Can please me now, which I have lik’d before.

{My Friends, Relations, and my Convent too,

{Are odious all, and all detested grow,

{Nay, ev’ry thing that not relates to you.

The flitting Hours of each succeeding Day,

If not on you bestow’d, I think they ’re thrown away.——

So great ’s my Love, and with such pow’r does rule,

It takes up the whole Business of my Soul.

{Why then t’ expel this Passion shou’d I strive?

{For ’tis impossible I shou’d survive