To Anthea 85 XCV ON A GIRDLE That which her slender waist confined A narrow compass! and yet there XCVI TO ANTHEA WHO MAY COMMAND HIM ANY THING Bid me to live, and I will live Thy Protestant to be: Or bid me love, and I will give A heart as soft, a heart as kind, Bid that heart stay, and it will stay, To honour thy decree : Or bid it languish quite away, And 't shall do so for thee. 86 To Anthea Bid me to weep, and I will weep Bid me despair, and I'll despair, Thou art my life, my love, my heart, And hast command of every part, To live and die for thee. R. HERRICK XCVII Love not me for comely grace, Keep therefore a true woman's eye, ANON. XCVIII Not, Celia, that I juster am Or better than the rest; For I would change each hour, like them, To Althea But I am tied to very thee All that in woman is adored Why then should I seek further store, When change itself can give no more, SIR C. SEDLEY 87 XCIX TO ALTHEA FROM PRISON When Love with unconfinéd wings And my divine Althea brings To whisper at the grates; When flowing cups run swiftly round When healths and draughts go free Fishes that tipple in the deep Know no such liberty. 88 To Lucasta When, linnet-like confined I Stone walls do not a prison make, COLONEL LOVELACE C TO LUCASTA, GOING BEYOND THE SEAS If to be absent were to be Or that when I am gone You or I were alone ; Then, my Lucasta, might I crave Pity from blustering wind, or swallowing wave. Though seas and land betwixt us both, Our faith and troth, Like separated souls, All time and space controls: Above the highest sphere we meet Encouragements to a Lover 89 So then we do anticipate And are alive i' the skies, COLONEL LOVELACE CI ENCOURAGEMENTS TO A LOVER Why so pale and wan, fond lover? Prythee, why so pale? Why so dull and mute, young sinner? Prythee, why so mute? Quit, quit, for shame! this will not move, If of herself she will not love, Nothing can make her : The D-l take her! SIR J. SUCKLING |