I make blind love and folly stand aloof,

730And all love's paper-plots I do detect.

Great ones have oft assayed, but yet my care

Has buried their entreaties in the air.

With godly precepts I enrich their minds,

And make them (which is rare) at eighteen good.

I 'dmit no roisters; only maids and hinds

To do them service, and prepare us food.

Please you to send your daughter, she shall be

Crowned with delights of most transcendent glee.'