XLVII.

He was the first that more desired to have

One than another; first that e'er did crave

Love by mute signs, and had no power to speak;

First that could make love-faces, or could do

The vaulter's somersalts, or used to woo

With hoiting gambols, his own bones to break,

To make his mistress merry, or to wreak

Her anger on himself. Sins against kind

They easily do that can let feed their mind

With outward beauty; beauty they in boys and beasts do find.

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