Englands Parnassus: or the choysest flowers of our moderne poets, with their poeticall comparisons Descriptions of bewties, personages, castles, pallaces, mountaines, groues, seas, springs, riuers, &c. Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasaunt and profitable.

Sinne.

First we do taste the fruite, then see our sin. S. Daniell.

Shame followes sin, disgrace is daily giuen, Impietie will out, neuer so closely donne, No walles can hide vs from the eye of heauen, For shame must end what wickednes begun, Forth breakes reproach when we least thinke thereon. Idem.

Like as diseases common cause of death, Bring daunger most when least they pricke and smart: Which is a signe they haue expulst the breath Of liuely heate which doth defend the hart, Euen so such sinnes as felt are on no part, Haue conquered grace, and by their wicked vre, So kild the soule that it can haue no cure. I. Hig. M. of M.

Sinnes haruest neuer failes, but grace hath death. D. Lodge.

Couer thou fier neuer so close within, Yet out it will, and so will secret sin. M. of M.

It doubles sinne if finely sinne we practise to preuent. W.W.

Man may securely sinne, but safely neuer. B. Ihonson.

What wight on earth can voyd of fault be found? What Saint is that who doth not sinne sometime? Tweene good and bad this difference sole is found, That good men sinne but seld, and mend betime. The bad man (making scruple none nor question) Yeelds willingly to euery leaud suggestion. S. I. H.

Sinnes oft assaid, ere thought to be no sin, So soileth sinne, the soule it sinketh in. M. of M.

Shame leaues vs by degrees, not at first comming, For nature checks a new offence with loathing. But vse of sinne doth make it seeme as nothing. S. Daniell.

What though our sinnes go braue and better clad? They are as those in rags, as base, as bad. Idem.

The spot is foule, though by a Monarch made, Kings cannot priuiledge a sinne forbade. Idem.

—Sinne euer must Be torturde with the racke of his owne frame,

For he that holds no faith, shall finde no trust, But sowing wrong, is sure to reape the same. Idem.

— Cunning sinne being clad in vertues shape, Flies much reproofe, and many stormes doth scape. D. Lodge.

—Place for people, people place, and all for sinne decay. vv. vvarner.

To punish sinne is good, it is no nay, They wrecke not sinne, but merit wrecke for sinne The fathers fault that wreake vpon the kin. M. of M.

The sinne to which a man by loue is driuen, So much rhe rather ought to be forgiuen. S. I. H.