To what intent or purpose was Man made,
Who is by birth to misery betrayed?
Man in his tedious course of life runs through
More plagues than all the Land of Egypt knew.
Doctors, divines, grave disputations, puns,
Ill-looking citizens and scurvy duns;
Insipid squires, fat bishops, deans and chapters,
Enthusiasts, prophecies, new rants and raptures;
Pox, gout, catarrhs, old sores, cramps, rheums and aches;
Half-witted lords, double-chinned bawds with patches;
Illiterate courtiers, Chancery suits for life,
A teazing whore, and a more tedious wife;
Raw Inns of Court men, empty fops, buffoons,
Bullies, robust round aldermen, and clowns;
Gown-men which argue, and discuss, and prate,
And vent dull notions of a future state;
Sure of another world, yet do not know
Whether they shall be saved, or damned, or how.
  ’Twere better then that Man had never been,
Than thus to be perplexed: God save the Queen.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "To what intent or purpose was Man made,
Who is by birth to misery betrayed?
Man in his tedious course of life runs through
More plagues than all the Land of Egypt knew.
Doctors, divines, grave disputations, puns,
Ill-looking citizens and scurvy duns;
Insipid squires, fat bishops, deans and chapters,
Enthusiasts, prophecies, new rants and raptures;
Pox, gout, catarrhs, old sores, cramps, rheums and aches;
Half-witted lords, double-chinned bawds with patches;
Illiterate courtiers, Chancery suits for life,
A teazing whore, and a more tedious wife;
Raw Inns of Court men, empty fops, buffoons,
Bullies, robust round aldermen, and clowns;
Gown-men which argue, and discuss, and prate,
And vent dull notions of a future state;
Sure of another world, yet do not know
Whether they shall be saved, or damned, or how.
  ’Twere better then that Man had never been,
Than thus to be perplexed: God save the Queen." in the context of ""As Concerning Man"" to mean that wisdom is timeless.