XXI.

Men, till they took laws, which made freedom less,

Their daughters and their sisters did ingress;

Till now unlawful, therefore ill, 'twas not;

So jolly, that it can move this Soul. Is

The body so free of his kindnesses,

That self-preserving it hath now forgot,

And slack'neth not the Soul's and body's knot,

Which temp'rance straitens? Freely on his she-friends

He blood and spirit, pith and marrow, spends;

Ill steward of himself, himself in three years ends.

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