O'ermuch these matrons know and they regardWith willing glances this my vasty yard.

'Why be my parts obscene displayed without cover?' thou askest:Ask I wherefore no God careth his sign to conceal?Wieldeth the Lord of the World his thunderbolt ever unhidden,Nor is trident a-sheath given to the Watery God:Mars never veileth that blade whose might is his prevalent power,Nor in her tepid lap Pallas concealeth the spear: