Is in itself but too too natural,

Had he but read your verse, might then have seen

The style of which his precepts should have been,

And (which it seems he knew not) learnt from thence

To reconcile frailty with innocence.

The love you write virgins and boys may read,

And never be debauch'd but better bred;

For without love, beauty would bear no price,

And dullness, than desire's a greater vice:

40Your greater subjects with such force are writ