GetPassage urn:cts:latinLit:phi0959.phi001.perseus-eng2:3.11.8-3.11.21 urn:cts:latinLit:phi0959.phi001.perseus-eng2:3.11.8-3.11.21

And blush at bonds, which once with pride I bore:But this, methinks, should have been done before.To leave my wicked courses I begin,As years deprive me of the gust of sin.On Cupid's neck I should have trod when young,And vanquish'd him when my desires were strong.In that there had been virtue; now there's none,The world will say so; let the world say on.Much opposition I shall meet; perhaps,The lewd will laugh, and threaten a relapse.To bear reproaches I must be prepar'd,Easy's the end, when the beginning's hard;Content let me the present pain endure,For the sharp medicine is the patient's cure.