Amanda A Sacrifice To an Unknown Goddesse, or, A Free-Will Offering Of a loving Heart to a Sweet-Heart. By N. H. [i.e. Nicholas Hookes] |
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To Amanda upon her smile.
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To Amanda upon her smile.
Now in the joy of strength me thinks I findeArmies of pleasures, troop and storme my mind!
How with a Giants armes I could embrace,
And closely clasp my sweet she Boniface!
Amanda gave a pleasant glance, and while
Her flowrie lips bloom'd in the modest smile,
Winter withdrew, I felt a forward spring,
As when great Birtha doth Elixir bring,
To drench the boughs, which by her Chymistrie,
Mantles i'th' blossomes of the Apple-tree,
Stil'd from the cloysters of the spungie earth;
Dead drunk I was, and all embalm'd in mirth;
Heaven past through my soul; th' Elysian fields,
Are but meer shadowes of the joy it yields:
My heart-strings move in tune, to its Almains
My panting breast keeps time; through all my veins,
Bubling in wantonness, now here, now there,
My fresh blood frisks in circles every where:
Thus in the Court the fawning Favourite,
When from the King his Master he can get
One pleasing look with vigour tuggs and hales,
Hope and Ambition hoist his full-cheek't sailes,
Top and top-gallant-wise, worth or no worth,
Into preferments Ocean lancheth forth.
Thus the blithe Merchant, when with even train,
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Hugs his good fortune, and begins to sport,
While Neptune kindly laughs him to the Port,
Propitious lights which at my birth did shine!
My starres speak dotage in this smile of thine.
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