First in the temple of Venus may’st thou see Wrought on the wall, full piteous to behold, The broken sleepës, and the sikës 541 cold, The sacred tearës, and the waimentings, 542 The fiery strokës of the desirings, That Lovë’s servants in this life endure; The oathës, that their covenants assure. Pleasance and Hope, Desire, Foolhardiness, Beauty and Youth, and Bawdry and Richéss, Charms and Sorc’ry, Leasings 543 and Flattery, Dispencë, Business, and Jealousy, That wore of yellow goldës 544 a garland, And had a cuckoo sitting on her hand, Feasts, instruments, and carolës and dances, Lust and array, and all the circumstánces Of Love, which I reckon’d and reckon shall In order, werë painted on the wall,

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