Poems Lyrique Macaronique Heroique | ||
SONG XVIII.
[Fair, give me leave, to Love]
1
Fair, give me leave, to Love,Or Love to Leave,
The suit, my gentle hopes, promove
Your wilder scornes deceive,
I swear, by those bright Eyes,
(Love's Heavenly Mysteries)
And by those Downes of Snow,
I'me still Resolv'd to Love.
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Shall not my Prayers, your pitty move,
To Love me too?
Or must thine Eyes,
Still exercise,
Their Tyranise,
And I, (sad I) neglected go?
2
They must, they must; I wouldNot have her Love
Upon such terms, now, though she could
My high Desires approve,
Tis more then happiness
To have the fair success
To Love, and only so.
I hate a mutual heat?
It spoiles the sport,
And so disrellishes the feat
We care not for't.
If my desire,
Can but aspire,
Her, to Admire,
I care not wher'e she'le Love, or noe.
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