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

452 Fancies and Fantasticks.The Reply.At last here for your sake I partWith all that grew so neer my heart ;The passion which you had for me,The Faith, the Love, the Constancy ;And that allmay successeful prove,Tie turn my self to what you love.Too much I do confesse I priz'dThat which you thought all Grace compriz'd ;Too much I with my Arrowes stroveTo reach, or hurt a yeelding Dove ;It was your Constancy that stillDeclin'd my force, and mock'd my skill ;No more Tie wander through the Aire,Nor Mount, nor Shop at every Faire ;And with a Fancy unconfm'd,And lawlesse as the Sea, or Wind,Pursue you wheresoe're you fly,And with your various thoughts comply ;The formall Starres do travail so,As we their names, and courses know,And he who on their Aspects looks,Would think them governed by our Books,But never were the Clouds reduc'dTo any Art their Motion us'd ;For those free Vapours are so light ;And frequent, that the conquer'd sightDespaires to find the Rules that guideThose guilded shadows, as they slide ;