The Phanseys of William Cavendish Marquis of Newcastle addressed to Margaret Lucas and her Letters in reply: Edited by Douglas Grant |
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 | The Phanseys of William Cavendish Marquis of Newcastle |  |
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Love's Commission
T'is love's Commission, Justly it may call;
For Hymen's onely Use, you have mee all.
Your words such Harmony, my Eares doth feele
All Musick Else scrapt Trenchers, Ungreas'd wheele.
Your plump fleshe with your Nature Robe, so thinne,
All others ruffe like a Beare's or a seale's skinne.
Ambrosia, Nector, nautiously should caste
When hope but on your temptinge lips to taste.
The fresher flowers, Spannishe sents, they stinke,
To your Balme's dewe, like Privie or our Sinke.
The Hansom'st of your sexe to mee appears,
Compar'd to you, like men of fowre score yeares,
Not Women. Since I've left them all for you,
And they for that left mee, your love is due:
In Justice for to love mee, and love so
As love no other; Else I'me lost, you knowe.
| The Phanseys of William Cavendish Marquis of Newcastle | |