<p>Observe I pray you, how the greedy Flame<lb/> The Fewell, on an Altar doth consume.<lb/> How it destroyeth that which feedes the same,<lb/> And how the Nourisher away doth fume.<lb/> For, so it fares with Parents that uphold<lb/> Their thriftlesse Children in unlawfull Pleasures:<lb/> With Cares, it weares them out, ere they are old;<lb/> And ere their Lives consume, consumes their Treasures.<lb/> So fares it with such Wantons as doe feede<lb/> Vnchast Desires; for, ev'ry day they grow<lb/> Vntill their Longings, their Supplies exceede,<lb/> And, quite devoure those men that fed them so.<lb/> So fares it with all those that spend their Youth<lb/> In lab'ring to enrich ungratefull Men,<lb/> Who, growing Great, and Wealthy, by their Truth,<lb/> Returne them Smoke and Ashes backe agen.<lb/> So fares it with good States-men, who to keepe<lb/> A thankelesse Common-wealth in happy Peace,<lb/> Deprive their Mindes of Rest, their Eyes of Sleepe,<lb/> And, waste themselves, that others may encrease.<lb/> And, so it fares with Men that passe away<lb/> Their time in Studies, (and their Healths impaire)<lb/> That helps to other men become they may,<lb/> And, their defective Knowledges, repaire.<lb/> But, let my Flesh, my Time, and my Estate,<lb/> Be so consum'd; so spent; so wasted bee,<lb/> That they may nourish Grace, and perfit that<lb/> For which all these were first bestowd'd on me:<lb/> So when I quite am vanish'd out of seeing,<lb/> I shall enjoy my Now-concealed-Being.<lb/> </p>

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Wood, burning on an altar

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<p>I pine, that others may not perish,<lb/> And waste my Selfe, their Life to cherish.</p>

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