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 unâ—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
than the merit of the gift and so accept it not as a thing of desert but as a testimony of good wil. A description of a Married woman VVidow and Maid A Wâ—fe is like a Garment worn and torn A Maid like one made up and never worn A Widow like a Garment worn thred-bare Sold at the second hand like Brokers ware The Maids Complement upon his Eloquence YOur eloquent deserts speak love and I should wrong to lock it in the wards of covert bosome when it deserves with characters of brass asorted residence against the tooth of time and a razor of oblivion therefore my soul cannot but yeild you forth to publike thanks forerunning more requiralls Oh! how you are winding up the watch of your wit Sir I cannot but admire the delight and life of your wit the light of your wisdome and the Mercury of your Eloquence His Answer in praise of her Elegancie Sweet Mistris I could not without making my self guilty of irreverance speak otherwise to you than in a way of praise I value love in all but faire Lady most in you where I find it richly sitting on the neck of honour Fair one such is the galled condition of the age that should my feeble Encomiums presume to touch a lâ—ttle at what your beauty in the largest manner merits the fairest title I should gain for my true meaning would be parasite Madam Let others daub and flatter I 'le not give over to draw true lines but maugre all their painting â—il proclaim you aloud vertuous and faire In a Word Madam to live with you is to live with all the graces for Nature hath made you the example of all her liberalities Madam I wil put it upon the file of thankful remembrance and register it for a singular act of your benificence A Lady and a Knight Sir say not you love unless you do For lying wil not honour you His answer Madam I love I love to die And wil not lye unless by you You say I lye I say you A lovers sad passion for loss of his Mistris VVHere shall I finde that Melancholie Muse That never heard of any thing but moan And read that passion that herpen doth usâ— When she and sorrow sadly sit alone To tel the world more than the world can tel What fits indeed most fitly figured hel Let me not think once of the smallest thought Nay speak of love then of the greatest griefe Where every lover with sorrows over-wrought Live but in death dispairing of reliefe While thus my heart with torments torn assunde May of the world be call'd the woful wonder The Day 's like Night all darkned in distress Pleasure becomes a subject unto pain The Spirit over-prest with heaviness While helpless horror vexeth every vein Deaâ—h shakes her dart grief hath my grave prepaâ— Yet to more sorrow is my spirit spar'd The Only eyes that not endures the light The Nâ—ght-ravens song that soundeth nought but death The Cockatrice that killeth with her sight The poysoned ayre that choaks the sweetest breath Thunders and earthquakes all together met These tel a little how my life is set Were woes dissolv'd to sighes and sighes to tears And every tear a torment of the mind The minds destress unto the deadly fears That finde more death than death it self can find Death to that life that living can descrie A little more yet of my misery Put all the woes of all the world together Sorrow and Death set down in all their pride Let miserie bring all her Muses hither Wâ—th all the horrors that the heart may hide Then read the state but of my ruthful story And say my griefe hath gotten sorrows glory For Natures sickness sometime may have ease Fortune though fickle sometime is a friend The minds affection patience may appease And death is cause that many torments end To shew the nature of my pain alas Pain hath no nature to discry my pain But where that pain it self in pain doth pass Think on vexation so in every vein That hopeless helpless some endless pain may tel Save hel it self but mine there is no hel If such love be a ground of deadly grief Consuming cares hath caught me by the heart If want of comfort hopeless of relief Be further moe so weigh my inward smart If love's unkindness so my grief is grounded If causeless wronged so my heart is wounded If love refused so read on my ruin If truth disgraced so my sorrow moved If faith abus'd the ground my sorrow grew in If Vettues scorned so my death approved If death delaying so my heart perplexed If living dying so my spirit vexed My Infants years mispent in Childish toyes My riper years in rules of little reason My better years in all mistaken joyes My present time O most unhappy season In fruitless labour and in endless love O what a horror hath my life to prove I sigh to see my infancy mispent I mourn to finde my youthful life misled I weep to feel my farther discontent I dye to try how love is living dead I sigh I mourn I weep I living dye And yet must live to shew more misery The hunted Hart sometime doth leave the hound My heart alas doth never leave the Chase The live Hounds line sometimes is yet unfound My bands are hopeless of so high a grace Summer restores what winter doth deprive But my love withered never can revive I cannot figure sorrows in conceit Sorrow exceeds all figures in our sense But on my wo even sorrows all may wait To see a note exceed their excellence Let me conclude to see how I am wounded A lover himself is in his love confounded But whereof groweth this passion of the pain That thus perplexeth every other part Whence is the humor of this hateful vain So damps the Spirit and consumes the heart O let my soul with bitter teares confess It is the ground of all unhappiness If lack of love I am the note of need If lack of friends no faith on earth remains If lack of health see how my soul doth bleed If lack of pleasure look upon my pains If lack of love of friends of wealth and pleasure Say then my sorrow must be out of measure Measure No measure measure can my thought But that one love that is beyond all measure Which knowing how my grief have now been wrought Can bring her love into the highest pleasure Which must my sorrows either cut off quite Or never let me think upon delight There is a lack that tels me of a life There is a loss that tels me of a Love Betwixt them both a state of such a strife As makes my spirit such a passion prove That lack of one and the others loss alas Makes me the wofulst wretch that ever was A Schollar in praise or rather dispraise of his Mistris A Schollar to win his Mistris love Compar'd her to three Goddesses above And swore she had to give her due
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 heâ— 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 Helitâ—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 lâ—dy where all joyes increase uttereth many pleasant conceits but banâ—shed from the sight of his mistris whereall mirth decreaseth either liveth in melancholly or died with desparation Of constancie in Lovâ— 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 Poinâ— in a Diall which though it go none can see it â—oiâ—g or a young Tree which though it grow noâ—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 â—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 Byteâ—â— or liâ—â— the Apple in Persia whose blossome savoureth likâ— 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 wiâ—â— to lust and who more trayterous to Phillis than Demophoon yet he a traveller who more perjured to Dido â—haâ— Aeneas and he a stranger who more false to Ariâ—dâ—e thaâ— Theseus yet he a Saylor who more fickle to Medea thaâ— Jason yet he a Staâ—â—â— Again love is like musk though it be sweet in smel it is sower in the smack the leaf of tâ—â— Cedar tree though it be fair to be seen yet the sirrop depâ—â—v th sight even so love though it be pâ—â—gâ—ned by saluting each other with a kiss â—â—t it â—s shaâ—â—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 frankinsencâ— which smelleth most sweet when it is in the fire or to the Damask Rose which is sweeâ—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 mindâ— 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 betterâ— 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 beâ—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
inclination is too severe a punishment for me to groan under For the eclipse of your better self seems to me to be a retirement of your affection Let me therefore intreat you to return speedily I conjute you by all those charms of passion I have ever been at your service to make a speedy redress to him who is Your most humble Servant The Answer SIr I make less account of my absence from the Court and from my affairs then from you your friendship is the only business of my speedy return I have already chid my self and now have no more to do but to precipitate my hast and in person to make my excuse with the tenders of all manner of service in the quality of Your most humble Servitor A Letter for clearing ones self of false accusation SIr I hope that all the passions of my service have given you sufficient proofs as never to doubt my loyalty in which my innocency hath ever shined clearer than the best language of my pen can express so that the malice of that person was but ill contrived whose knavery I wil make your sport and if you please but to reveal his name I wil engage mine honour to make him sign me an acquittance with his blood I express my self thus far that at any rate I may purchase your higher esteem of me or be for ever fargotten Your abused friend A Congratulatory Letter for the good fortune of a friend Sir THe excess of my gladness like the merits of yout affection is not in any respect vulgar for all my passions do but wait upon your good fortunes Pardon therefore the defect of my Eloquence since it is supplyed with the joy reigns in me which had made me so sensible of that extraordinary contentment that in honoring you the world is possessed of which long before this foresaw that the felicity of this event belonged to your merits perhaps most of your friends have prevented me in this congratulation but this zeal and affection cannot come too late from him that is more than he is able to express Yours His Answer Sir YOu have so sensibly touched me with your Letter your joy as it were to the life mingling my interest with yours that should I not render thanks to you I should dye of a deepe impatience I acknowledg I never merâ—ted the effects of such nobleness as that you should account of me as an object for your virtuous inclinations the pleasure I entertain to consider your goodness is more satisfaction to me than my advancement as I prefer before other interests the happiness of your affection and the new-assurance of your friendship which that I may the more seriously contemplate I shall for ever reserve my admiration and remain in the number of your best friends Yours L. D. On the effects of their love YOu shall know one day in effect what you now have put in imagination The constancie of my affection hath been such that it hath overcome the worst of difficulties and the expectation of the harbour hath made the danger easie When admidst the waves of your disdain my halfeship-wrack'd vessel began to sink each sigh I fetched I see at length found a courteous gale to bring me home to you my blessed Harbour One day you wil come to know the conclusion of the irreprochable testimonies of my true and faithfull promises Vpon her Eloquence YOUR Eloquence is able to steale the Soul out of ones heart and carry it whether it would not go O speak again 't will make the Sphears lay by their warbling Lutes and listen to your tongue Each articulated syllable doth lay a powerfull chaâ—m upon my soul and captivates my senses One day is no more able to overcome you with good words than with good actions The eloquence of your most sweet words closes my lips and binds them to a perpetuall silence Excuses IN excusing your unjust fear you seem to accuse my boldness It is a mercy that you yet afford me to let me plead m ne own excuse I presume upon your pardon for my former suspitious fears and the rather because the goodness of your nature stiles them the individuall concomitants of love I pray you hear my reasons patiently and judge without passion of my justification It is for great minds to excuse great faults upon the acknowledgment therefore of my late transgression you cannot finde a fitter subject for your mercy Experience of a Lover and of a Friend I Have so much experience of your good will that it only remains that you make tryall of my desire of acknowledgment I have had such tryall of your friendship and fidelity that I hope you wil not faile me in time of need Each messenger affords fresh Characters of your friendship and every day I see the spring of your love breaking through new channels Vpon his Face THe wonders of your face made me their Captive as soon as I saw them and that rare grace of yours which makes you excel all others retained me your Prisoner and Servant As she appears so Day breaks and with her Beams disperses all my Clouds and mysts of discontent The Epitome of Nature is comprised in her Face where she hath freely given a tast of all her pride and glory Vpon his Favours IF you judge or deem me worthy to favour you hold that your merits are much more than my desert I am ignorant what service might satisfie for the favours I have received of you if you please to increase my knowledge in telling me how I may serve you again I shall be doubly obliged I want opportunity dutifully to acknowledge this favourable proof of your condition and honesty Vpon his fortunes FOrtune strives now to make me pay the interest of those pleasures she formerly lent me Dame Fortune is too covetous and usurious in taking from me the interests of my prosperity I appeare to you just like an empty vessel that wants his lading with full blown sailes of love indeed t is true and I am bound for the Indies and if my compass fail me not my Genius tells me I shall soon arive O withdraw not those two stars by their blest light I steer my crasy Bark and hope to enjoy the wished for shore of happiness Vpon her hatred I Do not think though I should give you occasion to hate me that your good nature can wish me an injury since you are not composed of any thing but love Courtesie dwelt on your fore-head but malice resided in your soul and lay concealed in your minde On her constancie YOu use your friends as one doth flowers which please onely when they are fresh and new I perceive that ardent affection which was wont to keep me so alive in your thoughts doth now no more reign in you In praise of her face HER face is loves Coppy to read wonders on She cannot put her face in such a form but I must like it Her lively face disdains
all adulterous arts A perpetuall spring of beauty dwells in that face of hers Fairer than Chloris in all her pride Her face vailed with a robe of darkness shines clearer through it than the eye of the day The fairest ever nature made for wonder But to look upon her face is to live Whose looks would force the Warring Elements into order For her retention of him in her memory DO not that wrong to your true love to let him slide out of your memory the onely monument where his felicity desires to be inshrined Keep me alive in your thoughts as I hold you in the most sensible parts of my soul Of his merits I Could never do so great a thing but would be too small for your merits and my desires Your merits drive me to love you my humor permits it and my content wil needs have me imploy my endeavours to serve you The praises you attribute unto me proceed from your wil and not from any merit of mine The necessity of his affections The necessity of love is most mighty in the world for it overcomes all O how happy a thing is that necessity that inforceth us to imbrace such a desired blessing as your self I was all frozen untill the sunshine of your favour thawed my benummed spirits but when you darted your quickned beams the spring of my affections budded forth in the most pleasant bloomes of Love The Magnetick Stone starts not with such naturall activity to the North-stars summons as I when you command Protestations of obedience I Shall not all the dayes of my life have a wil which shall not obey yours You know the power you have over me and that I am so much yours as you can wish me To offer and present service ALL the honour and ambition I aspire at is to see my self imployed in your service Let all men judge whether your beauty alone is not sufficient to command the affections I bear you All that is mine is no less yours than are your thoughts and words The most favourable gift you can offer me is your friendship a jewel I prefer before all other treasures VVishes HEaven which heares the vows of the faithfull bless and content your desires I need not wish you more but a continuance of those graces you most eminently possess already May you meet with such a Paramour as my equal for sure out-go he cannot your holyer flames may the same shaft with an undivided hast pierce both your hearts together may both your loves bear the same date and when we have made our selves unworthy of enjoying any longer such a worthy patern and rich example of pure affection after you have seen a second Generation may death gently transport you to that place of bliss where he himselfe can never come God make you the happyesâ— Woman that lives even as he hath made you the fairest and most accomplished Heaven grant that you may be as faithfull as you are dear to me Bewailing of a Lover I do so bewalle our separation that nothing can ever touch my soul like the griefe I endure by it The greatest griefe I carry along with me when part from this place is to see how I am for ever deprived of your fair presence To give thanks If I have done you any acceptable service think it was but the shadow of what I desire to shew you by reall effects To tickle your eares with breath of Complement or the ayre of some presently contradicted Newes would be to imitate the What lack you To give you good words and make your better deeds pay too deer for them I take this benefit from you but as borrowed I will pay you rent for it Though the service I have done you be but small yet the desire I had to acknwledg the honours I have received from you are exceeding great On the deceits of Love Your faire eyes have too much majesty to serve for baits or allurements of a dissembling love Dot deceive him that wil out-braue death it selfe â—o insure your life and withstand the frowns of fortune to protect your honors On his life MY Life is a Comedy and therefore no matter how long it be so that it wil be wel acted sweetest if the last Scene be Tragick your cruelty must be the Nemesis Our life without some pleasantness is like a long Journey without an Iâ—ne or like a bed of Roses where flowers are mixed with prickles Lady if you please from your hospitable bounty to refresh my over-weatied and solitary progress I shall conclude my time richly spent having attained the end at which alwaies I aim'd but you have hitherto clos'd up your fragrant sweet and amidst the stearnest bryars of discontent have left me miserably intangled On the lustre of her eyes Your eyes flash so much lightning that like Suns they dazell the sight of all such as dare behold them Your souls bright lustre sparkles in your eye and like the Persian that only sun I adore You have so established your soveraignty over my soulâ— that the least twinckle of your eyes dispossess me of the state of my life Amorous Expressions This kiss and thy white hand Her spring of beauty raised in him noble desires which soone broke forth in liberall streams Let me rule lady like a Planet in the Orb of your favours You have a most imperious beauty I must obey it Delight shall streame into our bosome A faint lovers wishes cannot recall the hours I wil imbrace thee as all wealth and honour Though she were divided from me by armies I would make way through death to gain her Let me dwel an age upon those lips She is a sparkling delightful piece of Nature She is the queen and goddess of beauty She is a Mine of pleasing joyes and sweetness The great commandress of all hearts I cannot speâ—â— to thee go thy wayes We 'le striâ— make the example of Love an easie Law As white as Truth as innocent as Vertue Take all your vows again you are as free as the aire The Cyprian queen compared to thee was but a Negro Whose love is the Exchequer of wealth A spring of Love issues from her Soul I must walk in the dark and be benighted to all the World but thee Madam I am a poor Flye burnt in the Candle of your beauty A Woman worthy of so composed a man Crown your servant Mistris with this favour A Magnificent present of similitudes Comparisons and Examples Collected for the Readers Application AS the glistring beams of the Sun when it riseth decketh the heavens so the beuty of a good wife adorneth the house As golden Pillars do shine upon the sockets of Silver so doth a faire face in a vertuous mind Her tresses are like the coloured Hyacinth of Aarabia Her love is such a fire as either will burst forth or burn the house it is such a stream as wil eâ—ther have his course or break through the banks and make a deluge
precious for if you please to let it incircle your white finger it being a Diamond Ring will sparkle most in the dark shewing that love like a clouded Star shines lightest in the night of misfortune Gent VVell sir I am obliged to your courtesie to receive it and since you please to conser so rich a gift on my unworthiness I wil weare it for your sake Aym. Then you honour me above my desert for your acceptance of this sacrifice of my love is to me above all rewards The Ring is inscribed with amor circulus love is a Circle without end Gent. I must acknowledge your beauty and my self your servant for bestowing on me so rich a gift Aym. The sparkling lustre thereof cannot compare with the light beams of your eyes but honour me so much to weare it on your finger Gent. I promise that and more acknowledge my selfe infinitely beholding to you Aym. You have said too much concerning so poor a present yet in your acceptance of this trifle I shall ever bless my own happiness To wooe a coy scornfull Maid Aym. LEt not my love be misconstrued for presumption if I once again strive to warm your affection by declaring unto you how much I honour your perfection pray at last be mercifull and do not stil reward my love with cold disdain Maid Sir I know that men have powerfull Language but I am none of those young ones you are deceived if you think that fine Musk words can sweeten me up to betray my self and for my beauty I would not have you dote on that it suffices me without commendation Aym. Should I not commend what all admire I were much too blame Maid Sir Wise men admire nothing for if I were beautiful what is beauty but a fading flower blasted often with too much breathing on and cannot grow safely upon the stalk of Virginity because every one will be reaching forth to gather it Pray excuse me if I prevent such a danger for love and I are quite faln out Aym. Let me reconcile you to a good opinion of a chast love there is no greater happiness than the sacred Vnion of Hearts especially when long and humble suits conquer disdain and so I hope perseverance will at last Crown me with your love and bring you to entertain my desire with a mutuall affection Maid Sir If you would be more thrifty of your breath you may spend it to better purpose for you may intimate your desires and make tedious discourses But in a word I shall never love you Aym. O say not so you know not how much misery those few words would bring upon me for hope grounded on your gentle disposition hath hitherto kept me alive and made me walk like a faint shadow whilest in my chamber I am like a mourner with a Taper by me watching my own funerall and I will dwell there in a mist of sighes and all this for your sake Maid Sir I hope you will not accuse me of your death pray shake of this love and I will then acknowledg your kindness in ceasing to trouble me with complaints Learn wisdome that will cure all distempers Aym. Yet while I live I wil attend upon you and when I am dead I wil visit yoâ—â—n a dream and tel you you were a ciuell Maid 〈◊〉 â—â—clude let one parting kiss seal my transport to Eliâ—â—â—â— and I am gone Maid Sir since you are so resoluâ—e I will strive to give you a better answer at your next return Aym. In confidence of that happiness I wil presume to visit you again and live to be your servant A jesting discourse with a maid Aym COme why wil you be an enemie to your self and let modestie keep you stil in the state of virginity I came to offer my service to help you out of this trouble Maid You are very kind but I like my present estate Maids are happie Aym. Alas poor ignorance dost thou talk of happiness I tel thee until thou art married thou art but a Cypher and of no account Maid O sir You are deceived our hearts are free from the passion of love retain a world of happiness being exempted from any wanto Knowledge for maids dying in their present condition do all go to heaven Aym. You are deceived their punishment is to lead apes in hel and therefore to avoid this be kind while you may and accept of a friendly offer Maid What offer Aym. Lest it should raise a blush upon your cheek I wil whisper it into your ear you understand Maid Take heed sir lest while you counterfeit a flame you kindle a real fire I bear too much thy infectious words have betrayed a base ignoble mind Aym. Why I did but tel you a truth I had thought you had been more intelligent and would not have scarred at a bold word Maid Nay farwel Aym. Pardon me all I have spoken was to try your temper and having found you both wise and witty I wil desire you in a fair manner to grant me your love which I only desire and though I did appear rash and wanton you shal find me worthy of your affections To contract privately ones self to tythe knot of marriage Aym. NOw our love hath arrived to a happy conclusion the storms raised by our disdain being blown over the union of our affections making a soft and gentle harmony which the soul can only discern therefore that our new begun love may never expire I do here in the sight of heaven and all good angels marry and contract my soul to yours and give away my selfe wholly to be at your disposing till the Ceremonies of the Church confirm my promise Maid With as true an affection I do give my self over into your possession and freely bestow on you my love which shall never know alteration but remain ever firm and constant to you it is therefore expedient that you obtain my friends good wil according to your promise and til then we must remain only contracted in our affections Aym. Heaven I beseech thee bear witness to our private agreement and may I never know one day of comfort when I break my promised Vow let me now embrace you with the arms of affection and thus with a soft kiss seal the obligation of our loves To salute a friend newly arriv'd from a journey Alex. SIir When first the news of your return had arrived to my knowledg I was heigtn'd with an earnest desire to behold you and prevent other of your friends by the first tender of my service that as my love towards you doth exceed theirs in true perfect sincerity so it might in place obtain priority and shew how ambitious I am of your favour Aym. Sir You still continue your former nobleness making it your chiefe ayme to exceed others in perfection of mind otherwise I had an intention to visit you but it is your desire and happiness to overcome others in kindness for which I can but
return you thanks and acknowledge you a worthy friend Alex. Sir you make too good an interpretation of my rash presumption but it is held that friends have but one soul in two bodies therefore when I behold you I enjoy the other halfe of my selfe besides after long absence your company must needs be more precious so that I had both love and reason on my side to perswade me to come and visit you Aym. Sir I want words to express my mind or to argue a case in love but in my opinion I ought to have visited you first in regard I am very much obliged unto you But to proceed no farther in ceremony let us discourse of some other affairs I will be bold to enquire how all our friends do Alex. Sir some of them hath undergone change of fortunes and therein declared an invincible strength of mindâ— but heaven be thanked all that honour and respect you are living and in health Aym. Sir I am wonderfull glad to hear of it and I shall rejoyce exceedingly when I meet any of my old acquaintance I hope I am not altogether lost unto their remembrance they will know me certainly Alex. Sir travel hath not wrought much change in youâ— but I detain you too long I fear from your rest Aym. Sir were I tyred with travel as I am not yeâ— your company would very much refresh me Alex. Sir I wil crave your pardon at this time I know o tarry longer would be troublesome unto you but to morow I wil wait on you again To entertain a friend who is come to visâ—â— one Alex. SIR I am most glad to see you though I have no other entertainment for you but a kinde welcome Aym. Sir I expect no more I come to give you a visit and to be happy in your society for in the generall I do find none that can suit my disposition so wel as your self Alex. Sir say what you please of me I am vowed to your service and your loving visitation is an addition to your many other kindnesses Aym. Sir all that I acknowledg is a wil to do you service but I have been slow in producing the effects hereafter I wil study to deserve Alex. Sir it is your ingenius goodness to decline the acknowledgement of your own vertue and deserts far surpassing my merits for 't is I am bound to be your servant Aym. Sir it is I that am obliged to you by many strong tyes of affection from which the service of my life cannot dis-ingage me but I have trespass'd against manners pray take the chair Alex. Sir wil you please to sit first for it is an honour for me to wait your pleasure Aym. Sir I am provided but if it may not appear too much boldness what was the adamant that drew you or occasion that made you so kind to visit my lodging Alex. Sir I shall tel you I came not to borrow money or to force your good nature to any thing beyond civility but onely to keep our love and amity fresh and in perfect strength by a visit and some conference Aym. Sir you have chosen a bad opportunity my affairs carry me away from my friends besides the obligation of my word to a Lady to attend upon heâ— thiâ— day Alex. Sir I wil chuse some other time to wait upon you Aym. Sir I wil attend upon you if I might know the place and hour where to meet you Alex. Sir I will not put you to that trouble it will become me rather to wait on you Aym. Pardon me Sir I am much obliged to you Alex. Sir I am your servant Aym. Sir I am the servant of your servants pray remember my respects to all my friends A. Sir I wil be yours in that and all other services To woce a fair young Gentlewoman A. PArdon me Lady if I presume to speak what â— have hitherto with much affection concealeâ— from you knowledg There is a Gentleman that hath beheld your heavenly beauty and with his judgment clearly discern'd youâ— virtues the ornaments of your mind these have produced in him strange effects so that in spite of his own reason or disswasion of friends he is violently compelled to speak truth Penel. Sir call you this an affliction 't is a happinesâ— to speak and hear truth Aym. Do you hold that opinion then I will convince yoâ— by your own Expressions For if it be a happiness to hear trâ—tâ— then I hope you wil pardon me if being compelled by thâ— strength of my passion I do truly tell you that I have placeâ— my affection wholly upon you or as they commonly say I â—â— love you Pen. Sir I am sorry that you have made me thâ— object of your love I know your Birth and Person maâ— deserve one of greater account and therefore I aâ— amazed at the unexpected novelty of your motâ—◠〈◊〉 imagining but your bosome had been free from any flame let your wisdom then suppress it lest your love become fruitless in the event Aym. I wil not be discouraged by your first answer for neither are you beneath me in quality who am your servant neither can it appear to you so strange a matter that I should be taken with your beauty which others admire though it be my fortune only to be bolder than the rest and I hope not unwelcome Pen. Sir I would not have you cherish any uncertain hope nor build any assurance where you have but a sandie foundation Love cannot be compelled but must â—low from the spring of naturall desire bâ—â— I find in my self no inclination to entertain your aâ—â—â—ction therefore you must pardon me if I deny youâ— suit which is not in my power to grant Aym. Nothing is impossible to love for if you woâ—â— believe that I bear a noble and constant affection â—â—wards you you would soon overcome this difficulty 〈◊〉 incline your mind to reward my affection with your â—avour Pen. Sir I am confident that your affection is riâ—â—â— and perfect nor seeking under a fair and colouraâ—â—â— prâ—tence to betray me I cannot force my self to comenâ— to your motion being utterly ignorant in love matterâ—â— therefore excuse me til time and consideration shalâ— enforce me to answer your desire Aym. I am comforted that you have not utterly denyed my suit I hope at my next visit to receive more incouragement til then I take my leave and presume only to breath my heart upon your hand or if you please your lip desiring you to remember me in your absence VVhen one meeteth a friend in the Street A. GOd save you sir you are most happily met How fare you Clor. Sir I am the better to see you wel and lusty why wil not you do me the honor to visit me at my chamber Alex. Sir I must confess I have often broke promise therein but my business would not permit me other wise I had long since waited on you Clor. I should rather account my self obliged to
wait on you for I am bound unto you for many favours especially for the last courtesie you did me in matter which concerned me much Wil you now do me â—he kindness to present my respects to a Gentlewoman Alex. Sir if she be honest I am ready to go on your errand I hope you wil not put me upon a disgracefull piece of service Clor. I hope you have no such bad suspition of me for she is both fair and a virtuous Gentlewoman and hath a nimble wit but I know you can deliver your mind in an excellent way Alex. Sir it is you whom Mercury the God of wit hath adorned with a gentle amarous speech but I wil speak in your behalf in as good moving effectual terms as I can remember Clor. Sir shal you do me a most perfect favor Tel her I am her ready and willing servant and that the powers of love hath given her my heart which I wil come to fetch in hope she shall give it me back and til then keep it warm in her own bosome But what need I instruct you who are all love and courtship Alex. Sir I will perform your command though not in such words as you would desire yet so as my sudden Genius shall prompt me but I have heard it said That in the way of love and glory Lovers best tel their own story Clor. Sir Pardon me I know whom I do intrust with this business I am assured of your fidely and that you can deliver your mind in a powerfull manner especially to Gentlewomen Alex. Sir it must be my love to you that will inspire me for I promise you I will strive to speake my best Clor. Sir I am confident in you and at your return from my Mistris I will prepare thanks for this great piece of service and rest yours obliged Alex. Sir It is but my duty and I am happy to be imployed in any service that concerns you Suppose this done To court a Gentlewoman in the way of Marriage Eugenius MIstris I doubt not but that you will judge me as rash as bold but I beseech you by your Divine beauty which glistereth in your fair eyes to excuse my audacitie and to pardon my temeritie which have emboldned me to come and present unto you my most humble and most affectionate service Calia Sir I am sorry that I have not the honour to know you and I marvel that you wil offer service to me that of all am most unworthy Eugen. Mistris it is the sweetness of your naturall goodness that causeth you to speak so humbly of your self Calia Pardon me sir I speak nothing but what I know to be most clear truth Eugen. Lady The singular modesty which I have heard you express in your language gives me a hope that you wil entertain my intentions not as harsh and disconsonant but agreeable and consonant and that in time I shall obtain your grace and favour Calia Sir If there were any graces in me they proceed from you and with such expressions you honour your self Eugen. Mistris you are pleased thus to oblige me to a greater estimation of you which makes you more amiable and me more affectionate towards you I therefore beseech you to believe that my intentions were never otherwise than chast and vertuous and that I never had any other end than honesty Did you think â—rue to have framed some design prejudiciall to your honour I had rather lose my being than entertain any such thought so firm is my resolution for ever to continue your faithfull and most obedient servant as the effects shall make evident whensoever your commands shall call upon me Calia I humbly thank you sir with my best affection as also for the pains you have taken for one that no way merits such favours I being your very humble servant Eugenius Lady It is I that am so deeply engaged to you that I am dis-inabled to quit my selfe of the obligation and therefore most faire Mistris I beseech and conjure you to make use of my service and me in whatsoever you shall judge me acceptable to serve you and in the mean time after a million of recommendations I wil be bold to take my leave of you and will leave my heart with you as an hostage and pledge of fidelity and constancie Calia Farwel sir and I give you humble thanks for this your loving visit Eug. I hope to see you again and very speedily where for the ptesent I must leave you Calia Sir so far as your intentions shal continue good and your suits lawfull you shall alwaies find the doors open and also to gentlemen like your self who shal not want the best entertainment according to my ability n that regard you shall not oftner come than be welâ—ome Eugen. Lady I do assure you that I now go to elongate my self from the bright day and confine my selfe into an abyss of melanchollick darkness for I dare be bold to protest unto you that without you I enjoy not the light and therefore all the time of this sad abâ—ence wil be so tedious to me that moments will be hours the hours dayes and the dayes will be ages unless it be so that the experience of being in your favour be my sole consolation which will arm me with a resolute patience Calia You speak strong lines sir but it may be you are not so passionate as your words pretend Farewell sir til our next meeting Eugen. Mistris You do wrong to your beauty and to my love which is faithfull and loyall but I hope that time wil make me appear to be more largely what I am and seeing necessity constrains me to retire from you I wil never retreat from that affection which your fair eyes have darted in my soul and so Lady adieu til my next review which I assure you shall be assoon as possible I can Vpon her absence EVgenius I protest to you my fairest that I could never have believed that the torments of true affection could have been so miserable for I dare swear to thee by those fair eys the stars of my fortunes that I dwelt with impatiencie and sorrows til I saw you C. It is impossible sir surely I can hardly believe it Eug. Mistris I beseech you to believe it if you please for I assure you that I could no longer endure nor support the violent and troublesome tediousness which I endured in the time of your long absence the object of my good and sole content being removed C. Sir it may very wel be for you seem very passionate in your expressions Eugen. I protest that it is impossible for me to take any complacencie in the world but in that only that flatters my affection and in the aspect of your raâ—e form and most excellent beauty C. It pleaseth you to term it so you are delighted in laughing at me as you may at one that enjoyeth not the least glimps of beauty in her self Eugen.
Where shines their Father but in loves great Court On her delaying marriage Where hearts be knit what helps if not to enjoy Delay breeds doubts no cunning to be coy On his desires What can be said that lovers cannot say Desire can make a Doctor in a day On hand and heart Heaven seals that faith which firmly stands And joyns our hands with hearts our hearts with hands On Misfortune The man that stil amidst misfortunes stands Is sorrows slave and bound in lasting bands On fate They fall which trust to Fortunes fickle wheel But staid by vertue men shall never reel On disdain In high disdain love is a base desire And Cupids Flames is but a watry fire A Knot of most Excellent Letters Wherein is laid open all the Perfections or art of Complementing or inditing any Epistle or Love-Letters A letter of a loving father to his sonne before his death MY Son thou art now coming into the world that I am going out of and yet before my departure I thought fit to write a few lines unto thee what are I hope needful for thee to have a care of whil'st thou livest in it I know thou wilt not break thy bread all in one house feed alwayes of one dish nor live alwayes in one place therefore let me give thee a little kind admonition in this short Letter for thy carriage in all courses the Court is a place of more charge than ease the City-Gawds of more pleasure than worth and the Countrey sports of more pleasure than profit yet is there no service to the King no dwelling to the City nor pleasure to the Countrey but all the weight of the worth of them is in the hand of wisdom who in the knowledge of the use of them makes the best esteem of them but lest I am too tedious and long lessons may overcharge the memory take this one rule for thy learning in all and thou shalt finde it good in â—ore than a few Whersoever thou goest note the best choose the best and keep the best be nor buryed in earth before thou commest to the grave noâ— build Castles in the Ayre lest they fall down upon thy head let not thy eye abuse thy heart nor thy tongue thy will and let reason govern thy will in all the passages of thy Nature be neither needy nor ungratefull uncourteous or unkind and examine thy conscience in the care of thy content ground thy love upon Vertue thy hope upon Reason and thy Happiness upon Grace Live as a Stranger in the World and make what hast thou canst to Heaven Be loyall to thy Prince naturall to thy Countrâ—y Faithfull to thy Friend Kind to thy Neighbour and honest to the whole World so shall God bless thee the best love thee and the worst not hurt thee And thus so weak in body that the Spirit fainteth enforced me to express these few lines of fatherly love unto thee with my Prayers to the Lord of Heaven for thy preservation in this World and Eternall Happiness in the World to come with my Love Blessing and therewith what I am able to leave thee to the Merciful Guard of Heaven I commit thee and rest Thy loving Father c. His Answer MY most loving father this legacy of your love for the direction of my life how much I prize it in my hearts thankfulness the eye of your judgment shal behold in my observation give me leave to tel you that in this little time that I have spent idly in this world I have had some tast of the meat that you have given me where I find that the best meat may be spoyled spoyled in the dressing whilest a cunning Cook will make a rich service of small cost and though giddy heads are in love with gaudy toyes yet the better sorâ— of opinions esteem a small Diamond before a great Saphire I care not if I rather adventure far for the honour of vertue than lessen my Estate by breach of arms and seeing there are so many counterfeits that the best jewel may be mistaken I will meddle with no such wares as may call repentance to an after-reckoning while mine heart looketh toward heaven I hope the Earth shall not blinde my eyes nor the vain â—â—lights of Nature prevail against the vertues of reason but all is in the power of powers by whose grace being guided I shall be ever so preserved that howsoever my heart may be wounded yet I hope I shal never be confounded in hope whereof and unto the which beseeching the almighty either in health to prolong your dayes or in the election of his love to call you to a better life more esteeming these precepts of your love than all the portion you can leave me saving your blessing and so I humbly take my leave and rest Your loving and most obedient Son til death c. A Letter to a friend to borrow money SIR If borrowing of money be not a breach of friendship let me intreat your patience to open your purse I am loath to be too troublesome in making many words where such affable gentleness out-passeth all merit a present occasion puts me to the adventure of your kindness the matter is not much yet it will at this time pleasure me as much as so much may do the sum five pounds the time three months my credit the assurance and hearty thanks the interest thus without troubling the Scrivener I hope my letter will be of sufficient power to prevail with your love intreating your present answer in the affection of an honest heart I commit you to the Almighty Yours or not his own His Answer SIR if your friendship were a follower of fortune Love would have but a little life in this World the contents of your Letter hath put me to a strict account of my Estate how I may help you and not hurt my self I could make many excuses but that they tast of small comfort and therefore knowing time to be precious and to avoid delayes let this suffice your request is granted and the money I have sent you and not doubting your credit wil take your word for a bond and for the use without abuse I wish but requitall upon the like occasion Sir I am so glad that in this or any thing in my power I may make proof of my love I rest in the same Yours or not mine own c. A love-letter to a worthy Gentlewoman FAire Mistris if I had no eyes I should not like you and if not wit I should not love you for the brightness of your beauty is for no blind sight to gaze upon nor the worthiness of your vertue for no weak brains to beat upon if you say I flatter you look into your self and do me no wrong and if I do you right chide nor affection for a discovery where truth is honourable pardon my presumption if it exceed your pleasure and commend his service who will make an honour of
happiness Once a day read these few lines for my sake which if they do that good to thee which I heartily pray for in thee till when and ever my hearts love Thy loving Brother c. His Answer MY good Brother I thank you for your carefull and kind Letter yet let me â—â—l you that zeale without discretion proves not the best part of Religion Reports may be idle and then belief may be erronious when mistakings may breed abuse of good uses I know that riches are witches to them that make heaven of this world but he that hath a leaden wit wil never worship a Golden Calf but since I know Abraham and Lazarus were alike in election give me leave while I am in this world by Christ rather than avarice rather to be a husbandman than to be a labourer for hire If I have wronged any it is unwittinglyâ— whom if I know I wil satisfie most willingly and for the wound of conscience I will hope to be so far from hypocrisie that I shal be free from that fear and therefore though travel hath taught you much experience in the world and having sufficient maintenance to pass through the world you make the less account of the world yet when carefull thrist breedeth no covetous thraldome be not jealous of my love with all the pleasures of the world to make comparison with the least of heavens comfort I know the highest Mountain is but earth and the lowest valley is no other and therefore when I carry my foot-stool on my head let me walk like a fool or monster In brief I know the world and 〈◊〉 to use it and keep account with my care how I mâ—â— most contentedly leave it but for my love to him thâ—â— made it let me live no longer in it then I love and hâ—nour him above it and so intreating you to blow oâ—â— ill breaths that may abuse my disposition and to bâ—â— perswaded so far of my souls health that my joy is ever and only in Christ Jesus to his preservation leaving the happy issue of your hopes in the nature of the best love til I see you and alwaies I rest Your most loving Brother c. A Letter of love to an honourable Lady HOnourable Madam if love were not above reason it would not be so high in regard who dwelling only in the spirits of the best understanding feeds the heart only with the fruits of an infallible resolution What it is in its own nature hath been diversly described but I think never known but unto them that inwardly know it Some hold it a Riddle thaâ— none can interpret but he that made it But if it be aâ— I have read of it a child and beauty begot it I hopâ— Nature wil be her self not unkind to her own breâ—â— how to prove truth the honour in your eyes thâ—◠〈◊〉 wrought my heart to your service shal make â—n oâ—â— to your favour in the happiness of your employmeâ—â— So craving pardon for my presumption in my devâ—â—â— duty to the honour of your command I humbly taâ—â—â— my leave Your Lady-ships in all humbleness c Her answer WOrthy knight if love be above reason it musâ— be either divine or devillish and so regarded accordingly what it is I think is best known by the effect of it howsoever idle brains have beaten about the description of it Riddles are but jests of wit and miracles are ceased from being seen in our age But 〈◊〉 be a child though of a strange Parentage surely nature wil not suffer the Mother to be cruel to her own breed but if it fall out to be an ungracious father what then wil be thought of the children Yet lest in misconstruing a conceit I may mistake a content since in the secret of nature may be a sense of strange under standing I wil suspend my judgement til I have made proof of my opinion when eyes and hearts meet together in discourse I hope the business wil be soon ended that is referred to indifferent judgment So til occasion be offered of the performance of imployment hoping that vertue and honour will soon agree upon sure grounds til I see you I rest Your loving friend c. A Letter from a Knight to a Nobleman for the entertaining of a Secretary NOble LORD I hear that your Secretary hath lately taken his leave of thâ—s world in whose place if you be not provided let my love prevail with your honour for the entertaâ—nment of thâ—s bearer a Gentleman and a kinsman of mine in whose commendations I dare thus far use my cred â— h s heart shall be as fair as his hand upon any occasion of your imployment and for his wâ—t it â—s both in caput and copy-hold for he hath read much and observed morâ— than a little his discent hath been from the loyns of an honourable Line and for his disposition every way I hope you shall finde it no way displeasing Not to trouble you with long circumstance leaving happiness to your acceptance with my service to your command in all humble love I take my leave at this time but rest during life Your Honours devoted to be commanded c. The Lords Answer MY kind Knight I have received your Letter fulfilled your request and entertained your Kinsman of whom I am already so wel perswaded besides the assurance of your knowledg that I think a little matter shal not make square in our loves I find what you write of him and shal have much imployment for him I thank you for him and if he continue his carriage which I doubt not he will be of better fortune than my favour and yet somwhat the more for your sake I wil take such a care of him that ere many months pass you shall find my love in him so til I see you at my house where you shall make your own welcome I rest Your most assured friend c. A Letter to a friend on the other side of the Sea SIR Distance of place must make no difference of minds love and life amongst hearts make an enâ— together I have long longed to hear from you anâ— if I had known whither I had ere this written unto you but now having met with him that meaneth shortly to see you I have thought good to let you know that 〈◊〉 yet live to love you and soâ—ger not to pray for you that all happâ—ness may befall you glad I would be 〈◊〉 see you in the mean tâ—me to â—ear from you how thâ— world goeth there about you whether all birds be 〈◊〉 one feather and how they flie together What blazing Stars have been lately seen and what your Astronomers think wil follow of their appearance whether your wine be watred before it come over and how Youth and Age agree upon the Conjunction Copulative How the great fith and little agree together in your seas and how your Rabbets escape the Kite abroad and the Pole-cat in their Borrows