_Lust shall be led by Inclination To Carnal Cogitation; Where Lust is wholly led by me, He must fall to cupidity; For carnal cares shall him assail, And speedily they shall prevail; I, Sturdiness, wilt face it out In his cause, sturdy, stiff and stout. Then Greedy-gut shall make him eat Both house and lands like bread and meat; Elation shall puff him high For to aspire above the sky; Then natural and lordly Lust Shall with his power despise the Just._ ELA. Our song is ended, hast thou other in store? INC. I shall not have done this half hour and more. Yet I will, now I remember. Come in, Lust; That I go before, is but needful and just. You shall be now led by me Inclination To reason and talk with Carnal Cogitation. STURD. Is there more vanity underneath the sun, Than to be inclined after this sort? Well, Lust doth now as other have done, Yea, and do day by day, esteeming it a sport; This Lust is the image of all wicked men, Which in seeking the world have all delectation; They regard not God, nor his commandments ten, But are wholly led by their own inclination. First, to inculcate with Carnal Cogitation, And after to the desire of all worldly treasure, Which alone they esteem the fulness of pleasure. With Elation or Pride he is also associate, Which puffeth up his senses with presumption pestilent; Then Greedy-gut maketh them continually to grate On the mock of this world, which he thinketh permanent. I, Sturdiness, to hear out all things am bent: Thus see you how men, that are led by their lust, Dissent from the virtuous, goodly and just. [_Go out. Enter_ JUST _and_ SAPIENCE. SAP. The advice of Aristippus have in your mind, Which willed me to seek such things as be permanent, And not such as are of a vanishing kind, For the one with the other is not equivalent. Be circumspect, therefore, foreseeing and sapient, For treasures here gotten are uncertain and vain, But treasures of the mind do continually remain. JUST. This is the mind of Musonus, also I remember, Like as presently you have advertised me, For the which I cannot but thankfully render Such commendations as is requisite to be; And as your name is Sapience, thus much I see, That on heavenly wisdom you do depend, And not on as time doth bring to an end.