Thir Makers Image, answerd Michael, then [ 515 ]

Gatherd, not harshly pluckt, for death mature:

What we receive, would either not accept [ 505 ]

And for his Makers Image sake exempt?

Under inhuman pains? Why should not Man,

To weigh thy spirits down, and last consume [ 545 ]

In part, from such deformities be free,

The Balme ohttps://read.99csw.comf Life. To whom our Ancestor.

To loathsom sickness, worthily, since they

To such unsightly sufferings be debast [ 510 ]

A melancholly damp of cold and dry

To serve ungovernd appetite, and took

I yield it just, said Adam, and submit.

Till many years over thy head return:

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To witherd weak and gray; thy Senses then [ 540 ]

To what thou hast, and for the Aire of youth

Therefore so abject is thir punishment, [ 520 ]

Or if his likeness, by themselves defact

Gods Image did not reverence in themselves. [ 525 ]

This is old age; but then thou must outlive

Disfiguring not Gods likeness,九-九-藏-書 but thir own,

Better end heer unborn. Why is life givn

Th Image of God in man created once

To be thus wrested from us? rather why

So goodly and erect, though faultie since,

The rule of not too much, by temperance taught

Obtruded on us thus? who if we knew

Into thy Mothers lap, or be with ease

Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve.

S九-九-藏-書o maist thou live, till like ripe Fruit thou drop [ 535 ]

Forsook them, when themselves they villifid

Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight,

Glad to be so dismist in peace. Can thus

Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change

Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reigne

Obtuse, all taste of pleasure must forgoe,

There is,九*九*藏*書 said Michael, if thou well observe [ 530 ]

But is there yet no other way, besides

His Image whom they servd, a brutish vice,

In what thou eatst and drinkst, seeking from thence

While they pervert pure Natures healthful rules

Retaining still Divine similitude

To Death, and mix with our connatural dust?

Life offerd, or soon beg to lay it down,