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Flesh. When sport, and wine, and beauty do invite, Who is it whom such baits will not incite?

Spirit. He that perceives the hook and sees the end, Whither it is that fleshly Pleasures tend. He that by faith hath seen both Heaven and Hell, And what sin costeth at the last can tell: He that hath tried and tasted better things, And felt that love from which all pleasure springs. They that still watch, and for Christs coming wait, Can turn away from, or despise the bait.

Spirit. He that perceives the hook and sees the end, Whither it is that fleshly Pleasures tend. He that by faith hath seen both Heav'n and Hell, And what sin costeth at the last can tell: He that hath try'd and tasted better things, And felt that love from which all pleasure springs. They that still watch, and for Christs coming wait, Can turn away from, or despise the bait.

Flesh. Must I be made the foot-ball of disdain? And called a precise fool or Puritan?

Flesh. Must I be made the foot-ball of disdain? And call'd a precise fool or Puritane?