 | Argalvs and Parthenia |  |
Now Argalus awakes; and now the light
Is euen as welcome to him, as the night:
His eyes are fixt vpon his louely Bride,
While she lyes sweetly slumbring by his side.
She sleepes; He views her; Thrice, his mind was bent,
To call Parthenia, and thrice it did repent.
Sometimes, his lips, with a stolne kisse would greet
Her guiltlesse lips; (They say stolne goods are sweet)
At length, she wakes; and hides her blushing cheekes
In his warme bosome; where, she safely seekes
For Sanctuary, whereunto should fly
The guilt of her protected modesty.
He smiles, and whispers in her deafned eare;
(Women can vnderstand, and yet not heare)
He speakes, but she (euen whilst his lips was breaking
Their words) with hers, did stop his lips frō speaking
Is euen as welcome to him, as the night:
His eyes are fixt vpon his louely Bride,
While she lyes sweetly slumbring by his side.
She sleepes; He views her; Thrice, his mind was bent,
To call Parthenia, and thrice it did repent.
Sometimes, his lips, with a stolne kisse would greet
Her guiltlesse lips; (They say stolne goods are sweet)
At length, she wakes; and hides her blushing cheekes
In his warme bosome; where, she safely seekes
For Sanctuary, whereunto should fly
The guilt of her protected modesty.
He smiles, and whispers in her deafned eare;
(Women can vnderstand, and yet not heare)
He speakes, but she (euen whilst his lips was breaking
Their words) with hers, did stop his lips frō speaking
| Argalvs and Parthenia | |