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19. On Loue and Lust.
They'r wide, that take base Lust, for Loves halfe-brother,Yeelding two Fathers, but the selfe same Mother:
Lust is a Monster, that's conceiv'd and bred
Of the abused Will; maintaind, and fed
With sensuall Thoughts; Of nature rude, uncivill;
Of life, robustious; and whose Sire's the Devill:
But Love's the Childe of th'uncorrupted Will,
Norrisht with Vertue, poys'ned with the Swill
Of base respects; Of nature, sweet and milde;
In manners, gentle; eas'ly knowne, whose Childe;
For, by the likenesse, ev'ry eye may gather,
That he's the Off-spring of a heav'nly Father:
This, suffers all things; That, can suffer nothing;
This, never ends; That, ever ends in loathing:
T'one loves the Darknes most: The other, Light:
The last's the Childe of Day; The first, of Night;
The one is meeke; The other, full of Fyre;
This never laggs; That ever apt to tyre;
T'ones rash and furious; T'other milde and sage;
That dies with youth; whilst This survives with age;
The One's couragious; Tother full of Feares;
That seekes; The other baulks both eyes and eares:
In breife, to know them both aright, and misse not;
In all respects, t'one is, what to'ther is not:
So farre from Brothers, that they seeme disioyn'd,
Not in Condition only, but in kinde:
Admit a Falshood: that they had one Mother,
The best that Lust can claime's a Bastard Brother:
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Which iealous Mortals count the height of shame?
And not thy Nuptiall Bed alone defil'd,
But to be charged with the base-borne Childe?
And yet not mov'd? and yet not move thy Rod?
Hast thou not cause to be a Iealous God?
Can thy iust Iealousies, Great God, be grounded,
On Mans disloyalty, not Man confounded?
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