Had we frequent Entertainments of this Nature among us, they would not a little purifie and exalt our Passions, give our Thoughts a proper Turn, and cherish those Divine Impulses in the Soul, which every one feels that has not stifled them by sensual and immoderate Pleasures.

The wary counsel waked his fears: He now from all excess abstains, With physic purifies his veins; 20 And, to procure a sober life, Resolves to venture on a wife.