Amanda A Sacrifice To an Unknown Goddesse, or, A Free-Will Offering Of a loving Heart to a Sweet-Heart. By N. H. [i.e. Nicholas Hookes] |
 |
|
In praise of Amanda's beautie.
|
 |
|
 | Amanda |  |
In praise of Amanda's beautie.
The daring and most learned Grotius Writ;
(I must not venture, though to credit it,)
The book of Canticles was made in love:
Love to some tempting beauty, which did move,
Turne and command the wisest Solomons heart,
Forcing a King to play the Courtiers part:
The little foxes which so much displease,
In spoiling of his Vine, are little fleas,
Rude fleas which still leave freckles, where they stood
To suck the Nectar of a Ladies blood:
(I must not venture, though to credit it,)
The book of Canticles was made in love:
Love to some tempting beauty, which did move,
Turne and command the wisest Solomons heart,
Forcing a King to play the Courtiers part:
The little foxes which so much displease,
In spoiling of his Vine, are little fleas,
12
To suck the Nectar of a Ladies blood:
But who soe're that royal creature were,
Compar'd to all that's good beyond compare,
To whom that Prince the Song of Songs did sing,
Though to the daughter of th' Egyptian King,
Or some more lovely am'rous Concubine,
My faire Amanda who is more divine,
Can make me if my heart she breath upon,
Court her beyond the Critick's Solomon.
Compar'd to all that's good beyond compare,
To whom that Prince the Song of Songs did sing,
Though to the daughter of th' Egyptian King,
Or some more lovely am'rous Concubine,
My faire Amanda who is more divine,
Can make me if my heart she breath upon,
Court her beyond the Critick's Solomon.
| Amanda | |