The fruits of Wit unstaid, and hours misspent!

Quanto piace al mondo, e breue sogno.

Full wise is he that perils can forecast,

And so, by others' harms, his own prevent.

All Worldly Pleasure that delights the Sense,

Is but a short Sleep, and Time's vain expense!

XL.

The sun hath twice his annual course performed,

Since first unhappy I, began to love;

Whose errors now, by Reason's rule reformed,