Sonnet XXIV: Rich Fools There Be

 Rich fools there be, whose base and filthy heart 
Lies hatching still the goods wherein they flow: 
And damning their own selves to Tantal's smart, 
Wealth breeding want, more blist more wretched grow.
 

Yet to those fools heav'n such wit doth impart 
As what their hands do hold, their heads do know, 
And knowing love, and loving, lay apart, 
As sacred things, far from all danger's show.
 

But that rich fool who by blind Fortune's lot 
The richest gem of love and life enjoys, 
And can with foul abuse such beauties blot; 

Let him, depriv'd of sweet but unfelt joys, 
(Exil'd for aye from those high treasures, which 
He knows not) grow in only folly rich.

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