<p>Why should the foolish World discourage Men,<lb/> In just endurances? or bid them shunne<lb/> Good Actions, 'cause they suffer now and then,<lb/> For Doing well, as if some Ill were done?<lb/> Ere Plates extended are, they must abide<lb/> A thousand hamm'rings; And, then that which fill'd<lb/> So little roome, it scarce your Hand could hide,<lb/> Will serve a goodly Monument to gild.<lb/> So, he that hopes to winne an honest Name,<lb/> Must many blowes of Fortune undergoe,<lb/> And hazard, oft, the blast of Evill Fame,<lb/> Before a Good-Report her Trumpe will blow.<lb/> A thousand Worthies had unworthily<lb/> Been raked up in Ashes and in Clay,<lb/> Vnknowne and bury'd in Obscurity,<lb/> If Malice had not fil'd their Rust away.<lb/> But, lo; their lasting prayses now are spread,<lb/> And rais'd, by Adverse-Chance, to such a height,<lb/> That they most glorious are, now they are dead;<lb/> And live in Injuries, and Deaths, despight.<lb/> For, by Afflictions, man refined growes,<lb/> And, (as the Gold prepared in the Fire)<lb/> Receiveth such a Forme by wrongs and blowes,<lb/> That hee becomes the Iewell we desire.<lb/> To thee therefore, Oh God! My Prayers are<lb/> Not to be freed from Griefes and Troubles quite:<lb/> But, that they may be such as I can beare;<lb/> And, serve to make me precious in thy Sight.<lb/> This please me shall, though all my Life time, I<lb/> Betweene thine Anvill and the Hammer, lie.<lb/> </p>

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A nail lying on an anvil is hit with a hammer held by a hand from the clouds

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<p>Till God hath wrought us to his Will,<lb/> The Hammer we shall suffer still.</p>

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