 | The Sun's-Darling |  |
READER.
It
is not here intended to present thee
with the perfect Analogy betwixt the
World and man, which was made for Man;
Nor their Co-existence, the World determining
with Man: this J presume hath bin by others
Treated on, But drawing the Curtain
of this Morall, you shall finde him in his progression
as followeth.
The first Season.
Presents him in the Twy-light of his ageNot Pot-gun-proofe, and, yet hee'l have his page:
This smale Knight-Errant will encounter things
Above his pearch and like the partridge Springs.
The second Season.
Folly, his Squire, the Lady Humor brings.Who in his eare farr sweeter Novells sings.
He follows them; forsakes the Aprill Queene,
And now the Noone-tide of his age is seene.
The third Season.
As soone as Nerv'd with strength, he becoms Weake,Folly and Humor, doth his reason breake;
Hurries him from his Noone-tide to his even;
From Summer to his Autumne he is driven.
The fourth Season.
And now the Winter, or his nonage takes him:The sad remembrance of his errours wakes him;
Folly and Humour, Faine hee'd cast away,
But they will never leave him, till hee's Clay.
Thus Man as Clay Descends, Ascends in spirit;
Dust, goes to dust, The soule unto It's Merit.
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