Enchiridion miscellaneum spare houres improv'd in meditations divine, contemplative, practical, moral, ethical, oeconomical, political : from the pietie and learning of Fr. Quarles & Ar. Warwick, Gents. : by it they being dead, yet speak (Heb. XI. 4).

CHAP. V.

WHen J see the Larkers day-net spread out in a faire morning, and himselfe whirling his artificiall mo∣tion, and observe how by the reflecting lustre of the Sunne on the wheeling in∣strument, not onely the merry larke, and fearefull Pigeon are dazled, and drawn with admiratiō; but stouter birds of prey, the swift Merlin, and towring Hobbie are inticed to stoop, and gazing on the out∣ward form, lose themselves Me thinks J see the divels nightnets of inticing har∣lots fully paraleld, spread out for us in the vigour of our youth; which with roeling eyes draw on the lust fullnes of affection, and betray the wantonnes of the heart, and with their alluring glances often make to stoop within danger of their fatall nets, not onely the simple and careles, but others also, men otherwise wary and wise: who comeing within the pull of the net lie at the mercy of

that merciles fowler, to their certain de∣struction. Hence J resolve when J see such glasses, to shunne such motions, as assured that those glasses have nets ad∣joyning; those nets a fowler attending; that fowler a death prepared for me, then which J cannot die a worse J may by chance, J must by necessity, at sometime come within their view: J will at no time come within their danger. J cannot well live in this world, and not see them at all, J cannot live well in this world, nor at all in the better world, if J bee caught in their fatall nets.