The poetical works of William Strode ... Now first collected from manuscript and printed sources: to which is added: The floating island a tragi-comedy: Now first reprinted from the original edition of 1655: Edited by Bertram Dobell with a memoir of the author |
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Goe happie paper and for ever restWithin the Paradise of Parthenia's breast:
Live there, O never lett thy lynes forsake her,
Tenne thousand times more happie than the maker:
Goe kisse her hands and in my name salute her,
And tell her thus that silence is her suitor;
Tell her that silence acts a sadder story,
Than oathes or vowes or frantic oratory.
The beggar that is dumbe an almes shall have
Greater than hee that hath a tongue to crave:
Be then the dailie object of her eye,
Crowd and gett uppermost wherere thou lye:
If high preferrment call thee as a guest
To lodge in the faire chamber of her breast,
Lye close and lett noe jealous eye behold thee,
If any doe lett none but her unfold thee:
And often as she reads thee smile upon her;
Tell her her dearest friend is thinking on her:
Tell her if you twoe chance to sleepe together—
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