and the water pot be broken vpon the fountaine, and the gently whiles he hath time, before death come, when al his ſenſes & former helpes shal faile.
7 wheele be broken vpon the ceſterne, † and the duſt returne into his earth, from whence it was, and the ſpirite returne to
* The preacher.
8 God, who gaue it. † Vanitie of vanities, ſayd * Eccleſiaſtes,
9 and al thinges vanitie. † And wheras Eccleſiaſtes was moſt wiſe, he taught the people, and declared the thinges that he had done: and ſearching forth made manie parables.
10 † He ſought profitable wordes, and wrote wordes moſt
11 right, and ful of truth. † The wordes of wiſemen are as prickes, and as nailes deepely ſtricken in, which by the
12 counſel of the maiſters are geuen of one paſtour. † More then theſe my ſonne require not. Of making manie bookes there ::This is the briſe ſumme of al profitable doctrine: Feare God, & kepe his commandments. is no end: and often meditation is affliction of the flesh.
13 † :: Letvs al heare together the end of ſpeaking. Feare God, and obſerue his commandments: for this is euerie man:
* Hidden, obſcure thing.14 † and al thinges that are done, God wil bring into iudgement for euerie * errour, whether it be good, or euil.
The Argvment Of The Canticle
Of Canticles
Proem. in Eccle.SAlomon, called alſo Eccleſiaſtes, and Idida, according to theſe King Salomon according to his three names writte and intitled his three bookes. three names (as S. Ierom noteth) writte three bookes of three particular arguments, directed to three degrees of people, with three diſtinct titles, al tending to one end, the true ſeruive of God, which bringeth to eternal felicitie. In the firſt he teacheth the principles of good life, to flee from vices, and folow vertues: belonging to ſuch as beginne to obſerue Gods law, wherin true wiſdom conſiſteth: and this booke is called the Prouerbes, or Parables, that is to ſay, Pithie, brief, ſentencious precepts; of Salomon, which ſignifieth Salomon Pacifier king of Iſrael. Pacificus, Peaceable, or Pacifier: the ſonne of Dauid, King of Iſrael. In the ſecond he exhorteth to contemne this world,shewing that true felicitie conſiſteth not in anie worldlie or temporal things, but in the eternal fruition of God, which is obtayned by keping his commandments. And this booke he intitleth: The wordes of Eccleſiaſtes, which is Concionator, Eccleſiaſtes, Preacher king of Ieruſalem. Preacher, Sonne of Dauid, King of Ieruſalem, becauſe he there exhorteth ſuch as haue made ſome progreſſe in virtues, called Proficientes, signified by the inhabitants of the Metropolitan citie Ieruſalem; whereas in the former he ſtĺiled himſelf king of Iſrael, propoſſing precepts mete for al
