And slackneth so the soules, and bodies knot,

Which temperance streightens; freely on his she friends

He blood, and spirit, pith, and marrow spends,

210Ill steward of himself, himselfe in three yeares ends.

XXII.

Else might he long have liv'd; man did not know

Of gummie blood, which doth in holly grow,

How to make bird-lime, nor how to deceive

With faind calls, hid nets, or enwrapping snare,

215The free inhabitants of the Plyant aire.