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[verse 9] Reioyce in youth, fulfill desire, yet know God iudgeth all,
[verse 10] To clense thy hart, & wicked flesh: graue age, vain youth doth cal.
9.
Reioyce ô young man in thy youth, and let thine h••rt chere thee in the dayes of thy youth: and wa••ke in the wayes of thine h••rt, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know that for all these things, God will bring thee to iudge∣ment.
Delight he then in what so ere he please,
In youth, in beauty, strength, or wealthy store,
Let him delight himselfe, in vse of these,
And cheare his hart (as cause he hath) therefore
Yet let him thinke death knocketh at his dore.
And that they all, do vanish with their wayes,
That God alone remayneth euer ••ure,
That only vertue with vs longest stayes,
And can eternall blessednesse procure,
When to the iudgement of a God seuere,
Our workes must come, who all in mind doth beare.
10.
Therefore take away griefe out of thine heart, & cause euill to depart from thy flesh, for childhood and youth are vanitie.
Let him, and all the wise whilst yet they may,
Prepare themselues to beare with chearefull mind,
The fierce assaults, in death that for vs stay,
And but by faith can strong resistance find,
Since all our other workes come short behind.
Let vs abandon euery wicked way,
And lay our treasure vp in heauen aboue,
Youth is a flowre that springeth out in May,
But euery frost or blast doth soone remoue,
But heauen and heauenly ioyes will still remaine,
When youth and earthly works proue meerely vaine.