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Parnassi Puerperium

or, Some Well-wishes to ingenuity, in the Translation of Six Hundred, of Owen's Epigrams; Martial de Spectaculis, or of Rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most Select, in Sir Tho. More...
  
  

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144. Upon a Covetous Person.

Hercules travel'd, till the furthest West,
Stopt his Career; & gave his wandrings rest.
The Covetous go further; their desire,
Is alwaies Errant; and can never Tire.