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A68615	The mirrour which flatters not Dedicated to their Maiesties of Great Britaine, by Le Sieur de la Serre, historiographer of France. Enriched with faire figures. Transcrib'd English from the French, by T.C. And devoted to the well-disposed readers.; Miroir qui ne flatte point. English	La Serre, M. de (Jean-Puget), ca. 1600-1665.; Cary, T. (Thomas), b. 1605 or 6.; Payne, John, d. 1647?, engraver.	1639 (1639)	STC 20490; ESTC S115329	108,868	275

head you shall see him all naked in his shirt halfe-buried under the mire of a common Sinke where the light of the day troubles him not being able to endure the Sunne a witnesse of his misfortunes Behold him first I say in all abundance of Greatnesse and Soveraigntie whereof the splendour dazles the world but stay a little and you shall heare pronounc'd the sentence of his death being abandoned even of himselfe having no more hope of safetie How pompeous and celebrious was the Triumph of Lucullus In which hee rais'd admiration to the magnificence of an hundred Gallyes all-armed in the Prow a thousand Chariots charged with Pikes Halberts and Corselets whose shocking rumbles sounded so high it frighted the admirers though they celebrated the Festivall of the Victorie The number of Vessels of Gold and other Ornaments of the Triumph was without number The Statue of Mithridates also of Gold six foot high with the Target all covered with precious Stones serv'd anew to the Triumph And of this Glory all the world together was an adorer for the renowne of the Conquerour had diverse times surrounded the Vniverse But what shame after so much glory What infamie after so great honour Lucullus Great Men cannot commit little faulis victorious over so many Empires is found in fine subjected under the dominion of his pleasures his valour ha's made many slaves every where and yet his sottishnesse renders him in the end slave to his owne passions Insomuch that after hee had exalted the splendour of Rome's beautie by his brave actions worthy-admiration he againe blouzeth it's lustre by his excessive deboshes all blacke with vice And now 't is in vaine to seeke for Lucullus triumphant since hee is onely to be found overthrowne in reputation in which hee survives thus rendring himselfe doubly miserable Plutarchus in Apophtheg Reg. Imp. Tristis sollicitusque circumivit urbem Wee reade of Epaminondas that returning victorious from the Leuctrians hee received with regreet the Present o● the honour of Triumph which the Senat● had prepared him apprehending evermore the deturne of the Wheele so tha● the next morrow after the Festivall he● tooke on him mourning habit to prepar● himselfe betimes to suffer the change o● his fortune It is remark't in the history of Demetrius that entring in Triumph into Athens the people cast flowers and an infinite number of golden Globes up and downe the streets We are but as so many flowers planted by Nature in the Garden of the Earth and onely Death gathers us for a signe of a sumptuous congratulation But what signe of Vicissitude and frailty could there be more apparent then this which these flowers represented since there is nothing more fraile in Nature then they And these balles shewed also by their round and still rouling figure that the Glory whereof they were the symbole and Hieroglyphicke could not be firme and stable according as Truth it selfe soone after publish't by a sudden change which rendred the fate of this Victor deplorable Consider a little upon the same subject what revolutions has the Ball of Empire made since the first Monarch let it fall at his Death Is it not credible In like respect also we are as Bowles for still we rowle along to the Grave that it hath runne over diverse times the circuit of the Universe and its figure instructs us that in the inconstancy which is proper to all created things it will still rowle incessantly from one to another without ever staying since its Center is no where at all For so long as the world shall endure a continuall vicissitude will be its foundation And what meanes can there be to find a seat upon the earth which may be sheltered from inconstancy which raignes soveraignly and necessarily as essentiall to all whatsomever subsists here below I have not beene farre behold mee upon returne Tertullian assures us that in the Triumphs of the Romans there was a man waged to cry aloud to the Triumpher Remember thou art a Man Worldly honours are so many temptations to make us idolatrize our selves Plinie passeth farther yet and tells us that they were accustomed to put an iron ring upon the Conquerors finger in signe of servitude as if silently to intimate unto him that he was besides himselfe by an excesse of vanity in this amplitude of honour wherein he saw himselfe elevated above his companions And upon the same subject a great number of Historians doe adde that about the Charriot of the Triumpher there were two men assigned the one carrying a Deaths-head the other the Image of a Peacocke and both continually crying REMEMBER THAT THOV ART A MAN Vanitie is a dangerous enemie since it betrayes us while it seemes to oblige us by the complacence which it gives us Certainely Vanity makes great Prize of us then when we are elevated to some eminent degree of honour And though our heads be but as of dead-mens for wee are dying uncessantly and our miseries resemble us to those Images of Peacockes which cannot beare up traine but upon ugly Feete Yet our Blindnesse is so great and this self-Selfe-love so extreame that men are dazled with too much Splendour and a Man becomes slave to himselfe by loving himselfe with too much passion Greatnesse and prosperitie never let themselves be possest but to take greater possession of us And as they have allurements to charme us and sweets to ravish us a Man had need implore the succour of Divine grace if hee would escape their pleasing tyrannie and nothing but flight from them or contempt can give us weapons to resist them Let us still returne to the point We reade of Iudas Machabeus that returning victorious from Galile the people conducted him to the Temple by a way all tapistred with flowers Abraham after hee had vanquished five Kings was received in Triumph into Salem now called Hierusalem Iudith received the honour of Triumph by the destruction of Holofernes and all the people of Bethuli● laden with Palme to make her triumphall wreaths cryed out in her favour Behold the glory of Hierusalem and the joy of all her Nation Ioseph shewes himselfe in Triump● also upon the Chariot of Pharaoh Gen. 41.41 42 c. wh● puts his Royall Ring upon his finger gives him his Chaine of gold and makes him publikely to be acknowledged for the second person of Egypt David triumphs o're Goliah with magnificence worthy of his victory and the Virgins chant to his glory Saul hath kill'd his thousand 1 Sam. 18.7 and David his ten thousand Mordecai also had his turne of Triumph mounted upon the horse of Ahasuerus and had his prayses Heraldized by Haman in these termes Esther 6.11 Thus shall it be done to the man whom the King will honour All these Triumphs are worthy of admiration I avouch it but the Triumph over our selves is worthy astonishment as having to combate our passions and consequently the winning'st enemies of the

of miseries Remember that you are Men I will not say any more Conceiv'd in Corruption brought forth by it and also destroyed by it But rather I say born for the glory of God If a man should consider his worth by that which he cost hee would love himselfe perfectly Living for to acquire it and Dying for to possesse it Remember that you are Men I will say no more slaves of Sinne the Flesh and the World but rather free for resistance to the first A man may doe every good thing which hee desires since in his impuissance his will is taken for the deed strong enough to vanquish the next and more powerfull yet to give a Law to the third Remember that you are men I will no more say the pourtract of Inconstancy the object of every sort of ill and the pasture of Wormes But rather the Image of God the subject of every sort of good and the sole aliment of eternity as created for it alone Remember that you are men I will not say made of clay animated with mis-hap Man is sure a thing something divine which is not seene even to it selfe and metamorphosed a'new into rottennesse but rather made by the proper hand of God animated by his bounty and redeemed by his Grace I wonder at this that they should call man a little world since the least of his thoughts is able to signe out it 's expansion beyond a thousand worlds True it is that he was made of Earth Though hee bee made of clay the workmanship is yet all divine but the Master which hath made him having also drawne himselfe in the middle of his worke as did Phidias renders him more admirable than the Heavens One might also judge at first view that the greatest part of the creatures have many more Prerogatives then he But contrarily the heavens the Stars and all that nature hath most precious have in no sort correspondence or equivalence to his grandeurs let us see the proofe on 't I grant that the Sea may make us admire equally both it's vastnesse of Empire and efficacy of power the least teare of repentance which a Man sheds is a thousand times more admirable since it remounts even to the source of that grace which produc't it and consequently beyond the Heavens I grant that the Aire fils all and its emense nature permits no vacuity The heart of man is so vast and spacious that God onely can fill it through the whole universe The heart of man carries him farre higher being never able to find satisfaction in it's desires if it's Creators-selfe though without measure be not its measure Let the Fire alwayes greedy and ambitious scale the heavens in apparence with continual action by the vain attempts of its ejaculations The least sparckle of the fire of divine love wherewith man may be enflamed is so pure and so noble A man who loves God with all his heart lives upon earth in the same fashion as they live in heaven that one can not conceave an example of its perfection Suppose the transparent heavens have no matter then that of other forme and they render themselves thus wonderfull in their simplicity as in their course still equall and still continuall the spirit of man is infinitely more excellent in its nature and much more noble also in its actions since it workes without selfe-motion but with a manner so divine that its thoughts carry it every where without change of state or place Bee it that the Sun all marvellous in himselfe and his effects produceth nothing but wonders The Sun of reason wherewith man is illuminate is wholly miraculous since it operates in a divine semblable manner The reason of man is a ray beaming from the Sunne of Divinity the vertue of other creatures vegetable and sensitive is inseparably adioyned also to the body of man as its materiall Insomuch that he containes in a degree of eminence above all the creatures of the world Man hath some titles of Nobility to which the very Angels themselves cannot pretend more perfections himselfe alone then all they together have ever possessed And I shall well say more yet That Man hath certaine puissances of disposition to elevate himself so high in his humility that the Angels shall be below him If man were againe to bee sold who could ransome him as hee cost But if I shall yet moreover poize Man in the ballance of the Crosse of his Saviour and set him at the price of the blood wherewith hee was redeemed which of the creatures or rather which of the Angels will be so bold to dispute the preeminence Great Kings Remember then that you are Men but more admirable in your governments then the Sea in its vastnesse Remember that your are Men but also capable to purifie the Ayre by one onely sigh though even that sigh be made of nothing else A man makes himselfe above all things if hee vnder value them with misprize Remember that you are Men but a thousand thousand times yet more noble then the Fire since the Seraphins burne incessantly with those divine Fires wherewith your hearts may bee enflamed Remember that you are Men but more perfect then the Heavens since they were not created but to powre upon heads their benigne influences Remember that you are Men Man is an abridgement rather of the marvels of heaven than of the miracles of earth but more marvellous without comparison then the Sunne since your Reason is a divine light which can never suffer Eclipse but by opposition from a ●oluntary depravednesse Remember that you are Men but also destin'd to command over all other living crea●ures Remember that you are Men but also kneaded as it were by the hand of one All-powerfull formed after his Image and redeemed by his blood what can one say more If a man did often muse of the end for which he was created hee would therein set up his rest for all the inquietudes of the world Unto what a point of Glory hast ●hou then elevated me O sweet Sa●iour in abasing thy selfe even to the grave After thou hadst formed me of ●arth thou hast also taken the same ●orme for to resemble me in all things Thou I say O my God whose infinite greatnesse cannot admit onely the very admiration of the Separphins ●ut through the Traverse of the Vaile of their ordinary submissions What ●rodigie of bounty is this Cause ●e then O Lord if it please thee that may estimate my selfe at the price which thou hast ransomed me for and that in such sort that I may live no more but in loving thee to dye also one day of the same disposition Let me be humbly-haughty carrying the lineaments of thy resemblance that I may alwayes follow thee though not able to imitate thee This is that which I will continually implore thee for untill thou has● heard my vowes I advow now O

world I say the winning'st or the pleasing'st since they guard themselves onely with such kind of weapons whose hurtings makes us often sigh rather for joy then griefe Certainely the Victory of Reason over all the revolted faculties of our ●oules merits alone the honour of a Triumph and what advantage som●●er a man has over his enemies hee ●imselfe is yet still vanquisht if his ●ices be not subdued I pursue my de●●gne They which have enthronized Vertue in their breasts have laid their foundations upon the ruines of their passions to testifie to us that a Man cannot be vertuous with their predominancy And after essay of diverse meanes upon designe to vanquish them I have found none more powerfull then this The Meditation of Death but if any doubt this the tryall on 't will be profitable for him How is it possible that a Man should let himselfe be mastered with the passion of Revenge if he but muze of that Vengeance which his sins may draw downe every moment upon his head as being every houre in estate to dye Hee shall heare rumble in his eares the thunder of Divine Justice by the continuall murmur of his sighs which advertize him of the approaches of Death What courage can he have to avenge himselfe being upon point himselfe to suffer the torment of eternall vengeance Thou that art Vindicative wilt thou then quench the ardour of thy Choller feele thine owne pulse and consider that this pety slow feaver wherewith thou art stormed leads thee by little and little into the grave 'T is more honour for a man to avenge himselfe of his choler then of his enemie Who can be Ambitious if musing of Death since hee must quitt all with his life Let us ponder a while the fate of those arrogant spirits which ha' muz'd themselves to conquer the vaine greatnesses of the Earth What hath beene in fine their share at the end of the carriere They have had nothing but unprofitable regreets to have so ill employ'd their time finding themselves so poore with all their treasure as if they had beene borne the wreched'st of the world Thou Ambitious-one willt thou be cured of the disease of thy Passion think each houre of the day that that which thou now hearest strike may be thy Last Who would sigh for prophane Love after these objects of dust and ashes Mortall frailtie brings blemish to the fairest visages and mightily takes from their opinion being well considered if he often considered that hee himselfe is made of nothing else and that this noysome and corruptive matter seekaes nothing more then abysses of the grave there to hide within its loath somenesse in effect who would give his flesh a prey to pleasures if he would consider that the wormes do in expectation make their fees thereof already The Meditation of Death serves for temperament to all sorts of delights And if a Man bee capable of love in this muze it cannot be other then of his Salvation since this object is eternall but all others of the world perishable Infortunate Lovers search the solace of your immodest passions in the Anatomy of the subject whereof you are Idolaters Be assistant at that dead view Thinke of your owne Death Behold you are cured He which considers of that wretchednesse which is adjunct to Death easily mispriseth the riches of this life What wretched Rich man would be so much in love with his treasures if he would consider that Death robs him from them every day making him dye continually and that at the end of the terme of his life hee carryes along with him but the good or the evill which hee hath done to be either recompenc'd or punish'd but with a glory or a punishment whereof Eternity alone must terminate the continuance Covetous Misers the onely meanes for you to be so no more is to celebrate your owne funerals by your Meditations and often to consider the Account not of your riches but that which you must render one day of their fruition since your Salvation depends thereon Who in fine would make a God of his Belly seeking with passion all the delights which may tickle the sense of Taste if he represented to himselfe the miseries of the body which hee takes so much paines to nourish and the rigour of those inviolable decrees which destinate him a prey to the wormes and the remaines of their leavings to rottennesse This consideration would be capable to make him loose both appetite and desire at the same time to nourrish so delicately his carkasse O soules all of flesh repasting your selves with nothing else there is no invention to make you change nature but this to Heare your selves dye by the noyse of your sighs to See your selves dye by the wrinkles which furrow every day upon your visages and to Feele your selves die by the beatings of your pulse which indexeth this your hecticke feaver wherewith you are mortally attainted This is a Probatum-remedie the experience thereof is not dangerous May not a man then maintaine with much reason that the thought of Death alone is capable to cure our soules of the disease of their passions in doseing them both the meanes If a man should forget all things else but the miseries of his condition this last were enough to exercise the vastest memorie and the Vertue to triumph over them But if of this you desire an example call to mind that which I have proposed you in the beginning of the Chapter How marvellous is it that a great Monarch who is able to maintaine all manner of pleasure in his heart with all the delights which accompany it celebrates himselfe his Funeralls in the midst of his carriere of life beginning to raigne at the end of his raigne since that last object is alwayes present before his eyes His Passions doe assaile him but hee vanquisheth them they give him combate but he leads them in triumph and buryes them altogether in the Tombe which hee prepares himselfe Consider a little the glory which is relucent in this action We read of the Kings of Arabia that they triumphed upon Dromedaries the Kings of Persia upon Elephants of Croatia upon Bulls the Romanes upon horses and yet 't is remarkt of Nero that hee made himselfe be drawne in Triumph by foure Hermaphrodite Mares Camillus by foure white Horses Marke Antony by foure Lions Aurelian by foure Hearts Caesar by forty Elephants Heliogabalus by foure Dogges Moreover the Poets doe assure us that the triumphant Charriot of Bacchus was drawne by Tygers Neptunes by Fishes of Thetis by Dolphins Diana's by Harts of Venus by Doves Iuno's by Peacocks All these objects of pompe and magnificence whereof histories This Vanitie is a most contagious maladie and the onely preservative is the remembrance of Death and Fables would eternize the vanity have for all that done nothing but passe away and though a little remembrance of ' them stay with us 't is but the