Matthew Poole and continuators on Ecclesiastes 2:1

1 I Said in mine heart , Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth , therefore enjoy pleasure : and behold, this also is vanity .

Being disappointed of my hopes from Knowledg, I resolved in my own Mind to try another course.

O my Soul I will try whether I cannot make thee happy.

By allowing to my self the free enjoyment of the present and sensible Delights of humane Life.

Take thy fill of pleasure, and expect satisfaction thence.

Is vain, and unable to make men happy, because sensible pleasures are mean and unsutable to the noble and heaven-born Soul of Man, and if excessively used, apter to cloy and glut men, than to satisfie them, and are frequently mixed with, and most commonly end in bitterness, as being the great instruments and occasions of sin, and of all its fatal consequences.