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PETER RAV. in Matth.

The devil is the author of evil, the fountain of wickedness, the adversary of truth, the corrupter of the world, man's perpetual enemy; he planteth snares, diggeth ditches, spurreth bodies, he goadeth souls, he suggesteth thoughts, belcheth anger, exposeth virtues to hatred, maketh vices beloved, soweth errors, nourisheth contention, disturbeth peace, and scattereth affection.

MACAR.

Let us suffer with those that suffer, and be crucified with those that are crucified, that we may be glorified with those that are glorified.

SAVANAR.

If there be no enemy, no fight; if no fight, no victory; if no victory, no crown.

EPIG. 15.

My soul, sit thou a patient looker on ;

Judge not the play, before the play is done :
Her plot has many changes: every day

Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play.

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THE

SECOND BOOK.

1.

ISAIAH 1. 11.

You that walk in the light of your own fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled, ye shall lie down in

sorrow.

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1.

O silly Cupid, snuff and trim

Thy false, thy feeble light,

And make her self-consuming flames more bright;
Methinks she burns too dim.

Is this that sprightly fire,

Whose more than sacred beams inspire

The ravish'd hearts of men, and so inflame desire?

2.

See, boy, how thy unthrifty blaze

Consumes, how fast she wanes ;

She spends herself, and her, whose wealth maintains
Her weak, her idle rays.

Cannot thy lustful blast,

Which gave it lustre, make it last?

What heart can long be pleas'd, where pleasure spends so fast?

3.

Go, wanton, place thy pale-fac'd light
Where never-breaking day

́ Intends to visit mortals, or display
Thy sullen shades of night:

Thy torch will burn more clear

In night's un-Titan'd hemisphere;

Heav'n's scornful flames and thine can never co-appear.

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Sic Lumine Lumen ademptum.

So shines the Sun in native Splendour bright. The feeble Ray eclipsing with his Light.

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4.

In vain thy busy hands address

Their labour to display

Thy easy blaze within the verge of day;
The greater drowns the less!

If heav'n's bright glory shine,

Thy glimm'ring sparks must needs resign;

Puff out heav'n's glory, then, or heav'n will work out

5.

Go, Cupid's rammish pander, go,

Whose dull, whose low desire

Can find sufficient warmth from nature's fire;
Spend borrow'd breath, and blow,

Blow wind made strong with spite:
When thou hast puff'd the greater light,

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Thy lesser spark may shine, and warm the new-made

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Deluded mortals, tell me, when

Your daring breath has blown

Heav'n's taper out, and you have spent your own,
What fire shall warm you then?

Ah, fools! perpetual night

Shall haunt your souls with Stygian fright,

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Where they shall boil in flames, but flames shall bring

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