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

356 Fancies and Fantasticks.Like a Cage without a Bird,Or a thing not long preferr'd.Just such as these may she be said,That lives, not loves, but dyes a maid.The Non-sir doth obey the Call,The Question Answer'd pleaseth all,Who rigs a Ship sailes with the wind,Who digs a Mine doth treasure find,The Wound by wholesome Tent hath ease,The Box perfum'd the senses please:Such is the Virgin in my eyes,That lives, loves, marries, ere she dies.Like Marrow-bone was never broken,Or Commendation and no Token,Like a Fort and none to win it,Or like the Moon, and no man in it ;Like a School without a Teacher,Or like a Pulpit and no Preacher.Just such as these may she be said,That lives, ne'r loves, but dyes a maid.The broken Marow-bone is sweet,The Token doth adorn the greet,There's triumph in the Fort being won,The Man rides glorious in the Moon ;The School isby the Teacher still'd,The Pulpit by the Preacher fill'd.Such is the Virgin in mine eyes,That lives, loves, marries, ere she dyes.A A