SAPIENCE

The advise of Aristippus have in your mind, which willed me ̄ to seek such things as be permane ̄ to And not such as are of a vanishing kind For the one with the other is not equivalent, Be circumspect therefore, foreseeing and Sapient, For treasures here got are uncertain and vain, But treasures of the mind do continually remain. Truth in deed, & therefore your name being Just, With me and my documents must be assotiate, Where contrary such as are led by their lust, To incline evil are always appropriate, They have not as you have, battle & combat, Against the cogitations that inwardly spring, But rather are obedient unto the same thing, And this is the occasion that men are so ambitious, And so foolish led by the Lust of their brain, Sometime to covet, sometime to be vicious, Sometime the council of the wise to disdain, Sometime to climb till they fallen down again, Sometime to usurp the possessions of other, Sometime to disobey both father and mother. Nay soft sir we must talk with you or you go. To deceive us now him self he does prepare. Let him that is Just not lightly ensue, His vile inclination and carnal concupicence, But let him rather contend the same to subdue, And chiefly those that have knowledge of Sapience, Therefore to bridle this Lust do your diligence, His crafty provocations utterly to restrain, That Just may live while life does remain. Never leave him but ensue the council of sapience. Thou shalt kick in deed but no victory win, Neither to conquer the Just to ungodliness nor sin, To the intent that you may him sharply restrain, Let him not enjoy so much of the rain. Thus should every man that will be called Just, Bridle and subdue his beastly inclination, That he in the end may obtain perfect trust, The messenger of God to give sighed to salvation. Then let us depart and leave this beast bridled.