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<NAME>Emma Leeson Huber</NAME>
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<HEAD>A Friends Advice. In an excellent Ditty, concering the variable changes in this World. </HEAD>
<OPENER>To a plea&s;ant new Tune.</OPENER>
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<LG>
<L>WHat if a day or a moneth or a yeare,</L>
<L>crown thy delights,</L>
<L>With a thou&s;and wi&s;ht contentings?</L>
<L>Cannot the chance of a night or an hour</L>
<L>cro&s;&s;e thy delights,</L>
<L>with as many &s;ad tormentings?</L>
<L>Fortunes in their faire&s;t birth,</L>
<L>are but blo&s;&s;oms dying,</L>
<L>Wanton plea&s;ures doting mirth,</L>
<L>are but &s;hadowes flying:</L>
<L>All our joyes are but toyes,</L>
<L>idle thoughts deceiving,</L>
<L>None hath power of an hour,</L>
<L>in our lives be reading.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What if a &s;mile, or a beck, or a look,</L>
<L>F&eacute;ed thy fond thoughts</L>
<L>with many a &s;w&eacute;et conceiving?</L>
<L>May not that &s;mile, or that beck, or that look</L>
<L>tell th&eacute;e as wel</L>
<L>they are but vain deceiving?</L>
<L>Why &s;hould beauty be &s;o proud,</L>
<L>in things of no &s;urmounting?</L>
<L>All her wealth is but a &s;hroud,</L>
<L>of a rich accounting:</L>
<L>Then in this repo&s;e no bli&s;&s;e,</L>
<L>which is &s;o vain and idle:</L>
<L>Beauties flowers have their hours,</L>
<L>time doth hold the bridle.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What if the world with allures of her wealth</L>
<L>Rai&s;e thy degr&eacute;e</L>
<L>to a place of high advancing?</L>
<L>May not the world by a check of that wealth,</L>
<L>put th&eacute;e again</L>
<L>to a low de&s;piced chancing?</L>
<L>Whil&s;t the &s;unne of wealth doth &s;hine,</L>
<L>thou &s;halt have friends plenty,</L>
<L>But come want, then they repine,</L>
<L>not one abides of twenty,</L>
<L>Wealth and Friends holds and ends,</L>
<L>all your fortunes ri&s;e and fall,</L>
<L>Vp and down ri&s;e and frown,</L>
<L>certain is no &s;tate at all.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What if a grief, or a &s;train, or a fit,</L>
<L>Pinch th&eacute;e with pain,</L>
<L>or the feeling pangs of &s;ickne&s;&s;e?</L>
<L>Doth not that gripe or that &s;trein or that fit,</L>
<L>Shew thee the form</L>
<L>of thy own true perfect likene&s;s?</L>
<L>Health is but a glimp&s;e of joy</L>
<L>&s;ubject to all changes,</L>
<L>Mirth is but a &s;illy toy,</L>
<L>which mi&s;hap e&s;tranges,</L>
<L>Tel me then, &s;illy man,</L>
<L>why art thou &s;o weak of wit,</L>
<L>As to be in jeoperdy,</L>
<L>when thou mai&s;t in quiet &s;it?</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Then if all this have declar'd thine ami&s;&s;e</L>
<L>take it from me</L>
<L>as a gentle friendly warning;</L>
<L>If thou refu&s;e, and good councel abu&s;e,</L>
<L>Thou mai&s;t hereafter</L>
<L>dearly buy thy learning:</L>
<L>All is hazard that we have,</L>
<L>there is nothing biding,</L>
<L>Dayes of plea&s;ure are like &s;treames,</L>
<L>through fair Meddowe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter"> bliding</L>
<L>Wealth or woe, time doth go,</L>
<L>there is no returning&punc;</L>
<L>Secret fates guid our <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">tates,</L>
<L>both in mirth and m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">urning.</L>
</LG>
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<HEAD>The &s;econd Part, to the &s;ame Tune</HEAD>
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<LG>
<L>MAns but a bla&s;t, or a &s;moak, or a cloud,</L>
<L>That in a thought</L>
<L>or a moment is di&s;per&s;ed:</L>
<L>Lifes but a &s;pan, or a tale, or a word</L>
<L>that in a trice,</L>
<L>on &s;udden is rehear&s;ed:</L>
<L>Hopes are chang'd&punc; and thoughts are cro&s;t,</L>
<L>Will nor skill prevaileth</L>
<L>Though we laugh and live at ea&s;e,</L>
<L>change of thoughts a&s;&s;ayleth,</L>
<L>Though a while fortune &s;mile,</L>
<L>and her comforts frowneth,</L>
<L>Yet at length failes her &s;trength,</L>
<L>and in fine &s;he frowneth.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Thus are the joyes of a year in an hour,</L>
<L>and of a moneth,</L>
<L>in a moment quite expired,</L>
<L>But in the night with the word of a noi&s;e,</L>
<L>cro&s;t by the day,</L>
<L>of an ea&s;e our hearts de&s;ired:</L>
<L>Faire&s;t blo&s;&s;oms &s;oone&s;t fade,</L>
<L>withered foul and rotten,</L>
<L>And through griefe our greate&s;t joyes</L>
<L>quickly are forgotten:</L>
<L>S&eacute;eke not then (mortall men)</L>
<L>earthly fl&eacute;eting plea&s;ure,</L>
<L>But with pain &s;trive to gaine</L>
<L>heavenly la&s;ting trea&s;ure.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Earth to the world, as a man to the earth,</L>
<L>hath but a point,</L>
<L>and a point is &s;o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="2 letters"> defaced:</L>
<L>Fle&s;h to the &s;oul as a flower to the Sun,</L>
<L>that in a &s;torme</L>
<L>or a tempe&s;t is di&s;graced:</L>
<L>Fortune may the body plea&s;e,</L>
<L>which is onely carnall&punc;</L>
<L>But it wil the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">oul di&s;ea&s;e,</L>
<L>that is &s;till immortal,</L>
<L>Earthly joyes are but toyes,</L>
<L>to the &s;oules election,</L>
<L>Worldly grace doth deface,</L>
<L>mans divine perfection.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Fle&s;hly delight to the earth that is fle&s;heth&punc;</L>
<L>may be the cau&s;e,</L>
<L>of a thou&s;and &s;w&eacute;et contentings;</L>
<L>But the defaults of a fle&s;hly de&s;ire,</L>
<L>brings to the &s;oul</L>
<L>many thou&s;and &s;ad tormentings:</L>
<L>Be not proud pre&s;umptuous man,</L>
<L>&s;ith thou art a point &s;o ba&s;e,</L>
<L>Of the lea&s;t and lowe&s;t Element:</L>
<L>which hath lea&s;t and lowe&s;t place:</L>
<L>Marke thy fate and thy &s;tate,</L>
<L>which is onely earth and du&s;t&punc;</L>
<L>And as gra&s;&s;e, which alas</L>
<L>&s;hortly &s;urely peri&s;h mu&s;t.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Let not the hopes of an earthly de&s;ire,</L>
<L>bar th&eacute;e the joyes</L>
<L>of an earne&s;t contentation,</L>
<L>Nor let thy eye on the world be &s;o &s;ixt,</L>
<L>to hinder thy heart</L>
<L>from unfained recantation:</L>
<L>Be not backward in that cour&s;e,</L>
<L>that may bring thy &s;oul delight,</L>
<L>Though another way may &s;eem</L>
<L>far more plea&s;ant to thy &s;ight;</L>
<L>Do not go, if he &s;ayes no,</L>
<L>That knowes the &s;ecrets of thy mind,</L>
<L>Follow this thou &s;halt not mi&s;&s;e</L>
<L>an endle&s;&s;e happine&s;s to find.</L>
</LG>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P>London printed by I. B. for Frrncis Coles.</P>
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