Better end heer unborn. hy is life givn
to be ted from us? rather why
Obtruded on us thus? who if we knew
accept [ 505 ]
Life offerd, or soon beg to lay it down,
Glad to be so dismist in peace. Can thus
ted once
So goodly and erect, tie since,
to sucly sufferings be debast [ 510 ]
Under in Man,
Retaining still Divine similitude
In part, from sucies be free,
And for ?
then [ 515 ]
Forsook they villifid
to serve ungovernd appetite, and took
ish vice,
Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve.
t is t, [ 520 ]
Disfiguring not Gods likeness, but thir own,
Or if
pure Natures hful rules
to loathey
Gods Image did not reverence in themselves. [ 525 ]
I yield it just, said Adam, and submit.
But is t no other way, besides
these painful passages, how we may come
to Deatural dust?
thou well observe [ 530 ]
t too mucemperance taught
In st and drinkst, seeking from thence
Due nouris, not gluttonous delight,
till many years over turn:
So maist till like ripe Fruit thou drop [ 535 ]
Into th ease
Gat , for deature:
t t outlive
trengty, which will change
to hen [ 540 ]
Obtuse, all taste of pleasure must forgoe,
to , and for th
hy blood will reigne
A melancholly damp of cold and dry
to consume [ 545 ]
to wor.