Chapter 7 No.7

The Lovers thus, thus uncontroul'd did meet,

Thus all their Joyes and Vows of Love repeat:

Joyes which were everlasting, ever new

And every Vow inviolably true:

Not kept in fear of Gods, no fond Religious cause,

Nor in obedience to the duller Laws.

Those Fopperies of the Gown were then not known,

Those vain, those Politick Curbs to keep man in,

Who by a fond mistake Created that a Sin;

Which freeborn we, by right of Nature claim our own.

Who but the Learned and dull moral Fool

Could gravely have forseen, man ought to live by Rule?