<p><term id="embstma_1667_07101"/>THE blynde, did beare the lame vppon his backe,<lb/> The burthen, did directe the bearers waies:<lb/> With mutuall helpe, they seru'de eche others lacke,<lb/> And euery one, their frendly league did praise:<lb/> The lame lente eies, the blynde did lend his feete,<lb/> And so they safe, did passe both feelde, and streete.<lb/> Some lande aboundes, yet hathe the same her wante,<lb/> Some yeeldes her lacke, and wantes the others store:<lb/> No man so ritche, but is in some thinge scante,<lb/> The greate estate, must not dispise the pore:<lb/> Hee workes, and toyles, and makes his showlders beare,<lb/> The ritche agayne, giues foode, and clothes, to weare.<lb/> So without poore, the ritche are like the lame:<lb/> And without ritche, the poore are like the blynde:<lb/> Let ritche lend eies, the poore his legges wil frame,<lb/> Thus shoulde yt bee. For so the Lorde assign'd,<lb/> Whoe at the firste, for mutuall frendship sake,<lb/> Not all gaue one, but did this difference make.<lb/> Whereby, with trade, and intercourse, in space,<lb/> And borrowinge heare, and lendinge there agayne:<lb/> Such loue, such truthe, such kyndness, shoulde take place,<lb/> <pb n="embstma_1667_fac066"/> <term id="embstma_1667_07102"/>That frendshipp, with society should raigne:<lb/> The prouerbe saieth, one man is deemed none,<lb/> And life, is deathe, where man doo liue alone.<lb/> <term id="embstma_1667_07103"/><foreign lang="la">Non est diues opum, diues: nec pauper inopsque<lb/> Infelix: alio nec magi alter eget.<lb/> Diues eget gemmis; Cereali munere pauper.<lb/> Sed cùm egeant ambo, pauper egens minus est.</foreign> <gloss target="embstma_1667_07101" lang="la">Quanta sit mutui au-<lb/> xilij necessitas, cùm in<lb/> communi hac vitae hu-<lb/> manae societate mul-<lb/> tis modis intelligi po-<lb/> test: in qua homo<lb/> hominis ope maximè<lb/> indiget, ade vt in<lb/> prouerbium abierit,<lb/> homo homini Deus:<lb/> tum ver in ipsa cor-<lb/> poris humani consti-<lb/> tutione &amp; fabrica lu-<lb/> culentissimè apparet.<lb/> Neque enim homo<lb/> subsistere vlla ratione<lb/> possit, nisi membra<lb/> corporis mutuum si-<lb/> bi auxilium praestent.<lb/> Quid enim futurum<lb/> esset, nisi oculi pedes<lb/> ad ingressum dirige-<lb/> rent; nisi rursum pe-<lb/> des corpus mouerent;<lb/> nisi manus ori cibú,<lb/> os ventriculo atq. he-<lb/> pati, hepat per venas<lb/> vniuerso corpori ali-<lb/> mentum suggereret?<lb/> Nihil itaque est quod<lb/> per seipsum, sine al-<lb/> terius auxilio, con-<lb/> stare, aut vim suam<lb/> &amp; perpetuitatem con-<lb/> seruare possit.</gloss> <pb n="embstma_1667_fac066"/> <gloss target="embstma_1667_07102" lang="la"><name type="author">Hor.</name> 2. serm. 2.<lb/> Nam propria telluris<lb/> herum natura neque<lb/> illum,<lb/> Nec me, nec quenquam<lb/> statuit, &amp;c.</gloss> <gloss target="embstma_1667_07103" lang="la"><name type="author">Ausonius</name> in Epig.</gloss> </p>

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