Sprinkled by fits, and with a sparing hand:

Count all our joys, from childhood even to age,

They would but make a day of every year.

Take back your seventy years, the stint of life,

Or else be kind, and cram the quintessence

Of seventy years into sweet seventy days;

For all the rest is flat, insipid being.

Jup. But yet one scruple pains me at my parting:

I love so nicely, that I cannot bear

To owe the sweets of love, which I have tasted,