Penitus medullas, atque per venas meat
Visceribus ignis mersus, et venis latens,
Ut agilis altas flamma percurrit trabes.
This fiery vapour rageth in the veins,
And scorcheth entrails, as when fire burns
A house, it nimbly runs along the beams,
And at the last the whole it overturns.
[5361]Sic quo quis proprior suae puellae est,
Hoc stultus proprior suae runinae est.
The nearer he unto his mistress is,