36244Oh pardon me in that my boast is true,

245The accident which brought me to her eie,

246Vpon the moment did her force subdewe,

247And now she would the caged cloister flie:

248Religious loue put out religions eye:

249Not to be tempted would she be enur'd,

250And now to tempt all liberty procure.

37251How mightie then you are, Oh heare me tell,

252The broken bosoms that to me belong,

253Haue emptied all their fountaines in my well:

254And mine I powre your Ocean all amonge:

255I strong ore them and you ore me being strong,

256Must for your victorie vs all congest,

257As compound loue to phisick your cold brest.

38258My parts had powre to charme a sacred Sunne,

259Who disciplin'd I dieted in grace,

260Beleeu'd her eies, when they t' assaile begun,

261All vowes and consecrations giuing place:

262O most potentiall loue, vowe, bond, nor space

263In thee hath neither sting, knot, nor confine

264For thou art all and all things els are thine.

39265When thou impressest what are precepts worth

266Of stale example? when thou wilt inflame,

267How coldly those impediments stand forth

268Of wealth of filliall feare, lawe, kindred fame,

269Loues armes are peace, gainst rule, gainst sence, gainst (shame

270And sweetens in the suffring pangues it beares,

271The Alloes of all forces, shockes and feares.

40272Now all these hearts that doe on mine depend,

273Feeling it breake, with bleeding groanes they pine,

274And supplicant their sighes to you extend

275To leaue the battrie that you make gainst mine,

276Lending soft audience, to my sweet designe,

277And credent soule, to that strong bonded oth,

278That shall preferre and vndertake my troth.