<p>Thrice happy is that Man whose Thoughts doe reare<lb/> His Minde above that pitch the Worldling flies,<lb/> And by his Contemplations, hovers where<lb/> He viewes things mortall, with unbleared eyes.<lb/> What Trifles then doe Villages and Townes<lb/> Large Fields or Flockes of fruitfull Castell seeme?<lb/> Nay, what poore things are Miters, Scepters, Crownes,<lb/> And all those Glories which Men most esteeme?<lb/> Though he that hath among them, his Delight,<lb/> Brave things imagines them (because they blinde<lb/> With some false Lustre his beguiled sight)<lb/> He that's above them, their meane-Worth may finde.<lb/> Lord, to that Blessed-Station me convey<lb/> Where I may view the World, and view her so,<lb/> That I her true Condition may survey;<lb/> And all her Imperfections rightly know.<lb/> Remember me, that once there was a Day<lb/> When thou didst weane me from them with content,<lb/> Ev'n when shut up within those Gates I lay<lb/> Through which the Plague-inflicting Angel went.<lb/> And, let me still remember, that an Houre<lb/> Is hourely comming on, wherein I shall<lb/> (Though I had all the World within my powre)<lb/> Be naked stript, and turned out of all.<lb/> But minde me, chiefely, that I never cleave<lb/> Too closely to my Selfe; and cause thou me<lb/> Not other Earthly things alone to leave,<lb/> But to forsake my Selfe for love of Thee:<lb/> That I may say, now I have all things left,<lb/> Before that I of all things, am bereft.<lb/> </p>

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A man hovers in the air, leaving behind earthly concerns and riches, symbolized by attributes of ecclesiastical and worldly power

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<p><foreign lang="el">ΠΑΝΤΑ ΛΕΛΟΙΠΑ</foreign>.</p>

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86(PANTA LELOIPA (GR.))

<p>As, to the World I naked came,<lb/> So, naked-stript I leave the same.</p>

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Panta leloipa (Gr.)