Nor, honestly, nor usefully employing.

That, yeares expir'd, are lost, they likewise find:

For, when their understanding brings to mind,

How fondly (or, how ill perchance) they spent

Their passed age; they see, with discontent,

The Time, not onely lost, but, worse than so;

Lost, with a thousand other Losses moe:

And, that, when they shall need it, wealth nor pow'r,

Can purchase them, one minute of an howre.

Consider this, all ye that spend the prime,