#English #XVICentury #XVIICentury
Let us, though late, at last, my… And loving lie in one devoted bed. Thy watch may stand, my minutes fl… No sound calls back the year that… Then, sweetest Silvia, let’s no l…
Why I tie about thy wrist, Julia, this silken twist; For what other reason ’tis But to show thee how, in part, Thou my pretty captive art?
Let’s now take our time, While we’re in our prime, And old, old age is afar off; For the evil, evil days Will come on apace,
In prayer the lips ne’er act the w… Without the sweet concurrence of t…
Come, bring your sampler, and with… Draw in’t a wounded heart, And dropping here and there; Not that I think that any dart Can make your’s bleed a tear,
So smooth, so sweet, so silv’ry is… As, could they hear, the Damned w… But listen to thee (walking in thy… melting melodious words to Lutes o…
Open thy gates To him who weeping waits, And might come in, But that held back by sin. Let mercy be
When a daffodil I see, Hanging down his head towards me, Guess I may what I must be: First, I shall decline my head; Secondly, I shall be dead;
Man knows where first he ships him… Never can tell where shall his lan…
A crystal vial Cupid brought, Which had a juice in it: Of which who drank, he said, no th… Of Love he should admit. I, greedy of the prize, did drink,
What needs complaints, When she a place Has with the race Of saints? In endless mirth,
How Love came in, I do not know, Whether by th’ eye, or eare, or no… Or whether with the soule it came (At first) infused with the same: Whether in part ‘tis here or there…
Biancha, let Me pay the debt I owe thee for a kiss Thou lend’st to me; And I to thee
Who with a little cannot be conten… Endures an everlasting punishment.
What though the sea be calm? Tru… Ships have been drown’d, where lat…