Comedies, Tragi-comedies, With other Poems by Mr William Cartwright ... The Ayres and Songs set by Mr Henry Lawes |
The Teares.
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The Teares.
If Souls consist of water, IMay swear yours glides out of your Eye:
If they may wounds receive, and prove
Festred through Grief, or ancient Love,
Then Fairest, through these Christall doores
Teares flow as purgings of your Sores.
And now the certain Cause I know
Whence the Rose and Lilly grow,
In your fair Cheeks, The often showres
Which you thus weep, do breed these flowers.
If that the Flouds could Venus bring,
And warlike Mars from Flowers spring,
Why may not hence two Gods arise,
This from your Cheeks, that from your Eyes?
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