To F. M. (Book 3)
Satyre. 3. (Book 3)
IT is as common as vnkind a fault
In youth, (too subiect to this worlds assault)
To imitate, admit, and daylie chuse,
Those errors, which their lawles parents vse.
For what by vaine example youth conceaues,
The same for lawfull, daily he receaues,
If damned dice the father doth affect,
The selfe-like follie doth his heire infect,
If lust; to lust the sonne is too procliue,
If fraud, by fraud his wanton race will thriue:
If surfet, surfet is esteemd no sinne,
For youth perseuers, as he doth beginne.
And where to natures, (forward to retaine)
Lewd obiects are annext and customes vaine,
The wounds grow desperate, & death doth end,