Date: 1610
"Man is a lump, where all beasts kneaded be / Wisdom makes him an ark where all agree."
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Date: 1610
Man may keep himself "empaled" to keep animals out
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Date: 1610
Souls may "by our first touch, take in / The poisonous tincture of original sin"
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Date: 1610
Man "into himself can draw / All, all his faith can swallow, or reason chaw ... All the round world, to man is but a pill."
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Date: 1610
"Man is a lump, where all beasts kneaded be, / Wisdom makes him an ark where all agree; / The fool, in whom these beasts do live at jar, / Is sport to others and a theatre, / Nor 'scapes he so, but is himself their prey; / All which was man in him is eat away, / And now his beasts on one another ...
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Date: 1610
"How happy is he, which hath due place assigned / To his beasts, and disafforested his mind."
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