In troth, it fits not with that face to scant

Your faithful shepherd of those chaste desires

He ever aim’d at, and ...

Amoret: Thou hast prevail’d; farewell. This coming night

Shall crown thy chaste hopes with long-wish’d delight.

Perigot: Our great god Pan reward thee for that good

Thou hast given thy poor shepherd!


A medieval song, that appears in The Maid’s Tragedy, by Beaumont and Fletcher, suggests that restraint in lust may occasionally be a desideratum:

I could never have the power