envy your beauties and the most perfect your merits yet are they silenced by your charms nay sickness it self is render'd captive by the puissence of your allurements though if it wound you now it is but with the wounds that you have made and doubtless it hath seiz'd on you hoping that by possession of your fair body it may both change its name and nature so that it is pardonable both for its love and for its subtlety Neither do I believe that it is you but your rigour that it aims to destroy be you less cruel and the disease will asswage otherwise you will be in danger of your life Though doubtless the consideration of destroying so many marvels will stop his designs Death oft-times make use of love against us so that he will have a care of your life as of his keenest weapon wherewith he brings us men under his command making us willing to yield to his stroak as the refuge of that misery into which your cruelty oft-times throws us This I know by experience as being your Slave To his Mistriss despairing of her Favour though unjustly offended against her Madam WHat avails it you to make me feel your Thorns when I have gather'd your Flower Why do you blame in words him whom you have honour'd in effects and blame him without cause who cannot praise you but unjustly Moderate your severity seeing that it offends you more then it hurts me I have protested a thousand times that I never was faulty as you thought me though it was to no purpose you believing otherwise It suffices for my satisfaction that I know the truth and that I have essay'd all the ways in the world to make you understand it though in vain Adieu most fair but yet too cruel if you leave me triumphing over the most worthy subject in the world I leave you vanquish'd by a more faithful Lover A Letter of Consolation to a Mistress upon the death of her Servant Madam I Believe that if you have been the last who have understood the death of your Servant that you will be one of the first and indeed the onely person who will in your soul celebrate the sad remembrance of him a much longer time than any of his Friends not that his merit doth oblige you for I well know that all merit loses its esteem in your presence being so perfect as you are nor your Piety though it be a thing natural to you with your other vertues but only his love and constancy as being both equally incomparable Neither do I believe that either of these do oblige you at all for though his love were very great that could not be otherwise seeing you were his object no more than his constancy whatever it were so that to say the truth I know not what can urge you to bewail his loss unless it be the goodness of your inclinations being as mild and sweet as you are fair and consequently full of Piety I should weep my self for having the least thought to condemn your tears yet give me leave to believe that when you remember that the fires proceeding from your eyes did help to consume his life it would make them weep for sorrow Now what punishment will you impose upon your Beauty if there be nothing in you that hath partaken of the millions of pains which he hath endured for your sake Certainly you ought to suffer Shipwrack in the Sea of your tears unless the God of Love have need of you for one of his Altars Since you are the only Idol to whom all mortals will present the sacrifices of their Servitude And as for my self who have undertaken to succeed to the merits and constancy of your deceased Servant I will not give assurances in words for deeds themselves shall always be my sureties Dry up your tears stop your sighs I summon you to this duty in the behalf of Reason it self knowing that his Commands are to be obey'd Madam when I first put Pen to Paper I had a design to comfort you but knowing the greatness of your resolution against all sorts of accidents I chang'd my intention to assure you of the love and servitude that I have vow'd to you under the title of Madam Your most humble Servant Letters SIR I Know 't is to 〈◊〉 purpose to dispute of Civilities with you 〈◊〉 liâ—â— in the light of the world and are so well stor'd with the best words to express them I know too well that the excellency that dwells in you begets at the same time desires to preserve as well as to acquire your favour I have but one grief that I have not Soul enough to judge of those perfections that dwell in you which though I can never attain rightly to conceive yet I am confident no man can honour them more so that should you call me your Idolater you could not strain a word that could so rightly as that express my respects toward you Sir Complements are very rare with me and therefore I request you to believe me when I say that they must be very strong cords and dangerous commandments that shall remove me from your service I know I can never deserve such violent proofs of my obedience it shall suffice me that I doubt not of your love as being Sir Your most devoted Servant To his Absent Friend SIR IF I thought Fortune could be so much our Friend I should request her to make us inseparable that I might be no more oblig'd thus to write since the entertainments that distant friends do give and take by Letters is but a picture of those between persons presents for to say the truth a Letter is but a Copy of that which makes us more curious of the original a Glass that shadows to us stronger desires to enjoy the person that is absent The very lines I receive from you carrying with them the effects of joy to hear from you and of a passion to be more near you that I might not still be forc'd to write that to you which I would willingly protest and find occasions more and more to testifie what I am and ever shall be To his Friend complaining of Neglect SIR THE Friendship which you have promised me and the service which you have protested to me force me now to demand the reason of your silence I question not but that you will want no excuse to plead for your self But I entreat you to believe that unless they be very lawful I shall not cease to complain of you You do well to lay the fault sometimes upon your urgent occasions sometimes upon the indisposition of your body but all this is no satisfaction to me Confess but your fault crave pardon and you shall have it presently granted This is the way to preserve eternally the friendship of Your most humble Servant The Answer SIR YOu do me so great a favour in complaining of me that I am constrained to give you thanks instead of taking
Ladies A low man can fell a tall oak If a tall oak much more a tall woman therefore maidens despise not little men Too much scratching hurts the skin But say the women there 's a difference between scratching and rubbing Of idleness comes no goodness For that 's the reason so many maids have the green sickness Good at meat good at work Therefore 't is the best way alwayes to eat stoutly in the company of women Grass grows not in hot ovens He that made this Proverb was bound sure to speak truth for a wager Ill weeds grow apace That 's always the answer of an old woman when you tell her she has a proper maid to her daughter Good clothes hide much deformity What rare men Taylors are Men may meet but not mountains Therefore you see when Mahomet bid the Hill come to him it would not stir 't was so lazie He that wants shame shall never win credit How is that great vertue impudence here abused He that is ashamed to eat is ashamed to live If a man could live as long as he could eat I make no question but that he might easily be perswaded to lose his shame and put in sureties for the eternity of his stomach As shamefac't as a sow that slaps up a sillabub Those are your Whitson-Holiday sows that swill up whole milk-pails in the field till you may follow them home by the leakage of their tap-holes He never goes out of his way that goes to a good house This was a maxim observed by Taylor the Water-Poet in his long vacation voyages He that cannot fight let him run 'T is a notable piece of Matchavilian policy A fools bolt is soon shot That made the Gentlewoman shit in the Exchange A gentle shepherd makes the wolf shite wool 'T is a very fine way to be eased of the trouble of sheep-shearing Good words cost nothing Unless it be Dedications and Love Verses for some men do pay for them Better may a mans foot slip then his tongue trip Commonly the tripping of the tongue and the slipping of the foot happen both together Now if a man be late abroad 't is better that his tongue should trip then his foot slip for he may chance to fall in the street and have a coach go over him Some men may better steal a horse then others look on For 't is fit that he that took least pains should have least profit When thieves fall out true men come by their own For as Philip the great King of Macedon well said Concord upholdeth all societies Therefore 't is high time for thieves to be hang'd when they cannot agree among themselves A liquorish huswife seldom makes thick pottage For she puts all her Oatmeal in Caudles Hungry dogs love dirty puddings There 's many a man hath lost his Nose by verifying this Proverb He 'l make you believe a Hare lays eggs See Brown's vulgar Errors 'T is an ill winde blows no body good After meat comes mustard For their teeth watered so much after the meat that it was impossible their eyes should water after the mustard He that holds a frying-pan by the tail may turn it which way he lists See more of this in Alexius his secrets or in Aristotles book of the dyet of the Phisolophers cap. 6. of the manner of making pancakes Better no pies then pies made with scabby hands Wink and all 's well for what the eye sees not the heart never rues He that is born to be hang'd shall never be drown'd VVell fare him that is born to be hang'd say I for he goes to heaven in a string when he that is drown'd goes to hell in a ferry-boat A wary father has a prodigal son He is to be commended for not letting his fathers estate lie fallow for if he will not sow again after his great harvest his son must A man cannot make a cheverel purse of a sow's ear Ye cannot tell what a man may do there are very notable projectors living now adays Like will to like quoth the Devil to the Collier Gentlemen ye need not wonder how the Collier and the Devil came to be familiar for he is fain to keep in with that trade that he may buy his provision at the best hand against he goes to to set up his Pye corner calling MISCELANIA Fancy awakened Natural Amorous Moral Experimental Paradoxical Enigmatical Jesting and Jovial Questions with their several Answers and Solutions Davus es huc venias mox eris Oedipus alter Q. Why did Apelles paint Cupid with these words Spring-time and Winter A. By those two seasons he represented the prosperities and adversities that wait on Lovers Q Why do lovers blush on the bridal night A. Out of natural shamefastness of what they are about to do Q. What is the difference betwixt an honest and dishonest woman A. A word Q. VVhy do whores paint A. That they may have some colour for there Venery Q. VVhat differences a woman from a man A. Meum tuum Q. VVhy do they use to paint Cupid bare-headed A. To signifie that betwixt true lovers there should be nothing covered or concealed Q. VVhat is the greatest wonder in a little circuit A. The face of a man Q. VVhat said the Squire when he found his man Harry in bed with his own Curtizan A. Well done Harry after me is manners Q. VVhat if there had not ben been an Act against building A. That they would have built from the So Ho to Branford Q. VVhat did the old Book-sellers Dedication Horse cost him that he use to ride on up and down the countrey A. Go look Q. What are the attendants on love A. Pleasure travel sweet bitter war peace life and death Q. What are the joyes of love A. Plays sweet sleeps soft beds ravishing musick rich perfumes delicious wines costly banquets wanton refreshing and such other soft and ravishing contentments Q. Why do the Poets bestow arrows on Cupid A. To Signifie how desperately love wounds Q. Why are the lips moveable A. For the forming of the voice and words Q. How many veins are there in the body of a man A. As many as there are days in a year Q. Why do some stammer and some lisp A. By reason of the shrinking of the sinnews which are corrupted by flegm Q. Why are we colder after dinner then before A. Because that the natural heart retireth to the stomack to further digesture Q. What Lady was that which daunced best at the Ball in Lincolns-inn-fields A. She whose foot slipping fell on her back Q. What reply was made to him that said He did not use to give the wall to every Cockscomb A. But I do Sir and so gave him the wall Q. What is an ordinary Fencer A. For flesh and blood he is like other men but sure nature meant him for a Stock fish Q. Where is reputation measured by the acre A. In the countrey Q. What are the outward signs of the body
Gods delight in wait on you fairest Ans. Sir I should be ungrateful not to wish you a share in them By your leave Lady may my boldness prove pardonable Good morrow to you Sir to meet you was a happiness that I did not dream of But tell me how it is with you Well Sir at present and I hope always shall be so to do you service Save you Sir you are most fortunately met Lady The pleasure of this sweet morning attend you On her Face You are the beauty without parallel in your Face all the Graces and in your Mind all the Vertues are met he that looks upon your mild Aspect were it the most savage creature would derive a new Nature from your Beauty On her Eyes and Lips That Eye was Juno's those Lips were once the Queen of Loves that Virgin Blush was Diana's Thus Madam You have a Donative from every Deity On her Beauty Apollo hath given you his orient Brightness Venus her curious Shape Jupiter his high and stately Forehead the God of Eloquence his flowing Speech and all the Female Deities have show'd their Bounties and Beauties on your Face On her Hair Her Hair is like the Beams that adorn Apollo's head Her Locks Soft as new spun Silk curling with such a natural wantonness as if they strove to delight the Fancy of her that wears them Her Forehead Made a stately prospect and show'd like a fair Castle commanding some goodly Countrey Her Face So full of majesty that Aurora blushes to see a countenance brighter then her own Her Face is full of Sun-shine Her Looks Have more entertainment then all the vain pomp which the Persians ever taught the world Her Eyes Dart Lightning through the Air. The Stars borrow new light from your more radiant Eyes They are able to grace the Heavens and beautisie the Skie in the clearest night They are Natures richest Diamonds set in foils of polisht Ivory Her Smiles Are so graceful and full of comfort that with them she is able to revive a dying Lover Her Cheeks Shew like Lawn spread upon Roses Nature painted the colour thereof in the most glorious Tulips They are slips of Paradise not to be gather'd but wondred at Her Breath So sweet that the Arabian Odours seem to borrow their excellency from thence It expires more sweet Odours then issu'd from the palm-trees in Paradise Her Lips Are like the full ripe Cherry which when they open discover a treasury greater then that of the Indian Ivory Her Chin Shews llke a piece of pure and polisht Chrystal which the God of Love delights to uphold with his soft hand Her Tongue Is tipt with such a fire and powerful art as might tame the most rebellious spirit Her Brow Is Cupids Bow most sweetly bent to shoot his Darts against every heart Her Neck Of such a whiteness as exceeds the unsull'd Snow Her Words Invade the weakned senses and overcome the heart Her Voice So charming that it hath power to do more then ever Spirits or Orpheus did should the holy Church-men use it it would tie up the nightly without the addition of more exorcism Her Arms Are sit to embrace a King Her Hands Soft and smooth the violet Veins whereof run along like Mines of Turkoeses Her Breasts Are two mountains of pure Snow from the two Fountains whereof Cupid himself sucks Nectar Briefly in the Abstract of her Self She comprehends whatsoever can be imagin'd or wish'd for in the Idea of a Woman She is so heavenly a piece that when Nature had wrought her she lost her needle like one that never hop'd to work again any so fair and lively a creature An Address of Courtship to his Mistress Lady My vital breath runs coldly through my veins I am sick for your Love dearest Lady neither is there any thing but your own heart can heal me believe me also fairest of Women there is nothing beneath the Moon but your frown can grieve me Sir Methinks this is a strange fit Lady Count not my love light because 't is sudden for By Cupids Bow I swear I never knew true Love till now Sir I intreat you not to wrong your self and me your love is violent and soon will have a period for that is the most perfect love which loves for ever Such love is mine believe me divinest Beauty for although men use to lie yet do I speak truth and therefore Madam give me sentence either of life or of a speedy death can you affect so mean a person Truly Sir I should deny my thoughts to give you an absolute denial yet must I not turn disloyal to former Promises and therefore let this suffice I cannot wrong my friend Then here my love must end and in your presence thus for love I die Nay hold Sir these are soul killing passions I had rather wrong my friend then that you should wrong your self Love me dear soul or else my death is but delay'd my Vow is fixt in Heaven and no fear shall move me for my life is a death that tortures me unless you love me Give me then but a little respite and I will resolve you Alass Madam my heart denies it my blood is violent now or else never love me Love me and both Art and Nature at large shall strive to be profuse in ravishing thy sense I will entice Dalliance from thee with my smiles and I will steal away thy heart with my chaste kisses Well Sir I am yours then from all the world your wit and your person have entranc'd my soul. I kiss thee Dearest for that breath and know that thou hast now joyn'd thy self to one whose life rests onely in thy sight To discourse concerning the noise of a Match Sir I am very glad to meet with you were it for no other reason but to give you joy Sir Your company is always a thing most acceptable to me and your wishes cannot be other then very fortunate yet if you please pray let me understand why you wish me so much felicity there being nothing new that I know of in my condition Sir You dissemble that which is well known to many and which hath been told me some few days since Pray Sir do the favour to tell me what it is for I can neither think nor imagine Sir They say that you intend to marry in this Town Truly Sir 't is the first news that I have heard of any such thing I can assure you Sir those that told me believe that they know very well and they take upon them to report many particulars Pray Sir be pleas'd to tell me to whom and what are the good Conditions of this Marriage perchance the person and the advantages may be such that I may speedily advise with my self and as speedily resolve Why should you do so Sir Would you marry out of your Countrey far from your friends and distant from all conveniences obliging your self to quit the sweet presence of your kindred or else to bring
that we are too near or that we speak the last in measure longer then the Eccho giveth us the first and so we cannot so well understand them qu. What is that which knoweth not it self to speak understandeth not a word yet conceals not but repeats the voice of him that speaks A. The Eccho qu. How long did the learned guess that the world would last A. Six thousand years two thousand years before the Law two thousand years under the Law and two thousand years under the Gospel qu. From whence proceed tears A. Out of the brains most thin and liquid excrements qu. Of all fishes in the sea which is the swistest A. A Dolphin qu. what thing is that which is neither fire nor moon nor star yet it shines only in the night Sol. A Gloeworm qu. Why are so many whores gone beyond sea A. To find out those Hectors that they missed in England qu. What 's the news from the Paris-garden A. That there is no inferior Officer left to carry guts to the Bears qu. What may be said of the surred Giant in the last Lord Mayors show A. That when he stood on his tip-toes he was higher then the Pageants by the head and shoulders Q. What said the gentleman to the thief when he was wak't by chance and heard him breaking in A. My friend it is your best course to tarry till an hour or two hence for I am now awake Q. What said the Farrier to the Emperick when he would have given him money for a drench for his horse A. Sir we of one profession should not take money of one another Q. what answer did the poor scholler give to the begger that said that he had a licence to beg A. That lice he might have but sence he had none to beg of a poor scholler Q. what said the gentleman to his wife when she desired him to give her a flap of the coney A. How wife before all this company B. what is a creditor A. A fellow that torments a man for his good conditions he is one of Deucalions sons begotten of a stone Q. what is a Bawd like A. A Medlar for she is never ripe till she is rotten Q. what is the reason that the out-landish woman is so hairy A. Because she is so seldom trimmed Q. why should not a married wan be called ass in his wives presence A. Because ox is more proper Q. At what season doth the patient husband love the scold his wife best A. When she is speechless Q. why are there so many whores and so few bawds A. Because they want stock though they have impudence enough to set up for themselves Q. why are short and dim sighted people more given to love then others A. Because they discern not the unhandsom features and imperfectness of women so well as those that can see Q. what is the meaning of the word Marriage A. Marry at age Q. what saying pleases a foolish Sollicitor best A. Currat lex ignoramus Q. why did the ancients paint on the borders of Cupids robe Life and Death A. Because true love lasts not onely for life but after death also Q. why have some stinking breaths A. From the evil sumes that arise from the stomack Q. why is the heart first ingendred and dead last A. Because it is the original of life and without it other parts cannot live Q wherefore is it that we are most ticklish under the soles of the feet and under the armpits A. Because the skins of those parts are more strecht and more delicate A. what is the swiftest thing in the world A. One would imagin the sun because in a day he compaseth the whole circuit of the earth but a thought is swifter then the sun for that it travelleth the whole world in a moment Q. where is the center or middlemost part of the earth A. Some Geographers write at Delphos Qu. VVhy do husbands for the most part seek wives and not wives husbands A. Because the man is still seeking of his rib which he lost when it was taken out of his side to form woman Q. VVhat is an hyporcritical Puritan A. A diseased piece of Apocrypha which bound to the Bible corrupts the whole text Q VVhat is a mans reason compared unto A. In matters of faith to fire in the first degree of his assent flame next smoak and then nothing Q. VVhy is it dangerous to marry a widow A. Because she hath cast her rider Q. Now Marriot is dead who is the greatest eater A. One that is living Q VVhat said the boy to the Cuckold when he askt him why he stared him so in the face A. Truly Gaffer quoth the boy for no hurt but because every body said that you had horns on your forehead I looked and indeed Gaffer I could see none Q. VVhat said the wench to the genleman that hit her a clap on the breech and cryed I marry here is a plump one indeed A. Truly said she if you should blow as much wind in there as I have blown out you would say it were plump to some purpose Q. What was said to the dwarf A. That he should still carry some sweet thing in his hand to smell to whose nose is level'd to every mans tale that he followeth Q. What is said to be the beautifullest thing in the world A. The Sun but to a blind man that cannot discern his glory we may conclude vertue Q. What creature of all others sheds tears at his death A. The Hart. Q. How many miles is the earth in circuit A. It is uncertain to define it yet the learned and Astrologians are of opinion that it is four times 5400. miles howsoever in respect of the heavens they conclude it to be but a point and that every star in the eighth Sphere is esteemed bigger then the whole circumference thereof where if the body of the earth should be placed in the like splendor it would hardly appear Q. Why doth the stomach digest A. Because of the heat of the parts adjoyning to the liver and the heart Q. Why doth nature produce moystures A. Through the evil disposition of the matter and the influence of some ill constellation not being able to bring forth what she intended she bringeth forth that which she can Q. When doth the voice change in women A. At twelve years of age when their breasts begin to grow Q. What is the dolefullest Latine that a lover can speak A. Hei mihi quod nullis amor est medicabile herbis Q. What was old Chaucers Saw A. Lord be merciful unto us Fools or Knaves will else undo us Q. What place is the worst to learn French in A. The Low Countreys Q. what 's the best Rhetorick a man can use A. To speak to the purpose Q. what Rhetorick is most graceful in a woman A. A beautiful face Q. what companion should a man be most private withal A. A handsom Wench Q. Why did
cloy Hope long desired doth bring the greatest Joy Without Injuries the world would languish and have enough to do discord in part makes harmony in the whole and some must laugh whilst others do condole Wrongs like great whirlewinds shake the highest battlements few for Heaven would care should they be ever happy they are half Gods who both in good dayes and good fortunes share Ingratitude is like a dog that flies at his master which it is just with us to strangle neither his kind nor use considered Shame of Infamy doth extinguish lust as oyl doth fire Where shame and Infamy are too much inforced on a delinquent they breed too often an audacious defence of sin but no sincere repentance so the rain slides to the root and nourishes where great storms make a noise wet but the skin of the earth and run away in a swift channel Our Industry is as our soul which is not put into the body to be idle it hath too many rare and curious pieces of Mathematical motions to stand still Incontinency is a vice sooner condemn'd then banisht easily spoke against but yet will fawn as smoothly on our flesh as Circe on the Grecian travellers when she detained them in the shapes of beasts Lust and Incontinency like the plummets hanging on clock lines will never have done till all our faculties are undone and ruined Oh with what vertue should lust be withstood Since 't is fire seldom quencht without blood Lustful Incontinency is like an overswoln river that breaks all bounds it is a devil bred in blood nurst in desire that like the Salamander lives in fire Lust is a gilded pill which sinful nature doth prescribe desire strokes the sense with pleasure but at last the shining out-side leaves a bitter taste Of such an Inconstancy as boyes gay bubbles blown in the air and broken The winde is more sixt then her Inconstancy the beaten Marriner with his shrill whistle calms the loud murmurs of the troubled main and sooner strikes it smooth again then her soul to have peace in love with any Our constitutions vary herbs and trees admit their frosts and summer and why then should our desires that are so nimble and more subtil then the spirits of our blood be such staid things within us and not share their mutual Inconstancy He wears his Faith like the fashion of his hat it changes with the next block Jealousie 's fits present a man like so many bubbles in a bason of water twenty several crabbed faces many times makes his own shadow his cuckold maker The Devil gives this Jealousie to man as nature doth a tail unto a lion which thinks in heat to beat away the flies when he doth only more inrage himself A Jealous fellow is like a cowardly Captain in a Garison Town fears every assault trembles at every battery and doubts most lest the gates should be opened and his enemy let him in at midnight Those wounds heal ill that men do give themselves omision to do that is necessary seals a commission to a blank of dangers and danger like an Ague subtily taints even then when we sit idly in the sun Kings lives are fortunes misery like dainty sparks which when men dead do know to kindle for himself each man doth blow The lives of Kings should like to Dials move whose regular example is so strong they make the times by them go right or wrong Princes like lions never will be tamed a private man may yield and not care how but greater hearts will break before they 'l bow If a Kings Government be easie the many headed monster Multitudes like Aesops foolish Frogs they trample on him as a sensless block and if he prove a Stork they croak and rail against him as a Tyrant Knighthood is like Marriage now-adayes which though it honourable be with all men yet it is beggarly with a great many Law is as the worlds great Light a second Sun to this terrestrial Globe by which all things have life and being and without the which destruction and disorder soon would seize the general state of men Learning and Languages cannot set a nap upon a thred-bare gown Art is like common Fidlers draws down others meat with liquorish Tunes whilst they the scraps do eat Liberty and Publique good are like great Ollio's must have the upper end still of our Tables though they are but for show Life is the frost of cold Felicity and Death the thaw of all our vanity Life is but a walking shadow a poor Player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more Life is a tale told by an Ideot full of sound and fury signifying nothing Like to an Ass whose b ack with ingots bows we bear our heavy riches but journey and death unloads us Life is but a dark and stormy night of sensless dreams terrors and broken sleep a tyranny devising pains to plague and make men long in dying Love is a rasor cleansing if well used But fetcheth blood if that it be abused Love like to sin inveterate is and strong He prevents danger that destroys it yong Love can no more be dissembled then to bear hot burning coals in our bare palms or bosoms and less concealed and hidden then a flash of inflamed powder whose whole light doth lay it open to all discovery even of those who have but half an eye and less of nose Loves service is much like our honored Lord where Mignions carry more then servitors the bold and careless servants still obtains the modest and respective nothing gains Lovers are like Astronomers that when the vulgar eye discovers but a skie above studied with some few stars finde out besides strange fishes birds and beasts Lovers in favour are like Gamesters in good fortune the more you set them still the more they win Love is but a card play all is lost Unless you cog he that pricks best wins most At the games of Love we set all but the best is we cannot stake and there is no loss of credit in the breaking Love is like to wax the more it is rubbed it sticks the faster to or like a bird in bird-lime or a pit-fall the more one labors still he is the deeper in Love is an idle fantasie bred by desire nursed by delight an humor that begins his dominion in Leo the Lion the sign of the Heart and ends in Aries the â—am the sign of the Head his power is to stir the blood prick up the flesh and fill the body with libidinous heat A yong mans Love it is like Ivy it must have something to cleave to or it prospers not Love is like fasting dayes but the body is like flesh dayes and it is our English Gallants fashion to prefer a morsel of flesh before all the fasting days in the year This Love is a troublesome thing Jupiter bless us out of his fingers there is no estate can rest for him he runs
Balsom sweat And Nectar melt the Rock with heat And Earth did drink her fill Then she no hurtful weed did know Nor barren Fern nor Mandrake low Nor Mineral to kill The Male and Female us'd to join And into all delight did coin That pure simplicity Then Feature did to Form advance And Youth call'd Beauty forth to dance And every Grace was by It was a time of no distrust So much of Love had nought of Lust None fear'd a jealous eye The Language melted in the ear Yet all without a blush might hear They liv'd with open vow Each touch and kiss was so well plac't They were as sweet as they were chaste FRom the fair Lavanion shore I your Markets come to store Muse not at me that so far dwell And hither bring my Wares to sell. Such is the sacred hunger of gold Then come to my pack where I cry What do you lack what do you buy For here it is to be sold. You whose birth and breeding base Are rank'd into a noble race And whose Parents heretofore Neither Arms nor Scutchons bore Such is the sacred hunger of gold Then come to my pack where I cry What do you lack what do you buy For here is Honors to be sold. Madam for your wrinkled face Here 's complection it to grace Which if your earnest be but small It takes away the vertue all But if your palms be well anointed with gold Then shall you seem like a Queen of fifteen Though you be threescore years old On the perfections of his Mistress HER loâ—ks are streams of liquid amber Curtains fit for beauties chamber Of which slender golden sleave Love his wanton nets did weave Her forehead that is beauties sphere A thousand graces moving there Venus triumpheth on her brow That comely arch of silver snow The Savages that worship the Sun-rise Would hate their god if they beheld her eyes All heavenly beauties joyn themselves in one To shew their glory in her eye alone Which when it turneth it's celestial ball A thousand sweet Stars rise a thousand fall Her nose is beauties splendid port Where Zephyrus delights to sport Her breath is such whose native smell All Indian odours doth excell If all the pleasures were distill'd Of every Flower in every Field And all that Hybla's hives do yield Were into one broad mazer fill'd If thereto added all the Gums And Spice that from Panchaia comes The Odours that Hydaspes lends And Phoenix proves before she ends If all the Air that Flora drew Or Spirit that Zephyrus ever blew Were put therein and all the Dew That ever rosie morning knew Yet all diffus'd could not compare With her breath delicious air The melting rubies on her lip Are of such power to hold as on one day Cupid flew thirsty by and stoopt to sip And fasten there could never get away Have you seen Carnation grow Fresh blushing through new flakes of snow Have you seen with more delight A red Rose growing through a white Have you seen the pretty gleam That the Strawberry leaves in cream Or morning blushes when day breaks Such is the tincture of her cheeks Her silver neck is whiter far Then Towers of polisht Ivory are And now behold her double brest Of Venus Babe the wanton nest Like Pommels round of marble clear Where azure veins well mix'd appear With dearest top of porphiry Betwixt which two a way doth lie A way more worthy beauties fame Then that which bears the Milky name That leads unto the joyous field Which doth unspotted Lillies yield But Lillies such whose native smell All Indian Odours doth excell Her hands would make a Tyger meek So soft so delicate and sleek That we from hence might justly prove Nature wore Lillies for a Glove Where whiteness doth for ever sit Nature her self enameld it Wherewith a strange compact doth lie Warm snow moist pearl sost ivory There fall those Saphir colour'd brooks Which conduit-like with curious crooks Sweet Ilands make in that sweet Land As for the fingers of that hand The bloody shafts of Cupids war With Amethyst they headed are Her Chastity HEr cool thoughts feel no hot desires Serving not Venus flames but Vesta's fires In wanton dalliance such as untill death Never sinelt any but her Husbands breath Jupiter would court her did he know a shape Would tempt her chastity unto a Rape Who when her lawful sports she doth begin Still blushing thinketh her own kisses sin On her Beauty WHen that my Mistress looks my sight doth grace She seems to sway an Empire in her face Nature her self did her own self admire As oft as she were pleased to attire Her in her native lustre and confess Her dressing was her chiefest comliness Where every limb takes like a face Built with that comely and majestick grace One accent from whose lips the blood more warms Then all Medea's exorcisms and charms He that since Nature her great work began She made to be the mirror of a man That when she meant to form some matchless limb Still for a pattern took some part from him And jealous of her coming brake the mould In his proportion done the best she could If she discourse her lip such accents breaks As love turn'd air breaths from him as he speaks She maketh Jove invent a new disguise Inspite of Juno's watchful jealousie Whos 's every part doth also reinvite The coldest most decayed appetite And shall be Nurse as mighty Juno swears To the next bright hair'd Cupid that she bears On a fair and richly attir'd Lady at a Mask IN one Heav'n many Stars but never yet In one Star many Heav'ns till now were met Her Orient cheeks and lips exceeded his That leapt into the water for a kiss Of his own shadow and despising many Dy'd ere he could enjoy the love of any Had wild Hippolitus this beauty seen Pierc'd with his Darts he had enamour'd been The wealth she wore about her seem'd to hide Not to adorn her native beauties pride Though there bright pearls from Erythrean Shore With silver Ganges and Hydaspes store And chearful Emralds gather'd from the green Arabian Rocks were in full splendor seen Pale Onyx Jaspers of a various dye And Diamonds darkned by her brighter eye The Saphirs blew by her more azure-veins Hung not to boast but to confess their stains The blushing Rubies seem'd to lose their dye When her more ruby lips were moving by It seem'd so well became her all she wore She had not robb'd at all the creatures store But had been Natures self there to have show'd What she on creatures could or had bestow'd And Jupiter would revel in her bower Were he to spend another golden shower Song CElia thy sweet Angels face May be call'd a heavenly place The whiteness of the starry way Nature did on thy forehead lay But thine eyes have brightness won Not from the Stars but from the Sun The blushing of the morn In thy Rosie cheeks is worn The Musick of
do believe I could not live in the fortunate Islands and having till I embrace you no other way of traffick but by Letters I am extreamly angry with my self that you have prevented me in returning our old correspondence Though I must acknowledge there is some justice in it for since you were the first that broke it 't was fit you should be the first to reestablish it I write thus of the honour of your favour assuring you notwithstanding that I could no way deserve it Therefore Sir give me leave to beg your pardon for my neglect if I were guilty which I shall never be in any thing that concerns you and to make it more clear to you I never ceas'd to honour you but onely not to express it was like a secret fire not quench'd but cover'd which became the more violent when it had less liberty to appear Wherefore Sir be confident that I shall make you see upon all occasions for what is just that I will never be less then I am Your c. A Familar Return of Thanks SIR THis negligence of my stile be pleas'd to esteem one of the marks of friendship between us Gratitude is one of a poor mans vertues This is the best Rhetorick you could expect in so few Lines and so I would renounce the world and all its promises if a mortal could do so to express my self but truly thankful to you for your exquisite favours The expedition of this messenger would permit me no further at this time but onely to set my hand to this protestation that I love you exceedingly that I honour you and am as much as any man can be in the world Your c. To his Friend inviting him into the Country SIR I will not send you studied complements I know you are born in a Country of good words I am here among Thorns and Thistles among people that are naturally affected with dulness and dream in the best company such as can give no other reason for their silence but that they are entreated not to speak in so much that you may walk our Village and hear nothing but whistling and which is a miracle our Coridons are here arrived to such a height of wilful ignorance as if they held their Lands by no other Tenure but that of never speaking to the purpose I should be quite out of heart if I had not your promise to relie on that you will suddenly give me a visit to witness what I am like to suffer this long vacation except I enjoy your company I wait for you as for a blessing and if you come not hither next week I proclaim to you that I am no longer Your c. To his sick Friend SIR The news of your sickness hath so alter'd my health that I may count my self a sharer in your misfortunes Really it hath so much griev'd me that the sorrow which I sustain is more then the fever which you endure Do you therefore take courage if you will that I should be in good health You know how much I am interested in your concernments In a word I assure you that if you do not quit your bed I shall be forc'd to betake my self to mine These are the absolute protests of Sir Your c. A Letter of Resolution WHY thus in Cynthia's sports do you delight And take from Loves all their due and right Yield brightest and his sweetest pleasures try Whose fires in funeral flames can onely die May I not live if all things plead not sin I wonder what strange sear doth keep thee in Though with Diana thou dost seem to vie Trust me thy face doth give thy words the lie More sit for Venus thou then her wilt prove There 's no Religion sweet but that of Love Were the Gods kinde and to my love agreed With eyes unwilling thou these Lines should read When shall I thee embrace intranc't and lie Languishing wrapt in Loves sweet extasie If Arts will not avail then Arms I le move And so my longing besome force thy love Yet us Loves warfare better will become Soft breathings best please love not the sierce Drum If that thou wilt I can more gentle be Lay shame aside and yield thy self to me Either thy self into my arms resign Or I must fall for I have vow'd thee mine To his Mistress desiring Enjoyment TEll me cruel fair one why When I ask you still deny You thereby unkind do prove Both to Nature and to Love Nature when she gave that eye That hand that lip that majesty Surely then she did not mean Here riches should be onely seen And not enjoy'd were not each sense A Sharer of your excellence Shee 'd wrong her self and so destroy Mankind by making you so coy Oh then yield and let me find That y' are thankful if not kind Cupid in your bosomes snow Losing his Shaft unbent his Bow And woo'd his Mother since he shot So long and wounded not Your eyes henceforth might be his Darts With which he slew so many hearts She did but with all gave you skill To heal again as well as kill She gave your eyes power to enflame A breath with all to cool the same You are just to use that breath To be a Sentencer of death Nay you are impious if you are Less merciful then you are fair And by denying needs must grant That you are proud or ignorant Where Women truly know their price 'T is pride not vertue makes them nice Let us Lucinda henceforth twine With close embraces Let us joyn Lip unto lip and reap the pleasure Of true Lovers without measure Till our Loves are by wonder grown From two bodies into one Yield Lucinda thy consent That from our true and just content Others may a perfect rule obtain How they should love how be belov'd again Thus she striveth to indite That can love but cannot write In every Line here may'st thou understand That Love hath sign'd and sealed with his hand These cannot blush although thou dost refuse them Nor will reply however you shall use them O modesty dist thou not me restrain How would I chide thee in this angry vain Pardon me dear if I offend in this With such delays my love impatient is I needs must write till time my saith approve And then I le cease but never cease to love Tears thou know'st well my heart cannot abide How I am angry when I least do chide Too well thou know'st what my creation made me And nature too well taught thee to invade me Thou know'st too well how what and when and where To write to speak to sue and to forbear By signes by sighs by motions and by tears When vowes should serve when oaths when smiles when prayers If any natural blemish blot my face Thou dost protest it gives my beauty grace And that attire I 'me used most to wear That 's the most excellent of all you swear Or if I wake or sleep or stand or
lie I must resemble some one Deity But Sweet Diana what strange fears have I That am confirm'd how men can swear and lie As with an ague I do shiver still Since to this paper first I set my quill What blots so e're thou seest my tears did make And yet these tears do weight of words partake If I do erre you know our sex is weak Fear proves a fault when Maids are forc'd to speak Could I my soul into thy brest convey It might like purity to thine display I should not then come short of any trick Which makes thee prettily appear love sick But all my thoughts are innocent and meek As the chaste blushes on my Virgin cheek For till this blush I never did espy The nakedness of an immodesty Disguise not love but give thy self to me I cannot write but I could die for thee A Letter from a Lady with Child WHen thou dost see my Letter dost thou know Whether 't is my right hands Character or no Why should I write I feel a present fear That I must write more then a Maid should dare Oh! should I make it to my mother known Needs must it make m'asham'd what thou hast done No outward symptome shews my grief yet I Wretched past help of any medecine lie Think but how weak I am when I scarce these Can write or turn me in my bed with ease How I do fear lest that my Nurse should spie One Letter interchangeing coloque Then hastily I leave my words half fram'd My Letter straight is in my bosome cramm'd The name of Marriage with shame abash't My pale wan cheeks with glowing blushes quash't Fond man what glory hast thou won Or praise a Virgin thus to have undone As once an Apple did Atlanta seize Th' art now become a new Hippomanes O be not angry quiver-bearing Maid That I 'me loves patiently by youth betray'd 'T is now too late let thy rage be exil'd And spare the Mother of but for the Child He had a face and years too fit for play A treacherous face that stole my heart away Who whil'st I sung for Love is all things mind Upon my amorous lips did kisses bind Both them and each part else did please him well But chiefly when to loves choice sports he fell But whither hath my Pen transported me Thus to discourse to th' Queen of chastity Sweet Sir You sware by these same brests of mine To me and by thrice three Maids Divine You 'd celebrate the Himeneal rites And in my arms spend all your youthful nights This was a Language you were us'd to say When we were acting our delicious play And when of me your last leave you had took You sware an oath upon my lips your book That you would back return with winged speed To save my name from scandal of the deed With patience Sir your coming I attend Until you come receive these Lines I send A Perswasive Letter to his Mistress SWeetest but read what silent Love hath writ With thy fair eyes tast but of Loves fine wit Be not self will'd for thou art much too fair For death to triumph o're without aâ— heir Thy unus'd beauty must be tomb'd with thee Which us'd lives thy Executour to be The Flowers distill'd though they with Winter meet Lose but their show their substance still is sweet Nature made thee her seal she meant thereby Thou shouldst Print more not let the Copie die What hast thou vow'd an aged Maid to die Be not a fool Lovers may swear and lie Forswear thy self thou wilt be far more wise To break an oath then lose a Paradise For in the midst of all Loves pure protesting All Faith all Oaths all Vows should be but jesting What is so fair that hath no little spot Come come thou mayest be false yet know'st it not I wish to you what hath been wish'd by others For some fair Maids by me would have been Mothers Pardon me not for I confess no error Cast not upon these Lines a look of terror Nor vainly Lady think your beauty sought For these instructions are by Loves self wrought Venus her self my Pen to this theam led And gives thee freely to my longing bed I saw thee in my thoughts fair beauteous Dame When I beheld the eyes of fame I lov'd thee ere I saw thee long ago Before my eyes did view that glorious Shew Imagin not your face doth now delight me Since seen that unseen did invite me Believe me for I speak but what 's most true Too sparingly the world hath spoke of you Fame that hath undertook your worth to blaze Plai'd but the envious Huswise in your praise 'T is I will raise thy name and set thee forth Enjoy thy riches glorifie thy worth Nor with vain scribling longer vex my head To fancy love but leap into thy bed Best Wishes from a Lady Most worthy SIR Unto your Noble blood 'T IS no adition to think you good For your demeanor bears that equal part Y' have won the love not envie of the Court Having observ'd the forms and laws of state Gaining mens emulation not their hate With such a noble temper you divide The difference 'twixt formality and pride Thus your indifferent actions are as far From being too common as too singular Whilst in your nature those two Suns arise The attributes of beautiful and wise Give me now leave to wish that you may be As clear from others envy as y' are free From the desert But here I must not cease May no rude chance invade your blessed peace To your chast thoughts I wish as chast a mate Blest in her dower in beauty fortunate May all the happiness Heaven can confer Be acted on your lives fair Theater And may I live to see you thus possest Of these good wishes that flow from the best Of your most entire Servant A Letter of Acceptance from his Mistress I am not angry wo can angry be With him that loves a Mistress Love is free But you have further aim and seek to do What Jove defend I should consent unto I know that too much trust hath damag'd such As have believed me in their love too much Leda when she ne're dreamt of God nor Man Jove did surprize her shaped like a Swan But you 'r a Wag I 'me certain by the signes You make at Table in the meats and wines How you can wanton when your eye advances It's brightness against mine darting sweet glances How you can sigh yet by and by can grace With an angelick smile your cunning face You are too manifest a Lover Tush At such known sleights I could not chuse but blush Yet am I not incenst couldst thou but be As loyal as th' art amorous to me In the loves just ways for if thou seekst to climb My wisht for bed at the appointed time When Saffron Hymen hath concluded quite Such covenants as belong to th'nuptial rite I shall inter pret kindly every sign And moralize
cruel Soul Alas you have no mercy on my captivity so that I am like the Spaniel that gnaws his chain but sooner spoils his teeth then procures liberty But as a Bladder is to a learning Swimmer so is Hope to me which makes me apt to believe that as there is no Iron but will be softned with the fire so there is no Heart how hard so ever that will not be soft-by continual prayers I confess my expression is but like a picture drawn with a coal wanting these lively colours which a more skilful Pen might give it However consider that the Sun disdains not to shine upon the smallest Worm Reconcile your self to the humblest of your Vassals and do not through your Marble-hearted-cruelty utterly overwhelm him with Sence-distracting grief like a Current that breaks the Dams and with a vigorous impetuousness drowns the Fields A Countrey Bumpkin to his Mistress Sweet honey Jone I Have here sent thee a thing such a one as the Gentlefolks call a Love Letter 't was indited by my self after I had drank two or three good draughts of Ale but 't was writ in a Roman joyning-hand by the School-master and Clerk of our Parish to whom I gave six pence for his pains Truly Jone my parents never brought me up to speak finely as my Landlords Son doth but this I can say in downright terms I love thee Marry Jone many time and oft have I fetcht home thy Cows when no body knew who did it Marry Jone thou know'st I always plaid a thy side at stool ball and when thou didst win the Garland in the Whitson-holidayes marry Jone I was sure to be drunk that night for joy Marry Jone cry I still but when wilt thou marrie Jone I know thou dost love Will. the Taylor who 't is true is a very quiver man and foots it most fetuously but I can tell thee Jone I think I shall be a better man then he shortly for I am learning of a Fidler to play o' the Kit so that if thou wilt not yield the sooner I will ravish thee ere long with my musick 'T is true I never yet gave thee a Token but I have here sent thee a peice of silver Ribband I bought it in the Exchange where all the folks houted at me but thought I hout and be hang'd and you will for I will buy a Knot for my love I assure thee Jone 't will make a better shew then a Gilt Bay-leaf and for this year be the finest sight in all our Church But what wilt thou give me for this Jone alas I ask nothing but thy self come Jone thou shalt give me thy self come prethe Jone give me thy self What a happy day would that be that to see us with our best Cloathes on at Church and the Parson saying 〈◊〉 Tom take thee Jone and by the mass I would take thee and hug thee and lug thee too and hey then away to the Alehouse and hey for the Musitioners and the Canaries and the Sillabubs and the Shoulder a Mutton and gravie with a hey down derry and a diddle diddle dee Thus having no more to say I rest in assurance of thy good will thine honestly truly and blewly FINIS Posies for RINGS THou wert not handsom wise but rich 'T was that which did my eyes bewitch What God hath joyn'd let no man put asunder Divinely knit by God are we Late one now two the pledge you see We strangely met and so do many But now as true as ever any As we began so let 's continue My Beloved is mine and I am his True blew will never stain No money shall buy my No horns good Wife Against thou goest I will provide another Let him never take a Wife That will not love her as his life In loving thee I love my self A heart content Cannot repent I do not repent That I gave my consent No gift can show The love I ow. What the eye saw the heart hath chosen More faithful then fortunate I 'le ring thy thumb Then clap thy bum Hab nab yet happy be lucky Love me little but love me long 'T is a good Mare that ne're trips Love him that gave thee this Ring of gold 'T is he must kiss thee when th' art old Now I know more Then I knew before I long'd to lose and now have lost I am contented farewel frost This Circle though but small about The Devil jealousie shall keep out If I think my Wife is fair What need other people care Now do I find Why men are kind 'T is in vain for to resist Women will do what they list This Ring as a token I give to thee That thou no tokens do change for me One begs enough ne're fear To a small closet door my Dear Sarah I do love thee so Cause thou didst not say me No. My dearest Betty Is good and pretty I did then commit no folly When I married my sweet Molly Dorothy this Ring is thine And now thy bouncing body's mine 'T is fit men should not be alone Which made Tom to marry Jone Peg if thou art a Peg for me Then I will have a Peg for thee Su is bonny blithe and brown This Ring hath made her now my own Katie I chose with hair so red For the fine tricks she plays abed Nan with her curl'd locks I spy'd And would never be deny'd Prances is a name that 's common But H. W. made me a woman Tabitha's a name that sounds not ill She was bid rise but I bid mine lie still Ursula her name sounds rough I warrant she 'l give thee enough Dorcas she made coats for Children But we 'l make Children to wear coats Like Phyllis there is none She truly loves her Choridon Leonora's fair well bred Yet I had her Maiden-head Ellen all men commend thy eyes Onely I commend thy thighes I have a John as true as steel I do believe because I feel Robert thou art a man of mettle Thy string is sweet yet doth it nettle My Henry is a rousing blade I lay not long by him a maid My William with his wisp He loves me well although I lisp I love James for Scotlands sake Where so many bellies ake I love the name that conquer'd France Which made me yield to Edwards Lance. Thomas is fit a Cuckold to be For he will not believe unless he see I love Abraham above any Because he was the father of many PROVERBS The Text. HE that hath a Woman by the waste hath a wet Eel by the tail Comment For Women hate delaies as much as they abominate debility Womens actions are like their wombs not to be fathomed And therefore he that deals with them ought to be a man of a deep reach Love though he be blind can smell This is the reason that a man that runs passionately after a woman is said to have his nose in her tail and is call'd a smell-smock Nothing venture nothing have Yet he
Q. A Gentlewoman that was always jealous of Latine hearing one say bona mulier A. That for bona she knew that was good but I will pawn my self on it the other word says she means that which is stark nought Q. The people wondering at the Eclipse of the Sun A. One that stood by told them that it only burnt dim and that Phebus was snuffing of it Q. What did the fellow to his wise that said she was neither sick nor well A. He turned her out of doors for said he Hussie I am only bound to keep you in sickness or in health Q. One told a gentleman that went by water that his cloak burnt A. I knew that said the gentleman and therefore I put it into the water Q. A Wit meeting of a Usurer desired him to lend him some money Sir said the Usurer I do not know you A. Therefore I ask you says he for they that know me will not lend me a sarthing Q. One saying that he was sorrowful that such a Venison Pasty was eaten A. His friend replied if he pleased he would write an Epitaph on it Q. One askt in which part of the house a gentlewoman did use to lie A. Answer was made that she lay backwards and did let out her fore rooms Q. One askt a pretty wench that came out of the countrey in her linsie woolsie petticoats very mean in habit when he saw her not long after in the Strand mighty brave how she purchased such cloaths A. Faith said she onely for the taking up Q. One asking another what Superscription he had best write to his Mistress on his letter was told Venus Lass of his affections A. No by troth not I said he she shall be stiled as I think she is Venice glass of my affections Qu. One askt what was the first commodity a young shop keeper would put off A. Another answered his honesty Q. One askt why men should think there was a world in the moon A. Answer was made because they are Lunatick Q. what reply did he make to the Physitian that said that his liver was nought A. Qualis vita fuit ita Q. why are women like a piece of Grogram A. Because they are always fretting Q. One being askt what countrey man a Plough man was A. Was answered an Hungarian Q. One asking a Poet where his wits were A. Another that stood by answered they were a wooll-gathering for said he no people have more need of it Q. One said he was so tender hearted that he could not abide to kill a louse A. Another replied because he was too cowardly to see his own blood Q. One perswaded another because she was rich to marry a whore saying it was not too late for her to turn A. A Pox on her says the other she hath been so much worn it is to no purpose she is past turning Q. What said the Gentleman to the Citizen that with his hat in his hand began a health to all the cuckolds in the world A. Sir says he be cover'd what do you mean pray be pleased to remember your self Q. How did Phil. Porter rid himself and his company of the Fidlers A. He caused one of his Comrades to snip off a piece of his ear and drinking off a beer-glass to the musick swore every one of them should follow his example Wit and Language Set Forms of Expression inserted for imitation A Kiss is but a minutes joy Your words are Delphian oracles Your wit hath too much edge I am a cast-away in love You are a flame of beauty Sweet and delicious as the feast of love Sweet as the breath of lutes or loves deliciousness I like a childe will go by your directions You are the rising sun which I adore It is a confidence that well becomes you I see your wit is as nimble as your tongue Your favors I did tast in great abundance Let me but touch the white pillows of your naked breasts Your words like musick please me I prize your love above all the gold in wealthy Indies arms I 'le play at kisses with you Give me a naked Lady in a net of gold Your fingers are made to quaver on a lute your arms to hang about a ladies neck Your tongue is oyled with courtly flatteries You guild my praises far above my deserts My boldness wants excuse Reward stayes for you I 'le pay the tribute of my love to you Welcome as light to day as health to sick men Let me share your thoughts Let men that hope to be beloved be bold You have a face where all good seems to dwell My duty bindes me to obey you ever I sacrifice to you the incense of my thanks You wear a showie livery I will repay your love with usury Vertue go with you You are the star I reach at I am engaged to business craves some speed You speak the courtiers dialect Inherit your desires You are my counsels consistory Your title far exceeds my worth I 'le bathe my lips in rosie dews of kisses I wear you in my heart You are the miracle of friendship You are the usurer of fame My genius and yours are friends I will unrip my very bosom to you My tongue speaks the freedom of my heart Give me leave to waken your memory Of late you are turn'd a parasite With your Ambrosiack kisses bathe my lips Sure winter dwells upon your lip the snow is not more cold Mine eyes have feasted on your beauteous face Your favors have faln like the dew upon me Oh! I shall rob you of too much sweetness You have the power to sway me as you please Your goodness wants a president Your acceptance shall be my recompence The Sun never met the Summer with more joy You wrap me up in wonder You temporize with sorrow mine 's sincere You have made me sick with passion Oh! suit your pitty with your infinite beauty There is no treasure on earth like her Your breath casts sweet perfumes Goodness and vertue are your near acquaintance You understand not the language of my intent My entertainment hath confirmed my welcome Your words have charmed my soul. Make me companion of your cares I want no part of welcom but your wished presence It is no pilgrimage to travel to your lips I am proud to please you By you like your shade I 'le ever dwell The unblown rose the crystal nor the diamond are not more pure then she I 'le chronicle your vertues As white as innocence it self As constant as the needle to the adamant You are the only anchor of my hopes I am as mute as night Women are angels clad in flesh My arms shall be your sanctuary You like a comet do attract all eyes As kinde as the Sun to the new born Spring As glorious as the noon-tide Sun Your eyes are orbs of stars You make my faith to stagger You are too much an adamant As you have vertue speak it You are a noble
doth fear And he that fears his freedom doth not bear Q. Give another example of this kind of syllogism A. Ter in Eu. concludeth and judgeth this That which is void of counsel cannot be governed by counsel Love is void of Counsel It cannot therefore be governed bycounse Q. Produce the words of Terence A. the former syllogism followeth in these words Master that thing which hath in it neither counsel nor means that thou canst not govern by counsel In love are all these vices injuries suspicions enmities flatteries war peace again these uncertain things if thou shouldest guide by certain reason thou dost no more then if thou shouldest labor to be mad with reason Q. Give an example of the affirmative special syllogism A. AFF. SPE Darii Consuls made by vertue ought studiously to defend the Commonwealth Cicero is made Consul by vertue Cicero therefore ought studiously to defend the Commonwealth Q. Produce Tully's words avouching this syllogism A. The Orator doth both conclude and judge his own diligence Agr. 2. For the great care and diligence as well of all the Consuls ought to be placed in defending the Commonwealth as of those who not in the cradle but in the camp were made Consuls None of our ancients promised to the people of Rome for me that I ought to be trusted to ask of me that I ought even when I did ask none of our ancestors commended me to you therefore if I neglect any thing there is none who shall intreat me for you Yet while my life last I being he who am able to defend it from their wickedness I promise this to you O Quirites that you have committed the Commonwealth to the providence of a good trust to a watchful man and not a coward to a diligent man not a sluggard Q Shew another syllogism of this kinde A. That which comes wished for is grateful Lesbia comes wished for to Catullus She is therefore grateful Q. Set forth Catullus his words wherein he thus concludeth A. That which we long for with desires great Is acceptable to us when we heat Wherefore this grateful is more dear then gold That Lesby is come our friend of old Thou dost our wishes grant our hope restore O light most clear who is there that is more Happy then I who have what I desire Even what I wish there 's nought I can require Q. Give an example of a negative special A. NEG. SPE Ferio The deceiver of a loving maid is not to be praised Demophoon is the deceiver of a loving maid to wit Phyllis Demophoon therefore is not to be praised Q. Set forth the words of Phillis in Ovid so judging A. It is no glory Virgins to deceive Who love a man and wish him for to have Simplicity should rather favour again But I that love and all 's a woman am Deceived am by thee with flatering stile The Gods thy praises make it all the while Q. Give example of an affirmative proper A. AFF. PRO. Octavius is Caesars heir I am Octavius I am therefore Caesars heir Q. Give example of a negative proper A. NEG. PRO. Anthony is not Caesars son Thou art Anthony Thou art not therefore Caesars son CAP. 13. The first connexed Syllogism Q. You have expounded hitherto the simple syllogism what now is the compound syllogism A. The compound syllogism is a syllogism where the whole question is another part of the affirmed and compound proposition the argument is another part Q. But what if any thing were taken away in the compound syllogism A. That were to put a special contradiction Q. What are the kinds of a compound syllogism A. A compound syllogism is a connexed or disjunct Q. What is a connexed syllogism A. A connexed syllogism is a compound syllogism of a connexed proposition Q. How many are the manners of distinction A. It is of two manners Q. What is the first A. The first manner of the connexed syllogism is that which assumeth the antecedent and the consequent concludeth Q. Give an example of this A. After this manner Cicero concludeth Lib. 2. de Divinatione If they be Gods it is divination But they are Gods It is divination therefore Q. Give another example A. Offic. 3. And if also nature prescribeth this that a man to a man whatsoever he be for that same cause that he is a man will use consultation it is necessary according to the same nature that the profit of all should be common which if it be so all of us are contained in one and the same law of nature and this if it be so indeed we are certainly forbidden by the law of nature to violate one anther but the first is true the last therefore is also true Q Give another example A. Aeneid 4. Dido judgeth Aeneas to remain with her Dost thou me fly by these fears I thee pray By thy right hand I thee beseech to stay Else thou wilt leave me wretched here alone By our dear marriage our dear love like none If I do ought deserve if thou hast been Sweet unto me have pitty on me then Look on thy slippery house and now I pray If any place for prayers be I say For Libians sake for Nomades his kings Who hated me and for all other things Which I for thee did bear my credit 's lost I am alone for thee thus am I crost Besides all this my fame is quite decayed Rather I had my flesh in dust were laid Q. Doth it alwayes assume the same A. Oftentimes not the same but a greater Q. Give example A. Cat. 1. If thy parents feared and hated thee neither couldst thou please them by any reason in my opinion thou wert to abstain a little from their sight Now the country which is our comon parent hateth and feareth thee and of a long time judgeth nothing of thee except it be touching thy death canst thou neither avoid its authority neither follow its judgment neither fearest thou its force Q. What may further be under his Head A. This manner of concluding is the very same when the proposition is a relate of time Q. Give example A. After this kind the nymph OEnon in Ovid concludeth the error of her foolishness When Paris OEnon hoped to forsake It would to Xanthus with all speed betake Xanthus make hast return thou back again That so this Paris OEnon may sustain CAP. 14. The second Connexive Syllogism Q. What is the second manner of the connexed syllogism A. The second manner of the connexed syllogism taketh away the consequent that it may take away the antecedent Q. Give example A. If a wise than assent to any thing sometimes also he shall be opinionated But he shall never be opinionated Therefore shall he assent to nothing Qu. Give another example A. By the like syllogism Ovid. Trist. 12. judgeth his foolishness If I where wise those sisters I should hate Deities hurtful to whom on them wait But now so great my foolishness is seen