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DEAR LOVE! continue nice and chaste,
For if you yield you do me wrong:
Let duller wits to love's end haste,
I have enough to woo thee long.

All pain and joy is in their way;
The things we fear bring less annoy
Than fear, and hope brings greater joy;
But in themselves they cannot stay.

Small favours will my prayers increase:
Granting my suit you give me all;
And then my prayers must needs surcease,
For I have made your godhead fall.

Beasts cannot wit nor beauty see,
They man's affections only move:
Beasts other sports of love do prove,
With better feelings far than we.

Then, Love! prolong my suit; for thus
By losing sport I sport do win;
And that doth virtue prove in us,
Which ever yet hath been a sin.
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My coming near may spy some ill,
And now the world is given to scoff:
To keep my love (then) keep me off,
And so I shall admire thee still.

Say I have made a perfect choice;
Satiety ourselves may kill:
Then give me but thy face and voice,
Mine eye and ear thou canst not fill.

To make me rich (oh!) be not poor;
Give me not all, yet something lend;
So I shall still my suit commend,

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And at your will do less or more:

But if to all you condescend,

My Love, our sport, our godhead end.

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A LECTURE UPON THE SHADOW.

STAND still, and I will read to thee

A lecture, Love, in Love's philosophy.
These three hours that we have spent
Walking here, two shadows went

Along with us, which we ourselves produc'd;
But now the sun is just above our head,
We do those shadows tread,

And to brave clearness all things are reduc'd.

So whilst our infant loves did grow,
Disguises did, and shadows, flow

From us and our cares; but now 'tis not so.

That love hath not attain'd the high'st degree,
Which is still diligent lest others see;
Except our loves at this noon stay,

We shall new shadows make the other way.
As the first were made to blind

Others, these which come behind

Will work upon ourselves, and blind our eyes.
If our love's faint, and westwardly decline,

To me thou falsely thine,

And I to thee mine, actions shall disguise.
The morning shadows wear away,

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But these grow longer all the day;

But, oh! Love's day is short, if love decay.

Love is a growing or full constant light,
And his short minute, after noon,

THE TOKEN.

night.

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SEND me some Tokens that my hope may live,
Or that my easeless thoughts may sleep and rest;
Send me some honey to make sweet my hive,
That in my passions I may hope the best.
Donne.]

Gij

I beg nor ribband wrought with thy own hands,

To knit our loves in the fantastic strain

Of new-touch'd youth; nor ring, to shew the stands

Of our affection, that as that's round and plain

So should our loves meet in simplicity;

No, nor the corals which thy wrist infold,
Lac'd up together in congruity,

To shew our thoughts should rest in the same hold:
No, nor thy picture, tho' most gracious,
And most desired, 'cause 'tis like the best ;
Nor witty lines, which are most copious,:..
Within the writings which thou hast addrest.
Send me nor this nor that t' increase my score,
But swear thou think'st I love thee, and no more.

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DIVINE POEMS, &c.

I. LA CORONA.

DEIGN at my hands this crown of prayer and praise,
Weav'd in my lone devout melancholy,

Thou which of good hast, yea, art treasury,
All changing unchang'd, ancient of days;
But do not with a vile crown of frail bays
Reward my Muse's white sincerity,

But what thy thorny crown gain'd that give me,

A crown of glory, which doth flower always:

The ends crown our works, but thou crown'st our ends.

For at our ends begins our endless rest;

The first last end now zealously possest,

With a strong sober thirst my soul attends.
'Tis time that heart and voice be lifted high,
Salvation to all that will is nigh.

II. ANNUNCIATION.

"SALVATION to all that will is nigh;" That All, which always is all every where, Which cannot sin, and yet all sins must bear, Which cannot die, yet cannot choose but die, Lo, faithful Virgin! yields himself to lie

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