We two betwixt us have divided it : The heat commanding in my heart doth sit. So shall these flames, whose worth (Dressed in those beams) start forth Or else partake my flames (I care not whether), And so in mutual names Of Love, burn both together. OUT OF THE ITALIAN. Would any one the true cause find How Love came naked, a boy, and blind? -profive love S 'Tis this listening one day too long To th' Syrens in my mistress' song, The ecstasy of a delight So much o'er-mastering all his might, To that one sense made all else thrall, And so he lost his clothes, eyes, heart, and all. OUT OF CATULLUS. Come and let us live, my dear, A thousand, and a hundred score, That, and that wipe off another. uncommonly Thus at last, when we have numbered Food Four teeth thou hadst that rank'd in goodly state, Kept thy mouth's gate. The first blast of thy cough left two alone, The second, none. This last cough, Ælia, cough'd out all thy fear, -:0: Epigrams. UPON FORD'S TWO TRAGEDIES, "LOVE'S SACRIFICE" AND "THE BROKEN HEART." Thou cheat'st us, Ford; mak'st one seem two by art: What is Love's Sacrifice but The Broken Heart? ON MARRIAGE. I would be married, but I'd have no wife; UPON THE FAIR ETHIOPIAN SENT TO A GENTLEWOMAN. Lo, here the fair Chariclia! in whom strove So false a fortune, and so true a love ! Now, after all her toils by sea and land, O may she but arrive at your white hand. Her hopes are crown'd, only she fears that then UPON VENUS PUTTING ON MARS'S ARMS. What? Mars's sword? fair Cytherea say, UPON THE SAME. Pallas saw Venus armed, and straight she cried, 'Come if thou dar'st, thus, thus let us be tried.' 'Why, fool!' says Venus, 'thus provok'st thou me, That being naked, thou know'st could conquer thee?' ON NANUS MOUNTED UPON AN ANT. High mounted on an ant, Nanus the tall Steps to the Temple. Sospetto d'herode. [The Suspicion of Herod.] LIBRO PRIMO. ARGOMENTO. Casting the times with their strong signs, The sleeping tyrant's fond mistake, Who fears (in vain) that He Whose birth Means Heaven, should meddle with his Earth. I. Muse! now the servant of soft loves no more, Of language to my infant lips, ye best Of confessors; whose throats answering his swords, Gave forth your blood for breath, spoke souls for words. |