And Love's a god, or was before the brow
Of Earth was wrinkled by the sins and tears
Of—but Chronology best knows the years.
VII.
We left our hero and third heroine in
A kind of state more awkward than uncommon,
For gentlemen must sometimes risk their skin
For that sad tempter, a forbidden woman:
Sultans too much abhor this sort of sin,
And don't agree at all with the wise Roman,