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The pensiue thoughts of Gastilio, in Sapphycks. |
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The pensiue thoughts of Gastilio, in Sapphycks.
Rouze vp thy spirit, (creature most inhumane)
Fix thy contentment on Elizaes beauty,
To which the wood gods tied are in duety.
Shame fall a coward.
Fix thy contentment on Elizaes beauty,
To which the wood gods tied are in duety.
Shame fall a coward.
How many Hero'es haue adored her Image,
Passing a torrent of approaching danger?
More then Alcides for a Deyanyra
Ere made aduenture.
Passing a torrent of approaching danger?
More then Alcides for a Deyanyra
Ere made aduenture.
Let Hymenæus who was euer present,
At thy solemnizd crisons be graced,
With an eternall monument of glory,
Leaue to be shame fast.
At thy solemnizd crisons be graced,
With an eternall monument of glory,
Leaue to be shame fast.
Shame may confound the shame to after ages,
To let a cheerfull virgin lie beside thee,
And yet do nothing: worst of ills betide thee:
Learne to be wanton.
To let a cheerfull virgin lie beside thee,
And yet do nothing: worst of ills betide thee:
Learne to be wanton.
Nature hath made then to her owne dishonor,
To loath that subiect which she first created,
To yeeld thee comfort shall her worke be hated,
By thee reiected?
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To yeeld thee comfort shall her worke be hated,
By thee reiected?
Art thou composed of an humane substance,
Flesh, blood and sinewes, to refuse a pleasure,
Which far exceedeth store of earthly treasure.
Foole be more hardie.
Flesh, blood and sinewes, to refuse a pleasure,
Which far exceedeth store of earthly treasure.
Foole be more hardie.
See but the fishes, how one loue another,
Male with the female generates together,
What pure affection doth appeare in either,
Wonder of ages.
Male with the female generates together,
What pure affection doth appeare in either,
Wonder of ages.
See the small Iuie, with her Iuy branches,
How she the poplar flowrishing imbraceth,
And as a spouse his spousall honors graceth,
So is she graced.
How she the poplar flowrishing imbraceth,
And as a spouse his spousall honors graceth,
So is she graced.
The sauage tygre, who frequents the mountaines,
Loues to be loued, is by loue subdued,
And with his louers presence is renewed.
Loue is a loadstone.
Loues to be loued, is by loue subdued,
And with his louers presence is renewed.
Loue is a loadstone.
For as the loadstone doth attract his iron,
And with embraces shews his loue vnto it,
This faire resemblance shews as if he woed it.
Stones far exceed thee.
And with embraces shews his loue vnto it,
This faire resemblance shews as if he woed it.
Stones far exceed thee.
The liquid regions ioine their power together,
And those foure diuine elements adhering,
Seem as if all together were conspiring.
Equally mouing.
And those foure diuine elements adhering,
Seem as if all together were conspiring.
Equally mouing.
The crauling serpents in their kind coiting,
Viper to viper in their generation,
Shewes how dame nature in their propagation
Bred them for breeding
Viper to viper in their generation,
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Bred them for breeding
The birds that houer in the skie aboue vs,
Will (if thou marke them) to affection moue vs,
Males loue their females, so our femals love vs.
Mates would be mated.
Will (if thou marke them) to affection moue vs,
Males loue their females, so our femals love vs.
Mates would be mated.
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