No More Learning

_1669_]

[11 notes: there some _1633-54:_ notes some: there _1669_]

[17 enshrines; _1719:_ enshrines _1633-69_]

[20 computations so; _1633-69:_ computations; so, _Chambers_]

[42 fooles:] fooles. _1633_]

[48 Bablers _1633:_ Babblers _1635-54:_ Builders _1669_]

[49 faire, _Ed:_ faire; _1633-69_]

[50 eye. ] eye, _1633_]

[52 and prophecie] all prophecye _B_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _N_,
_O'F_, _TCD_ prophecie. ] prophecie, _1633 some copies_]

[57 Parent] Parents _1669_ Growth, _1669:_ Growth _1633-54_]

[58 both _1633 and MSS. :_ worth _1635-69_, _O'F_ All: _Ed:_
All, _1633-69_]

[60 thinge _B_, _Cy_, _D_, _H40_, _H49_, _N_, _O'F:_ things
_1633-69_, _Lec_]

[61 nice thinne _1633-54:_ nicest _1669_]

[66 aliens _1633_, _1669 and MSS. :_ alters _1635-54_, _O'F_]

[67 and] end _1669_, _not_ lend _as in Chambers' note_

appeale _Ed:_ appeale, _1633-69_]

[68 true, _1633:_ true. _1635-69_]

[71 had bin _1633-35:_ hath bin _1639-69_. _See note_]




To S^r _Edward Herbert_. at _Iulyers_.


Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee,
Wisdome makes him an Arke where all agree;
The foole, in whom these beasts do live at jarre,
Is sport to others, and a Theater;
Nor scapes hee so, but is himselfe their prey, 5
All which was man in him, is eate away,
And now his beasts on one another feed,
Yet couple'in anger, and new monsters breed.
How happy'is hee, which hath due place assign'd
To'his beasts, and disaforested his minde! 10
Empail'd himselfe to keepe them out, not in;
Can sow, and dares trust corne, where they have bin;
Can use his horse, goate, wolfe, and every beast,
And is not Asse himselfe to all the rest.
Else, man not onely is the heard of swine, 15
But he's those devills too, which did incline
Them to a headlong rage, and made them worse:
For man can adde weight to heavens heaviest curse.
As Soules (they say) by our first touch, take in
The poysonous tincture of Originall sinne, 20
So, to the punishments which God doth fling,
Our apprehension contributes the sting.
To us, as to his chickins, he doth cast
Hemlocke, and wee as men, his hemlocke taste;
We do infuse to what he meant for meat, 25
Corrosivenesse, or intense cold or heat.
For, God no such specifique poyson hath
As kills we know not how; his fiercest wrath
Hath no antipathy, but may be good
At lest for physicke, if not for our food. 30
Thus man, that might be'his pleasure, is his rod,
And is his devill, that might be his God.
Since then our businesse is, to rectifie
Nature, to what she was, wee'are led awry
By them, who man to us in little show; 35
Greater then due, no forme we can bestow
On him; for Man into himselfe can draw
All; All his faith can swallow,'or reason chaw.
All that is fill'd, and all that which doth fill,
All the round world, to man is but a pill, 40
In all it workes not, but it is in all
Poysonous, or purgative, or cordiall,
For, knowledge kindles Calentures in some,
And is to others icy _Opium_.
As brave as true, is that profession than 45
Which you doe use to make; that you know man.
This makes it credible; you have dwelt upon
All worthy bookes, and now are such an one.
Actions are authors, and of those in you
Your friends finde every day a mart of new. 50


[To S^r Edward _&c. _ _1633_, _D_, _H49_, _Lec_, _O'F:_ A
Letter to S^r Edward Herbert (_or_ Harbert). _B_, _Cy_ (_which
adds_ Incerti Authoris), _S96:_ To Sir E. H. _A18_, _N_, _TC:_
_no title_, _P:_ Elegia Vicesima Tertia. _S:_ To S^r Edward
Herbert, now (since _1669_) Lord Herbert of Cherbury, being at
the siege of Iulyers. _1635-69_]

[4 Theater; _Ed:_ Theater, _1633-69:_ Theater. _D_]

[5 prey, _Ed:_ prey; _1633-69_]

[8 breed. ] breed; _1633_]

[10 minde!