The Treasury of Musick Containing ayres and dialogues To Sing to the theorbo-lute or basse-viol. Composed |
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Loves torrid Zone.
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Loves torrid Zone.
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No, no, fair Heretick,It cannot be,
But an ill love in mee,
And worse for thee;
For were it in my pow'r
To love thee now this hour,
More than I did the last, 'twould then so fall,
I might not love at all:
Love that can flow, and can admit encrease,
Admits as well an ebb, and may grow lesse.
II
True love is still the sameThe Torrid Zones,
And those more frigid ones
It must not know:
For love grown cold, or hot
Is lust and friendship, not
The think we have, for that's a flame would dye,
Held down, or up too high;
Then think I love, more than I can expresse,
And would know more, could I but love thee lesse.
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