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140.H05.HE1 %XTo S%5r%6 Edward Herbert [numbered 165]
140.H05.001 Man is a Lumpe, where all beasts kneaded be,
140.H05.002 wisedome makes him an Arke, where all agree,
140.H05.003 The foole in whome those beasts doe liue at iarre,
140.H05.004 is sport to others, and a Theater;
140.H05.005 nor scapes he soe, but is himselfe theire pray,
140.H05.006 all w%5ch%6 was man in him, is eate away,
140.H05.007 and nowe his beasts on one another feede,
140.H05.008 yet couple in anger, and newe Monsters breede.
140.H05.009 Howe happy is he, w%5ch%6 hath due place assign'd
140.H05.010 t' his beasts, and disafforested his mind,
140.H05.011 empalld' himselfe to keepe them out, not in,
140.H05.012 can sowe, and dares trust corne where they haue byn,
140.H05.013 can vse his horse, Goate, wolfe, and euery beast,
140.H05.014 and is not asse himselfe to all the rest:
140.H05.015 els man not only is a heard of swine, 
140.H05.016 but he is those Deuills too, w%5ch%6 did incline
140.H05.017 them to a headlonge rage, and made them worse,
140.H05.018 for man can adde weights to heavn's heaviest curse.
140.H05.019 As soules (they say) by our first touch take in
140.H05.020 the poysonous tincture of Originall sinne;
140.H05.021 Soe to the punishments w%5ch%6 God doth flinge,
140.H05.022 our apprehension Contributes the stinge:
140.H05.023 To vs, as to his chickens, he doth cast
140.H05.024 Hemlocke, and we, as men his Hemlocke taste;
140.H05.025 we doe infuse to what he meant for meate
140.H05.026 Corrosiue-nes, or Intense cold or heate.
140.H05.027 for God no such specifique poyson hath
140.H05.028 as kills men knowe not howe; his Fyriest wrath
140.H05.029 hath no Antipathy; but may be good
140.H05.030 at least for physicke, yf not for our food:
140.H05.031 thus man that might be his pleasure, is his rod,
140.H05.032 and is his Deuill, that might be his God.
140.H05.033 Since then our busines is to rectify [f.176v/p.354]
140.H05.034 Nature to what she was, we are led awry
140.H05.035 by them who man to vs, in litle, shewe,
140.H05.036 greater then due, no forme we can bestowe
140.H05.037 on him, for man into himselfe can drawe
140.H05.038 all, all his fayth can swallowe, or reason chawe;
140.H05.039 all that is filld', and all that w%5ch%6 doth fill,
140.H05.040 all the round world to man, is but a Pill;
140.H05.041 In all in workes not, but it is in all
140.H05.042 Poysonous, or purgatiue, or Cordiall.
140.H05.043 for knowledge kindles Calentures in some,
140.H05.044 and is to others icy Opium.
140.H05.045 As braue as true is that profession than
140.H05.046 w%5ch%6 you do vse to make, that you knowe man.
140.H05.047 This makes it credible, you haue dwelt vpon
140.H05.048 all worthy bookes, and nowe are such a one:
140.H05.049 Actions are Authors, and of these in you
140.H05.050 your frends find euery day a Mart of newe.
140.H05.0SS Scribal grape design
140.H05.0$$ %1Last 2 ll. indented.%2