THE CONCLVSION. 



progeny, by outliving their skill to number the diffufed multitudes 

 that (warmed from their loynes: let me, during this longfpace, 

 be folc Emperour and abfolute Lord* of all the huge globe otland 

 and water, encompafled with Adams offspring : let all my fubJ&s 

 lye proftrate at my feet, with obedience and awe , dialling their 

 aftiveft thoughts, in tludying day and night to invent new plea- 

 fures and delight for me: let nature confpire with them, to give 

 me a conftant and vigorous health; a perpetuall fpring of youth, 

 that may to the full, reli (h whatfoever good all they can fancy : lee 

 graved Prelates, and greateft Princes, (erve in ftead of flatterers to 

 highten my joyes j and yet thofe joyes 3 be railed above their power 

 of flattery : let the wifedome of this vaft family ( whofe fentiments, 

 are truxiraes and oracles, to governe the worlds beliefes and acti- 

 ons ) eiteeme, reverence, and adorne me in the fecreteft,and the mod 

 icclufe withdrawings of their hearts : let all the wealth, which to 

 this very day, hath ever beenetorne out of the bowels of the earth ; 

 and all the treasures, which the Tea hideth from the view of greedy 

 men, fwell round about me; vvhilft all the world btfides, lyeth ga- 

 ping to receive the crummes, that fall neglefted by me, from my full 

 loaden table : let my imagination bee as vaft, as the unfathomed 

 University ; and let my felicity be as accompli (hed, as my imagi- 

 nation can reach unto ; fo that following in pleafare, I be not able 

 to thinke how to increafe it, or what Co wifh for more> then that 

 which I pofiefle and enjoy. 



Thus when my thoughts are at a (land, and can raife my prefent 

 happinefle no higher ; lee me call to minde, how this long lea fe 

 of pleafant dayes, will in time come to an end : this bottome of a 

 thoufand joy full yeares, will at length bee unwound, and nothing 

 remaine of it : and then (my foule) thy infinitely longerlived Im- 

 mortality will fucceed ; they never ending date, will beginne a new 

 account, impoflibleto befummedup, and beyond all proportion 

 infinitely exceeding the happineffe, we have rudely aymed to ex- 

 prefle : fo that no comparison can be admitted betweene them.For, 

 fappofe fir ft that fuch it were, as the leafi and (horteft of thofe ma- 

 nifold joyes, which fwell it to that height we have fancyed, were 

 equall to all the contentment thou ftiould'it enjoy in a whole mil- 

 lion of yeares 5 yet millions of yeares may be fo often multiplyed, 

 as at Icngthjthe Gender and limited contentments fuppofed in them, 

 may equalyfe , and outgoe the whole heapc of overflowing blifle, 



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