On which ships, men, are lost, body and bones.

The poem itself begins thus:

Time was, John Lawreat, when thy pretty muse,

Young, plump, and buxome, no man would refuse;

Though thou did'st poorly prostitute her store,

And, for vile pence, made her a hackney whore.

Against the rules of art, Phœbus is just;

Her former lovers does her now disgust;

And I, that once in private loved her well,

Nay, sometimes smiled at her Achitophel,