Thou wouldst have turn’d it to a truer use,
And not (with starved and covetous ignorance)
Pined in continual eyeing that bright gem,
The glance whereof to others had been more
Than to thy famish’d mind the wide world’s store.
Ben Jonson, 1574–1637.
THE ROSE.
Go, lovely rose!
Tell her that wastes her time and me,
That now she knows,