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 Mistris, who had vowed Virginity.
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To his Mistris, who had vowed Virginity.
Even as my hand, my Pen and paper layes,My trembling hand, my pen from paper strayes,
Lest that thine eyes which shining made me love you,
Should frowning on my suit, bid cease to move you,
So that I feare like one at his wits end,
Hoping to gaine, and fearing to offend:
But whilst like clouds tost up and downe the ayre,
I wracked hang 'twixt hope and sad despaire,
Despaire is beaten, vanquisht from the field,
And unto conquering hope doth yeeld:
For if that nature love to beautie offers,
And beauty shun the love that nature proffers,
Then, either unjust beauty is too blame,
With scorne to quench a lawfull kindled flame,
Or else unlawfully if love we must,
And be unlov'd, then nature is unjust:
Unjustly then Nature hath hearts created,
There to love most, where most their love is hated,
And flattering them with a faire-seeming ill,
To poyson them with beauties sugred Pill.
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