Yet stay, since you are Judge, who in one breath

Bear uncontrolled power of Life and Death,

Remember (Sweet) pity doth best become

Those lips which must pronounce a suitor's doom.

If I find that, my spark of chaste desire

Shall kindle into Hymen's holy fire:

Else like sad flowers will these verses prove,

To stick the coffin of rejected Love.

The Short Wooing.] A fair average metaphysicality.