Quocunque placuit, nulla parendi mora est;
Adsum impiger; fac nolle, comitabor gemens,
Malusque patiar facere, quod licuit bono.
Ducunt volentem Fata, nolentem trahunt.
ENGLISHED.
Parent and Prince of Heav’n, O lead, I pray,
Where ere you please, I follow and obey.
Active I go, sighing, if you gainsay,
And suffer bad what to the good was law.
Fates lead the willing, but unwilling draw.
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Oh, stay that covetous hand; first turn all eye,
Her soul’s faire picture, her faire soul’s, in allSo truely copied from th’ originall,That you will sweare her body by this lawIs but its shadow, as this, its;–now draw.