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THESAURO-PHULAKION[Greek]: or, A treasury of divine raptures

Consisting of Serious Observations, Pious Ejaculations, Select Epigrams. Alphabetically rank'd and fil'd by a Private Chaplain to the Illustrious and Renowned Lady Urania The Divine and Heavenly Muse. The first part [by Nicholas Billingsley]

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7. On a Ballance.

Theudas would to himself some-body seem,
So we do of our selves too well esteem;
Laid in the ballance of the Sanctuary,
Alas! we are too light, no weight we carry.