 | Argalvs and Parthenia |  |
Readers forbeare; and let no wanton eye
Abuse our Sceane: Let not the stander by
Corrupt our lines, or make an obsceane glosse
Vpon our sober Text, and mixe his drosse
With our refined gold, extracting sower
From sweet, and poyson from so faire a flower.
Correct your wandring thoughts, and doe not feare
To thinke the best: Here is no Tarquine here;
No lustfull, no insatiate Messaline,
Who thought it gaine sufficient to resigne
An age of honour, for a night of pleasure;
Whose strength t'endure lust, was the iust measure
Of her adust desire: Yee need not feare
Our priuate Louers, who esteeme lesse deare
Their liues then honours, daring not to doe,
But what vnsham'd the Sun may pry into.
Abuse our Sceane: Let not the stander by
Corrupt our lines, or make an obsceane glosse
Vpon our sober Text, and mixe his drosse
With our refined gold, extracting sower
From sweet, and poyson from so faire a flower.
Correct your wandring thoughts, and doe not feare
To thinke the best: Here is no Tarquine here;
No lustfull, no insatiate Messaline,
Who thought it gaine sufficient to resigne
An age of honour, for a night of pleasure;
Whose strength t'endure lust, was the iust measure
Of her adust desire: Yee need not feare
Our priuate Louers, who esteeme lesse deare
Their liues then honours, daring not to doe,
But what vnsham'd the Sun may pry into.
| Argalvs and Parthenia | |