But, Madam, do you think it just to pay Your great Obligements by so false a way? Alcippus' Passion merits some return, And should that prove but an ingrateful scorn?

Nor will I meanly tax her constancy, That interest or obligement made the tie Bound to the fate of murder'd monarchy.

All my leisure, Feebly bestow'd upon my kind friends here, Would not express a tithe of the obligements I every hour incur.

O call that night again; Pitch her with all her darkness round: then set me In some far desert, hemmed with mountain wolves To howl about me: This I would endure, And more, to cancel my obligements to him.

All thy obligements have been fatal yet, Yet the most fatal now would most oblige me.

Your merit shall her beauty's power remove; Beauty but gains, obligement keeps our love.

To make me happier than that wish can do, Lies not in all your Gods to grant, but you; Let this fair princess but one minute stay, A look from her will your obligements pay.

Why I think he's a very mad fellow; but yet I have some obligements to him: he teaches me new airs of the guitar, and talks wildly to me, and I to him.

Nay, now I am confirmed my thought was true; For you could give him no such reason Of his obligements, as my love.