ENCOURAGEMENTS TO A LOVER 1638. WHY SO pale and wan, fond lover? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prythee, why so pale? Why so dull and mute, young sinner? Will, when speaking well can't win her, Saying nothing do 't? Prythee, why so mute? Quit, quit, for shame! this will not move, This cannot take her; If of herself she will not love, Nothing can make her: The D-1 take her! 5 10 15 Sir John Suckling. CONSTANCY Our upon it, I have loved Three whole days together! 1638. To Dianeme Time shall moult away his wings In the whole wide world again But the spite on 't is, no praise Love with me had made no stays, Had it any been but she, And that very face, There had been at least ere this 12 16 Sir John Suckling. 1648. TO DIANEME SWEET, be not proud of those two eyes When all your world of beauty 's gone. Robert Herrick. 10 UPON JULIA'S CLOTHES WHENAS in silks my Julia goes, Next, when I cast mine eyes and see -O how that glittering taketh me! »$#༢. Robert Herrick. THE PRIMROSE 1648. Ask me why I send you here This primrose, thus bepearl'd with dew? The sweets of love are mix'd with tears. 6 Ask me why this flower does show So yellow-green, and sickly too? And bending (yet it doth not break)? Robert Herrick. 12 TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH 1648. OF TIME GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may, And this same flower that smiles to-day The glorious lamp of Heaven, the sun, The sooner will his race be run, The age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; Then be not coy, but use your time, 8 12 16 Robert Herrick. DELIGHT IN DISORDER A SWEET disorder in the dress 1648. An erring lace, which here and there A cuff neglectful, and thereby A winning wave, deserving note, A careless shoestring, in whose tie Do more bewitch me than when art Robert Herrick. ΙΟ TO ANTHEA; WHO MAY COMMAND HIM ANYTHING BID me to live, and I will live Thy Protestant to be; Or bid me love, and I will give A loving heart to thee. A heart as soft, a heart as kind, A heart as sound and free 4 As in the whole world thou canst find, 8 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. 12 |