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

462 Fancies and Fantasticks.ButVenus having lost the dayPoor Girle, she fell on you,And beat you so, as some do sayHer Blowes did make you blew.Violets in a Ladyes Bosomc.Twice happy Violets, that first had birthIn the warm Spring, when no Frosts nip the Earth ;Thrice happy now, since you transplanted areUnto the sweeter bosome of my Faire ;And yet poor Flowers, I pity your hard Fate ;You have but chang'd, not better'd your estate :What boots ityou t'have scap'd cold winters breathTo find like me, by flames a suddain death ?An old Man, to a young Maid.Scorn me not fair, because you seeMy hairs are white what if ; they be ?Think not, 'cause in your Cheeks appearFresh Springs of Roses, all the year ;And mine, like Winter, wan and old,My love like Winter, should be cold ;See in the Garland which you weare,How the sweet blushing Roses thereWith palest Lillyes do combine,^Be taught by them, and so lets joyn.To the Wife, being married to that old man.Since thou wilt needs, bewitch'd with some ill charmsBe buryed in those monumental Arms,