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

There is no remembrance of things passed.

There is no remembraunce of thinges passed.

That is to say:¹ men follow their desires, and set forward their own enterprises, they will not consider by example of their predecessors, how they nothing prevailed. No man marketh how Alexander and Julius attempts were but vain. The example of Dion, that so unluckily urged his own devise in calling home Dionysius again, and in stablishing his common weal, could not make Brutus take heed. These are the themes as it were of his whole book, whereof he meaneth to speak, that is to say of the vanities of man, which goeth about diverse things, and can not bring them to pass, that is, of the inconstancy and insatiability ⟨image 22⟩of mans hart.

That is to say:¹ men follow their desires, and set forward their owne enterprises, they will not consider by example of their predecessours, how they nothing preuailed. No man marketh how Alexander and Iulius attemptes were but vaine. The example of Dion, that so vnluckely vrged his owne deuise in calling home Dionisius againe, and in stablishing his cōmon weale, could not make Brutus take héede. These are ye themes as it were of his whole booke, whereof he meaneth to speake, that is to say of ye vanities of man, which goeth about diuerse thinges, and can not bring them to passe, that is, of the inconstancie and insatiabilitie ⟨image 22⟩of mans hart.