Bulls hate the yoke, yet what they hate have still.

I fly her lust, but follow beauty's creature,

I loathe her manners, love her body's feature.

Nor with thee, nor without thee can I live,

And doubt to which desire the palm to give.40

Or less fair, or less lewd would thou might'st be:

Beauty with lewdness doth right ill agree.

Her deeds gain hate, her face entreateth love;

Ah, she doth more worth than her vices prove!

Spare me, oh, by our fellow bed, by all