IDENTILIN$$ F14000G|1669|pp. 159-60\JH copied A(?)\5-30-91\P:EWS\o(CSmH)\6-14-01\C:JMK\7-20-01;JSC\8-10-01\P:DAS\cd(L)\2-24-02\C:JSC\4-25-03\C:mvf\fs(TxAM,CtY,L,Matt,CSmH[librarian]\9-7-08
140.00G.0HE %X%1To Sir%2 Edward Herbert, %1since Lord%2 Herbert %1of%2 Cherbury, %/%X%1being at the Siege of%2 Julyers.
140.00G.001 M%+An is a lump, where all beasts kneaded bee,
140.00G.002 Wisdome makes him an Ark where all agree;
140.00G.003 The fool; in whom these beasts do live at jarre,
140.00G.004 Is sport to others, and a Theater,
140.00G.005 Nor scapes he so, but is himself their prey; 
140.00G.006 All which was man in him, is eat away,
140.00G.007 And now his beasts on one another feed,
140.00G.008 Yet couple in anger, and new monsters breed:
140.00G.009 How happy's he, which hath due place assign'd
140.00G.010 To'his beasts; and disaforested his minde?
140.00G.011 Empal'd himself to keep them out, not in;
140.00G.012 Can sow, and dares trust corn, where they have bin;
140.00G.013 Can use his horse, Goat, Wolf, and every beast,
140.00G.014 And is not Asse himself to all the rest.
140.00G.015 Else, man not only is the heard of swine, 
140.00G.016 But he's those devils too, which did incline
140.00G.017 Them to [no_word] headlong-rage, and made them worse:   
140.00G.018 For man can add weight to heavens heaviest curse,
140.00G.019 As Souls (they say) by our first touch, take in
140.00G.020 The poysonous tincture of Original sin,
140.00G.021 So, to the punishments which God doth fling,
140.00G.022 Our apprehension contributes the sting.
140.00G.023 To us, as to his chickens he doth cast
140.00G.024 Hemlock, and we as men, his hemlock tast.
140.00G.025 We do infuse to what he meant for meat, 
140.00G.026 Corrosiveness, or intense cold or heat.
140.00G.027 For, God no such specifique poyson hath
140.00G.028 As kils, men know not how; his fiercest wrath [CW: Hath]
140.00G.029 Hath no antipathy, but may be good [p.160]
140.00G.030 At least for physick, if not for our food.
140.00G.031 Thus man, that might be his pleasure, is his rod,
140.00G.032 And is his devil, that might be his God.
140.00G.033 Since then our business is^[cor: is, (CSmH,Matt)] to rectifie
140.00G.034 Nature, to what she was; we're led awrie
140.00G.035 By them, who man to us in little show;
140.00G.036 Greater than due, no form we can bestow
140.00G.037 On him; for man into himself can draw
140.00G.038 All; All his faith can swallow,'or[cor: ^or (CSmH,Matt)] reason chaw,
140.00G.039 All that is fill'd, and all that which doth fill
140.00G.040 All the round world, to man is but a pill,
140.00G.041 In all it works not, but it is in all
140.00G.042 Poysonous, or Purgative, or cordiall.
140.00G.043 For, knowledge kindles Calentures in some,
140.00G.044 And is to others icy %1Opium%2.
140.00G.045 As brave as true, is that profession than
140.00G.046 Which you do use to make; that you know man.
140.00G.047 This makes it credible, you have dwelt upon
140.00G.048 All worthy books; and now are such an one.
140.00G.O49 Actions are Authors, and of those in you
140.00G.050 Your friends find every day a mart of new.
140.00G.0SSom
140.00G.0$$ no sts; no ind; I'm not sure that l.8 end-punct. isn't a "." --JSC/cd(L);