Man to beget, and woman to conceive

Askt not of rootes, nor of cock-sparrowes, leave:

Yet chuseth hee, though none of these he feares,

Pleasantly three, then streightned twenty yeares

220To live, and to encrease his race, himselfe outweares.

XXIII.

This cole with overblowing quench'd and dead,

The Soule from her too active organs fled

T'a brooke. A female fishes sandie Roe