[2900]'Cause, at my entrance, I did promise fair;

Yet 't proves court-language, merely, purely, air.

But all this time she would not licence deign

That I three yards behind should leave the gates,

And fumèd when I would have left her train,

T' have sought a jewel, and to gather dates.

So that the Duke my father ne'er had ken

Of my encloist'ring in this hate-light den.

But, 'gainst it now resolving, I intend

To turn the stream of his munificence