The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/The Scare-fire
61. THE SCARE-FIRE.
Water, water I desire,
Here's a house of flesh on fire;
Ope the fountains and the springs,
And come all to bucketings:
What ye cannot quench pull down;
Spoil a house to save a town:
Better 'tis that one should fall,
Than by one to hazard all.
Scare-fire, fire-alarm.