None can be kept resisting for her part;

Though body be kept close, within her heart

Advoutry lurks, t'exclude it there's no art.

If all our hearts were eyes, yet sure they said

We husbands of our wives should be betrayed.

In vain our friends from this do us dehort,

For beauty will be where is most resort.

[6197]At mihi vel tellus optem prius ima dehiscat,

Aut pater omnipotens adigat me fulmine ad umbras,

Pallentes umbras Erebi, noctemque profundam,