Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation / With Modifications To Obsolete Language By Monica Stevens

m not so casual as money is, or plate. For though their other substance may be stolen

nce is there to us, whether our substance be movable or unmovable, since we be so movable ourselves that we may be removed from them both and lose them both twain? Yet sometimes i

ose it? For if it be a thing of more surety, then can it not so soon be lost. In the transfer of these two great empires-G

t himself that he and his blood are for ever the very lords and owners of the land! For then would the ground think the while, to itself, "Ah, thou poor soul, who thinkest thou wert half a god, and art amid thy glory but a man in a gay gown! I who am the ground here, over whom thou are so proud, have had a hundred such owners o

age, cousin, three

he rest, too. In far fewer years than three thousand it may well fortune that a poor ploughman's blood may come up to a kingdom, and a king's right royal kin on

e about in the compass of very few years, in effect. And are such things then in reason so greatly to be

ve to keep it, since it is a great commodity to

the more cause you have to be afraid of losing them; then on the other hand the more a thing is of its nature such that its commodity bringeth a man little surety and much fear, tha