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GENERAL LITERATURE AND SCIENCE 525 viventem quidem relictum sed sola posteritatis cura et abruptis vitae blandimentis Hinc admiratio et plura interrogandi pudor atque omnium animi in Vitellium inclinavere -Tacitus Hist III -CvanSlatt into Eattn prosit Xerxes wept sadly when he saw his army of 300 000 men because he considered that within hundred years all the youth of that'army should be dust and ashes and yet as Seneca well observes of him he was the man that should bring them to their graves and he consumed all that army in two years for whom he feared and wept the death after hundred Just so we do all We complain that within thirty or forty years little more or great deal less we shall descend again into the bowels of our mother and that our life is too short for any great em- ployment and yet we throw away five-and-thirty years of our forty and the remaining five we divide between art and nature civility and customs necessity and convenience prudent counsels and religion but the portion of the last is little and contempt- ible and yet that little is all that we can prudently account of our lives We bring that fate and that death near us of whose approach we are so sadly apprehensive In taking the accounts of your life do not reckon by great distances and by the periods of pleasure or the satisfaction of your hopes or the sating your desires but let every intermedial day and hour pass with obser- vation He that reckons he hath lived but so many harvests thinks they come not often enough and that they go away too soon some lose the day with longing for the night and the night in waiting for the day IV -Eranilate into Satin elegiacs Now the bright morning star day's harbinger Comes dancing from the east and leads with her The flowery May who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose