 
 wac created* 
 
 ■ The MiRROVR 
 
 foraiich that the living were the Se- 
 pulchers of the dead. The Hircanians 
 caft the bodies of their kindred to the 
 Dogges. The MaJTagetes expofed 
 them as a prey to all manner of rave* 
 nousbeafts. 
 
 The Lydians dryed them in the Sun, 
 and after reduced them to powder, to 
 the end the wind might carry them 
 away. ■ . 1 
 
 Amongft all the cuflomes, which 
 were pra&ifed amongft thefe Strange 
 Nations , I find none more commenda- 
 ble then the fir ft , of the Troglodites , 
 looking for no hell , they had good 
 reafon to celebrate the funerall of 
 their friends and kindred , with laugh- 
 ter ar.d acclamations of cheerefulnes, 
 rather then with teaies, and lamenta- 
 tions. 
 
 For though that Life be granted us 
 by divine favour, yet we enjoy it but as 
 a punifhsnentj fince it is no other thing 
 then a continual correction of our conti- 
 nual offences. Befides the fad accidents 
 which accompany it inseparably, even 
 to the grave are fo numerous, that a 
 man mayjuftly.be very glad at the end 
 
2.2. J 
 
 which flatters not. 
 
 of his journey, to fee himfelfe difchar- 
 ged of fo ponderous a burthen. Not 
 that I here condemne the teares, which 
 we are accuftomed to fhed, at the death 
 of our neereft friends, for the fe are 
 resentments of grief e, whereof Nature 
 authorized the fir ft violences. But nei- 
 ther doe I blame the venue of thole ft/. 
 f its , who never difcover alteration upon 
 any rencounter of the mifhaps,and mi- 
 feries of the world , how extreme foever 
 they be. Andwhatdifafterisic to fee 
 dye, either our kindred or friends, 
 finceallthe world together, and Na- 
 ture it felfe , can doe nothing elfe. 
 What reafon then can a man have to 
 callhimleltemiferable, for being de- 
 ft ina ted to celebrate the funerals of 
 thofe, whom he loves beft , fince the 
 divine Providence , hath foveraignely 
 eftablifhed this order , and fince more- 
 over in this carreere of Death, to which 
 all the world fpeeds, the Prefent on’t, 
 being not diftinguifh’t but by Time, 
 it will appeare when all is come to the 
 upfhoty that one hath lived as long as 
 another , (met all ages though different 
 duping their continuance , are equal/ then 
 
 O 4 when 
 
 1 '*"'** ' J l u “ » l u l l ' - 11. . J 
 
 The body of Man 
 being made of 
 earthis fubjek to 
 earth ; but the 
 foule holds one ly 
 of its foverainc 
 Creator . 
 
 T he living are 
 more to be be mo- 
 nad then the 
 dead y they being 
 ftdl iih' midd'il 
 fdm lifestem - 
 
 peff^but tbefearc 
 a' 'ready arrived to 
 their Fo/t . 
 
zzz 
 
 To what pttrpofs 
 u Courage again ft 
 tho(e penis, 
 which cannot be 
 avoyded . 
 
 JjL v :Cld. Ifb. 
 laccc ingens 
 Ik&rs cruncuSi 
 Avulfumque 
 
 humerucaput, 
 
 i 
 
 ! & line mo- 
 
 $ 
 
 j i&iine corpus, 
 
 1 
 
 I 7 ;<? M i R R o v R 
 
 irfo# <zre tw»j0. change wee the dip 
 cottrfe. 
 
 I ad vow once againc , There is n© 
 remedie more ioveraigne to cure the paf- 
 <ion of arrogance^thtu this theofcwjwfe- 
 r at ion of C&mtarits^ and Tombes. The 
 rood vaine-glorious and ambitious 
 are forced to yeeld themfelves at the 
 a {faults of thefe fad objeBs, For a fpirit 
 ne're fo brave and valourous , cannot 
 but be aftonifb't, when he fees at his 
 feet the bones and duft of aa infinite 
 nu mber of per fons, who were as valiant 
 as he , what thoughts can he have but 
 of fubmijfion y and humilitie , considering 
 that one part of himfelfeis already re- 
 duced into du ft and filth > I fay a part 
 ofhimfelfe, fincehe himfelfe is but 
 a piece of the fame matter, which now 
 Serves him for object , and to the fame 
 Iaft point will be extended one day the 
 line of his life. 
 
 When rirril tells us of the fate of 
 Priam ^ hce brings in *Mneas aftonifh t 
 at it, that fo great a Monarch fhould 
 leave to pofteritie no other Monu- 
 ment ofhis greatnefle , but a Tronckop 
 flrjh , a head feparated from the fhoul- 
 
"which flatter s not. 
 
 ders and a carkafle, without name or 
 fhape. 
 
 Great Kings, This truth is a Mirrour 
 which flatters not. Gaze here often in 
 thefe meditations , and you will furely 
 at length confider, that jiff is fuff of va- 
 nity , and that this glory of the world, 
 whereof you are fo ftrongly Idolaters, 
 is but a Phantafle, and Chimera , to which 
 your imaginations give that beauty, 
 which charmes you , and that delica- 
 cic , which ravifhes you. What thinkc 
 you is it , to be the greateft of the 
 world? ‘Tisanhonour, whereof mi- 
 ferie and inconfiancy are the founda- 
 tions, for all the felicities which can 
 arrive us, are of the fame nature as wee 
 are , and consequently , as miferabie as 
 our condition , and as changing. This 
 Earth whereon you live , is the lodging \ 
 of the dead, whateferaif/ebeleeve you 
 to find in it ? Eternitie of honours, 
 riches, and contentments , there was 
 never any but in imagination , and 
 this idea , which wee have of them, is 
 but a reflexion from the lightning of 
 Truth, where-with heaven illuminates 
 qoblefoules , thus to guide them to the 
 l fearch 
 
 He which ma\es 
 himfelfc tightly 
 fcnfible of his 
 mikricsU part- 
 ly in way to he 
 exempted from 
 their tyranny. 
 
 
 
There u nothing 
 eternall in thu 
 World but this 
 ftope of truth. 
 
 Seneca. 
 Hocjubet Ilia 
 Pythias ora« 
 culis adfcnpta 
 toxj Wft TV. 
 
 He that fearches 
 into himfelfejhaU 
 not lofibss la* 
 hour. 
 
 The MlRROVR 
 
 tearcb of the true fource of all , by the 
 aydeofthefe fmall rivolets. It it time 
 to fintfb this works. 
 
 I have made appeare to you in the 
 firfl Chapter , the particular ftudy which 
 a man ought to take , to come to the 
 * Knowledge of himfeife , wherein lyes 
 the accompliftiment of perfe&ion. 
 And herein the precept is , Th tConfide- 
 r at ion of the miferies , which are defiina • 
 ted to our Nature, as being fo many 
 obje&s capable enough , to force up 
 the power ofour reafon , to give cre- 
 dence to the refentments of frailty 
 which are proper to us. But this is not 
 all to be meerely fenfiblc ofour wret- 
 chednefle. Seriom Confideration muft 
 often rent'® the Ideas of them in our 
 foules, more then the hard experimce 
 of them. And this to the end , that va- 
 nitie , to which wee are too incident 
 may nor furprize us, during the inter- 
 vals of a meditation, fo important. 
 Wee muft often dive into our felves, 
 and feeke in the truth of our nothing- 
 nefte, fome light to make us thus to 
 know our [elves. Afterwards making a 
 rife a little higher , it is necefifaryto 
 
 confider 
 

 “^hichflatters not. j 
 
 c onfider the End, for which wee were 
 created a and in this confederation to em- 
 ploy all the powers of the feveral*] fa- 
 culties of our foules , ro the generous 
 defigneof getting pojjejfeonof thatglory. 
 Behold the Corollarie of my fir fl Argument 
 or Chapter. ' 3 
 
 Thejecond inftrudls us a new meanes, 
 to refill powerfully thehits of th cvani- 
 (ies of the world , from the example of 
 the wrerchednelTe one of the greatej} 
 
 Monarch s of the world. Fortune had re. 
 fufed him nothing , becaufe flic meant 
 to take all from him , for in the height 
 of his glory he finds himfelfe reduced 
 to the pooreneffe of his jhin onely 
 which is all hecarrycsvrith him into’ 
 thegrave . And this makes ns lenfibly 
 perceive that the greatncfles of the 
 earth are Goods y as good as eftranged 
 from humane nature , fince in this 
 mortal 1 and peri firing condition wee 
 can onely pofiefle their ufsnce, and the 
 termeo £ this pojjejfeon is of fo (bort en- 
 durance that wee lee as foone the end, 
 as the beginning. Reader reprefent unto 
 thyfe\fe , heir thou fhalt be dealt with at thy 
 
 death, both by Fortune and the world, fince 
 
 y 7 }' 
 
 2.2. 5 
 
 * sdadine. 
 
 C 
 
 Povmp nrd | 
 Riches depend i 
 upon opinion 3 | 
 and a nobje ! 
 (bale U abovp ■ 
 his fortune in 
 whai\condition\ 
 iomevexhe he. 
 
Zl 6 
 
 The MlRROVR 
 
 ; 
 
 i 
 
 i 
 
 Et qua: vcne- 
 raris, & qu^e- 
 dcfpicis unus 
 exa:quabk ci~ 
 nis. 
 
 Sen, 
 
 i 
 
 Tbekomurof 
 
 \ Death v h pyre If 
 i in the we alines 
 of imagination . 
 
 I Sea, 
 
 *Incermmeft, 
 quo te loco 
 Mors expedet: 
 itaque iniflatn 
 omni loco ex- 
 peda. 
 
 the Minion of this Mind Goddefle, 
 and the greateft of t he Univerfe is ex- 
 pofed all naked in his [Bin in fight of 
 all his fubjeds to be given in prey to 
 the wormes , at welt as the moji mife* 
 rable of the Earth. 
 
 The Third Chapter, where Life 
 leads Death in Triumph teaches, us 
 the Art: to vanquifh this untamable, by 
 confidenng its ^eakenefie : for in ef> 
 fed , if Death be but a privation, ’tis 
 to be deprived of reafon and judge- 
 ment , to give it a being , fince it can- 
 not fubfift but in our impaired imagi- 
 nations. The fantoftne of an Idea is it, 
 whole very forme is immaterial! , as 
 having no other fubfiftance , I fay 
 but that, which the weakenelfe of our 
 fpiritgives it. And againe,to come to 
 the mod important point • Let this be 
 the clofe of the recapitulation , that 
 you may have meanes not to ftand in 
 feare on’t • * Maze on it abates, looke 
 for it in all places , and o’recom- 
 raing your (elves , you (hall triumph 
 over it. Never did an unblcmifht life 
 feare Death , 
 
 The lafi Chapter , where the objed 
 
 of 
 
■ » ' — — — 1 — * ? — * * 
 
 ^ i 
 
 • which flatters not . 
 
 of Cstmiteries , and Sepulchers , is laid 
 before your eyes , may now againe 
 fervefor the lakh touch , fince it is a 
 Theater , where you muftplay the Tra. 
 gedie o f your lives. AH this great num- 
 ber of ABors , whofe bones and a dies 
 you fee there , have every one playd 
 their part , and it may be, that the houre 
 will foone Knettjkzt you muft z.Qc yours. 
 Reader, live ever inf his providence, a 
 Man cannot too foone rclolve to doe that 
 well , which howfomever muft be 
 done ofneceflitie. God grant, that theft; 
 laft lines may once againe reproach 
 thee , the bad eftate of thy Conscience j 
 delay not too long this Check to thy 
 felfe , leaft too late the regreets be then 
 in vaine. Thy falvation is fanned to an in - 
 ftant , conjider the infinite number of 
 them , which are already flip’c away, 
 when perhaps at that moment , thou 
 wertin eftate ( if dying ) to incurrethe 
 punifhment of a fecond Death , and that 
 et email. I f thou tru ft to thy youth , pu t 
 thy head out of the window , and thou 
 (halt lee carryed to thegm^fome not 
 fo old as thy felfe. If thou relye upon 
 the health , which thou now enjoyeft, 
 
 ' t Is 
 
 . wH . arrwwn , HTtfucrr r.n, « .-■» ..nwry 
 
 Z2.J 
 
 i 
 
 * 
 
 Hodicroihi 
 Cras Ubj. 
 Things on that 
 Reader, n may 
 be thy turnc to 
 ERorroWi 
 
 Momentum 
 eft unde pen- 
 detsetCini"* 
 
 tasu 
 
22 8 
 
 S^pe optimus 
 flatus corporis 
 pcricuKniS- 
 rnus. 
 
 Hip. 
 
 Sera aim is Vi- 
 ta eft craftina, 
 vive hodie# 1 
 
 > 4 * 
 
 TheM IRROVR, which &c. 
 
 ’tisbut a falfe going-dyall. Tkecak 
 of a yerfeB health , hath oftentimes ufhe* 
 red the T empefh of a fuddaine Death- 
 What -hope ft thou for ? hope is de- 
 ceitful! ; what ftayeft thou for. A wife 
 man ought never to defer till to morrowjrbat 
 fhould be done to day. Laftly, what de fi- 
 re ft thots ? Thegeace of conference is the only 
 defirable good. Goeon then right 
 forward, thou «a.nft not mifle 
 the way which I have 
 chafti’tthee. 
 
 F I N I S. 
 
 ► 
 
 
PERLECTORI, 
 
 The T R ANSLATOV R*s 
 
 CoROLLAR IE. 
 
 \ * 
 
 S O, Now *tts done \ although it be #aTaskc, 
 
 That did much Braines, ot teylefomc Study aske: 
 The meaning I vouch good^ but Alerit final /, 
 
 In r endring Englilh,^ French Principal l.* 
 It is but a Tranflation I confefe , 
 
 And yet the Rubs of Death tn't nerethelejfe 
 May trippefome capping Fancies of the Time, 
 
 . That Demimeere, and Swagger it in Rime , 
 
 That Charge upon the Reader, and give Fire, 
 Onalfthatdoenot (as they doe) admire , 
 
 Either their rugged Satyrs crueUfeiue , 
 
 Or pufe-pafie Notes ’bove E la in high frame >, 
 
 Tta* in prevention quarrellhke a curfi y 
 
 Scold , who being guilty ^ yet will call Whore firfi. 
 
 when any dyes who fe Mule was rich in Verle, 
 
 They ciairne Succeffion, andprophane hi r Herfe, 
 
 They enelyare Hares of his Braine-eftatc, 
 
 Others are bafe, and illegitimate. 
 
! 
 
 Ml but their owne Abettors they defie , 
 
 And L o RD-it in their Wit- Supremacy. 
 
 Others they Cay but Sculke , or lye i'th' lurch 
 
 As we hold Schismaticks from the true Church, 
 
 So hold they att, that doe decline their way. 
 
 Nor fweare by Heaven, Al’s excellent they fay y 
 T were well they d fee the fing ring on thefe frets, 
 
 Can neither fave their Soules, nor fay their Debts 
 Or would they they thinke of Death as they fhould doe , 
 They would live better , and more honourd too. 
 
 Tis bafe to doe bafe deeds , yet for falle fame. 
 
 To Keefe a flirre , and buflle into Name; 
 
 whilft each applauds his owne, contemnes mothers, 
 
 Becons his owne defect s y but his he fmothers* 
 
 They feare Fame’s out of breath , and therefore they , 
 Trumpet their owne praifes in their owne way. 
 
 Or ioynein Trickeof Stale Confederacy. 
 
 Cal’d Quid pro Quo, Claw me y and lie claw thee 
 Marry , at others (Tooth and Naile) they fly e y 
 That do not tread their Path, but would goe bye , 
 Farewell to thefe y my ay mg not here infiftf 3 
 Leave we the fe wranglers unto equali lifls. 
 
 To Nobler Natures 1 my breft e.xpofe , 
 
 The Good I bow to in an humble Cloze : 
 
 To fash as knowing how vaine this Life //, 
 
 Exalt their thoughts to one better then This. 
 
 ’Tis thebe fl Method to be out of Love • 
 
 With things below , and thence to flare above. 
 
 To 
 
To which effeB my foules integrity 3 
 
 In L envoy thw faint es each courteous eje s 
 
 ' L*£ NVO Y. 
 
 ( , * , 
 
 4> "X P ^ 
 
 Ngenuous Reader, thou do’ft crowne 
 The Morall a dive courfe layd downs. 
 
 By De la S e r r e, what is pen’d, 
 
 If thy Actions recommend. 
 
 ^ / 
 
 ‘Relating to the firjl 
 
 Emblems, 4\ s 
 
 \ ..j *. r * • 
 
 ') ” , 
 
 "VYTHen haugbtie thoughts impufFe tfiee^than I 
 
 V Didate thy fejfe, Thou art but -Man 3 . 
 
 A fabricke of commixed bu(l } 
 
 Thats all the prop of humane truflL 
 How dares a Clod of mouldring Ciaj 
 I Pf 0K d % decaying every day > 
 
 And yet there is away befide, j 
 
 Wherein may be a lawful! Pride , 
 
 | When fly Temptations ftirre thee, Than". - 
 , /Againe the Word, Thou an a Man 
 
 R ' ' Rotize f 
 
Rouze up thy Sprits, doc not yeeld, 
 
 A brave refiftancewinnes the Field i 
 Shall alouleof Heavenly breath, 
 Grovelifofarre, its worth beneath : 
 Fouly to bee pollute with (lime. 
 
 Of any bafe and fhamefull crime > 
 
 Thou art a Man, for Heaven borne, 
 Reflect on Earth, disdainefull fcorne, 
 Bee not abus d, fince Life is fhort. 
 Squander it not away in fport : 
 
 Nor hazard heaven s et email Joycs, 
 
 For a fmall fpurtof wordly Toyes. 
 Doe something ere thou doe bequeath, 
 To wormes thy flefh to Aire thy breath 
 
 Something that may, when thou art cold, 
 That^i rozen Spirits, when tis told, 
 Something that may the grave controule, 
 And (hew thou hadft a noble Soule- 
 Doe fomething to advance tfey bliflfe 
 Both in the other World, and This# 
 
 ► 
 
 \ 
 
 
• .! - ' 
 
 plating to the fecond 
 
 Embleme, > 1 ) 
 
 ’• Vf. 1 ! 4 ' 
 
 W Ere both the i*di*s treafiires Thine. 
 
 And. thou L o rd of every Mine, 
 
 Or hadft thou all the golden Ore 
 On Tagus or PaBolus Shore, * 
 
 And were thy Cabinetthe shrine. 
 
 aii re /tu° U / a r nd P ear ) es [ a nd Diamonds fliine, 
 All muft be left, and thou allowd 
 
 A little linnen for thy Sbrowd, ? 
 
 Or if Were fo thy Teftament,- 
 
 Perhaps a goodly Monument; 
 
 What better is a golden Chafer 
 
 Or MarUe y theii a darned place ? 
 
 ™ hence no advantage makes; 
 
 A halfe-penny a foulc he takes^ 
 
 Thy heires will leave thee but a Shirt, 
 
 enough to hide thy rotten Dirt. 1 
 
 Then bee not Greedy of much pelfe - 
 
 He that gets aff } may l 9 fe hmfelfe . ? 
 
 ^nd Riches are of this Odemme^ 
 
 Or tpey leave us, or we muft them. 
 
 Death brings to Mifers donbie Woe, 
 
 T/ney looCe their Gafh, and their {bales too. 
 
 ^ 2 . Change 
 
 ... O 
 
Change then thy fcopeto heavenly games , 
 That wealth eternally remaines. 
 
 5 T3E not curiout , to amaze - 
 I JjWith glitt’ring pompe the Vulgar gaze ? 
 Strive not to cheat with vaine delight, 
 Thole that ar t eatebt with each brave fight. 
 How foone will any gawdy (how, 
 j Make their low Spirits overflow, 
 
 Whofe Soules are ready to runne-ore^ 
 
 At any T oy nere feenebefore. 
 
 Rather thy better thoughts apply* 
 
 For to addrefle thy felfe to dye. 
 
 Bee ne're fo glorious, after all 
 Thy lateft pompe' s thy Tmtrall, 
 
 Shall a drefle of Tyri&n Dye, 
 
 Or Feme-gold Embroyderie, 
 j Or new -fafldon- varied Fefi, 
 
 Tympanize thy out-ftrutting breft, 
 
 There’s none of theie will hold thee tacke, 
 But thy laft colour (hall be Black e. 
 
 Bee not deceiv’d. There comes a Dayu 
 
 
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 Embleme. 
 
 Will fweepe thy Gloryes all away 
 
 Meane. 
 
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 Meant while, the thought on t may abate 
 Xh'ExcejJes of thy prelent ’ftate. 
 
 Death never can that Man furprize 
 That watches for’t with wary Eyes. 
 
 Doe Soe, And thou {halt make thereby 
 A Venue of KTeceffme 5 
 
 And, when thy Dying-day is come, 
 
 Goe, like a Man that’s walking home. 
 Heavn Guard thee with Angelicke pow’r 
 To be prepared for that houre, 
 
 When cv’ry Soule i hall feele what *Tis 
 To have liv’d ivdl> or done 
 
 plating to the fourth 
 
 Embleme. 
 
 L Et not the Splendour of high Birth 
 Bee all thy c Ioffe without true worth 
 Let neither honour vail wealth 
 Beautify nor Vahu^not firme health 
 Make/hee beare up too high thy head, 
 Alfmen alike are buried. 
 
Stare not with Supercilious brow , 
 
 Poore folkes ‘are Dufl y and (b art Thou, 
 
 T riumph not in thy worldly Odds, 
 
 They dye like men whom we count Gods y 
 And in the Grave it is all one, 
 
 Whoenjdy’dall, or who had none. 
 
 Death cuts off all fuperfluous, 
 
 And makes the proudeft One of us 3 
 | Nor fhall there diffr'etue then betweene, 
 
 | The duft of L Q R d s, or Jlayes be feene. 
 
 1 Together under groundthey lye 
 \ W ithotit diftin&ive Heraldry • 
 
 ! Unlefle it be tbar fome brave T Gmbe, 
 
 D oe grace the Great-one s in Earths wombe. 
 
 But better ’tis that Heaven's dore, 
 j I s ofTne’ft open to the poorc ; 
 
 When thole.whcfe backs and fideswithfinne, 
 1 Are bunch’t, and fvvolne, cannot get in. 
 
 ] Beware the Bulkeof thyEftatc, 
 
 | Shockcthee from entrance at that Gate. 
 
 \ Give Earth to Earth, but give thy Minde 
 To Heaven, where it’s leates aflign’d, 
 j If, as it came from that bright Spheare $ 
 
Live, that thy Sovie may white return, 
 Leaving it’s Partner inthe Vrne, 
 
 Till a © i e s T Da y (hall reunite. 
 And beame them with Eternal! Light. 
 
 
 u4infi Souhaite 
 
 Voftre treshumble Serviteur 
 
 Tbo. Qary* 
 
 ToWe R-H ULj 
 ■dmepewltma Augufti. 
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 To my endeared Friend , the Tranflatour, 
 M r Thomas Cary. 
 
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 T Is Morall Magicke , and Wits Cbjmifirk s 
 
 Out of DeathfXX glinefle 
 T’extrad fo trim a Drefle : 
 
 And to a Confiellated Cryftall tie 
 
 Such an imperious fpell. 
 
 As who lookes on it well, 
 
 By fprightie Apparitions to the Eye 
 Shall fee he muft, and yet not feare to dye. 
 
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 No brittle toy, but a tough monument 
 
 (Above fteele, marble, B raflfe) 
 Of Malleable Glafle : 
 
 W hich alfo wil (while Wifedome is not fpcrit) 
 : Out-price th ’adored wcdgc 3 
 
 And blunt Times Sickle’s edge 
 Ufher’d with gracious fafety in its vent, 
 
 For,to disfeaver Spirits fairely lent. 
 
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 Friend, here remoulded by Thy Englifh hand, 
 
 (Tofpeake it, is no feare) 
 
 In hew as Jlicke and chare. 
 
 Nay, when Thy owne Minerva now doth ftand 
 
 On a Compojing {late ; 
 
 ’Twas cutt’fie,toTt^f/^^. 
 
 Bu/ moft thy cboifed oth my applaufe comm and 5 
 Fir ft for thy Selfe 3 then for th^s craiie Land. 
 
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 DedoBuSyvitreas exuedelicw. 
 
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 £ gemrtu folaticlttm , e p adore venufiaty 
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 ! Sublimique fum fee rati one liber .* 
 
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 | Surdefcens tandem plauftbtu ipfe fuic. 
 
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 Generous Reader, 
 
 T 'wat upon eccafton of the lafi Summer’s fad ef- 
 feSs getter ally wer 4#England,W fome resent- 
 ments of mine oxtne*, rthen the heading and Copying 
 Englifh this jiuthour*s French Origin all, feafhpa* 
 bty engaged my thoughts, and Pen. / thinkeal’skot 
 forgotten yet : But in a Unger inter rail, and indeed 
 alvraycs, there ought Bill to bee a deepe apprthenfon 
 of our Mortality. This our Author inculcates 
 to us in Notions quiche and pertinent 9 though in fame 
 hi&oricall allufons he may a little ore-truf hit Me- 
 mory* 
 
 Valebis. 
 
 T h o. Cary® 
 
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