And ever her desired to depart.”
(II. vi. 26.)
The second trial of Guyon’s temperance comes in the House of Mammon, where he triumphs over sensual desire in the form of covetousness. Mammon offers him mountains of gold, if he will but serve him (II. vii. 9.); he tries to induce him to accept by saying that money is the one necessity to supply all the wants of man. (II. vii. 11.) But Guyon answers:
“Indeede (quoth he) through fowle intemperaunce,
Frayle men are oft captiv’d to covetise.”
(II. vii. 15.)
When Mammon urges him to seat himself on the silver stool in the Garden of Proserpina, to rest awhile and eat of the golden fruit of the trees,—
“All which he did, to doe him deadly fall
In frayle intemperance through sinful bayt;”
Guyon