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Infans nondum loquitur, & tamen pro∣phetat.
August. Serm. de bono pat.
IT is lamentable to hear the poor infant which cannot speak, yet, to boad his own misery, and to Prophecy of his future condition, and what are the contents of his Pro∣phecie, but lamentations, mournings, and woes? Saint Cyprian accords with Saint Austin in his doleful note, Vitae mortalis anxietates, & dolores
& procellas mundi quas ingreditur in∣exordio statim suo ploratu, vel gemit•• rudis anima testatur, little children newly born, take in their first breath with a sigh, and come crying into the world, as soon as they open their eyes they shed tears to help fill up the vale of tears, into which they were then brought, and shall bee after a short time carried out with a stream of them, running from the eyes of all their friends. And if the Prologue and Epilogue bee no bet∣ter, what shall wee judge of the Scenes and Acts of the life of man, they yeeld so deep springs of tears, and such store of arguments against our aboad in this world, that many reading them in the books of Hege∣sias the Platonick, presently brake the prison of their body, and leaped out of the world into the grave. Others concluded with Silenus, Optimum non nasci, proximum quam primum mori, That it was simply best never to bee born, the next to it to dye out of hand, and give the world our salve, and take our vale at once.