WHen I thinke on the Eagles cary∣ing up of the shell-fish in∣to the ayre, onely to the end hee may breake
Spare-minutes: or resolved meditations and premeditated resolutions. Written by A.W.
About this Item
- Title
- Spare-minutes: or resolved meditations and premeditated resolutions. Written by A.W.
- Author
- Warwick, Arthur, 1604?-1633.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by R. B[adger and G. Miller] for Walter Hammond, and are to be sold by Michael Sparke, in Greene Arbour,
- 1634.
- Rights/Permissions
-
To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
- Subject terms
- Meditations -- Early works to 1800.
- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
- Cite this Item
-
"Spare-minutes: or resolved meditations and premeditated resolutions. Written by A.W." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A14795.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
Pages
Page 43
him by his fall, it puts mee in minde of the divellish costly courte∣sies, who out of the bountie of his subtilty, is still ready to advance us to destruction. Thus more then once hee dealt with my Redee∣mer, no sooner had hee rais'd him to the top of an high pinacle, but straight followes, cast thy selfe downe; and ha∣ving placed him on an high mountaine, let him fall downe and hee shall bee largely rewar∣ded with his owne. If advancement be so dan∣gerous,
Page 44
I will take heed of being ambitious. Any estate shall give mee content: I am high enough if I can stand upright.