You know ’tis written in the sacred Word,
Jesus to Peter said, Put up thy Sword:
True, (quoth the Parson) but withal then hear,
St. Peter first had cut off Malchus’s Ear.
Pasquin against P. S. Quintus[B], when he forbid the Bawdy-Houses at Rome, in Queen Elizabeth’s Time.
Lex prohibet Pueros, prohibet Lupanaria Sixtus;
Ergo quid agendum? Sit tibi amica manus.
The Cure of Love.
Love is, as some Physicians say,
A Fever bred by too high Feeding: