He had a respectable vein of religious moralising, as the following sonnet from Wit's Pilgrimage will show:- "When Will doth long to effect her own desires, She makes the Wit, as vassal to the will, To do what she, howe'er unright, requires, Which wit doth, though Repiningly, fulfil.
"A History of English Literature Elizabethan Literature"
George Saintsbury
All this was said not Repiningly, but softly and a little dreamily.
"At Love's Cost"
Charles Garvice