GRASS.

Is all grass? Make you no distinction? No; all is grass; or if you will

have some other name, be it so. Once, this is true, that all flesh is

grass; and if that glory which shines so much in your eyes must have a

difference, then this is all that it can have—it is but the flower of

that same grass; somewhat above the common grass in gayness, a little

comelier and better appareled than it, but partakes of its frail and

fading nature. It hath no privilege nor immunity that way; yea, of the

two is less durable, and usually shorter lived; at the last it decays

with it. “The grass withereth; and the flower thereof fadeth away.”

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