Or, bringing on the stage a loose adulteress,

That does maintain the riotous expense

Of him that feeds her greedy lust, yet suffers

The lawful pledges of a former bed

To starve the while for hunger; if a matron,

However great in fortune, birth, or titles,

Guilty of such a foul, unnatural sin,

Cry out, ’T is writ for me,—WE CANNOT HELP IT.

Or, when a covetous man’s express’d, whose wealth

Arithmetic cannot number, and whose lordships