1. Seize pleasures' chances from what fate allows;
These nights' vicissitudes are gentle does.

2. Reproach me not for wasting youth and prime-
To blame me now for ageing were abuse.

3. True living is but love and revelry,
Clear wine, a singing girl-no more to use.

4. Trust not Time's courtesy; his friendship's whim;
Fair to your face, but faithless to your back.

5. How partisan his judgments! I'm perplexed
And my own flashing talents are unstrung.