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Such a one will not give, lest his white hand ⟨p. 6⟩should touch the poor beggars: who perhaps hath a hand cleaner then his; I mean, from aspersions of blood, rapine, injury, bribery, lust and filthiness. He cannot intend to pray; for he is called to dinner just when his last lock is hung to his mind. O the monstrous curiosity of tricking up this earth of earth! yet from the Courtier to the Carter, from the Lady to the Inkle-beggar,¹ there is this excess and going beyond their calling.

Such a one will not giue, lest his white hand ⟨p. 6⟩should touch the poore beggars: who perhaps hath a hand cleaner then his; I meane, from aspersions of bloud, rapine, iniury, briberie, lust and filthinesse. He cannot intend to pray; for he is called to dinner iust when his last locke is hung to his minde. O the monstrous curiositie of tricking vp this earth of earth! yet from the Courtier to the Carter, from the Lady to the Inkle-beggar,¹ there is this excesse and going beyond their calling.

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But I have strayed out of my way, to cut off a lap of Prides garment: I conclude this Earth with this caution. Respice, aspice, prospice. Look back what thou wast: behold what thou art: consider what thou must be.¹ Recole primordia, attend media, pr••uideto novissima. Haec pudorem adducunt, illa dolorem ingerunt, ista timorem incutiunt. Call to mind former things, see the present, foresee the last. The first will breed in thee shame, the other grief, these fear. Remember thou wert taken out of the earth: behold thy strength of life subject to diseases; manifold, manifest, sensible ones: foresee that thou must dye; this earth must to earth again.