The fruit proclaims the plant; a lawless prince }

By luxury reformed incontinence; }

By ruins, charity; by riots, abstinence. }

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Confessions, fasts, and penance set aside, }

Oh with what ease we follow such a guide, }

Where souls are starved, and senses gratified! }

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Where marriage-pleasures midnight prayer supply, }

And mattin bells, a melancholy cry, }