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Next vnto him rode lustfull Lechery Vpon a bearded Goat, whose rugged haire And whally eyes (the signe of iealousie) Was like the persons selfe whom he did beare, Who rough and blacke and filthy did appeare: Vnseemly man to please faire Ladies eie, Yet he of Ladies oft was loued deare, When fairer faces were bid standen by, O who doth know the bent of womens fantasie? Ed. Spencer.
Incontinence, dull sleepe, and idle bed, All vertue from the world haue banished.
The tickling flames which our fond soules surprize, (That dead a while in Epilepsie lies) Doth starke our sinewes all by little and little, Drawing our reason in fowle pleasure brittle. I. Syl. Transl.
Loue comforteth like sun-shine after raine, But lusts effect, is tempest after sunne: Loues gentle spring doth alwaies fresh remaine, Lusts winter comes ere sommer halfe be donne. Loue surfets not, but like a glutton dies, Loue is all truth, lust full of forced lies. W. Shakespeare.
Where whoredome raignes, there murder follows fast, As falling leaues before the winters blast. R. Greene.
Lust is a fire, and for an houre or twaine▪ Giueth a scorching blaze, and then he dies. H. C.
O deeper sinne then bottomlesse conceit Can comprehend in still imagination: Drunken desire must vomit his receit, Ere he can see his owne abhomination: While lust is in his pride, no exclamation Can cure his heate, or raigne his rash desire, Till like a Iade, selfe-will himselfe do tire. VV. Shakespeare.
Lust neuer taketh ioy in what is due, But leaues knowne delights to seeke out new. S. Daniell.
In chastitie is euer prostitute, Whose trees we loath when we haue pluckt the fruite. G. Chapman.
Eschue vile Venus toyes, she cuts off age, And learne this lesson of (and teach thy friend) By pocks, death sudden, begging, harlots end. M. of M.
The lechars toong is neuer voyd of guile, Nor Crocodile wants teares to win his praie: The subtillest temptor hath the sweetest stile, With rarest musicke, Syrens soon'st betraie. M. Drayton.
Lust puts the most vnlawfull things in vre, Nor yet in limits euer could be bounded, Till he himselfe himselfe hath quite confounded. Idem.
Abandon lust, if not for sin, yet to auoyd the shame, So hogs of Ithacus his men the Latian witch did frame. ƲƲ. Warner.
That great Phisition that had liu'd in helth & age admirde, Did answer askt the cause, not he had done, as flesh desirde. Idem.
The Spartans war for rapted queene to Ilions ouerthrow, The Monarch of Assiria chang'd, and Latine kings also, For Tarquins lust. Idem.
Each house for lust a harbor and an Inne, Each citie is a sanctuary for sinne. And all do pitie beautie in distresse, If beautie chaste, then onely pittilesse. M. Drayton.