There are a sort of people so severe, That, _foolish_, and _injurious_ too, they are; And, if the world were to bee rul’d by these, Nor _Soule_, nor _Bodie_, ever should have ease. The _Sixe dayes_, (as their wisdomes understand) Are to bee spent in _Labour_, by command, With such a strictnesse, that they quite condemne All _Recreations_ which are us’d in them. That, which is call’d the _Sabbath_, they confine To _Prayers_, and all _Offices-divine_, So wholly, that a little _Recreation_, That _Day_, is made a marke of _Reprobation_: And, (by this meanes) the reason is to seeke, When their poore _Servants_ labour all the _weeke_, (Of which, they’l bate them nothing) how it tyes Them, to observe the sixe-fold _Sacrifice_ By some injoyn’d; and gives them such due _Rest_, As _God_ allowed, both to _Man_ and _Beast_. Hee, gave the _Woods_, the _Fields_, and _Meddowes_, here, A time to _rest_, as well as times to _beare_. The _Forrest Beasts_, and _Heards_, have howres for _play_, As well as time to _graze_, and hunt their prey: And, ev’ry _Bird_ some leasure hath to sing, Or, in the Aire, to _sport_ it on her wing. And, sure, to _him_, for whom all these were made, Lesse kindnesse was not meant, then these have had. The _Flesh_ will faint, if pleasure none it knowes; The Man growes madd, that alway muzing goes. The _Wisest men_, will _sometimes merry_ bee: And, this is that, this _Emblem_ teacheth me. _=Live=, ever mindfull of thy =dying=; For, =Time= is alwayes from thee flying._ [Illustration: VIVE MEMOR LETHI FUGIT HORA. ILLVSTR. XXVII. _Book. 4_]