Againe, if by the bodie's prop she stand;
If on the bodie's life, her life depend;
As Meleager's on the fatall brand[146],—
The bodie's good shee onely would intend:
We should not find her half so braue and bold,
To leade it to the Warres and to the seas;
To make it suffer watchings, hunger, cold,
When it might feed with plenty, rest with ease.
Doubtlesse all Soules have a suruiuing thought;
Therefore of death we thinke with quiet mind;
But if we thinke of being turn'd to nought,
A trembling horror in our soules we find.
Reason IV.
From the Feare of Death in the Wicked Soules.
And as the better spirit, when shee doth beare
A scorne of death, doth shew she cannot die;
So when the wicked Soule Death's face doth feare,
Euen then she proues her owne eternitie.
For when Death's forme appeares, she feareth not
An vtter quenching or extinguishment;
She would be glad to meet with such a lot,
That so she might all future ill preuent:
But shee doth doubt what after may befall;
For Nature's law accuseth her within;
And saith, 'Tis true that is affirm'd by all,
That after death there is a paine for sin.
Then she which hath bin hud-winkt from her birth,
Doth first her selfe within Death's mirror see;
And when her body doth returne to earth,
She first takes care, how she alone shall bee.