Encompassed by death on all sides. [ CLVI]
IN the beginning of every Almanack,* 1.1 there is usually the picture of a naked man, miserably beset on all sides; the Ram pusheth at the head, the Bull goareth the neck, the Lion teareth the heart, the Scorpion stings the privy parts, another shoots at the thighes, &c. Every man living is but an emblem of that livelesse Anatomy; one dyes of an Apoplexy in the head, another of a Struma in the neck, a third of a Squinancy in the throat, a fourth of a Gough and Consumption of the lungs, others of Obstructions, Inflammations, Pluri••ies, Gouts, Dropsies, &c. and him that escapeth the sword of Hazael,* 1.2 him doth Iehu slay; and him that escapeth the sword of Iehu, doth Elisha slay. Let but God arm the least of all his creatures against the strongest man, it is present death and dissolution.