Now therefore, while the youthful hue Thus, though we cannot make our sun A. MARVELL. LXXXIII SONG PHILLIS is my only joy, Faithless as the winds or seas; Phillis smiling And beguiling, Makes me happier than before. 88 Though, alas! too late I find I can't get free ; She deceiving, I believing; What need lovers wish for more? LXXXIV SIR C. SEDLEY. AMORET FAIR Amoret is gone astray, Pursue and seek her, ev'ry lover; Coquette and coy at once her air, Affecting to seem unaffected. With skill her eyes dart ev'ry glance, Yet change so soon you'd ne'er suspect them, For she'd persuade they wound by chance, Tho' certain aim and art direct them. She likes herself, yet others hates W. CONGREVE. LXXXV SEMELE TO JUPITER WITH my frailty don't upbraid me, If obtaining, Still complaining; If consenting, Still repenting ; Most complying, When denying, And to be follow'd only flying. With my frailty don't upbraid me, W. CONGREVE. LXXXVI CHANSON A BOIRE COME, let's mind our drinking, Away with this thinking; It ne'er, that I heard of, did any one good; Prevents not disaster, But brings it on faster, Mischance is by mirth and by courage withstood. He ne'er can recover The day that is over, The present is with us, and does threaten no ill; He's a fool that will sorrow For the thing call'd to-morrow, But the hour we've in hand we may wield as we will. There's nothing but Bacchus Right merry can make us, That virtue particular is to the vine; It fires ev'ry creature With wit and good-nature, Whose thoughts can be dark when their noses do shine? A night of good drinking Is worth a year's thinking, There's nothing that kills us so surely as sorrow; Then to drown our cares, boys, Let's drink up the stars, boys, Each face of the gang will a sun be to-morrow. LXXXVII C. COTTON. LOVE ARMED LOVE in fantastic triumph sat, Whilst bleeding hearts around him flow'd; And strange tyrannic power he show'd. But 'twas from mine he took desire, From me he took his sighs and tears, But my poor heart alone is harm'd, Whilst thine the victor is, and free. APHRA BEHN. |