Schola Cordis or the Heart of it Selfe, gone away from God brought back againe to him & instructed by him in 47 Emblems [by Christopher Harvey] |
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The Conclvsion.
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The Conclvsion.
Is this my period? Have I now no moreTo doe hereafter? Shall my mind give o're
Its best imployment thus, and idle be,
Or busi'd otherwise? Should I not see
How to improve my thoughts more thriftily,
Before I lay these Heart School Lecture by?
Self-knowledge is an everlasting taske,
An endlesse worke, that doth not onely aske
A whole man for he time, but challengeth
To take up all his howers untill death.
Yet as in other Schooles they have a care
To call for repetitions, and are
Busi'd as well in seeking to retaine
What they have learn'd already as to gaine
Further degrees of knowledge and lay by
Invention, whilst they practise memory:
So must I likewise take some time to view
What I have done, ere I proceed anew.
Perhaps I may have cause to interline
To alter, or to adde: the Worke's mine,
And I may manage it, as I see best
With my great Makers leave. Then here I rest
From taking out new lessons, till I see
How I retaine the old in memory
These lesson before others, that they may,
Or learne them too, or only censure me;
I'll wait with patience the successe to see.
And though I looke not to have leave to play,
For that this School allowes not, yet I may
Another time perhaps, if they approve
Of these, such as they are, and shew their love
To the School of the Heart, by calling for't,
Adde other lessons more of the like sort.
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