By Guiltines, Death Entred in, And, Mischiefe Still Pursueth Sinne
IXions wheele, and he himselfe thereon
Is figur’d, and (by way of Emblem) here,
Set forth, for Guilty men to looke upon;
That, they, their wicked Courses might forbeare.
To gaine a lawlesse favour he desired,
And, in his wicked hopes beguiled was:
For, when to claspe with Iuno, he aspired,
In stead of her, a Clowd, he did embrace.
He, likewise, did incurre a dreadfull Doome,
(Which well befitted his presumptuous Crime)
A terror, and, a warning, to become,
For wicked men, through all succeeding time.
As did his longings, and his after Paine,
So, theirs affecteth, nor effecteth ought,
But, that, which proveth either false or vaine;
And, their false Pleasures, are as dearely, bought:
Yea, that, whereon they build their fairest Hope,
May, bring them (in conclusion of the Deed)
To clime the Gallowes, and to stretch a Rope;
Or, send them thither, where farre worse they speed:
Ev’n thither, where, the never-standing-Wheele
Of everlasting-Tortures, turneth round,
And, racks the Conscience, till the soule doth feele
All Paines, that are in Sense, and Reason found.
For, neither doth black Night, more swiftly follow,
Declining Day-light: Nor, with Nimbler Motion
Can waves, each other, downe their Channell follow,
From high-rais’d Mountaines, to the bigg-womb’d Ocean,
Then, Iustice will, when she doth once begin,
To prosecute, an Vnrepented-Sin.