- The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
- Is lust in action: and till action, lust
- Is perjur’d, murderous, bloody, full of blame,
- Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust;
- Enjoy’d no sooner but despised straight;
- Past reason hunted; and no sooner had,
- Past reason hated, as a swallow’d bait,
- On purpose laid to make the taker mad:
- Mad in pursuit and in possession so;
- Had, having, and in quest, to have extreme;
- A bliss in proof, and proved, a very woe;
- Before, a joy propos’d; behind a dream.
- All this the world well knows; yet none knows well
- To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell.