<p>Whether the Salamander be a Beast,<lb/> Or Precious-Stone, which overcomes the Flame,<lb/> It skills not; Since, by either is exprest<lb/> The Meaning which we purpose by the same:<lb/> Both brooke the Fire unhurt; And (more then so)<lb/> The fiercer and the longer Heats there are,<lb/> The livelyer in the same the Beast will grow;<lb/> And, much the brighter, will the Stone appeare.<lb/> This Crowned-Salamander in the Fire,<lb/> May, therefore, not unfitly, signifie<lb/> Those, who in Fiery Charriots, doe aspire<lb/> Elijah-like, to Immortality:<lb/> Or, those Heroicke spirits, who unharm'd<lb/> Have through the Fires of Troubles, and Affliction,<lb/> (With Vertue, and with Innocencie arm'd)<lb/> Walkt onward, in the Path-way, of Perfection.<lb/> The Fiery-Tryall, which like Wood and Hay,<lb/> Consumes the Workes of ev'ry Wicked-one;<lb/> (And maketh all their Hopes to fume away)<lb/> Doth purifie what Faithfull-men have done.<lb/> They triumph in the Flames, and shall obtaine<lb/> The glorious Crowne of Endlesse-Happinesse,<lb/> When all that show of Blisse appeareth vaine,<lb/> Which Worldly men have seemed to possesse.<lb/> For, though some Sinnes and Follies, gilded are,<lb/> And shine like purest Gold, and Pretious-Stones;<lb/> This Test, will finde of what Allay they were,<lb/> And, make them knowne but Counterfeited Ones:<lb/> For, in this Fornace, all such Wormes expire;<lb/> And, none but Vertue liveth in this Fire.<lb/> </p>

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<p>Afflictions Fire consumeth Sinne;<lb/> But, Vertue taketh Life therein.</p>

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Nudrisco il buono et spengo il reo