Joys, as winged dreams, fly fast; Gentlest fair! mourn, mourn no mo. SONG. [In "The Captain."] "TELL me, dearest, what is love?" Tis a lightning from above; 'Tis an arrow, 'tis a fire; "Tis a boy they call Desire; Those "Tis a grave poor fools that long to prove. "Tell me more, are women true?" Yes, some are, and some as you. Some are willing, some are strange, Since you men first taught to charge And, till troth Be in both, All shall love, to love anew. "Tell me more yet, can they grieve;" Yes, and sicken sore, but live, And be wise, and delay When you men are as wise as they : "Then I see "Faith will be "Never till they both believe." SONG. [In "The Elder Brother."] BEAUTY clear and fair, Where the air Rather like a perfume dwells; Where the violet and the rose Their blue veins in blush disclose, And come to honour nothing else! Where to live near And planted there, Is to live and still live new ; Where to gain a favour is More than light, perpetual bliss; [In "A Wife for a Month."] LET those complain that feel Love's cruelty, My mistress' eyes shine fair on my desires, No more au exile will I dwell, With folded arms and sighs all day, I am call'd home again to quiet peace; Yet what is living in her eye, Or being blest with her sweet tongue, If these no other joys imply? A golden gyve, a pleasing wrong. To be your own but one poor month, I'd give FRANCIS BEAUMONT. A CHARM. [From his "Poems," 1640, 4to.] SLEEP, old man! let silence charm thee; Dreaming slumbers overtake thee; Quiet thoughts, and darkness arm thee, That no creaking do awake thee. Phoebe hath put out her light, Let no fatal bell nor clock Pierce the hollow of thy ear: Tongueless be the early cock, Let no rat, nor silly mouse Move the senseless rushes; Nor a cough disturb this house Come, my sweet Corinna, come, Laugh, and leave thy late deploring! Sable midnight makes all dumb But thy jealous husband's snoring. And with thy sweet perfumed kisses Love's delight and sweetest bliss is On the Life of Man. * LIKE to the falling of a star, This is also contained in Bishop King's Poems, 1657. |