These trivia take up too much of the day.

O January, drunken in pleasance / Of marriage, see how thy Damian, / Thine owen squier and thy boren man, / Intendeth for to do thee villainy:

As we find in a number of parts of Cho\ng's writings his belief in the personified image of Heaven and his discredit of the fundamental and universal nature and the ultimacy of li, we find it difficult to assume that he was not affected by the Jesuit writings he had read.

I shall not, however, dwell on the vices, though they be of the most contemptible and embruting cast, to which a sudden access of fortune gives birth […] .