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

Fancies and Fantasticks. 459And if loose breath so much can do,It may as well inform of love,Of purest Love, and Musick too,When once your Beauties it shall move,That breath may have the happy powerTo work on you, as on a Flower.;Another.Go happy Rose, and interwoveWith other Flowers bind n. y love ;Tell her too, she must not beLonger peevish, longer free,That so long hath fetter'd me.Say, if she frets, that I have bandsOf Pearl, and Gold to bind her hands ;Tell her if she struggles still,I have Myrtle Rods at willThat can tame, althoughnot kill.Take thou my blessing now, and goAnd tell her this, but do not so,Least a handsome anger flyLike a Lightning from her eye,And burn thee up, as well as I.On the two Dwarfs that were marry ed at Court, notlong before Shrovetide.The sign or chance makes others wive,But nature did this match contrive ;