Observe I pray you, how the greedy _Flame_ The _Fewell_, on an _Altar_ doth consume. How it destroyeth that which feedes the same, And how the _Nourisher_ away doth fume. For, so it fares with _Parents_ that uphold Their thriftlesse _Children_ in unlawfull _Pleasures_: With _Cares_, it weares them out, ere they are old; And ere their Lives consume, consumes their Treasures. So fares it with such _Wantons_ as doe feede Vnchast Desires; for, ev’ry day they grow Vntill their _Longings_, their _Supplies_ exceede, And, quite devoure those men that fed them so. So fares it with all those that spend their _Youth_ In lab’ring to enrich ungratefull Men, Who, growing _Great_, and _Wealthy_, by their Truth, Returne them _Smoke_ and _Ashes_ backe agen. So fares it with good _States-men_, who to keepe A thankelesse _Common-wealth_ in happy Peace, Deprive their _Mindes_ of Rest, their _Eyes_ of Sleepe, And, waste themselves, that others may encrease. And, so it fares with Men that passe away Their time in _Studies_, (and their Healths impaire) That helps to other men become they may, And, their defective Knowledges, repaire. But, let my _Flesh_, my _Time_, and my _Estate_, Be so consum’d; so spent; so wasted bee, That they may nourish _Grace_, and perfit that For which all these were first bestowd’d on me: So when I quite am vanish’d out of seeing, I shall enjoy my _Now-concealed-Being_. _When to =suppresse= us, Men intend, They make us higher to =ascend=._ [Illustration: CONCVSSVS SVRGO ILLVSTR. XVI. _Book. 1._]