Pleasure has always sought, but never found;

Though all his thoughts on wine and women fall,

His are so bad, sure he ne'er thinks at all.

The flesh he lives upon is rank and strong,

His meat and mistresses are kept too long.

But sure we all mistake this pious man,

Who mortifies his person all he can:

What we uncharitably take for sin,

Are only rules of this odd capuchin;

For never hermit, under grave pretence,