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

460 Fancies and Fantasticks.Eve might as well have Adam fled,As she denyed her little bedTo him, for whom Heaven seem'd to frameAnd measure out this little Dame.Thrice happy is this humble paire,Beneath the level of all care ;For o're their heads all Arrowes flyOf sad distrust, and Jealousie,Secured in as high extream,As if the world held none but them.To him the fairest Nymphs do showLike moving Mountains topt with snowAnd every man a Polypheme,Doth to his Galatcea seem :None may presume her faith to prove,He proffers death, who proffers love.On the approaching Spring.Chi. ffilas, oh Hilas whysit we muteNow that each Bird saluteth the Spring ?Wind up the slackned strings of thy Lute ;Never canst thou want matter to sing ?For love thy breast doth fill with such a fire,That whatsoe're is fair, moves thy desire.Hil. Sweetest you know the sweetest of thingsOf various Flowers which the Bees do compose,Yet no particular tast itbringsOf Violet, Wood-bine, Pink or Rose ;