Astrophel and Stella - Sonnet XXIV
Rich fooles there be whose base and filthy heart Lies hatching still the goods wherein they flow, And damning their own selues to Tantals smart, Wealth breeding want; more rich, more wretched growe: Yet to those fooles Heau'n doth such wit impart As what their hands do hold, their heads do know, And knowing loue, and louing lay apart As sacred things, far from all dangers show. But that rich foole, who by blind Fortunes lot The richest gemme of loue and life enioys, And can with foule abuse such beauties blot; Let him, depriu'd of sweet but vnfelt ioys, Exild for ay from those high treasures which He knowes not, grow in only folly rich!
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