[ 669] Momentany pleasure attended by sorrow eternal.
IT is written of Lysimachus, that having his City besieged, and himself, together with his whole Army,* 1.1 being in great danger of peri••hing by thirst, in exchange of a cup of cold water, he delivered up the keys of his City to his Enemy, which cold comfort he had no sooner tasted, but his tongue bewrayed the grief of his heart, saying; O that in lieu of so momentany a pleasure, I should be made, of a Sove∣raign, a Servant; of a King, a Captive: It were to be wished, that every one would apply this, and meditate with Hierom, Brevis est voluptas fornicationis, & perpe∣tua poena fornicatoris, What shall the fornicator get, enduring an Ocean of torture for a drop of pleasure?* 1.2 Momentaneam est quod delectat, ae••ernum quod cruciat, sayes another; Sweet meat must have sower sauce. O that men therefore would forget the beginning,* 1.3 and onely behold the end of these delights, and consider with the Apostle, that God is an aveng••r of such things.