THE EXPENSE of spirit in a waste of shame | |
Is lust in action; and till action, lust | |
Is perjurd, murderous, bloody, full of blame, | |
Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust; | |
Enjoyd no sooner but despised straight; | 5 |
Past reason hunted; and no sooner had, | |
Past reason hated, as a swallowd bait, | |
On purpose laid to make the taker mad: | |
Mad in pursuit, and in possession so; | |
Had, having, and in quest to have, extreme; | 10 |
A bliss in proof,and provd, a very woe; | |
Before, a joy proposd; behind, a dream. | |
All this the world well knows; yet none knows well | |
To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. |