JUST. Where most wealth is, and most delectation, There Lust is commonly of most estimation; For whereas wealth wanteth, idleness doth slake, For where idleness is, Lust parteth the stake. [_Pause._ Thus have you seen the conflict of the just, Which all good men ought to use and frequent; For horrible are the fruits of inordinate lust, Which in some case resembleth Hydra the serpent, Whose head being cut off, another riseth incontinent: So, one of Lust's cogitations being cut away, There riseth up another, yea, many, we may say. It is requisite therefore that every degree Against this his lust both strive and contend; And though, at the first, he seem sturdy to be, The Lord will convince[321] him for you in the end. Your cause unto him therefore wholly commend, Labouring to avoid all inordinate lust, And to practice in life to live after the Just. [_Go out. Enter Inclination, the Vice._ INC. I can remember since Noe's ship Was made, and builded on Salisbury Plain; The same year the weathercock of Paul's caught the pip. So that Bow-bell was like much woe to sustain. I can remember, I am so old, Since Paradise gates were watched by night; And when that Vulcanus was made a cuckold, Among the great gods I appeared in sight. Nay, for all you smiling, I tell you true. No, no, ye will not know me now; The mighty on the earth I do subdue. Tush, if you will give me leave, I'll tell ye how; Now, in good faith, I care not greatly, Although I declare my daily increase; But then these gentlewomen will be angry, Therefore I think best to hold my peace: Nay, I beseech you, let the matter stay, For I would not for twenty pounds come in their hands; For if there should chance to be but one Dalila, By the mass, they would bind me in Samson's bands! But what, mean I first with them to begin, Seeing that in all men I do remain? Because that first I remained Eve within, And after her Adam, and so forth to Cain. I perceive by your looks my name ye would know; Why, you are not ignorant of that, I dare say; It is I that do guide the bent of your bow, And ruleth your actions also day by day; Forsooth, I am called Natural Inclination, Which bred in old Adam's fostred bones; So that I am proper to his generation, I will not away with casting of stones! I make the stoutest to bow and bend: Again, when I lust, I make men stand upright; From the lowest to the highest I do ascend, Drawing them to things of natural might. _Enter_ LUST _and_ STURDINESS, _singing this song_.