Our prayers move thee to assist our drift,

While thou hast time yet to bestow that gift.

FOOTNOTES:

[248] Not in Isham copy or ed. A.


Elegia IV.

Quod amet mulieres, cujuscunque formæ sint.

I mean not to defend the scapes[249] of any,

Or justify my vices being many;

For I confess, if that might merit favour,