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Parnassi Puerperium

or, Some Well-wishes to ingenuity, in the Translation of Six Hundred, of Owen's Epigrams; Martial de Spectaculis, or of Rarities to be seen in Rome; and the most Select, in Sir Tho. More...
  
  

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11. The Cure of Love.

By frequent Fastings, take wood from the Fire:
Let not a Ladies Glance kindle desire.
If still, your Fervour will not let you rest;
A Wife will quench the Flame. Probatum est.