Ayres and dialogues For One, Two, and Three Voyces; To be Sung either to the theorbo-lute or basse-viol |
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Love convinc'd.
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Love convinc'd.
[I]
When first before Rosella's Face I lay,I thought it heresie to look astray
From her Divinity;
But now I have let loose my eyes,
I'm glutted with varieties;
And see there are others
As fair that have Humanity:
So that her Face can now no passion move,
And I can live although she cannot love.
II
That every Charter which hath given her powerTo look upon two Servants in an hour
Doth grant the same to me;
Nature did many Beauties make,
That men may at their pleasure take
And he that's wise
Will take his choice
In her whole Nurseire;
As Women have the Freedome, so have we,
For Cupid hath his Equitie.
III
Had I gaz'd on him still as heretofore,And made a Conscience of Courting more,
How had I play'd the Sot,
I might have done as others do,
Received her Scorns and thank you too;
But now I see,
There are that be
Wretched, and know it not:
He that confines himself when he is Free,
Builds his own Jaol, and buyes his slavery.
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