[289] Flat treason ’gainst the kingly state of youth.
290 Say, can you fast? your stomachs are too young;
And abstinence engenders maladies.
And where that you have vow’d to study, lords,
[293] In that each of you have forsworn his book,
Can you still dream and pore and thereon look?
[295] For when would you, my Lord, or you, or you,
Have found the ground of study’s excellence
Without the beauty of a woman’s face?
From women’s eyes this doctrine I derive;