[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