Farewell Love and all thy Laws for ever

Farewell love and all thy laws forever;Thy baited hooks shall tangle me no more.Senec and Plato call me from thy loreTo perfect wealth, my wit for to endeavour.In blind error when I did persever,Thy sharp repulse, that pricketh aye so sore,Hath taught me to set in trifles no storeAnd scape forth, since liberty is lever.Therefore farewell; go trouble younger heartsAnd in me claim no more authority.With idle youth go use thy propertyAnd thereon spend thy many brittle darts,For hitherto though I have lost all my time,Me lusteth no lenger rotten boughs to climb.