Other Sonnets vpon other Subiects, 18

MEn ouertoild in Common-Wealth affaires
Gett much Tantalia wealth by wealthie paines;
Which they enioy not through vncessant Cares:
So, all their Comfort is in Care, and Gaines.
Good reason then, that they should care to gett,
Who gett great Cares, by getting great Cōmands:
That will not let them sleepe, sith sleepe they lett:
For, who sleepes well in Bands, though golden Bāds?
Well fare they then with glittering Miseries,
Though they are costly, yet they coldly sare:
That feede on nought, but what doth feede the Eyes,
And cloy their Stomackes with consuming Care.
Care for such Gaudies who so list for mee,
Sith Commons much more Common better bee.