“Kingdoms are but cares; State is devoid of stay; Riches are ready snares, And hasten to decay. Pleasure is a privy prick Which vice doth still provoke; Pomp, unprompt; and fame, a flame; Power, a smold'ring smoke. Who meaneth to remove the rock Out of the slimy mud Shall mire himself, and hardly 'scape The swelling of the flood.”
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