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第23章 ** AMORES **(3)

Or bid it languish quite away, And't shall do so for thee.

Bid me to weep, and I will weep, While I have eyes to see;

And having none, yet I will keep A heart to weep for thee.

Bid me despair, and I'll despair, Under that cypress tree;

Or bid me die, and I will dare E'en death, to die for thee.

--Thou art my life, my love, my heart, The very eyes of me;

And hast command of every part, To live and die for thee.

*109*

ANTHEA'S RETRACTATION

Anthea laugh'd, and, fearing lest excess Might stretch the cords of civil comeliness She with a dainty blush rebuked her face, And call'd each line back to his rule and space.

*110*

LOVE LIGHTLY PLEASED

Let fair or foul my mistress be, Or low, or tall, she pleaseth me;

Or let her walk, or stand, or sit, The posture her's, I'm pleased with it;

Or let her tongue be still, or stir Graceful is every thing from her;

Or let her grant, or else deny, My love will fit each history.

*111*

TO DIANEME

Give me one kiss, And no more:

If so be, this Makes you poor To enrich you, I'll restore For that one, two-

Thousand score.

*112*

UPON HER EYES

Clear are her eyes, Like purest skies;

Discovering from thence A baby there That turns each sphere, Like an Intelligence.

*113*

UPON HER FEET

Her pretty feet Like snails did creep A little out, and then, As if they played at Bo-peep, Did soon draw in again.

*114*

UPON A DELAYING LADY

Come, come away Or let me go;

Must I here stay Because you're slow, And will continue so;

--Troth, lady, no.

I scorn to be A slave to state;

And since I'm free, I will not wait, Henceforth at such a rate, For needy fate.

If you desire My spark should glow, The peeping fire You must blow;

Or I shall quickly grow To frost, or snow.

*115*

THE CRUEL MAID

--AND, cruel maid, because I see You scornful of my love, and me, I'll trouble you no more, but go My way, where you shall never know What is become of me; there I Will find me out a path to die, Or learn some way how to forget You and your name for ever;--yet Ere I go hence, know this from me, What will in time your fortune be;

This to your coyness I will tell;

And having spoke it once, Farewell.

--The lily will not long endure, Nor the snow continue pure;

The rose, the violet, one day See both these lady-flowers decay;

And you must fade as well as they.

And it may chance that love may turn, And, like to mine, make your heart burn And weep to see't; yet this thing do, That my last vow commends to you;

When you shall see that I am dead, For pity let a tear be shed;

And, with your mantle o'er me cast, Give my cold lips a kiss at last;

If twice you kiss, you need not fear That I shall stir or live more here.

Next hollow out a tomb to cover Me, me, the most despised lover;

And write thereon, THIS, READER, KNOW;

LOVE KILL'D THIS MAN. No more, but so.

*116*

TO HIS MISTRESS, OBJECTING TO HIM NEITHER

TOYING OR TALKING

You say I love not, 'cause I do not play Still with your curls, and kiss the time away.

You blame me, too, because I can't devise Some sport, to please those babies in your eyes;

By Love's religion, I must here confess it, The most I love, when I the least express it.

Shall griefs find tongues; full casks are ever found To give, if any, yet but little sound.

Deep waters noiseless are; and this we know, That chiding streams betray small depth below.

So when love speechless is, she doth express A depth in love, and that depth bottomless.

Now, since my love is tongueless, know me such, Who speak but little, 'cause I love so much.

*117*

IMPOSSIBILITIES: TO HIS FRIEND

My faithful friend, if you can see The fruit to grow up, or the tree;

If you can see the colour come Into the blushing pear or plum;

If you can see the water grow To cakes of ice, or flakes of snow;

If you can see that drop of rain Lost in the wild sea once again;

If you can see how dreams do creep Into the brain by easy sleep:--

--Then there is hope that you may see Her love me once, who now hates me.

*118*

THE BUBBLE: A SONG

To my revenge, and to her desperate fears, Fly, thou made bubble of my sighs and tears!

In the wild air, when thou hast roll'd about, And, like a blasting planet, found her out;

Stoop, mount, pass by to take her eye--then glare Like to a dreadful comet in the air:

Next, when thou dost perceive her fixed sight For thy revenge to be most opposite, Then, like a globe, or ball of wild-fire, fly, And break thyself in shivers on her eye!

*119*

DELIGHT IN DISORDER

A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness;

A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction;

An erring lace, which here and there Enthrals the crimson stomacher;

A cuff neglectful, and thereby Ribbons to flow confusedly;

A winning wave, deserving note, In the tempestuous petticoat;

A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility;--

Do more bewitch me, than when art Is too precise in every part.

*120*

TO SILVIA

Pardon my trespass, Silvia! I confess My kiss out-went the bounds of shamefacedness:--

None is discreet at all times; no, not Jove Himself, at one time, can be wise and love.

*121*

TO SILVIA TO WED

Let us, though late, at last, my Silvia, wed;

And loving lie in one devoted bed.

Thy watch may stand, my minutes fly post haste;

No sound calls back the year that once is past.

Then, sweetest Silvia, let's no longer stay;

True love, we know, precipitates delay.

Away with doubts, all scruples hence remove!

No man, at one time, can be wise, and love.

*122*

BARLEY-BREAK; OR, LAST IN HELL

We two are last in hell; what may we fear To be tormented or kept pris'ners here I Alas! if kissing be of plagues the worst, We'll wish in hell we had been last and first.

*123*

ON A PERFUMED LADY

You say you're sweet: how should we know Whether that you be sweet or no?

--From powders and perfumes keep free;

Then we shall smell how sweet you be!

*124*

THE PARCAE; OR, THREE DAINTY DESTINIES:

THE ARMILET

Three lovely sisters working were, As they were closely set, Of soft and dainty maiden-hair, A curious Armilet.

I, smiling, ask'd them what they did, Fair Destinies all three?

Who told me they had drawn a thread Of life, and 'twas for me.

They shew'd me then how fine 'twas spun And I replied thereto;

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