These guests, these courts, my soul most dearly loves:

Now the wing’d people of the sky shall sing

My cheerful anthems to the gladsome spring:

A prayer book now shall be my looking-glass,

In which I will adore sweet virtue’s face.

Here dwell no hateful looks, no palace-cares,

No broken vows dwell here, no pale-faced fears:

Then here I’ll sit, and sigh my hot love’s folly,

And learn ’t affect an holy melancholy;

And if Contentment be a stranger then,