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I hasten, can I view those eyes
From whence there flie's
Such strong attractive beams; and stay
Lingring i'th way?
When thou canst soon deceive my toyl
By the short magick of a smile.

2

Fairest of women! no: oh how
Upon thy brow
Enthroniz'd bands of graces sit?
How on thy white
Flame out bloud-thirsty roses? which,
Both Hemispheres, [thy cheekes] inrich.

3

Oh could I come! (how art thou dight
With ambient light?)
And Phenix-like in her tomb-nest,
Sleep on thy breast:
And from thy od'rous bosom draw
Whole snowy-clouds of Cassia.

4

But oh! what ambushments orespread
The way I tread?
How crooked are those paths of mine
How serpentine!
What ranks of peevish thornes beset
My torn and more then weary feet?

5

But look how either side doth smile
And would beguile;
How all's with Amethysts beset;
How negro-jet
Mingle's with Alablaster? how
The scatter'd Topasses do glow!

6

What virgins do on either hand
Assailing stand?
Whom could they not orecom, if none
Thy face had known?
Their beauty is but borrowed; thine
Doth with a native lustre shine.

7

But I'le be blind, untill I be
Restor'd by thee:
They are but shadows and are gone
Ere they can run
Into thy sight. Thy beauty shall
Stand while the dying sun shall fall.

Epigram 18.

Trust not the world; when't smiles, it will betray,
And when secure, doth the most dangers lay:
But break her snares, and all her charmings flie,
Els th'art, at best, in splendid slavery.