<p>When you doe next behold the wanton Flyes<lb/> About the shining Candle, come to play,<lb/> Vntill the Light thereof hath dimm'd their Eyes,<lb/> Or, till the Flame hath sing'd their Wings away:<lb/> Remember, then, this Emblem; and, beware<lb/> You be not playing at such harmefull Games:<lb/> Consider, if there sit no Female, there,<lb/> That overwarmes you, with her Beauties Flames.<lb/> Take heed, you doe not over dally so<lb/> As to inflame the Tinder of Desire;<lb/> But, shun the Mischiefe, e're too late it grow,<lb/> Lest you be scorched in that Foolish-Fire.<lb/> For, as those Wandring-Fires which in the Night,<lb/> Doe leade unwary Trauellers astray,<lb/> Alluring them, by their deceiving Sight,<lb/> Till they have altogether lost their way:<lb/> Right so, fantasticke Beauty doth amaze<lb/> The Lust-full Eye, allures the Heart aside,<lb/> Captives the Senses (by a sudden blaze)<lb/> And, leaves the Iudgement wholly stupify'd.<lb/> Nay, if Men play too long about those Torches,<lb/> Such is the Nature of their wanton Flame,<lb/> That, from their Bodies (unawares) it scorches<lb/> Those Wings and Feet, on which they thither came.<lb/> It wasteth (ev'n to nothing) all their Wealth,<lb/> Consumes their precious Time, destroyes their Strength,<lb/> Bespots their Honest-Fame, impaires their Health,<lb/> And (when their Fatall Thread is at the length)<lb/> That thing, on which their Hope of Life is plac't,<lb/> Shall bring them to Destruction, at the last.<lb/> Illvstr. XLI. When (Reader) thou hast first of all survayd<lb/> </p>

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Cosi vivo piacer conduce a morte

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<p>COSI VIVO PIACER CONDUCE A MORTE.</p>

A fly approaches a burning candle; in the background two couples strolling, one couple sitting with the man playing a lute; two men duelling

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<p>Those Fooles whom Beauties Flame doth blinde,<lb/> Feele Death, where Life they thought to finde.</p>

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