So, when humanitie rules men and women,

Tis for societie confinde in reason.

But what excites the beds desire in bloud,

By no meanes justly can be construed love;185

For when love kindles any knowing spirit,

It ends in vertue and effects divine,

And is in friendship chaste and masculine.

Gui. Thou shalt my mistresse be; me thinkes my bloud

Is taken up to all love with thy vertues.190

And howsoever other men despise