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[ 1724] Riches, how to be used.

LOok but upon a Fly coming to a platter full of sweet and pleasant honey,* 1.1 if she thrust not her self altogether into it, but onely touch and taste it with ••er mouth, and take no more then is necessary and needful, she may safely take ••ing, and fly to anoth••r place: but if she wallow and tumble in the honey, then is she lymed, and taken in it; and whilest she is not able to fly away, she doth ••here lose her life.* 1.2 Thus if a Man take onely so much of his Riches as may su∣••tain, and honestly maintain his estate, bestowing the rest well, and in a Christian ••anner, then they cannot hold him back, or barre him from the Kingdome of

Heaven, but if Covetousnesse shall bewitch him, and prick him on to scrape and rake together more and more, then he shall never be satisfied, but fall into many snares and temptations.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Hect. Pin••u•• in Dan.
• * 1.2

  Divitii•• utare tuis, &c. T. Mori Epigram.