XXI.

Men, till they tooke laws which made freedome lesse,

Their daughters, and their sisters did ingresse;

Till now unlawfull, therefore ill, 'twas not.

So jolly, that it can move, this soule is,

205The body so free of his kindnesses,

That selfe-preserving it hath now forgot,

And slackneth so the soules, and bodies knot,

Which temperance streightens; freely on his she friends

He blood, and spirit, pith, and marrow spends,

210Ill steward of himself, himselfe in three yeares ends.