16.

I thus ariude in pleasure’s cursed courte,

I lothed Mars, I hated Mercury,

It was me thought a passing pleasant sporte,

Leauinge the feeldes at Bacchus brauery,

Sometime to sit vpon my mistresse knee,

Where that I might be at my pleasure plaste,

I sent the noble duke to warres in hast.[1205]

17.

You which haue playd with pleasure’s banding bales,