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Behold a deade man was caried forth, the onely sonne of his mother.
CONSIDER that as gray heires, length of yeares, and frequent in∣firmities, doe daylie and hourely threa∣ten the old man, that he cannot liue lon∣ge: so frequent experience ought to assu∣re
vs, that young men may, and often doe, dye soone, yea in the verie flowre of their age; as did he here, being the onely sonne of his mother, whose corps was caried forth. Wherin all her hopes of a successour fayled: and howeuer he might haue fedd himselfe with the expe∣ctation of a rich inheritance, all that falls to him from his poore mournefull mo∣ther, mounts to noe more, then her com∣fortlesse teares, which fall fruitlessly to the grounde.
[Affection.] For an old man to promise himselfe longe life, is a thinge worthy to be laughed at: so farre hath old age robbd him of all rationall hopes! And for a younge man, be he neuer so younge, to giue himselfe assurance of a longe life, de∣serues to be wept at. Let noe man thinke he can make a league with death. Youth is noe proofe against it. Nay it is euen farre more subiect to innumerable dis∣mall occasions therof, as daily experience puts vs out of doubt. What are we to doe then, my soule, but to banish all assurance of life from our thoughtes, and so to liue as though we were euery houre to dye; hearing continually with S. Hie∣rome,
the trumpet sounding: Arise, ô yee deade, and come to iudgement.