round with mournful wailings_
and piteous lamentation, as is natural for one who has so many ills of
life in store for him, so many evils which he must pass through and
suffer."

"Thou must be patient: we came crying hither;
Thou know'st, the first time that we smell the air,
We wawle and cry--
When we are born, we cry that we are come
To this great stage of fools."--Shakspeare's _Lear_.

"Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? 'For in Thy sight none is
pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the
earth.' (Job xxv. 4.) Who remindeth me? Doth not each little infant, in
whom I see what of myself I remember not? What then was my sin? Was it
that I _hung upon the breast and cried_?"--St. Austin, _Confess._, lib.
i. 7.

"For man's sake it should seeme that Nature made and produced all other
creatures besides; though this great favour of hers, so bountifull and
beneficiall in that respect, hath cost them full deere. Insomuch as it
is hard to judge, whether in so doing she hath done the part of a kind
mother, or a hard and cruell stepdame. For first and foremost, of all
other living creatures, man she hath brought forth all naked, and
cloathed him with the good and riches of others. To all the rest she
hath given sufficient to clad them everie {344} one according to their
kind; as namely shells, cods, hard hides, prickes, shagge, bristles,
haire, downe, feathers, quils, skailes, and fleeces of wool. The verie
trunkes and stemmes of trees and plants, shee hath defended with bark
and rind, yea, and the same sometime double against the injuries both
of heat and cold: man alone, poore wretch, she hath laid _all naked
upon the bare earth, even on his birth-day, to cry and wraule presently
from the very first houre that he is borne into this world_: in suche
sort as, _among so many living creatures, there is none subject to shed
teares and weepe like him. And verily to no babe or infant is it given
once to laugh before he be fortie daies old_, and that is counted verie
early and with the soonest.... The child of man thus untowardly borne,
and who another day is to rule and command all other, loe how he lyeth
bound hand and foot, weeping and crying, and beginning his life with
miserie, as if he were to make amends and satisfaction by his
punishment unto Nature, for thi