For such neglect have only myrtle rods Not more, mild Nymph, than they would have, In that you do begin than end. you do; 12 [7]. "And now y'are entered, see the coddled cook How th' aged point out: This is she Us (and God shield her) with her yea and nay,' Sin in his nap'ry not t' express his wit; Some gin wherewith to catch her eyes. 13. "What though your laden Altar now has won The credit from the table of the Sun For earth and sea; this cost Оп you is altogether lost Because you feed Not on the flesh of beasts, but on the seed Of contemplation: your, Your eyes are they, wherewith you draw the pure Which sees the body fed, yet pined. 14 [14]. "If you must needs for ceremonie's sake The night charm quickly; you have spells And of such torture as no God would grutch Aye and consume, and grow again to die, Love the damnation of that place. 15 [8]. "To Bed, to Bed, sweet Turtles now, and write Who count this night as long as three, Hearing the clock go Ten, Eleven, Twelve, One: [the And let the young men and the Bridemaids share 16 [9]. "By the Bride's eyes, and by the teeming life Of her green hopes, we charge you that no strife, Among you catching at her Lace. Oh, do not fall Foul in these noble pastimes, lest you call The gentle Bridegroom and the fragrous Bride, 66 Be't to your praise: 'No peace was broken '. 17 [10]. Strip her of spring-time, tender whimp'ring maids, Now Autumn's come, when all those flow'ry aids Of her delays must end, dispose That Lady-smock, that pansy and that Rose But for prick madam, and for gentle heart, Let him come who dares undo her. 18 [11]. "And to enchant you more, view everywhere About the roof a Syren in a sphere, As we think, singing to the din [ye Even heaven gives up his soul between you now, [ye To light their Tapers at the Bride's bright eye; Were she an element of fire. |