SONG 1. Conquest by flight. LADIES, fly from Love's smooth tale! Inflam'd with sighs will blast the fair. Young men, fly, when Beauty darts Conquer Love that run away. 1 The second stanza of this song is also to be found in "Festum Voluptatis, or the Banquet of Pleasure," by S[amuel] P[ecke], 1639, 4to. DIALOGUE. [From a MS. in the possession of Mr. Malone.] Q. TELL me, Utrechia', (since my fate, I may* my hopes enlarge, and my desires confine? A. First, when thy flames begin, See they burn all within ; And so, as lookers-on may not descry 5 Smoke in a sigh, or sparkles in an eye. 6 I would have had my love a good while there, 7 And I myself would choose to know it, First, by thy care and cunning not to show it. Q. When my love is, your own way, thus betray'd, Must it still be afraid? May it not be sharp-sighted then 10, as well, And from that knowledge, hope' it may Tell itself3 a louder way? A. Let it alone a while: 5 And so, thou may'st beguile For whilst I dare not disapprove, To be displeas'd when thou shalt it avow. Q. When, by love's powerful' silent sympathy, And that, by one another seen, They need 10 no breath to go between, Though in the main agreement of our breasts Yet, it will 12 need Our tongues' 13 sign too, as witness to the deed. A. Speak then: but when you whisper out1 the tale Let it be so disorder'd, that I may Guess only thence what you would say. 1 Then, to be able to speak sense Were an offence: And, 'twill thy passion tell the subtlest way, 1" to be able" wanting. N.B. The variations in the notes are from a copy printed in the works of Sir R. Fanshaw, who translated this dialogue into Latin hexameters. WILLIAM STRODE WAS born about 1600, and died in 1644. He became D.D. and canon of Christ-Church, having served the offices of proctor and public orator to the University, and had the reputation of being a good preacher, an exquisite speaker, and an eminent poet. The following specimens are extracted from a miscellany called "Wit restored," 1658, 12mo. Answer to "The Lover's Melancholy." [Vide P. 55 of this volume.] RETURN, my joys! and hither bring |