| Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame | |
| Is lust in action, and till action, lust | |
| Is perjured, murd'rous, bloody full of blame, | |
| Savage, extreme, rude, cruel, not to trust, | |
| Enjoyed no sooner but despised straight, | 5 |
| Past reason hunted, and no sooner had | |
| Past reason hated as a swallowed bait, | |
| On purpose laid to make the taker mad. | |
| Mad in pursuit and in possession so, | |
| Had, having, and in quest, to have extreme, | 10 |
| A bliss in proof and proved, a very woe, | |
| Before a joy proposed behind a dream. | |
| All this the world well knows yet none knows well, | |
| To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell. | |