The paine of pleasure describing in a perfect mirror, the miseries of man [by Anthony Munday] |
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Lawe, The nineteene pleasure.
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Lawe, The nineteene pleasure.
And
leauing thus of Phisicke more to write,
Lets see what ioy in studie of the Lawe,
Some men thereby perhaps doe take delight,
To make wrong right, and right not worth a straw.
Which yeelds God knowes, the poore mans great despight
To be by wrong bereaued of his right.
Lets see what ioy in studie of the Lawe,
Some men thereby perhaps doe take delight,
To make wrong right, and right not worth a straw.
Which yeelds God knowes, the poore mans great despight
To be by wrong bereaued of his right.
And when perhaps the Lawier calls to minde,
The wrong so wrought, and weighes the poore mans case,
He doth in time within his conscience finde,
Such great vnrest, as resteth in no place.
And thinke you then by Law what greeuous ioy,
Which breedeth so the secrete hartes annoy.
The wrong so wrought, and weighes the poore mans case,
He doth in time within his conscience finde,
Such great vnrest, as resteth in no place.
And thinke you then by Law what greeuous ioy,
Which breedeth so the secrete hartes annoy.
Yet will I not so much dispraise the Law,
That I would wish no man to like the same:
For then I might be counted well a Daw,
But this I say, who seekes himselfe to frame,
To studie Law, I wish him first of all,
To studie of Diuinitie to fall.
That I would wish no man to like the same:
For then I might be counted well a Daw,
But this I say, who seekes himselfe to frame,
To studie Law, I wish him first of all,
To studie of Diuinitie to fall.
There first to learne his studie how to vse,
To learne the Law, thereby his owne to keepe:
And not as some the studie doe abuse.
By shifts in Law, in others rights to creepe.
And so by wrong to purchase worldly wealth,
As that it proue a hurt to his soules health.
To learne the Law, thereby his owne to keepe:
And not as some the studie doe abuse.
By shifts in Law, in others rights to creepe.
And so by wrong to purchase worldly wealth,
As that it proue a hurt to his soules health.
Then first peruse the sacred Lawes of God,
How he doth will, that we our Lawes should vse,
And iustly how he scourgeth with his rod,
All such as scorne, or else his Lawes refuse.
And then to Law, to learne to keepe thy right:
And helpe thy friend, let be thy whole delight.
How he doth will, that we our Lawes should vse,
And iustly how he scourgeth with his rod,
All such as scorne, or else his Lawes refuse.
And then to Law, to learne to keepe thy right:
And helpe thy friend, let be thy whole delight.
But in respect of holy Lawes I say,
Account our studies in the Lawes but toyes:
When scripture showes the onely ready way,
For to attaine to euerlasting ioyes.
Let then I say, Deuinitie be thought,
The onely ioy, to which the best is nought.
Account our studies in the Lawes but toyes:
When scripture showes the onely ready way,
For to attaine to euerlasting ioyes.
Let then I say, Deuinitie be thought,
The onely ioy, to which the best is nought.
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