Ecclesiastes, othervvise called The preacher Containing Salomons sermons or commentaries (as it may probably be collected) vpon the 49. Psalme of Dauid his father. Compendiously abridged, and also paraphrastically dilated in English poesie, according to the analogie of Scripture, and consent of the most approued writer thereof. Composed by H.L. Gentleman. Whereunto are annexed sundrie sonets of Christian passions heretofore printed, and now corrected and augmented, with other affectionate sonets of a feeling conscience of the same authors.

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There is none end of all the people, nor of all that were before them, and they that come after, shal not reioice in him, surely this is also va∣nitie, and vexa∣tion of the spirit.

So doth man gaze vpon the rising sunne, So soone we surfet feeding on the best, So fast the multitude to mischiefe runne, So hardly can the fonder sort digest Obedience, where their safest state should rest, That (monster like) they many heads do reare, And euery head ten thousand fancies beare.

In which their choice, by chance if they attaine Vnto a worthy guyder of their state, He in their likings can not long remaine, Whilst (causelesse) malcontents turne loue to hate, Which cares (with many more) their ioyes abate, And makes their raysed state more deeply way, That wo, which nature doth on all men lay.