Virtue Best United.

Each must in virtue strive for to excel;
That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

Give house-room to the best; 'tis never known
Virtue and pleasure both to dwell in one.

Though a wise man all pressures can sustain,
His virtue still is sensible of pain:
Large shoulders though he has, and well can bear,
He feels when packs do pinch him, and the where.

Man may at first transgress, but next do well:
Vice doth in some but lodge a while, not dwell.

Excess is sluttish: keep the mean; for why?
Virtue's clean conclave is sobriety.

Where pleasures rule a kingdom, never there
Is sober virtue seen to move her sphere.