What though thou found'st her proofe 'gainst sins of youth?

Oh, every age a diverse sinne pursueth.

55Thou should'st have stay'd, and taken better hold,

Shortly, ambitious; covetous, when old,

She might have prov'd: and such devotion

Might once have stray'd to superstition.

If all her vertues must have growne, yet might

60Abundant virtue'have bred a proud delight.

Had she persever'd just, there would have bin