Leoline and Sydanis A Romance of The Amorovs Adventures of Princes: Together, with Svndry Affectionate Addresses to his Mistresse, under the Name of Cynthia. Written by Sir Fr: Kinnaston |
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To Cynthia.
Learn'd Lapidaries say the Diamond
Bred in the mines and mountaines of the East,
Mixt with heapes of gold-oar is often found,
In the halfe-birds-halfe-beasts, the Griphons nest,
Is first pure water easie to be prest,
Then ice, then chrystall, which great length of time
Doth to the hardest of all stones sublime.
Bred in the mines and mountaines of the East,
Mixt with heapes of gold-oar is often found,
In the halfe-birds-halfe-beasts, the Griphons nest,
Is first pure water easie to be prest,
Then ice, then chrystall, which great length of time
Doth to the hardest of all stones sublime.
I thinke they say the truth, for it may be,
And what they of the Diamond have said,
(My brightest Cynthia) may be prov'd by thee,
Who having liv'd so long, so chaste a maid,
Thy heart with any Diamond being weigh'd,
Is harder found, and colder than that stone,
Thy first yeares Virgin-softnesse being gone.
And what they of the Diamond have said,
(My brightest Cynthia) may be prov'd by thee,
Who having liv'd so long, so chaste a maid,
Thy heart with any Diamond being weigh'd,
Is harder found, and colder than that stone,
Thy first yeares Virgin-softnesse being gone.
For now it is become impenetrable,
And he that will, or forme, or cut it, must
(If he to purchase such a Gem be able)
Use a proportion of thy pretious dust,
Although the valuation be unjust:
That paines which men to pierce it must bestow,
Will equall dear in price unto it grow.
And he that will, or forme, or cut it, must
(If he to purchase such a Gem be able)
Use a proportion of thy pretious dust,
Although the valuation be unjust:
That paines which men to pierce it must bestow,
Will equall dear in price unto it grow.
But thou, it may be, wilt make this profession,
That Diamonds are softned with Goats bloud,
And mollifi'd by it will take impression,
This of slain Lovers must be understood,
But trust me, dearest Cynthia, 'tis not good,
Thy beauties so should Lovers mindes perplex,
As make them thinke thee Angel without sex.
That Diamonds are softned with Goats bloud,
And mollifi'd by it will take impression,
This of slain Lovers must be understood,
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Thy beauties so should Lovers mindes perplex,
As make them thinke thee Angel without sex.
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