XX.

In this world's youth wise Nature did make haste,

Things ripened sooner, and did longer last:

Already this hot cock in bush and tree,

In field and tent, o'erflutters his next hen:

He asks her not who did so taste, nor when;

Nor if his sister or his niece she be,

Nor doth she pule for his inconstancy

If in her sight he change; nor doth refuse

The next that calls; both liberty do use.

Where store is of both kinds, both kinds may freely choose.

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