I have not been ſo pittifully tired with any _vanity_, as with ſilly _Old Mens_ exclaiming againſt theſe times, and extolling their owne: Alas! they betray themſelves, for if the _times_ be _changed_, their manners have changed them. But their ſenſes are to _pleaſures_, as _ſick Mens_ taſtes are to _Liquors_; for indeed no _new thing_ is done in the _world_, all things are what, and as they were, and _Good_ is as ever it was, more plenteous, and muſt of neceſſity be _more common then evill_, becauſe it hath this for _nature_ and _perfection_ to bee _common_. It makes _Love_ to all _Natures_, all, all affect it. So that in the _Worlds_ early _Infancy_, there was a time when nothing was _evill_, but if this _World_ ſhall ſuffer _dotage_ in the extreameſt _crookedneſſe_ thereof, there ſhall be no time when nothing ſhal be _good_. It dares appeare and ſpread, and gliſter in the _World_, but _evill_ buries it ſelfe in night and darkneſſe, and is chaſtiſed and ſuppreſſed when _good_ is cheriſhed and rewarded. And as _Imbroderers_, _Lapidaries_, and other _Artiſans_, can by all things adorne their workes; for by adding better things, the better they ſhew in _Luſh_ and in _Eminency_; ſo _good_ doth not onely proſtrate her _amiableneſſe_ to all, but refuſes no end, no not of her utter contrary _evill_, that ſhee may bee the more _common_ to us. For _euill manners_ are _parents_ of _good Lawes_; and in every _evill_ there is an _excellency_, which (in common ſpeech) we call _good_. For the faſhions of _habits_, for our moving in _geſtures_, for phraſes in our _ſpeech_, we ſay they were _good_ as long as they were uſed, that is, as long as they were _common_; and wee eate, wee walke, onely when it is, or ſeemes _good_ to doe ſo. All _faire_, all _profitable_, all _vertuous_, is _good_, and theſe three things I thinke embrace all things, but their utter _contraries_; of which alſo _faire_ may be _rich_ and _vertuous_; _poore_ may bee _vertuous_ and _faire_; _vitious_ may be _faire_ and _rich_; ſo that _good_ hath this good meanes to be _common_, that ſome ſubjects ſhe can poſſeſſe intirely; and in ſubjects poyſoned with _evill_, ſhe can humbly ſtoop to accompany the _evill_. And of _indifferent_ things many things are become perfectly good by being _common_, as _cuſtomes_ by uſe are made binding _Lawes_. But I remember nothing that is therefore _ill_, becauſe it is _common_, but _Women_, of whom alſo; _They that are moſt common, are the beſt of that Occupation they profeſſe_. [Decoration] 5. _That all things kill themſelves._