LII. CLERIMONT'S SONG. TILL to be neat, still to be drest, STIL As you were going to a feast; Though art's hid causes are not found, Give me a look, give me a face, Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. LIII. AN EPITAPH ON SALATHIEL PAVY, A CHILD OF QUEEN ELIZABETH'S CHAPEL. EEP with me all you that read WEEP This little story; And know, for whom a tear you shed Death's self is sorry. 'Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature, As Heaven and Nature seemed to strive Which owned the creature. Years he numbered scarce thirteen When Fates turned cruel, Yet three filled zodiacs had he been And did act, what now we moan, As, sooth, the Parce thought him one, So, by error to his fate They all consented; But viewing him since, alas! too late, And have sought, to give new birth, But being so much too good for earth, LIV. VOLPONE'S SONG. 'OME my Celia, let us prove, CON While we may, the sports of love; 'Tis no sin love's fruit to steal, But the sweet theft to reveal: To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been. LV. TO CELIA. DRINK to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise, But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I sent thee late a rosy wreath, It could not withered be. But thou thereon did'st only breathe, Since when it grows, and smells, I swear, LVI. I A NYMPH'S PASSION. LOVE, and he loves me again, Yet dare I not tell who; For if the nymphs should know my swain, I fear they'd love him too; Yet if it be not known, The pleasure is as good as none, For that's a narrow joy is but our own. I'll tell, that if they be not glad, They yet may envy me : It were a plague 'bove scorn, And yet it cannot be forborn, Unless my heart would as my thought be torn. He is, if they can find him, fair, And fresh and fragrant too, As summer's sky, or purged air, That are this morning blown ; Yet, yet I doubt he is not known, And fear much more, that more of him be shown. |