That feed the press, and make it run;

What reason hath from nature borrowed,

Or of itself, like Housewife sheen.

I know the ways of Honor, what maintains

The quick returns of courtesy and wit;

The ways of favor, either party gains

And the best mode of oft retaining it.

I know the ways of pleasure, the sweet strains,

The lullings and the relishes of it;

The proposition of hot blood and brains;