Such influence hath your eclipsed light,

30It doth my reason, like myself, benight.

Let me, with luckless gamesters, then think best

(After I have set up and lost my rest),

Grown desp'rate through mischance, to venture last

My whole remaining stock upon a cast,

And flinging from me my now loathed pen,

Resolve for your sake ne'er to write again:

For whilst successive days their light renew,

I must no subject hope to equal you,