, and there lies. The rich man lives like Dives
jovially here on earth, _temulentus divitiis_, make the best of it; and
"boasts himself in the multitude of his riches," Psalm xlix. 6. 11. he
thinks his house "called after his own name," shall continue for ever; "but
he perisheth like a beast," verse 20. "his way utters his folly," verse 13.
_male parta, male dilabuntur_; "like sheep they lie in the grave," verse
14. _Puncto descendunt ad infernum_, "they spend their days in wealth, and
go suddenly down to hell," Job xxi. 13. For all physicians and medicines
enforcing nature, a swooning wife, families' complaints, friends' tears,
dirges, masses, _naenias_, funerals, for all orations, counterfeit hired
acclamations, eulogiums, epitaphs, hearses, heralds, black mourners,
solemnities, obelisks, and Mausolean tombs, if he have them, at least,
[3713]he, like a hog, goes to hell with a guilty conscience (_propter hos
dilatavit infernos os suum_), and a poor man's curse; his memory stinks
like the snuff of a candle when it is put out; scurrilous libels, and
infamous obloquies accompany him. When as poor Lazarus is _Dei sacrarium_,
the temple of God, lives and dies in true devotion, hath no more
attendants, but his own innocency, the heaven a tomb, desires to be
dissolved, buried in his mother's lap, and hath a company of [3714]Angels
ready to convey his soul into Abraham's bosom, he leaves an everlasting and
a sweet memory behind him. Crassus and Sylla are indeed still recorded, but
not so much for their wealth as for their victories: Croesus for his end,
Solomon for his wisdom. In a word, [3715]"to get wealth is a great trouble,
anxiety to keep, grief to lose it."

[3716] "Quid dignum stolidis mentibus imprecer?
Opes, honores ambiant:
Et cum falsa gravi mole paraverint,
Tum vera cognoscant bona."

But consider all those other unknown, concealed happinesses, which a poor
man hath (I call them unknown, because they be not acknowledged in the
world's esteem, or so taken) _O fortunatos nimium bona si sua norint_:
happy they are in the meantime if they would take notice of it, make use,
or apply it to themselves. "A poor man wise is better than a foolish king,"
Eccles. ii. 13. [3717]"Poverty is the way to heaven," [3718]"the mistress
of philosophy," [3719]"the mother of religion, virtue, sobriety, sister of
innocency, and an upright mind." How many such encomiums might I add out of
the fathers, philosophers