IV.

Ask not, to-morrow what may chance,

Count it for gain whate’er betide:

Nor spurn, to peevish age denied,

Soft loves, my boy, nor yet the dance:

V.

Whilst hoary age, morose and sour,

Spares thy green spring, youth’s pastimes light

By day, soft whisperings by night,

Be thine, at the appointed hour,