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

454 Fancies and Fantasticks.For stillto be deluded so,Is all the pleasure Lovers know ;Who like good Faulkners take delightNot in the quarry, but the flight.The cunning Curtezan.Sir tell me, why should we delayPleasures shorter than the day ?Could we, which we never can,Stretch our lives beyond their span ;Beauty, like a shadow flyes,And our youth before us dyes ;Or would youth and beauty stay,Love hath wings, and will away ;Love hath swifter wings than time,Change in love, to Heaven doth clime ;Gods who never change their state,Varied oft their love and hate.Sir, Unto this truth we oweAll the love betwixt us two ;Let not you and I enquireWhat hath been our past desire,On what Maidens you have smiFd,Or what youths I have beguil'd ;Leave it to the Planets too,What we shall hereafter do ;And for the joyes we now shall proveTake advice of present Love.