IDENTILIN$$  F140B46 EdHerb|Stowe 961, ff.68v-69\GL\P:GAS\o\6-27-95\C:JSC
140.B46.0HE  %XA letter to S%5r%6 Edwarde /%XHarbert:[cluster#of#three#grapes]
140.B46.001  Man is a lumpe, where all Beasts kneaded bee.
140.B46.002  Wisedome makes him an Arke, where all agree
140.B46.003  The foole, in whome these beasts doe liue at iarr
140.B46.004  Is Sporte to others, and a Theater.
140.B46.005  Nor scapes he So but is himselfe their prey.
140.B46.006  All, which was man in him, is eate awaye.
140.B46.007  And nowe his Beasts on one another feede.
140.B46.008  Yet couple in anger, and new monsters breede
140.B46.009  How happie's hee, who hath due place assignd
140.B46.010  To's beasts, and disaforested his minde
140.B46.011  Empalde himselfe, to keepe them out, not in
140.B46.012  Can Sowe, and dares trust Corne, where they ha'bin
140.B46.013  Can vse his horse, Goate, Wolfe, and euery beaste
140.B46.014  And is not Asse himselfe to all the rest.
140.B46.015  Els man, not only is the heard of Swine
140.B46.016  But he's those divells too, which did incline
140.B46.017  Them to a headlonge Downefall; made 'em worse,
140.B46.018  For Man can add weight, to heauens heauiest Curse.
140.B46.019  As Soules they Say, by our first touch, take in
140.B46.020  The poisonous tincture of originall Sin:
140.B46.021  So to the punishments which God doth flinge
140.B46.022  Our apprehension contributes the stinge.
140.B46.023  To us, as to his Chickens, he doth Caste
140.B46.024  Hemlocke, and we as men his Hemlocke taste
140.B46.025  We doe infuse to what he meant for meat
140.B46.026  Corrosiuenes, or intest[sic] Colde, or heate.
140.B46.027  For God no Such Specifique poison hath
140.B46.028  As kills, men knowe not howe, his fiercest wrath [CW:om]
140.B46.029  Hath no Antipathy, but may be good. [f.69]
140.B46.030  at least for physicke, if not for our foode.
140.B46.031  Thus man, that might b'his pleasure, is his rod
140.B46.032  And is his Diuell, that might be his God.
140.B46.033  Since then our Busines is to rectifie
140.B46.034  Nature, to what she was, w'are led away[sic]
140.B46.035  By them, who man to us, in little, showe
140.B46.036  Greater then due, no forme we can bestowe
140.B46.037  On him; for man into himselfe can drawe
140.B46.038  All: all, his faith can swallowe, or reason chawe.
140.B46.039  All that is filde, and all that w%5ch%6 doth fill.
140.B46.040  All the rounde Worlde to man is but a pill:
140.B46.041  In all it workes not, but it is in all
140.B46.042  Poisonous, or purgatiue, or Cordiall
140.B46.043  For knowledge kindles Calentures in some
140.B46.044  And is to others Icy Opium
140.B46.045  As braue as true, is that profession than
140.B46.046  Which you doe vse to make, that you knowe man
140.B46.047  This makes it credible y'haue dwelt vpon
140.B46.048  All worthy Bookes, and now are such an one
140.B46.049  Actions are Authors: and of these in you
140.B46.050  Your frinds finde euery day, a mart of new:|
140.B46.0SS  Finis /["A P" surrounded on two sides by grape clusters]
140.B46.0$$  %1Even no'd ll. ind 4 sp; pp no'd 137-38 by orig scribe in upper left corners%2