<p>This Glasse declares, how Time doth passe away;<lb/> And, if the Words, about it, rightly say,<lb/> Thy Time that's gone, is lost : and, proofe will shew,<lb/> That, many find both Words, and Emblem, true.<lb/> How fast their Time departs, they best perceive,<lb/> From whom it steales, before they take their leave,<lb/> Of what they love; and, whose last houre is gone,<lb/> Before their chiefest businesses are done.<lb/> How fast it slides, ev'n they are also taught,<lb/> (Too late, perhaps) who never kept in thought<lb/> Their ending-day ; but, alwayes did presume,<lb/> Or, largely hope upon the Time to come ;<lb/> The present-howres, nor thankfully enjoying,<lb/> Nor, honestly, nor usefully employing.<lb/> That yeares expir'd, are lost, they likewise find:<lb/> For, when their understanding brings to mind,<lb/> How fondly (or, how ill perchance) they spent<lb/> Their passed age ; they see, with discontent,<lb/> The Time, not onely lost, but, worse than so;<lb/> Lost, with a thousand other Losses moe:<lb/> And, that, when they shall need it, wealth nor pow'r,<lb/> Can purchase them, one minute of an howre.<lb/> Consider this, all ye that spend the prime,<lb/> The noone-tide, and the twilight of your Time,<lb/> In childish play-games, or meere worldly things;<lb/> As if you could, at pleasure, clip Times wings,<lb/> Or turne his Glasse ; or, had a Life, or twaine<lb/> To live, when you had fool'd out this in vaine.<lb/> Short is the present ; lost Times-passed bee;<lb/> And, Time to come, wee may not live to see.<lb/> </p>

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<p>PERIT QUOD ELAPSUM EST.</p>

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<p>Make use of Time, that's comming on ;<lb/> For, that is perish'd, which is gone.</p>

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