Emblemes and Epigrames Psal: Quum defecerit virtus mea, ne derelinquas me, Domine. [A.D. 1600, by Francis Thynne ... ]: Edited by F. J. Furnivall |
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(3) Temperance abateth fleshlie Delightes.
Thow Cithereane Venus, I would knowe,why thow, and Cupid houldinge of his bowe,
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warming of thy feete, and warming of his hande?
Oh why? doth love and luste feele their decaye,
Yf Ceres and Iacchus be awaye?
Where Sobernes doth raigne amongst the wise,
there lust and hurtfull pleasures still doe frise.
They finde noe foode, nor anie warrs, can make
against the modest which sparing diet take.
but if that wealth and dronkennes beare stroke,
they, wicked warres of Lecherie, provoke.
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