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On Loves blindeness.
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On Loves blindeness.
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What is the reason Love is blinde?Because for Love no cause we finde
But here and there, and this and that
We doat on, for I know not what,
Lust does somewhat rampart prove,
And straight is christned into Love,
So that though beasts we are in shame,
We must be Lovers all in name.
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The black we see do fair admire,And fair there be that black desire.
A sort there is affects the crump,
And all alike, but for the rump,
Love being now a Drunkard grown,
And can a Madam hug in Joan:
Tell me then, must not Love be blinde,
When Women lov'd are for their kinde.
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We men an Idoll Beauty make,And do adore 't for Fancies sake;
Our thoughts create the handsom creature,
And our tongues commend the Feature:
Or else, the Breech first warms desire,
And then the face maintains the fire:
Does not then Cupids eye-sight fail,
That for the Heart does wound the Tayl.
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For what should Love have Eyes to see,When all his sports in Darknesse be;
But little is his use of Light
Whose only work is done at night,
In that alone Loves pleasure lyes,
That for the hand is made not eyes:
Where let me lye and let me be,
Blinde Boy, as dark and blinde as thee.
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