ill their law, ambition their captain, custom their
rule; temerity, boldness, impudence their art, toys their trading,
damnation their end. All their endeavours are to satisfy their lust and
appetite, how to please their genius, and to be merry for the present,
_Ede, lude, bibe, post mortem nulla voluptas_. [6621]"The same condition is
of men and of beasts; as the one dieth, so dieth the other," Eccles. iii.
19. The world goes round,

[6622] ------"truditur dies die,
Novaeque pergunt interire Lunae:"

[6623]They did eat and drink of old, marry, bury, bought, sold, planted,
built, and will do still. [6624]"Our life is short and tedious, and in the
death of a man there is no recovery, neither was any man known that hath
returned from the grave; for we are born at all adventure, and we shall be
hereafter as though we had never been; for the breath is as smoke in our
nostrils, &c., and the spirit vanisheth as the soft air." [6625]"Come let
us enjoy the pleasures that are present, let us cheerfully use the
creatures as in youth, let us fill ourselves with costly wine and
ointments, let not the flower of our life pass by us, let us crown
ourselves with rose-buds before they are withered," &c. [6626]_Vivamus mea
Lesbia et amemus_, &c. [6627] "Come let us take our fill of love, and
pleasure in dalliance, for this is our portion, this is our lot."

_Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis_.[6628] For the rest of
heaven and hell, let children and superstitious fools believe it: for their
parts, they are so far from trembling at the dreadful day of judgment that
they wish with Nero, _Me vivo fiat_, let it come in their times: so secure,
so desperate, so immoderate in lust and pleasure, so prone to revenge that,
as Paterculus said of some caitiffs in his time in Rome, _Quod nequiter
ausi, fortiter executi_: it shall not be so wickedly attempted, but as
desperately performed, whatever they take in hand. Were it not for God's
restraining grace, fear and shame, temporal punishment, and their own
infamy, they would. Lycaon-like exenterate, as so many cannibals eat up, or
Cadmus' soldiers consume one another. These are most impious, and commonly
professed atheists, that never use the name of God but to swear by it; that
express nought else but epicurism in their carriage, or hypocrisy; with
Pentheus they neglect and contemn these rites and religious ceremonies of
the gods; they will be gods themselves, or at least _socii