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

Fancies and Fantasticks. 343The Rose, the Violet, one daySee, both these Lady-flowers decay:And you must fade, as well as they. ;(TAnd itmay chance that love may turn,And (like to mine) make your heart burn.And weep to see't ; yet this thing do,That .my last vow commends to you :When you shall see that I am dead,For pitty let a tear be shed ;And (with your Mantle o're me cast)Give my cold lips a kisse at last :If twice you kisse, you need not feare,That I shall stir, or live more here.Next hollow out a Tomb to coverMe ; me, the most despised Lover ;And write thereon, This, Reader, know,Love kiird this man.Silence.No more but so.[j 3uo n u f2 JI,B/i?iANo ;to what purpose should I speak ?No, wretched Heart, swell tillyou break !She cannot love me if she would ;And to say truth, 'twere pity that she should.No, to the Grave thy sorrows beare,As silent as they will be there ;Since that lov'd hand this mortal wound doth give,So handsomely the thing contrive,That she may guiltlesse of it live.So perish, that her killing theeMay a chance Medley, and no murther be.