<p>As soone as our first Parents disobey'd,<lb/> Forthwith a Curse, for their offence, was layd,<lb/> Inforcing them, and their succeeding race,<lb/> To get their Food, with sweatings of the Face.<lb/> But, afterward, this Doome to mitigate,<lb/> (And ease the miseries of their estate)<lb/> God gave them Hope, that she might helpe them beare<lb/> The burthens of their Travaile, and their care.<lb/> A Woman with an Anchor, and a Spade,<lb/> An Emblem of that Mystery is made:<lb/> And, this Estate, wee all continue in,<lb/> By God's free Mercie, and our proper Sinne.<lb/> By Sinne, the Labour is on us intail'd;<lb/> By Grace, it is, that Hoping hath not fail'd;<lb/> And, if in Hope, our Labours wee attend,<lb/> That Curse will prove a Blessing, in the end.<lb/> My Lot is Hope, and Labour ; and, betweene<lb/> These Two, my Life-time hath prolonged beene:<lb/> Yet, hitherto, the best of all my Paine,<lb/> With most of all my Hopes have beene in vaine;<lb/> And to the VVorld-ward, I am like to wast<lb/> My time in fruitlesse labours, till the last.<lb/> However, I have still my Hopes as faire<lb/> As hee, that hath no temptings to Despaire ;<lb/> And, change I will not, my last howres for theirs,<lb/> Whose Fortune, more desirable appeares;<lb/> Nor cease to Hope and Labour, though, of most,<lb/> My Hope and Labour be adjudged lost:<lb/> For, though I lose the shaddow of my Paines,<lb/> The stubstance of it, still, in God, remaines.<lb/> </p>

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<p>Our Dayes, untill our Life hath end,<lb/> In Labours, and in Hopes, wee spend.</p>

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