And after her Adam, and so forth to Cain.

I perceive by your looks my name ye would know;

Why, you are not ignorant of that, I dare say;

It is I that do guide the bent of your bow,

And ruleth your actions also day by day;

Forsooth, I am called Natural Inclination,

Which bred in old Adam's fostred bones;

So that I am proper to his generation,

I will not away with casting of stones!

I make the stoutest to bow and bend: