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An exposition of Solomons book called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seen and allowedAn exposition of Salomons booke called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seene and allowed
An exposition of Solomons book called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seen and allowed.An exposition of Salomons booke called Ecclesiastes or the preacher. Seene and allowed.
London: printed by John Daye, 1573London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1573
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Chapter 6 › And may want burial.Chapter 6 › And may want buryall.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
And may want burial.
And may want buryall.
HE holdeth on in exaggerating of his misery, that is, he may be forsaken of all his friends, or dye in an other country, and not at home.
HE holdeth on in exaggerating of hys mysery, that is, he may be forsakē of all his frendes, or dye in an other countrye, and not at home.
I say that an untimely fruit is better then such an one.
I say that an vntymely fruite is better then such an one.
That is, it were better he were not at all, then to be such a miserable man, and in such great store of goods, a beggar. This is true without godliness. Compare the life of a covetous rich man, and a wretch with him that is not yet borne, and thou shalt perceive it. And Solomon speaketh not as fools use to speak, as some say of this place, but setteth out the life of fools, in the outward body. There it is better not to be borne then to live in such sort: that is to say, to have riches, glory, children, long life, and yet not to enjoy them.