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

360 Fancies and Fantasticks.Does not sweetnesse terme a sheeWorthy its onely shrine to thee ?And where will vertue chuse to lye,If not in such a Treasury ?Stay, O stay, wouldst thou live free ?Then seek a Nuptiall destinie :4-'Tis not natures blisse alone,(She gives) but Heavens, and that in one ;What she shall, or do, or say,Never from truth shall go astray.Stay, O stay, let not thine heart5-Affected be, unlesse to partSoone from her.Sport, kiss and playWhilst no howers enrich the day :And if thou dost a cuckold prove,Impute it to thy want of love.The PostscriptGood women are like starres in darkest night,Their vertuous actions shining as a lightTo guide their ignorant sex, which oft times fall,And falling oft, turns Diabolicall.Good Women sure are angels on the earth,Of these good Angels we have had a dearth :And therefore allyou men that have good wives,Respect their Vertues equall with your lives.