"The shortest follies are the best."

Love and Youth are now asunder;

Reason's glory, Nature's wonder.

My thoughts, long bound, are now enlarged;

My Folly's penance is discharged:

Thus Time hath altered my estate.

"Repentance never comes too late."

Ah, well I find that Love is nought

But folly, and an idle thought.

The difference is 'twixt Love and me,