5 Our bruised arms hung up for monuments;

Our stern alarums changed to merry meetings,

[♦] Our dreadful marches to delightful measures.

[♦] Grim-visaged war hath smooth’d his wrinkled front;

[♦] And now, instead of mounting barbed steeds

[10] To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,

[♦] He capers nimbly in a lady’s chamber

[♦] To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.

[♦] But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks,

[15] Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass: