Man is a lump where all beasts kneaded be; Wisdom makes him an Ark where all agree. The fool in whom these beasts do live at jar, Is sport to others and a theatre; Nor 'scapes he so, but is himself their prey, All that was man in him is ate away; And now his beasts on one another feed, Yet couple in anger and new monsters breed. How happy he which hath due place assign'd To his beasts, and disaforested his mind, Empaled himself to keep them out, not in; Can sow and dares trust corn where they have been, Can use his horse, goat, wolf and every beast, And is not ass himself to all the rest. To this purport the Patriarch of the Quakers writes where he saith “now some men have the nature of Swine, wallowing in the mire: and some men have the nature of Dogs, to bite both the sheep and one another: and some men have the nature of Lions, to tear, devour and destroy: and some men have the nature of Wolves, to tear and devour the lambs and sheep of Christ: and some men have the nature of the Serpent (that old destroyer) to sting, envenom and poison. _He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear_, and learn these things within himself. And some men have the natures of other beasts and creatures, minding nothing but earthly and visible things, and feeding without the fear of God. Some men have the nature of an Horse, to prance and vapour in their strength, and to be swift in doing evil. And some men have the nature of tall sturdy Oaks, to flourish and spread in wisdom and strength, who are strong in evil, which must perish and come to the fire. Thus the Evil is but _one in all_, but worketh many ways; and whatsoever a Man's or Woman's nature is addicted to that is outward, the Evil one will fit him with that, and will please his nature and appetite, to keep his mind in his inventions, and in the creatures from the Creator.” To this purport the so-called Clemens writes in the Apostolical Constitutions when he complains that the flock of Christ was devoured by Demons and wicked men, or rather not men but wild beasts in the shape of men, _πονηροῖς ἀνθρώποις, μᾶλλον δὲ οὐκ ἀνθρώποις, ἀλλὰ θηρίοις ἀνθρωποείδεσιν,_ by Heathens, Jews and godless heretics.