Some better _Arguments_, then yet I see, I must perceive; and, better causes, why, To those gay things, I should addicted bee, To which, the Vulgar their _Affections_ tye. I have consider’d, _Scepters_, _Miters_, _Crownes_, With each appurtenance to them belonging; My _heart_, hath search’d their _Glories_, and _Renownes_; And, all the pleasant things about them thronging: My _Soule_, hath truely weigh’d, and, tooke the measure, Of _Riches_ (which the most have so desired) I have distill’d the Quintessence of _Pleasure_, And, seene those Objects, that are most admired. I, likewise feele all _Passions_, and _Affections_, That helpe to cheat the _Reason_, and perswade That those poore _Vanities_, have some perfections, Whereby their Owners, happy might be made. Yet, when that I have rouz’d my _Vnderstanding_, And cleans’d my Heart from some of that Corruption, Which hinders in me _Reasons_ free commanding, And, shewes, things, without vailes, or interruption; Then, they, me thinkes, as fruitlesse doe appeare, As _Bubbles_ (wherewithall young-children play) Or, as the _Smoke_, which, in our _Emblem_, here, Now, makes a show, and, straight, consumes away. _Be pleas’d, =Oh God=, my value may be such Of every =Outward-blessing=, here below, That, I may neither love them overmuch, Nor underprise the =Gifts=, thou shalt bestow:_ But, know the use, of all these fading _Smokes_; And, be refresht, by that, which others chokes. _=Death=, is unable to divide Their Hearts, whose Hands =True-love= hath tyde._ [Illustration: IVSQVE A LA MORT ILLVSTR. XXXVII. _Book. 2_]