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 And you detested Charms constraining love! Shun Love's stol'n sports by that these lovers prove.

By this the Sovereign of Heaven's golden fires, And young Leander, lord of his desires, Together from their lovers' arms arose: Leander into Hellespontus throws His Hero-handled body, whose delight Made him disdain each other epithite. And as amidst th' enamour'd waves he swims, The god of gold of purpose gilt his limbs, That this word gilt, including double sense, The double guilt of his incontinence Might be express'd, that had no stay t' employ The treasure which the love-god let him joy In his dear Hero, with such sacred thrift, As had beseem'd so sanctified a gift: But, like a greedy vulgar prodigal, Would on the stock dispend, and rudely fall Before his time, to that unblessed blessing, Which for Lust's plague doth perish with possessing. Joy graven in sense, like snow in water wastes; Without preserve of virtue, nothing lasts.