Festum Uoluptatis, Or the Banquet of Pleasure Fvrnished with Mvch Variety of Speculations, Wittie, Pleasant, and Delightfull. Containing divers choyce Love-Posies, Songs, Sonnets, Odes, Madrigals, Satyrs, Epigrams, Epitaphs and Elegies. For varietie and pleasure the like never before published. By S. P. [i.e. Samuel Pick] |
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To his deare Mistris, H. P.
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To his deare Mistris, H. P.
Let but thy beauteous eye look on this Line,And see as in thy Glasse thy beauty shine,
Which beauty, Nature gave thee, to disgrace
Our latter Artists, that make up a face,
Of seeming beauty, for to blind such eyes,
As with Pigmalion them doe Idolize,
Should I not praise, what I praise-worthy see,
I should doe wrong to Nature and to Thee;
Yet while I speake thee faire, so short I come
Of thy perfections, that I'm deem'd by some,
To light the burning Sun, yet from my hand,
Receive this graine unto thy heape of sand.
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