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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.

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

1. 1BERNARD

But the Earth here meant is a divine, spiritual, immortal nature; called Earth by a Metaphor, incapable of suffering terrene fragility. This is Gods Earth, and that in a high and mystical sense, though proper enough. Indeed Domini terra, the earth is the Lords and the fullness thereof, saith the Psalmist. But he hath not such respect ⟨p. 7⟩