Meditatio sexta.
SO poore a thing is Man. No Flesh and Blood
Deserues the stile of* 1.1 Absolutely Good:
The righteous man sins oft; whose power's such,
To sin the least, sins (at the least) too much:
The* 1.2 Man, whose Faith disdain'd his Isacks life,
Dissembled once, a* 1.3 Sister, for a Wife
The righteous* 1.4 Lot, being drunk, did make (at once)
His Daughters, both, halfe sisters to their Sonnes:
The royall Fauorite of heauen, stood
Not guililesse of* 1.5 Adultery, and Blood,
And he, whose hands did build the Temple, doth
Bow downe his lustfull knees to* 1.6 Ashtaroth
The* 1.7 sinfull Woman was accus'd, but none
Was found, that could begin to sting a stone.
From muddled Springs, can Christall Waters come?
In some things, all men sin, in all things, some.
Euen at the soyle, (which Aprils gentle showers
Haue fild with sweetnesse, and inricht with flowers) * 1.8
Reares vp her suckling plants, still shooting forth
The tender blossomes of her timely Birth,