Wits: Fittes and Fancies Fronted and entermedled with Presidentes of Honour and Wisdome. Also: Loves Ovvle. An idle conceited dialogue betwene Loue, and an olde man ... A. C. [i.e. by Anthony Copley] |
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LOVES SONNET.
The day is done, and night inuites
Man and woman to deere delightes,
The candle's out, and curtaines spred,
And he and she are both a bed,
All naked is their conuersation,
And arme in arme theyr sociation,
The rest is void of attestation, as priuily done.
Man and woman to deere delightes,
The candle's out, and curtaines spred,
And he and she are both a bed,
All naked is their conuersation,
And arme in arme theyr sociation,
The rest is void of attestation, as priuily done.
Loe there she lies as one content
To giue and take all blandishment,
Her front is as the yuorie bowle
Orient faire, and free from skowle,
Her haire is golden grasse vpon a mount,
Her eare is musickes happy counter-mount,
Her eie a lampe whereby to cast th'account of all benediction.
To giue and take all blandishment,
Her front is as the yuorie bowle
Orient faire, and free from skowle,
Her haire is golden grasse vpon a mount,
Her eare is musickes happy counter-mount,
Her eie a lampe whereby to cast th'account of all benediction.
Her cheek's a goodly garden bed,
With cherrie-lillie floures or'e-spred,
Her nose a pipe of sweete perfumes,
There stilles downe no vnsauorie rewmes:
Her lips are sweet, like Hyblas hony-comes,
Her tongue th'oracle of Loues freedomes,
Her teeth the rankes of gallant Mermedones in their brightest hue.
With cherrie-lillie floures or'e-spred,
Her nose a pipe of sweete perfumes,
There stilles downe no vnsauorie rewmes:
Her lips are sweet, like Hyblas hony-comes,
Her tongue th'oracle of Loues freedomes,
Her teeth the rankes of gallant Mermedones in their brightest hue.
Her chinne and necke are seuerallie
Snow-white temptations to the eye,
Her armes are farmes of sweete abode,
Her fingers nets in pleasures floud,
Th'Alablaster orbes vpon her breast
Are boui'fieu-belloes downe vnto the rest
Below, where chiefest pleasure is possest by the bed-fellow.
Snow-white temptations to the eye,
Her armes are farmes of sweete abode,
Her fingers nets in pleasures floud,
Th'Alablaster orbes vpon her breast
Are boui'fieu-belloes downe vnto the rest
Below, where chiefest pleasure is possest by the bed-fellow.
There is no dumpe, nor drerement,
Nor galle, nor jawlle in Loues intent,
All's naked like to innocence,
Boding no offence, nor yet defence.
Winter benummes not Louers in a bed,
Nor any any Westminstry torments their hed,
Nor any death kils their loue-liuelihed, except for ioy they die.
Nor galle, nor jawlle in Loues intent,
All's naked like to innocence,
Boding no offence, nor yet defence.
Winter benummes not Louers in a bed,
Nor any any Westminstry torments their hed,
Nor any death kils their loue-liuelihed, except for ioy they die.
Loues Tergate is a smile-faire face,
Her bulwarke is another place,
With these she war-fareth dull death,
And doth preserue mankind on earth,
Which els had been long since annihiled,
With all other liuing things beside,
Had not these implements of loue preuailed man and woman-fully.
Her bulwarke is another place,
With these she war-fareth dull death,
And doth preserue mankind on earth,
Which els had been long since annihiled,
With all other liuing things beside,
Had not these implements of loue preuailed man and woman-fully.
Loue lusteth after daintie diet,
And mirth and musicke must be by it,
It heeds no grosse rusticitie,
But all that is deere and daintie:
Loue is aduenturous for to obtaine,
Hauing sweet counteruailes for euery paine,
Besides the pleasure of possessed gaine arme in arme at last.
And mirth and musicke must be by it,
It heeds no grosse rusticitie,
But all that is deere and daintie:
Loue is aduenturous for to obtaine,
Hauing sweet counteruailes for euery paine,
Besides the pleasure of possessed gaine arme in arme at last.
Olde age that Loue reuiues to lust,
Hath ouer-liued Natures worst:
His pleasant play-Feare in a bed
Hydra-like renewes his hed,
Her fire is that Promotheus did bring
From heauen, of force to quicken euery thing,
Euen very stones that ner'had any liuing, but say euer waste.
Hath ouer-liued Natures worst:
His pleasant play-Feare in a bed
Hydra-like renewes his hed,
Her fire is that Promotheus did bring
From heauen, of force to quicken euery thing,
Euen very stones that ner'had any liuing, but say euer waste.
See how the musicke-Nightingale,
Chauntes day-light on nightes sable vale,
Or as the Spring renewes the earth,
Vn-wintring it with new-come mirth,
So fares old age through loues benignities,
So soueraigne are all her actiuities,
And Loue with loue so sweet a thing it is, drenching all in ioy.
Chauntes day-light on nightes sable vale,
Or as the Spring renewes the earth,
Vn-wintring it with new-come mirth,
So fares old age through loues benignities,
So soueraigne are all her actiuities,
And Loue with loue so sweet a thing it is, drenching all in ioy.
Then old and young be thus aduis'd.
Be not with any weale suffis'd,
Nor health, nor wealth, nor soueraigntie,
Except you loue and loued be:
For Loue's a salt that seasoneth all good,
Sance Loue all other pleasure is but mud,
And loue alonly is lifes liuely-hood, killing all annoy.
Be not with any weale suffis'd,
Nor health, nor wealth, nor soueraigntie,
Except you loue and loued be:
For Loue's a salt that seasoneth all good,
Sance Loue all other pleasure is but mud,
And loue alonly is lifes liuely-hood, killing all annoy.
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