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A84087	Pearls of eloquence, or, The school of complements Wherein ladies, gentlewomen, and schollars, may accommodate their courtly practice with gentile ceremonies, complemental, amorous, and high expressions of speaking, or writing of letters. By VV. Elder, Gent.	Elder, William, fl. 1680-1700.; J. G. (John Gough), fl. 1640, attributed name.	1656 (1656)	Wing E325AB; ESTC R229809	69,698	138

lustfull suit withdraw You shall not thatch my New-house with old straw An Epithalamium for a VVedding Night NOw is that welcom night addrest When love beauty makes a feast Let not the Bridegroom be afraid Though he encounter with a maid Shee l squeck shee l cry Shee l fain shee l eye Shee l fear as she did tremble But take her and rowse her And mowse her and rowse he● For she doth but dissemble Now Mistris Bride thus much to you The Item I shall give is true Young maidens must not be to coy To entertain their wishes joy But take him and hug him And rug him and lug him For thus true love is tryed Nor be too nice in yeilding things Which must not be denyed Protestations of Charity I le bind my hands to fasten just desire My tongue shall fear to wrong my Mistris fair And if to gaze on her mine eyes aspire I wash them forth with my repentant tears If my proud hands dares once offend my love Or make an offer of a guilty touch I le cut the veins whereby my Fingers move And blead the last my love to her is such If any part or motion of my sence Transcends the limits of my loves direction My bodies death shall ransome that offence My souls engag'd so deep in her perfection A Description of love A Lover is like the Hearb Helit●opia which alwaies inclineth to that place where the sun shineth being deprived of the Sun dieth so as lunaries herb as long as the Moon waxeth bringeth forth leaves and the waning shaketh them off So a lover whilst he is in the company of his l●dy where all joyes increase uttereth many pleasant conceits but ban●shed from the sight of his mistris whereall mirth decreaseth either liveth in melancholly or died with desparation Of constancie in Lov● COnstancie is like unto the Stork who wheresoeever she fly commeth into no nest but her own or the Lapwing whom nothing can drive her from her young ones but death The Tongue of a Lover should be like the Poin● in a Diall which though it go none can see it ●oi●g or a young Tree which though it grow no●e can perceive it growing The Tryangles in love THere must be in every Tryangle three Lines the first beginneth the second augmenteth the third concludeth it a figure So in Love three Vertues affection which draweth the heart the second Secrecie which increaseth the hope third Constancie which finisheth the VVork without any of these three Rules ●o Tryangle without these three Vertues no Love Another LOve is not unlike the fig-tree whose fruit is sweet but the root is more bitter than the claw of Byte●● or li●● the Apple in Persia whose blossome savoureth lik● honey whose bud is more sowre than gall as the adament draweth the heavie Iron and the Harp the fleet Dolphin so beauty allureth the chast mind to love and the wisest wi●● to lust and who more trayterous to Phillis than Demophoon yet he a traveller who more perjured to Dido ●ha● Aeneas and he a stranger who more false to Ari●d●e tha● Theseus yet he a Saylor who more fickle to Medea tha● Jason yet he a Sta●●● Again love is like musk though it be sweet in smel it is sower in the smack the leaf of t●● Cedar tree though it be fair to be seen yet the sirrop dep●●v th sight even so love though it be p●●g●ned by saluting each other with a kiss ●●t it ●s sha●●n off by fraud of the heart A perfect Lover should be like the glass-worm which shineth most bright in the dark or like the pure frankinsenc● which smelleth most sweet when it is in the fire or to the Damask Rose which is swee●er in the stil than on the stalk In praise of a loving friend OF all the heavenly gifts on earth Which mortall men commend No treasure wel may countervail A true and faithfull friend What sweeter solace can befall Than such a one to finde As in whose brest thou maist repose The secrets of thy minde If flattering fortune seem to frown And drive thee to distress A true and faithfull friend wil help at need And make thy sorrows less Oh precious Item Oh Jewel great On Friendship Pearl of Price Thou surely dost each thing excel That man can wel devise The Golden Mines are soon decay'd When Fortune turns the Wheel And Force of Arms is soon allay'd If body sickness feel And cunning art soon overthrown Experience teacheth plain And all things else their course doth change When friendship doth remain But since by proof they have been taught A feigned friend to know I wil not trust such glossing tongues More than any open Foe A Complementall Letter for receiving divers favours SIR I am so tyed unto you by your many favours as I profess I know not how to carry my selfe in thankfulness unto you Sir This I earnestly desire you that you wil instead of a recompence for all your favours accept thanks and of your poor creature who is able to give nothing take prayer for payment what my good mind● is to you my tongue cannot express what my true meaning is your heart cannot conceive Sir I hope it shall be read with the same mind it was written taken on the right hand it shal I trust not want its due effect and good acceptance I know it is not excellent but the worst your worthiness indeed whom I have oft admired deserves far better● yet I pray you accept of it and God I trust in time wil inable me to give a further testimonial of my poor service to you Yours in the best bond that I may Another Letter for one absent KInd Sir The scarcity of Letters make them prove dainties being the only way to enjoy presence in affection though not in realty I confess the be●t way to judge of a things excellencie is sometimes to want it for we esteem not of the excellency of breath til we want ayre to breathe in and the goodness of your conversation is seen sometimes in absence from you seeing it is absence that kindles a desire to enjoy your presence Sir I suppose you are not ignorant of that common rule that Letters are alwayes for to to bee indited in a kind of careless strain which rule Tully that Prince of Orators observeth in his Epistles the Bonclace of Rhetorich is better to adorn and imbrace the neck of some love-sick Gentlewomen which is as a token sent from her lover to please her and keep her from crying I doubt not but you easily perceive what natural love ought to be united betwixt us raked up in the ashes of forgetfulness and almost quite extinguished for want of blowing and in whose power is it to revive this languishing but in you sir who are the life of Rhetorick Sir the great esteem I have ever had of your friendship suffers me not to endure your absence any longer This tyrannie of your humor or

than whitest bone of all On her feet Her feet so short and slender little round On earth a finer pair cannot be found A last of his Mistresses perfections She hath Venus lip and eye With Diana's chastity In those parts I have reveal'd Venus beauty is exprest Yet there are some parts conceal'd Which my fancie judgeth best The conclusion Thus every part impairs a grace And beauty dwels in every place Loves Month. May is not loves month May is ful of flowers But dropping Aprill-love is ful of showers Definition of love Love is a friend a fire a heaven a hel Where pleasure pain sad repentance dwel Love will out The light of hidden fire it self discovers And love that 's conceal'd bewraies poor lovers On the parting of lovers Lovers wel wot what grief it is to part When 'twixt two bodies liveth but one heart And lovers say the heart hath double wrong When it is bar'd the assistance of the tongue On the constancie of affections Love wel is said to be a life in death That laughs and weeps and all within one breath Lovers Lottery The World 's a Lottery a Lovers prise Is such a Girl that 's fair that 's chast wise The quality of Love Love is a spirit all compact with fire Not gross to sink but light and wil aspire VVhat love is Love is a Golden Bubble full of Dreams That waking breaks and fills us with extreams Lovers delight to be alone Lovers best l●ke to see themselves alone Or with their loves if needs they must have one Vows of Lovers We know not how to love til love unblinde us And vows made ignorantlie can ne're bind us On the purity of their affections Needs must Venus wars be sweet When two Maiden-lovers meet Impossibility of concealing love The light of hidden fire it self discovers And love that is conceal'd betraies poor lovers On one sick with love Where Venus strikes with beautie to the quick Great are the cares of those that are love-sick The errors of love All men do erre because that men they be And men with beautie blinded cannot see VVhat love is Love is a subtil influence Whose smallest force stil hangeth in suspence Love admits of no contrary arguments Love hates all arguments disputing stil For sense against reason with a senseless will VVhat love is Love is a blinded God an angry Boy A slave to beauties wil a witless toy A ravening bird tyrant most unjust A private hel a very sea of lust Another definition of love Love is a sowre delight a sugred griefe A breach of reasons law a secret thiefe A living death an ever dying life A sea of tears an everlasting strife A bait for fools a scourge of noble wits A deadly wound a shot which ever hits On sudden affection From hasty love see thou abstain 'T is lust not love thou seeks thus to obtain The effects of love This is the least effect of Cupids dart To change the mind by wound●ng of the heart Cruelty of love Love is not ful of mercy as men say But deaf cruel where he means to prey The parting of Lovers Love goes to love as School-boyes from their Books But love from love toward School with heavy looks A Maxime of love 'T is folly by our wisest worldlings proved If not to gain by love to be beloved Loves wounds One was the bow One was the Dart That wounded us both to the heart Then since we both do feel one pain Let one love cure us both again The constancie of lovers Once learn to love the lesson is most plain And being learnt is never lost again The force of love Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast Yet love breaks through and picks them all at last Of Musick and love As without breath no pipe doth move No Musick 's kindly without love A loving conjunction The day unto my hope doth now shine fair I and my love in love united are Love finds an opportunity When love hath knit two hearts in unity They seldome fail to find and opportunity Offers of love not to be refused Occasion 's winged and ever flyeth fast Coming she smiles and frowns once being past Patience of Lovers One may endure for when the pain is past Reward though long it stay yet comes at last Sorrows of Lovers ●ighs are the ease calamity affords Which serve for speech when sorrow wanteth words To his M●stris on her expected humiliation from him for a rude Kiss ●f that I must such penance do ●'le bow unto no Saint but you On the Tears of Lovers ●n sighs the Lover speaks his secret pains Tears are his Oratory words do make him tremble ●et womens tears fall when they most dissemble On frozen affection There where the hearts Atturney once is mute The Clyent breaks as desperate off his suit Of true and false love True love 's a Saint so shal you true love know False love 's a Scythian yet a Saint in show Love breaks all silence What Fish so dumb what Beast so dul of heart That hears love sing and will not bear a part No business like that of love The fair the false love can ●dmit all but the busie man He that hath business and makes love does do ●uch wrong as if a married man should woo The perseverance of a Lover Desire being Pilot and bright beauties prize Who can fear sinking where such treasure lyes The beginning of love ●air beauty is the spark of hot desire And sparks in time will kindle to a fire On a Lovers adve●sity As the Stars in darkelt night So love by suffering shines more bright For like unto a hidden flame It wil at last break forth again On lust Lust maks Oblivion beateth reason back Forgetteth shames pure blush and honours wrack On Virginity The ripest Corn dies if it be not reapt Beauty alone is lost too early kept A cruel M●stris Nothing so ill becomes the fair As cruelty which yeilds unto no prayer On Coyness A wayward beauty doth not fancie move A frown forbids a smile engendreth love Another Fair words and power attractive beauty Brings men too wanton in subjective Another Hope and despair attend a Lover still Hope for to save despair to kill On jealousie Where jealousie in base●t minds doth dwel 'T is metal Vulcans Cyclops sent from hel On pleasures Somthing must stil be left to cheer our sin And give a touch of what should not have bin To those that know but pleasures price All 's one a Prison or a Paradice On chastity The unstain'd vail which innocents adorn The ungathered rose defended with the thorn Another on the same Penelope in spending chast her dayes As worthy as Vlysses was of praise A chast Vow To thee as constant as the Sun to day Til from this light night hurries me away Protestations of service I have vowed both love and duty To your vertue and your beauty On the Court. Thither let Phoebus sons resort

your favours so intreating your patience for answer to my poor Letter until I hear from you and alwayes I rest Your devoted to be commanded c. A Love-Letter to a Lady Madam SVch and so extreme are the passions of love that the more they are quenched by disdain greater flames are ●ncreased by desire and the more they galled with hate are the more they gape after love like to the Stone T●p●zon which being once kindled burneth most vehemently in the water so I having my heart scorched with the beams of your beauty and my mind flamed with your singular vertue neither can any bitter looks ab●●t my love nor extreme discourtesie diminish my affection I am not be that wil leave the rose because it hath pricked my finger or refuse the gold in the fire because it burnt my hand for the mind of a faithful lover is neither to be daunted with despight nor affrighted with danger I rest Yours c. Her Answer SIR if your wits go with your eyes your brains may be on the outside of your head and then if you deceive your self● I hope you will not blame me colours are but shadows and may be ful of illusions and the worthiness of vertue may be a reach above the worlds reason yet the discovery of affection may be more in words than in matter especially where discretion sounds the depth of desert though the honour of truth be worth regard where there is no fault there need no pardon and therefore without trouble of patience finding no cause of displeasure I thus conclude love hath a priviedge to be at the command of kindness in which I res● to wish you much happiness Your wel-willing friend c Another Love-Letter FAire Creature To tel you I love you were a phrase of too plain a fashion and yet when truth is indeed the best Eloquence affection needs no invention to express the care of her content which being in thre● Letters makes a word soon to be read which being Y O V nothing doubting your spelling I hope you will so kindly put together that a conjunction of love shall have no seperation during life And thus bese●ching you to learn this Lesson by heart without a cross in conceit to hinder the course of loves comfort till I hear from you in that nature that may make me a happy creature I rest Yours wholly and only if you wil c Her Answer KInd Sir to tel you I love you were too crosse an Answer with a comfortable request and yet wh●n dissimulation is the worst fruit of invention d scretion may be pardoned in concealing of Love Touching your Letters they are sooner read than understood while imaginative hopes may be deceived in their happiness and yet to avoid all touch of ingratitude in that nature of kindness that may give honour to content as a simple Schollar in the art of love loath to have that by heart that may trouble more than my head when seperations of conjunctions may indanger the death of comfort wishing nothing amiss to them that mean all well I rest Your as I may be mine own c. A Letter from a Lady to a Gentleman whom she called her servant for the preferring of a Gentlewoman to her SErvant I have often spoken unto you for that you must needs do me I am going to the Court and shall have great use of a Gentlewoman to attend me I know you have many Kinsmen and acquaintance among whom you may find one to fit me I will take her at your hand and regard her for your sake and if her deserts answers my desires she shall lose no love in my favour and therefore leaving this trusty charge to the care of your discreet kindness as you wil expect a greater courtesie at my hands I rest Your loving Mistris c. His Answer GOod Madam you speak unto me to help you to a Gentlewoman which with my Letter I have here sent you a woman and Gentle who I hope will not be altogether unworthy of your entertainment for her person she is not deformed nor her face of the worst feature she is ●eith●r blear-eyed nor tongue-tyed And for her qualities I hope she can do more than make curtesie and blush her Pa●entage is not bare nor her breeding idle and for her disposition I hope will be nothing displeasing to praise her in any perfection I dare not but in all will leave her to the tryall of your patience So wishing my dutiful service in this or ●hat else mayly in my power so fortunate as to deserve your favour and this Gentlewoman so gracious as to gain the continuance of your good opinion in prayer for your health and hearts most wished happiness I take my leave at this time but rest at all times Your Ladyships most humble servant A Letter of zealous love written from a Gentleman to his Brother BRother since I last heard from you I am sorry to hear that I do of you that you are wound so far into the world as if that you never meant to out of it you know I have travelled far seen much and I have some understanding by all the observation of time in the courses of nature I find Solomons truth in the tryal of the world that there is a little of it but is little worth in it when all being but vanity there is little vertue to be found in it Believe me brother we are neer in one nature but differ in another in the flesh but not in the spirit for whil'st I contemplate the substance of the souls comfort thou art puzzelled in the world among the puddles of the earth yea I fear the nature of thy affect to be as far from the rule of religion as the most senceless creature is from the use of reason Brother I know that thou hast wronged many thy self most I would thou wert a Zacheus to right all but better betimes than too late look home to the main chance have a care of thy soul and thy body wil be the better believe it there is no rust eateth so fast into any m●rtal as the venome of avarice into the heart of a wicked man Prodigality is the way to penury but covetousness is the root of all evil betwixt both there is a mean that to hit on is a kind of happiness and if thou hast no ears but of Mydas thou canst hear of nothing but gold take a heart of Simeon to joy in nothing but Christ Iesus turn a new leaf serve God for whom thou wert created let nor the earth triumph over thee for whom it was made to tread upon lift up thine eyes towards heaven where one joy of the elect is worth all the Kingdoms of the World Leave the world ere it leave thee and love him ever that will never leave thee Let they life be a Pilgrimage and the earth but a passage and the Heaven only the home of thy souls eternal

by the fires of Cupid blame me not since your eyes kindled the flames of my affections Madam exercise not the extremity of your rigour upon him that suffers such miseries under the false title and quality of an offender Know faire Creature that such a bright day may at last enlighten my innocencie when revengeful lovers shall search into my ashes to find out truth there buried Sir These glorious progressions of your vertue will at last mount you to the highest pith of admiration Madam shut not up these eyes from the light of your beautie lest they be perpetuallie opened to tears Madam It is impossible you should ever draw to you a reputation of honour signed with the effusion of my blood Madam There are those will deplore my ashes and strew some silly flowers on the place impressed with the prints of your punishments Fair one When my soul shall be seperated from my body it shall every where wait on your purified spirit as the shadow of it Madam If you should please to condemn me to darkness by the eclipsing of the divine light of your beautie yet I despair not but that at last from the sphere of your splendors due to my merits you will vouchsafe the rayes of your clemencie to enlighten the duskie nights of my miseries and misfortunes Fair one Though death may seperate our lives yet love shall un●te our ashes and we shall preserve the immortalitie of our affections by the immortality of our souls Madam Seated thus on your faire pavilion you appear like resplendent day in the attires of a Majesty absolutely royall Madam Your goodly nature well proportioned body the bright colour of your face the lively port and grave carriage of your person all these speak you to be a real branch sprung from some royall stem Fair one Your haire negligently disshevel'd and careless attire grace forth your beautie which shines in the midst of so many obstacles as the Sun in a winter day Faire Creature Cast not those eyes down neither colour your face with those modest blushes since it would appear most admirable that your Vertues should finde Fetters in a place where they expect Crowns Sir I desire to end my daies on the Theater of Kings in their glorious services Madam Heaven hath created me such a one as you see ful of good wil though of slender fortunes and means Sir We have continuallie lived together as one soul divided into two bodies and since our amities have taken root in a mutuall temperance and correspondencie of humours we have maintained in us a continuall familaritie which neither death nor hell can ever have power to separate Fairest Our breasts shall be ever interchangeablie transparent Fair one Dissimulation or contradiction cannot approach the sincerity of our loves Fairest let me embrace you with the oppenness of my heart and the profusion of my love that our souls may evaporate themselves into one another Sir Your favours create me againe and give me a new being Sir I shal never pretend any right to any honour in the world but only to obey your commands Mistris The grace of speech dwells on your fair lips Sir Hereafter ages shall take Palms and Lawrels to crown the reliques of your honoured ashes Fairest these eies of mine are but emblems of tears mixt with love Madam spread not that Cipress Vail over your face lest you benight your beauty and darken the bright raies of that which makes our day Madam Your beauty is a divinitie left on earth to be known and beloved of mortalls A description of Beauty BEauty is Natures Ivy-Bush It is her beauty only creates her queene 't is that which adds a commanding power to every syllable Glory not too much in the prerogative of Nature seeing she hath made thee man make not thy selfe a woman Your beauty is a Tyrant of a short reign you cannot call it your own for you can neither give it nor preserve it long Beauty is the conqueress of man never to be satisfyed with the raies of her chrystal painted eyes A feature that excels all mortall sense Such a one that when she lay naked his eyes did carve him out a Feast of love Her body doth present those fields of peace that Poets sing of in Elizium She lay like eclipsed Cynthia sweetly canopied with darkness til he drew the curtains of love Had Paris seen her naked he had slighted his Nell of Greece for her Trimming her beauty forth with blushing bravery with the wonders of her beauty mortall eyes are never to be satisfyed as if she were made only for admiration to be adored of men or win grace from Heaven A Complexion as clear as the Sky Beauty is the image of the Creator and the Rhetorick of Heaven THE School of Complements Choice and fair Flowers selected out of the Garden of Eloquence to adorn our Language with variety of Expressions upon severall occasions Upon his absence I Shall no longer esteem my selfe absent from you whil'st I hold any room in your heart and memory Let those dul clods of earth not yet informed with true promethean fire measure affections by their Miles of Acres we whose souls are cast in a more pure mould by a most subtile penetration and transfusion of hearts enjoy a secure freedome in one anothers wishes and in the greatest distance are cherished with a virtuall contiguity It is a brutish love and wants the quickning fire of reason that can by circumstances be intermitted the more extracted flames of our affections shal like more glorious Pyramides burn bright and cleare and light our souls though thus seemingly disjoyned to our daily mutual imbracements Let not my remoteness change your purposes more than it shakes the resolution I have made to live yours Protestations of love IT is as impossible for me not to love you as it is for the Sun to forget his ordinary course So am I ravished with your beauty that it will prove harder for mee to forget you than it would prove difficult to resolve for death and know for a certain that I shall stil be rather content and disposed to consent to the hatred of my selfe than to the love of any other object but you Your sight may be forbidden me and you may hinder me from speaking to you but not to have the effiges of your divine beauty imprinted in my heart and not to love and serve you it is a thing not onely out of your power but mine also for I am to you as an accident so inseparable that you cannot be without me Vpon her beauty I Should have thought I had too much failed in so much duty had I not directed it to so faire a mark but the favour of your affections is that to which I sacrifice my best endeavours Vanquished by your beauty I have yeelded up the arms of my libertie and freedome under your obedience Nothing shall take from your heart but death it self the fair image of your divine

beauty Death it self shall here stand vassal and homage pay to your more powerful darts when every quickning glance from you shall ad new life as he destroys the old In admiration of her goodnes IT is your goodness that hath supplyed my small merit which could noo have dared to promise me the favours you can afford me The goodness of your soul is so cleare and bright that sin dares not approach too neer for fear of discovering its own deformity You need not seek for your inheritance when the rich evidence of your vertue entitles you to heaven I wonder not to see so many bankrupts in goodness when I finde the Stock of Vertue rests alone in you These noble favours may quicken my endeavours but never create a desert in me they are so much beyond my all On her leaving him LOvers in despite of absence lose not the remembrance of their lovers they are as the Flowers which though trod on do resume their lustre at the Suns approach Although thou goest away yet we cannot part Here in my heart thou still remainest yet I must shed some tears which like the morning dew or as Aprill showers shall make the spring-tide of our love though by this winter covered grow fresh and green again To forsake me when your company is dearest to me is no sign of true friendship which parts not at death it self since love remains for ever Take pitty on all those bloody sorrows which the apprehension of your absence makes me already so miserably to feel To accuse in a Letter IT is better to love with severity than to deceive with sweetness I expected a Cordial but I received a Corrasive your bitter-sweet was unequally tempered and in your Pills though sugar'd over I found an unwelcome operation I received thy Letter but I must chide thee sweet another c●ose from thy faire hand wil make me surseit you frowned when last we parted and by that cloud you bid me expect a storm it is a double bliss thus sweetly to be deceiv●ed you frown indeed but a thousand Cupids lodg themse ves in every wrinckle of your brow I would forbear to write to you in this manner were it not that the affection I bear to you doth force and by its authority draw all these words from my heart and mouth Mistris The Bees are not hated for their stings no more should you hate me for the sharpness of my circumstances We must not praise our selves for being better than the worst but rather blame our selves for being worse than the best since then I faile in my merits give me leave to mourn for my imperfections Farwell I Must depart from you yet shall not your service be deprived of my obedience Adieu fair Sun of my life I leave you for this present but be alwaies assured that my minde and my desires shall never depart from you Dear Love I know not which way to begin to bid you farwel nor how to finish this discourse which once ended our disconsolate departure follows Wo is me must I needs wander away from all my felicities at once losing with the happiness of your sight the most perfect object of beatitude Farwel Madam be alwaies fortunate whilst I shal languish unhappy though most constant Expressions of affection YOU can never do so much for me but that the affection wherewith I adore you and the faith I have imposed in you wil prove far greater Mistris You are the first to whom my affect●onate heart hath been offered and shall if you please be the last that shal have the last possession of it Do but let me once discover my aff●ct●ons to you then command me to perpetual silence if you please You are the eye of mine eyes and thought of my thoughts the perfecter of my defaults the life of my love the scope and end of all my desires and hopes Beare wel in minde mine affection that though I be removed from your fair eyes I may not be so fa● from your favours The Lovers impression of Costancie I Shal in loving you manifest such an affectionate stability and stedfastness that my loyalty and my love shall inseparably wait upon you My constancie may easily shew you that I have as good an heart to die for you as I have a mind and desire to live and love you I shall make it appear to after-times that I am the man who for your sake have made my selfe an invincible rock of stedfastness for I shall stil hug my constancie and never let it stir from me til my last gasp Vpon her Affability and Courtesie IT is your courtesie that lends me the favour which Heaven and Nature hath denyed me Your courtesie wil force the most rigid Cato to turn your Proselyte and make the Cynick leave his Tub enamoured with your banity Each part above you shines with a peculiar grace but in your mild behaviour they all concentrate Upon your Brow Beauty and honour sit enthron'd whence in your stately carriage they dispence their powerful Lawes It is out of your generous disposition you w●sh me wel as it is of duty that I honour you Vpon a LOVERS fear LOvers live alwaies in more fear than hope and wil sooner conceive of their sorrows then hear of their joyes Ladie I have just cause to fear lest by plac●ng my love upon an object either too violent or too much di●ant my sense may be deceived you far transcend my deserts but my desires lie captive at your feet one ●eam from your bright eie wil kindle them a new and ●dd a new vigour to me your languishing prostrate The fear I have left my slender merit should take awaie our good mind to wish me well doth in a sort make all those joyes imperfect which my sweetest thoughts made me judge so fuil and entire On her desires FAirest Be but as desirous of my content as I am of your service My desires make me as careful to please you as I am bound by duty and compelled by inclination to serve you I wish Heaven that gave me the boldness of desire had likewise graced me with desert To give or present THis I dedicate consecrate and offer up unto you with the samt heart wherewith I vowed you my service Your bounty hath furnished me with power and your example with will accept therefore this small present gleaned from your plentious Harvest which shall ever testifie to the ungratefull world how much I glory to proclaim aloud my wealths chiefe founders I should be ignorant and ungrateful too should I presume to think it worthy your acceptance when every jewel receives its Character of value from your esteem The mass of all my wealth made up together discla●ms the name of merit and therefore here I freely give it all and in the strong indentures of loyalty I bind my self your Prentice I had rather present you with some small thing and so be reputed ignorant than ungrateful Regard more the affection

believe but that I shall be more fortunately happy to obtain your favour words are not alwayes the interpreters of the heart and I am confident for all this that you love me W. Perswade your self to it but I shall never give you cause to think so yet I will ever respect you and be ready to do you any lawfull courtesie A. Well I thank you that I have so far thrived in my suit I hope hereafter to get deeper into your favour W. Your hope is built upon a false Foundation and had I known your intent I would not have held discourse so long with you I must leave your company Aym. Let me rather take my leave and seal a Kiss upon your lips until I visit you again for no mortall widow shall discourage me but I will come again with the more resolute affections To excuse some offence done to a Gentlewoman Aymwell I Must acknowledge I was somwhat too bold to enforce a kiss from you in the presence of other friends but I pray excuse my passion and let your mercie be shewed in pardoning as my folly was in offending Pen. Sir it was so great a trespass and so directly aymed against my white same and reputation that no repentance can satisfie for a fault of that nature Aym. It cannot exceed the limits of forgiveness or if your wrath must not be otherwise satisfied enjoyn me some penance as great as your anger whereby 〈◊〉 may recover your lost favour and make it appear ho● sorry I am for committing so rash an offence Penelope Nay you may enjoy that Kisse violentl● took from me before so many witnesses but never any more A. I must confess it was my rashness but if you wil● that I repay it back again I wil give you interest fo● that one and vow unto you never to offend you● patience in the like kind Penelope VVell since you are so willing to repent and to shew unfeigned sorrow I must needs accept them for present satisfaction desiring you hereafter to be mor● careful of my credit and never again to make so bold an● offer A. You have charmed me to obedience since you● words are a Law which I dare not transgress for I am in all things your obsequious Servant The Lovers farwell Leonara ALas Sir is this the hour that the sever● rigor of your absence must eclips my day● of their bright Beams O how this sa● ●ews doth fire my spirits and not without reason since ●ou to whom I had wholly consecrated my selfe wil not ●ouchsafe a mercifull eie on my sufferings for your ab●ence Florestan Mistris fear not but rest assured that so long ●is Life will give leave to enjoy the Suns b●ightn●ss never ●hall any other have power over me do me only this favour ●hat having given you these new assurances of my fidelity ●ou would be pleased to render me some reall promises of ●ours Besides I protest to you Lady I will never acknow●edge other light tha● yours no more than the earth doth any more than the Sun and Moon Leon. Sir they are no false Promises that I have made you but true Assurances drawn from my heart by the force of my passion And know that all things ●eie beneath shall sooner change their naturall inclinations than in me shall be seen any alteration from the resolution I have made to love you heaven it self be my witness Florest If M●stris you love me thus let your minde be confident of an equall truth from me and should you doubt of my aff●ctions I will give you my soul for a pledg and my heart for a sacr●fice to shew you that my wo●ds ar● u●feigned be pleas●d the●●fore to accept of this small gift not as a thing wort●y ●f merit but onely as a sufficient testimony of my good will fidelity and faithfull love towards you it being a thing so small and unwo●thy of you it will therefo●e be the more commendable in you to acc●p of it Leon. Sir I give you infinite thanks and withall do beseech you al●o ●o receive this in requitall for a remembrance of me which is of a smaller value be but pleased to take it in good part from her who from henceforth shall not live but through your sole remembrance Flor. Tha ks to you sweetest the gift truly is pleasing to me but the giver much more Leon. But Sir is there no means to stay you for a little time that I might enjoy your presence which stands me instead of light and life therefore your ●b ence will invelope me with darkness and bring upon me poor soul that I am a thousand grievous deaths Flor. M●stris I hope not so for I am constrained through ●ecessity of my business to depart hence Leon. O I see now too wel that that Constancie of you s which I trusted to for remedie of my troubled thoughts is vanished to give present vent to my plaints which you shall receive with my sighs and tears for true and burning testimonies of the sorrow I have to see my selfe about to be forsaken by him by whom only I breath Flor. Mistris I swear to you my heart is alike touched with such strokes for this our parting that I can hardly breath for griefe of it and do already see I have lost my self in the loss of the sight of your star-like Beauty For I am sure ●hat once absent from your luminous aspect each pleasure wil be tome a subject of grief and sorrow However since it will not be otherwise I shall so part with you as that my life shall ever be at your service and so farwell dear Mistris live still happy and content whilest I languish unfortunate though most constant let not then my remo●en●ss alter your mind more than it shall shake the resolution I have long since made to live and dye yours as for mine own part I shall not think my self absent from you so long as I am longed in you● heart and memory L on Farwell Sir you possess my Soul and I do even leave it in your power conserve it for a more happ e sea●on than th●● of parting and in the mean space have p tty of all the bloudy griefes which the meer apprehension of your absence makes me alreadi● feel so vehemently for J think it very strange to leave you whose company is dearer to me than my life But to make an end of this discourse J do beseech you Sir and let me conjure you by the sweetness of that love J have horn you and will all my life long devote to you in respect of my cruel fears to write often to me during the unhappy time of your absence for in reading of your Letters J shall perswade my selfe that J am not wholly deprived of you or lost to your memory Florestan J vow to you Mistris J will give to you so many Letters for confirmation of my loyalty and the love J bear you th●t you shall have no cause to mistrust