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VNhappy is the man that setleth his hart, his desires, and his ho∣pes on earthly thinges, for which he looseth all celestiall hap∣pinesse. If the Eagle that soareth so high, had to each of her
winges fastened one of the beames of the Carpēters worck att S. Peters in Rome, it is most certaine she could not mount into the ayre. As I ob∣serue many that labour for the body, so doe I find few that trauell for the soule. Many take exceeding paines for corporall affaires, breaking and cutting the marbles, digging mountaynes, labouring the earth, furrowing the sea, and performing many other painfull exercises: but who is he that laboureth manfully and with feruour for the soule?
The auaricious is like the Mole, that thincketh there is no other good but to digge the earth, and therfore therin setteth vp his rest: yet* 1.1 doubtlesse ther is an other treasure vnknowne to the Mole. The birdes of heauen, the beastes of the earth, and the fishes of the sea content thē∣selues when they haue sufficient to eat: but because man cannot content himselfe with what the earth affordeth, he alwayes sigheth after some∣what else. It is certaine that he was not created principally for these ba∣se thinges, but for such as are high and supreme, for so much as the bo∣dy was made for the soule, and this world for loue of the other. This* 1.2 world is a field of such quality, as the that hath the better and greater part therof, hath the worse share. This holy Father to this purpose al∣leadged that the holy Father sainct Francis did not loue the Antes, be∣cause of their ouer much care to assemble their prouisions: but loued the birdes much more, because they made no prouision to liue vpon, but depending on the diuine prouidence, made only search from houre to houre according to their need.
The aua∣ricious resēbleth the Mole.
He that hath the greatest part in this world hath the worse.