What we receive, would either not accept [ 505 ]
Forsook them, when themselves they villifid
Into thy Mothers lap, or be with ease
Therefore so abject is thir punishment, [ 520 ]
Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight,
In what thou eatst and drinkst, seeking from thence
Life offerd, or soon beg to lay it down,
There is, said九*九*藏*书*网 Michael, if thou well observe [ 530 ]
Obtuse, all taste of pleasure must forgoe,
Th Image of God in man created once
Better end heer unborn. Why is life givn
While they pervert pure Natures healthful rules
Till many years over thy head return:
To Death, and mix with our connatural dust?
To such unsightly suffer99liｂ•ｎeｔ ings be debast [ 510 ]
To serve ungovernd appetite, and took
Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reigne
But is there yet no other way, besides
Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change
To what thou hast, and for the Aire of youth
Obtruded on us thus? who if we knew
The rule of not too much, by tempehｔtｐ://wｗｗ.99ｌｉｂ•netrance taught
This is old age; but then thou must outlive
Thir Makers Image, answerd Michael, then [ 515 ]
Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve.
His Image whom they servd, a brutish vice,
Disfiguring not Gods likeness, but thir own,
A melancholly damp of cold and dry
To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume [ 545 ]
Gods Imag九_九_藏_书_网e did not reverence in themselves. [ 525 ]
These painful passages, how we may come
To loathsom sickness, worthily, since they
Glad to be so dismist in peace. Can thus
In part, from such deformities be free,
I yield it just, said Adam, and submit.
So maist thou live, till like ripe Fruit thou drop [ 535 ]
Gatherd, not harshly pluckt, 九_九_藏_书_网
for death mature:
The Balme of Life. To whom our Ancestor.
So goodly and erect, though faultie since,
To witherd weak and gray; thy Senses then [ 540 ]
Under inhuman pains? Why should not Man,
And for his Makers Image sake exempt?
Retaining still Divine similitude
Or if his likeness, by themselves defact
To be thus wrested from us? rather why