She wooed and tempted is, ten thousand ways,

By these great Powers, which on the earth bear sway;

The Wisdom of the World, Wealth, Pleasure, Praise.

With these, sometime, She doth her time beguile.

These do, by fits, her Phantasy possess,

But She distastes them all, within a while;

And in the sweetest, finds a tediousness:

But if, upon the world's Almighty King,

She once do fix her humble loving thought;

Which, by his Picture drawn in everything,