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[ 1598] To be more careful for the Body, then the Soul, reproveable.
THe Iews have a Story of a Woman that took two Children to nurse,* 1.1 the one, a very mean deformed, crooked, blind, and not likely to live long; the other as goodly a child as may be, beautifull, well-favoured, and likely to be long-liv'd: Now this foolish Woman bestowing all her care and diligence, pains and attendance upon the worst child, never so much as minding the best, must needs be ignorant and very foolish in so bad a choyce, and of so great neglect: Thus it is,* 1.2 that the most of Men are herein to be reproved, who having taken two Children to nurse, their bodies and their Souls, and well knowing, that the Soul is infinitely far better then the body, more beautiful and of longer conti∣nuance, yet like the foolish Nurse; they bestow all their care, labour and pains for the worst, they make provision for the Flesh, pamper up the body, which must ere long lye down in the dust, and starve the Soul, which doth and must live for ever.