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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That he cannot leave to love, though commanded.
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That he cannot leave to love, though commanded.
How can my Love in equity be blamed,
Still to importune though it nere obtaine,
Since though her face and voyce will me refraine,
Yet by her voyce and face I am inflamed.
For when (alas) her face with frownes is framed,
To kill my Love, but to revive my paine:
And when her voice commands, but all in vaine,
That love both leave to be, and to be named.
Still to importune though it nere obtaine,
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Yet by her voyce and face I am inflamed.
For when (alas) her face with frownes is framed,
To kill my Love, but to revive my paine:
And when her voice commands, but all in vaine,
That love both leave to be, and to be named.
Her Syren voyce doth such inchantment move,
And though she frown, even frowns so lovely make her,
That I of force, am forced still to love,
Since that I must, and yet cannot forsake her:
My fruitlesse prayers shall cease in vaine to move her,
But my devoted heart nere cease to love her.
And though she frown, even frowns so lovely make her,
That I of force, am forced still to love,
Since that I must, and yet cannot forsake her:
My fruitlesse prayers shall cease in vaine to move her,
But my devoted heart nere cease to love her.
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