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Axiochus.
lament the miſeries of mans life, I will nowe onely in place of many, recite the witneſſe of one, being moſt worthie of memorie, which thus ſaith,
How wretched a thred of life haue the gods ſpun,
To mortall men that in this race of life do run.
To mortall men that in this race of life do run.
And againe:
Of all that in the earth are ordained by nature,
Than man, is not to bee found
a more wretched creature.
Than man, is not to bee found
a more wretched creature.
But of Amphiaraus what ſaith the Poet?
Him loued higheſt Iupiter and Apollo deare,
yet could he not reache to his eldeſt yeare.
What thinkeſt thou of him
that taught the childe to crie:
When firſt the Sunne bright day,
he ſeeth with tender eye.
yet could he not reache to his eldeſt yeare.
What thinkeſt thou of him
that taught the childe to crie:
When firſt the Sunne bright day,
he ſeeth with tender eye.
But I will let them paſſe, leaſt contrarye to promiſe, I ſeeme to diſcourſe at large, and that in the alleadging of forraine witneſſes. What trade of life I pray you is there, or what occupation, of which you ſhall not find many that complaine and greatly miſlike of their preſent affaires. Let vs ouerrunne the companies of Artificers & craftſmen, which continually labour from night to night, and yet hardly able to find them neceſſaries to liue, by bewayling theyr bare eſtate, & filling their nightwatchings with
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