The Treasury of Musick Containing ayres and dialogues To Sing to the theorbo-lute or basse-viol. Composed |
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Transparent Love.
Cloris
, 'twill be for eithers rest
Timely to know each others Breast:
I'le make the Obscure parts of mine
Cleer as your Charming Beauty shine:
And if you'l deal but so with me,
We soon shall part, or soon agree.
Timely to know each others Breast:
I'le make the Obscure parts of mine
Cleer as your Charming Beauty shine:
And if you'l deal but so with me,
We soon shall part, or soon agree.
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Know then, though you were twice as fair,If it could be, as now you are;
Or if the Graces of the Mind
With a supportant Beauty shin'd;
Yet if you love me not, you'l see
I value those as you do me.
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Though I a thousand times have sworn,My Passion should transcend your Scorn;
Or that your bright triumphant Eyes
Creates a flame that never dyes;
Yet if to me you prove untrue,
Those Oaths should prove as false to you.
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Though I should Love, and you should Hate,'Twas (I confess) a meer Deceit;
And that my Flames should Deathless prove,
'Twas but to render so your Love.
I brag as, Cowards use to do,
Of Danger, they ne'r run into.
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But now my Tenets I have told,If you should them too rigid hold;
T'attempt the Change would be but vain,
The Conquest not being worth the pain:
With those I'le other Nymphs persue,
Cloris too much to lose Time and You.
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