• 214 * UPON LOVE: BY WAY OF QUESTION AND ANSWER I BRING ye love. Ques. What will love do? I bring ye love. Ques. What will love do? I bring ye love. Ques. What will love do? I bring ye love. Ques. What will love do? I bring ye love. Ques. What will love do? I bring ye love. Ques. What will love do? I bring ye love. Ans. Love Ques. What will love do? I bring ye love. Ques. What will love do? * 215 * LOVERS HOW THEY COME AND PART A GYGES ring they bear about them still, So silently they one to th' other come, *216* THE KISS: A DIALOGUE i AMONG thy fancies, tell me this, It is a creature born and bred Chor. And makes more soft the bridal bed. 2 It is an active flame, that flies First to the babies of the eyes, And charms them there with lullabies,— 2 Then to the chin, the cheek, the ear, every where. I Has it a speaking virtue? 2 Yes. I How speaks it, say? 2 Do you but this,-Part your join'd lips, then speaks your kiss ; Chor. And this Love's sweetest language is. 1 Has it a body? 2 Ay, and wings, And as it flies, it gently sings Chor. Love honey yields, but never stings. * 217 * COMFORT TO A YOUTH THAT HAD LOST HIS LOVE WHAT needs complaints, When she a place Has with the race Of saints? In endless mirth, She thinks not on What's said or done In earth: She sees no tears, Or any tone Of thy deep groan She hears; Nor does she mind, That ever thou Wast kind : But changed above, -Forbear, therefore, Thy woes, and weep No more. . 218 ORPHEUS ORPHEUS he went, as poets tell, For gentle fear or jealousy ; And looking back, that look did sever * 219 * A REQUEST TO THE GRACES PONDER my words, if so that any be Let what is graceless, discomposed, and rude, *220* A HYMN TO VENUS AND CUPID SEA-BORN goddess, let me be * 221 * TO BACCHUS: A CANTICLE WHITHER dost thou hurry me, This way, that way, that way, this,-- I have now yet I alone, |