Ayres and dialogues For One, Two, and Three Voyces; To be Sung either to the theorbo-lute or basse-viol |
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To a Mistress that thinks the Sight without other Injoyment is Love sufficient.
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To a Mistress that thinks the Sight without other Injoyment is Love sufficient.
[I]
If thou intend'st only to tryThe silent Courtship of the Eye,
Without the sense of what is good,
Which by Loves Fires are understood;
Command those Cupids to retire
Whose Darts are headed with Desire.
II
Forbid the union of our hands,Each Amorous touch a heat commands;
Forbid our lips to meet and melt,
Where the pure sense of Love is felt:
Forbid thy Tongue to whisper Love,
That very word hath power to move.
III
Whose ardent breath infused, canRaise courage in a dying man;
And through each Vein fresh heat restore,
That had been star'd with cold before:
So from thy Air such vigour came,
It curl'd my Heart into a flame.
IV
Forbid thy Cheeks to shew their Spring,Forbid thy Nightingale to sing;
Forbid thy All and every part,
To shew so much their Mistriss Art:
For 'less thou keep'st those baits within,
They'l tempt an Anchorite to sin.
V
Yet should those excellences be,Depriv'd their proper use in thee;
Men would be apt their faiths to pawn,
Th'art but a picture lively drawn:
One which each rude presumptuous Eye,
Admiring feasts as well as die.
VI
So I confess my flames may end,And thou a shadow lose thy friend;
Unless thy fancy raise conceit,
Thou art my Mistriss counterfeit:
And so surveying each fair part,
I paint her figure in my Heart.
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