Facetiae : Musarum deliciae, or, The Muses recreation, conteining ...

'Fancies and Fantasticks. 315Another.I cannot pray you in a studyed stile,Nor speak words distant from my heart a mile ;I cannot visit Hide-Park every day,And with a Hackney court my time away ;I cannot spaniolize it week by week,Or wait a month to kisse your hand or cheek ;If when you'r lov'd, you cannot love again,Why, do but say so, I am out of pain.Excuse for absence.You'll ask perhaps wherefore I stay,(Loving so much,) so long away ?I do not think 'twas I did part,It was my body, not my heart :For like a Compasse in your love,One foot was fixr, and cannot move ;Th'other may follow the blind guideOf giddy fortune, but cannot slideBeyond your service nor will;venterTo wander far from you the Center.To a fair, but unkind Mistresse.I prethee turn that face away,Whose splendor but benights my day ;Sad eyes like mine, and wounded hearts,Shun the bright rayes that beauty darts ;Unwelcome isthe Sun that priesInto those shades where sorrow lyes.