[♦] Best fitteth my degree or your condition:
[♦] If not to answer, you might haply think
145 Tongue-tied ambition, not replying, yielded
To bear the golden yoke of sovereignty,
Which fondly you would here impose on me;
If to reprove you for this suit of yours
So season’d with your faithful love to me,
150 Then, on the other side, I check’d my friends.
Therefore, to speak, and to avoid the first,
[♦] And then, in speaking, not to incur the last,