15. But grant some did as you have said,
Yet do they not repent,
And wish that you may never do
What they so much lament?

16. A stupid ass can't be more base
Than are those guilty youth
Who fill with smart a parent's heart,
And turn it into mirth.

17. Others do plead hard for the bed,
Their health and weariness,
So drunkards will drink down their swill,
And call it no excess.

18. Under pretense of self defense,
Others will scold and say,
An honest maid is chaste abed
As any other way.

19. But where's the man that fire can
Into his bosom take,
Or go through coals on his foot soles
And not a blister make?

20. Temptation's way has led astray
The likeliest of you all,
And yet you'r found on slippery ground,
And think you cannot fall.