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Dam'd Auarice (like a slie greedie Whore)
Stirrs vp Desire, and pleasure doth forbidd:
And makes hir Louers starue amiddst their Store,
As Midas with his golden Viands did
All other Lusts them selues helpe euery way:
For, who's a Glutton that will spare to feede?
Or who are carnall that forbeare the plaie
Vpon an appetite to acte the Deede?
But wealthie Misers haue not what they hold:
And, money vse not, through desire of it:
As, wee should Clothes forbeare for being cold:
And, for wee hungrie are, eate not a Bitt
This is an Ill that Good doth most abuse,
Because it loues the good, it hates to vse.
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