Who every rank approach with right address;

Who’ve loosed a guinea from a miser’s chest,

And worm’d his secret from a traitor’s breast;

Thence gifts and gains collecting, great and small,

Have brought to thee, and thou consum’st them all;

For want like thine - a bog without a base -

Ingulfs all gains I gather for the place;

Feeding, unfill’d; destroying, undestroy’d;

It craves for ever, and is ever void: -

Wretch that I am! what misery have I found,