The ninth song.
[O Cupid use thy bow]
1
O Cupid use thy bow,
Thy deity declare;
Make all fit people know
Thy force that living are.
2
But shoot aright (good boy)
And mutual fire constrain;
For it is tytanny
To make our love in vain.
3
Let Matrons peevish be
Whose lookes time hath decaid:
But let no youthful she
From earth decease a Maid.
4
Let Ethiops froward prove
Whom nature hath made back:
And they thy pleasures love
That no perfections lack.
5
Make every man love one,
And him his mistress too;
So Hymen shall not moane
For wanting of his due.
6
The young ones of each sex
Will thereby have content,
And not hereafter vex,
To fast so long a Lent.
