[ 1495] No true Ioy to be found in Worldly things.
COpernicus that thought the Earth moved,* 1.1 and the Heavens stood still, was not yet so mad as either to look for Trees in Heaven, or Stars upon the Earth; And should not we think that Man to be either directly mad, or grosse∣ly mistaken in his way, that should knock at a Grave-stone for a Companion, or go down into a Charnel-house to make merry: And such are all they that quaerunt gaudium in loco non suo, that look for Joy in the honours or pleasures of this World; For, What is Honour? Lyes it not in the breath of others? A thin Ca∣binet of ayre which every Man hath a key to, but himself; Let but them above him agree, not to think him Great, or Wise or Noble; let but his fellow worms forbear to honour him, He that holds the Plow shall not change joyes with him; Look but upon the joy of the Voluptuous, Doth not sorrow often wait so close as to tread upon the heels of it?* 1.2 The Epicure crying out of his gowt, even at that time when he is feeding his disease with riot: The Israelites were struck with meat betwixt their teeth, and Zimri slain in the embraces of his Cozbi; So that if a Man should share in all the goodnesse that is under the Sun, it were at the best but Indolence, a privation of grief, an acquiescence, a kind of resting of the Mind, no true joy at all.