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Poems Divine, and Humane

By Thomas Beedome

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To his worthy friend Mistresse.
  
  
  
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To his worthy friend Mistresse.

I charge thee by those eyes of thine,
Give mee my heart:
Those eyes that stole it out of mine,
I felt the smart.
And least the theft you should deny,
Looke where you keepe it in your eye.
And now I have espy'd it there,
Thinking to catch it;
You chaine and wind it in your haire,
But still I watch it.
And so got loose from thence, it flyes,
And sports agen upon your eyes.
Though now to cozen mee you seeke
Thinking to hide
It in the dimple of your cheeke
I have discry'd:
How now discovered it doth skip
'Twixt the soft prison of each lippe.
Yes, yes, I see it stealing, goe
Least I should find it,
Through the long gallery of snow,
And still I mind it.
How you have shuffled it betweene
Your breasts, not thinking it is seene.


See, see, I see it creeping in
(neare you I feare)
Through the small crannies of your skinne
to shelter there.
As if that vaile could cosen mee,
Alas, I know things I not see.
But if, nor eye, nor haire, nor cheeke,
Nor lip, nor breast, nor heart it keep:
Give me them all, for every part
Thou hast, has part of mee; my heart.