With gloves, and knots, the silly snares of pleasure

Yet his dear treasure,

All scatter’d lay, while he his eyes did pour

Upon a flow’r.

“The darksome statesman, hung with weights and woe,

Like a thick midnight fog, mov’d there so slow,

He did nor stay, nor go;

Condemning thoughts—like sad eclipses—scowl

Upon his soul,

And clouds of crying witnesses without