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

448 Fancies and Fantasticks.The Melancholy Lover.It is not that I love you lesseThen when before your feet I lay,But to prevent the sad increaseOf hopelesse love, I keep away :In vain (alas) for every thingWhich I have known, belongs to you :Your form doth to my fancy bring,And makes my old wounds bleed anew.He in the Spring who from the SunAlready hath a feaver got,Too late begins those heats to shun,Which Phoebus through his veins hath shot ;Too late he would the pain asswage,And to his chamber doth retire ;About with him he bears the rage,And in his tainted blood the fire ;But vowd I have, and never mustYour banish'd servant trouble you.For if I break, you may mistrustThe Vow I made to love you too.But tell me Lady, Dearest foe,Where your lovely strength doth lye ;Is the Power that charms me soIn your Soul, or in your Eye,In your snowy neck alone ?Or isthat Grace in motion seen,No such wonders can be done,But in your voyce that's Musicks Queen j