And I must needs, I 'm sure, a loser be, To change thee, as thou 'rt there, for very thee. That, shouldst thou nectar give, 't would spoil the taste. "T is Nature's juggling trick to cheat the sight. LOVE UNDISCOVERED. SOME others may with safety tell The moderate flames which in them dwell; I would not have her know the pain, Lest too much goodness make her throw Forbid it, Heaven! my life should be Yet, when I die, my last breath shall My ghost, to get from thee a tear! THE GIVEN HEART. I WONDER what those lovers mean, who say They 'ave given their hearts away: Some good kind lover, tell me how ; For mine is but a torment to me now. If so it be one place both hearts contain, What courtesy can Love do more, Than to join hearts that parted were before? Woe to her stubborn heart, if once mine come Into the self-same room! 'T will tear and blow up all within, Like a granado shot into' a magazine. Then shall Love keep the ashes and torn parts Shall out of both one new one make, For of her heart he from the flames will find Mine only will remain entire ; THE PROPHET. TEACH me to love! go teach thyself more wit; Teach craft to Scots, and thrift to Jews, In tyrants' courts teach supple flattery; . Teach restless fountains how to flow, Teach the dull earth fixt to abide, Teach woman-kind inconstancy and pride: See if your diligence here will useful prove; The God of Love, if such a thing there be, He who does boast that he has been I'll lay my life, nay mistress on 't, that's more, I'll teach him sighs, like those in death, At which the souls go out too with the breath: Still the soul stays, yet still does from me run, As light and heat does with the sun. "T is I who Love's Columbus am; 't is I Muse; THE RESOLUTION, THE devil take those foolish men For shame, let these weak chains be broke; Let's our slight bonds, like Samson, tear; And nobly cast away that yoke, Which we nor our forefathers e'er could bear. French laws forbid the female reign; CALLED INCONSTANT. HA! ha! you think you've kill'd my fame, By this not understood, yet common, name: A name that's full and proper, when assign'd To woman-kind; But, when you call us so, It can at best but for a metaphor go. |