“Qui me alit,
me extinguit.”
The sense of which we now endeavour to give,—
“The wax here within nourishes the flames
And the wax stifles them; how many names
Who after a large gift and kindness shown,
Get from the giver harm and scorn alone.”
“Who nourishes me,
extinguishes me.”
Symeoni (from edition Lyons, 1574, p. 200) adds this little piece of history:—