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. VII.

HE that too much admires the glo∣ry of a Princes Court, and drawn up thither (by his ambition) thinks high places to be the highest happines; let him view the foggie mists, the moist vapours, and light exhalations drawne up from the earth by the attractive power of the glorious Sunn-beames: which when they are at highest, either spend them∣selves there in portnding metors, to others terrour and their owne consump∣tion; and either by resolution are turned into rain, or congelation unto hayle or snow, which sink lower into the earth at their fall, then they were at their ascen∣ding. For my part, J may admire such a glowing coale. J will not with the Satyr

kis it. As J think it not the least and last praise to please Princes; so, J know, it is not the least danger of times to live with them, procul a Iove, procula fulmine. Hee presumes too much of his owne bright∣nes that thinks to shine cleere neere the Sunn; where, if his light be his owne, it must be obscured by comparison; if borrowed from the Sunn, then is it not his, but an others glory. A candle in the nights obscurity shews brighter than a torch at noone-day. And Caeser thought it a greater glory to bee the first man in some obscure town, than the se∣cond man in Rome the head City of the world.