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Come Julia, come! let's once disbody, what,
Strait matter ties to this and not to that,
Wee'l disingage, our bloodlesse form shall fly
Beyond the reach of Earth, where ne're an eye
That peeps through Spectacles of flesh, shall know
Where we intend, or what we mean to do;
From all Contagion of the flesh remov'd
Wee'l sit in Judgement, on those Paires that lov'd
In old and latter times, then will we tear
Their Chaplets that did act by slavish fear,
Who cherisht causelesse griefs, and did deny
Cupids prerogative by doubt or sigh;
But they that mov'd by confidence, and clos'd
In one refining flame, and never los'd
Their thoughts on Earth, but bravely did aspire
Unto their proper Element of fier,
To these wee'l judge that happinesse to be
The witnesses of our felicitie.
Thus wee'l like Angels move, nor will we bind
In words the copious Language of our mind,
Such as we know not to conceive, much lesse
Without destroying in their birth, expresse:
Thus will we live and ('t may be) cast an eye
How far Elisium doth beneath us lie,
What need we care though milkie Currents run
Among the silken meadows, though the Sun
Doth still preserve by's ever waking ray
A never discontinued spring or day.
That Sun, though all his heat be to it brought
Cannot exhale the vapour of a thought.

No no my Goddesse, yet will thou and I
Devested of all flesh so folded lie,
That ne're a body'd nothing shall perceive
How we unite, how we together cleave;
Nor think this while our featherd minutes may
Fall under measure, time it self can stay
T'attend on pleasures, for what else would be
But tedious Durance in Eternitie.