50 She should be fruitful too as fields that join Unto the melting waste of Apennine. Whilst the cold morning-drops bedew the rose, It doth nor leaf, nor smell, nor colour lose; Then doubt not, Sweet! Age hath supplies of wet To keep You like that flower in water set. Dripping catarrhs and fontinells are things Will make You think You grew betwixt two springs. And should You not think so, You scarce allow The force or merit of Your marriage-vow; 60 Where maids a new creed learn, and must from thence Believe against their own or others' sense. Else love will nothing differ from neglect, Which turns not to a virtue each defect. I'll say no more but this; you women make Your children's reck'ning by the almanac. I like it well, so you contented are, To choose their fathers by that kalendar. Turn then, old _Erra Pater_, and there see According to life's posture and degree, 70 What age or what complexion is most fit To make an English maid happy by it; And You shall find, if You will choose a man, Set justly for Your own meridian, Though You perhaps let _One and Twenty_ woo, Your elevation is for _Fifty-Two_. [_Paradox. That it is best, &c._] After Hannah's omission of _The Acquittance_ it is not surprising that he did not give this or the next--though a greater excess of prudishness appears in the exclusion of _The Change_, and one begins to think that something more than accident, indolence, or business prevented the appearance of the promised second volume. But if there is some nastiness there is very little naughtiness in them.] [Line: 33 Some have thought 'vegetal', which was not uncommon in the seventeenth century, a better form than 'vegetable', though this latter has prevailed. It is the French word, and though in Latin there is no 'vegetalis' and there is 'vegetabilis', yet this latter has quite a different sense.] [Line: 44 Orig. has 'umbrell_ae_s', not 'umbrell_o_s' (or -oes), which seems to be the older form.] [Line: 46 It would be pardonable to suppose 'drill' an error for 'rill'. But the word is unquestionably used in the sense by Sandys and Jeremy Taylor, and seems to be the same as the slightly older 'trill' in the sense of 'trickle'.] _Paradox._ _That Fruition destroys Love._ Love is our Reason's Paradox, which still Against the judgement doth maintain the will: And governs by such arbitrary laws, It only makes the act our liking's cause: We have no brave revenge, but to forgo Our full desires, and starve the tyrant so.