<p>How Fond are they, who spend their pretious Time<lb/> In still pursuing their deceiving Pleasures?<lb/> And they, that unto ayery Titles clime<lb/> Or tyre themselves in hoording up of Treasures?<lb/> For, these are Death's, who, when with wearinesse<lb/> They have acquited most, sweepes all away;<lb/> And leaves them, for their Labors, to possesse<lb/> Nought but a raw-bon'd Carcasse lapt in clay.<lb/> Of twenty hundred thousands, who, this houre<lb/> Vaunt much, of those Possessions they have got;<lb/> Of their new purchac'd Honours, or, the Power,<lb/> By which, they seeme to have advanc't their Lott:<lb/> Of this great Multitude, there shall not Three<lb/> Remaine, for any Future age to know;<lb/> But perish quite, and quite forgotten bee,<lb/> As Beasts, devoured twice ten yeares agoe.<lb/> Thou, therefore, who desir'st for aye to live,<lb/> And to possesse thy Labors maugre Death,<lb/> To needfull Arts and honest Actions, give<lb/> Thy Spanne of Time, and thy short blast of Breath.<lb/> In holy Studies, exercise thy Mind;<lb/> In workes of Charity, thy Hands imploy;<lb/> That Knowledge, and that Treasure, seeke to find,<lb/> Which may enrich thy Heart with perfect Ioy.<lb/> So, though obscured thou appeare, awhile,<lb/> Despised, poore, or borne to Fortunes low,<lb/> Thy Vertue shall acquire a nobler stile,<lb/> Then greatest Kings are able to bestow:<lb/> And, gaine thee those Possessions, which, nor They,<lb/> Nor Time, nor Death, have power to take away.<lb/> </p>

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By Knowledge only, Life we gain, all other things to Death pertain

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<p>By Knowledge onely, Life wee gaine,<lb/> All other things to Death pertaine.</p>

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Vivitur ingenio caetera mortis erunt