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The Treasury of Musick

Containing ayres and dialogues To Sing to the theorbo-lute or basse-viol. Composed
  
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[The First Book]
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17

Delayes in Love breeds Danger.

[I]

Phillis , why should we delay,
Pleasures shorter than the day?
Could we, which we never can,
Stretch our lives beyond three span,
Beauty like a Shadow flyes,
And our Youth before us dyes.

II

Or would Youth and Beauty stay,
Love ha's wings, and will away;
Love ha's swifter wings than time,
Change in love too oft do's chime;
Gods that never change their state,
Very oft their love and hate.

III

Phillis, to this truth we owe
All the love betwixt us now;
Let not you and I require
What ha's been our past desire;
On what Shepherds you have smil'd,
Or what Nymphs I have beguil'd.
Leave it to the Planets two,
What we shall hereafter do,
For the joy we now may prove,
Take advice of present love.
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