And, wanting where its spight to try, Has made me live to let me dye. A Body that could never rest, Since this ill Spirit it possest.
Soul. What Magick could me thus confine Within anothers Grief to pine? Where whatsoever it complain,
I feel, that cannot feel, the pain. And all my Care its self employes, That to preserve, which me destroys: Constrain❜d not only to indure Diseases, but, whats worse, the Cure: And ready oft the Port to gain, Am Shipwrackt into Health again.
Body. But Physick yet could never reach The Maladies Thou me dost teach;
Whom first the Cramp of Hope does Tear:
And then the Palsie Shakes of Fear.
The Pestilence of Love does heat:
Or Hatred's hidden Ulcer eat. Joy's chearful Madness does perplex: Or Sorrow's other Madness vex. Which Knowledge forces me to know; And Memory will not foregoe. What but a Soul could have the wit
To build me up for Sin so fit? So Architects do square and hew Green Trees that in the Forest grew.
Elegies, Epistles, Satires, and Meditations.
Ere take my Picture; though I bid farewell,
Thine, in my heart, where my soule dwels, shall dwell. 'Tis like me now, but I dead, 'twill be more When wee are shadowes both, then'twas before. When weather-beaten I come backe; my hand, Perhaps with rude oares torne, or Sun beams tann'd, My face and brest of hairecloth, and my head With cares rash sodaine stormes, being o'rspread, My body'a sack of bones, broken within,
And powders blew staines scatter'd on my skinne; If rivall fooles taxe thee to have lov'd a man, So foule, and course, as, Oh, I may seeme than, This shall say what I was: and thou shalt say, Doe his hurts reach mee? doth my worth decay? Or doe they reach his judging minde, that hee Should now love lesse, what hee did love to see? That which in him was faire and delicate, Was but the milke, which in loves childish state Did nurse it who now is growne strong enough To feed on that, which to disused tasts seemes tough.
On his Mistris.
Y our first strange and fatall interview,
B By all desires which thereof did ensue,
By our long starving hopes, by that remorse Which my words masculine perswasive force Begot in thee, and by the memory
Of hurts, which spies and rivals threatned me, I calmly beg: But by thy fathers wrath, By all paines, which want and divorcement hath, I conjure thee, and all the oathes which I And thou have sworne to seale joynt constancy, Here I unsweare, and overswear them thus, Thou shalt not love by wayes so dangerous. Temper, ô faire Love, loves impetuous rage, Be my true Mistris still, not my faign'd Page; I'll goe, and, by thy kinde leave, leave behinde Thee, onely worthy to nurse in my minde Thirst to come backe; ô if thou die before, My soule from other lands to thee shall soare.
Thy (else Almighty) beautie cannot move
Rage from the Seas, nor thy love teach them love,
Nor tame wilde Boreas harshnesse; Thou hast reade How roughly hee in peeces shivered
Faire Orithea, whom he swore he lov'd.
Fall ill or good, 'tis madnesse to have prov'd Dangers unurg'd; Feed on this flattery,
That absent Lovers one in th❜other be. Dissemble nothing, not a boy, nor change
Thy bodies babite, nor mindes; bee not strange
To thy selfe onely; All will spie in thy face A blushing womanly discovering grace;
Richly cloath'd Apes, are call'd Apes, and as soone Ecclips'd as bright we call the Moone the Moone. Men of France, changeable Camelions,
Spittles of diseases, shops of fashions, Loves fuellers, and the rightest company Of Players, which upon the worlds stage be, Will quickly know thee, and no lesse, alas! Th'indifferent Italian, as we passe
His warme land, well content to thinke thee Page, Will hunt thee with such lust, and hideous rage, As Lots faire guests were vext. But none of these Nor spungy hydroptique Dutch shall thee displease, If thou stay here. O stay here, for, for thee England is onely a worthy Gallerie, To walke in expectation, till from thence Our greatest King call thee to his presence. When I am gone, dreame me some happinesse, Nor let thy lookes our long hid love confesse, Nor praise, nor dispraise me, nor blesse nor curse Openly loves force, nor in bed fright thy Nurse With midnights startings, crying out, oh, oh Nurse, ô my love is slaine, I saw him goe O'r the white Alpes alone; I saw him I, Assail'd, fight, taken, stabb'd, bleed, fall, and die. Augure me better chance, except dread love Thinke it enough for me to’have had thy love.
Inde pitty chokes my spleene; brave scorn forbids Those tears to issue which swell my eye-lids;
I must not laugh, nor weepe sinnes, and be wise, Can railing then cure these worne maladies? Is not our Mistresse faire Religion, As worthy of all our Soules devotion, As vertue was to the first blinded age e? Are not heavens joyes as valiant to asswage Lusts, as earths honour was to them? Alas, As wee do them in meanes, shall they surpasse Us in the end, and shall thy fathers spirit Meete blinde Philosophers in heaven, whose merit Of strict life may be imputed faith, and heare Thee, whom hee taught so easie wayes and neare To follow, damn'd? O if thou dar'st, feare this; This feare great courage, and high valour is. Dar'st thou ayd mutinous Dutch, and dar'st thou lay Thee in ships woodden Sepulchers, a prey
To leaders rage, to stormes, to shot, to dearth? Dar'st thou dive seas, and dungeons of the earth? Hast thou couragious fire to thaw the ice Of frozen North discoueries? and thrise Colder then Salamanders, like divine
Children in th❜oven, fires of Spaine, and the line, Whose countries limbecks to our bodies bee, Canst thou for gaine beare? and must every hee Which cryes not, Goddesse, to thy Mistresse, draw, Or eate thy poysonous words? courage of straw! O desperate coward, wilt thou seeme bold, and To thy foes and his (who made thee to stand
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