BSCURED wonders, Gentlemen! visited me in TURNUS's armour; and I, in regard of ENEAS's honour, have unclouded them unto the world. You are that universe! You, that ENEAS! If you find PALLAS's girdle, murder them ! if not, environed with barbarism, save them! and eternity will praise you.
TERNAL TWINS! that conquer Death and Time,
Perpetual advocates in heaven and earth!
Fair, chaste, immaculate, and all divine;
Glorious alone, before the first man's birth:
Your twofold CHARITES! celestial lights!
Bow your sun-rising eyes, planets of joy,
Upon these Orphan Poems! in whose rights
CONCEIT first claimed his birthright to enjoy.
If pitiful, you shun the Song of Death;
Or fear the stain of love's life-dropping blood;
O know then, you are pure; and purer faith
Shall still keep white the flower, the fruit, and bud.
LOVE moveth all things. You that love, shall move
All things in him, and he in you shall love.
ESOLVED to love, unworthy to obtain,
I do no favour crave; but, humble wise,
To thee my sighs in verse I sacrifice,
Only some pity, and no help to gain.
Hear then! and as my heart shall aye
remain
A patient object to thy lightning
A patient ear bring thou to thund'ring cries!
Fear not the crack! when I the blow sustain.
So as thine eye bred mine ambitious thought;
So shall thine ear make proud my voice for joy.
Lo, Dear! what wonders great by thee are wrought,
When I but little favours do enjoy.
The voice is made the ear for to rejoice:
And your ear giveth pleasure to my voice.
LAME not my heart for flying up too high!
Sith thou art cause that it this flight begun :
For earthly vapours drawn up by the sun,
Comets begin, and night suns in the sky.
Mine humble heart, so with thy heavenly Eye
Drawn up aloft, all low desires doth shun:
Raise then me up! as thou my heart hast done,
So during night, in heaven remain may I.
I say again, Blame not my high desire!
Sith of us both the cause thereof depends:
In thee doth shine, in me doth burn a fire;
Fire draws up other, and itself ascends.
Thine eye a fire, and so draws up my love;
My love a fire, and so ascends above.
LY LOW, dear love! thy sun dost thou not see? Take heed! do not so near his rays aspire ! Lest (for thy pride, inflamed with wreakful ire) It burn thy wings, as it hath burned me. Thou, haply, sayst, "Thy wings immortal be, And so cannot consumèd be with fire:
The one is Hope, the other is Desire;
And that the heavens bestowed them both on thee." A Muse's words made thee with Hope to fly; An Angel's face Desire hath begot; Thyself engendered by a goddess' eye: Yet for all this, immortal thou art not! Of heavenly eye though thou begotten art: Yet art thou born but of a mortal heart!
FRIEND of mine, pitying my hopeless love,
Hoping, by killing hope, my love to stay:
"Let not," quoth he, "thy hope, thy heart betray?
Impossible it is her heart to move."
But sith resolvèd love cannot remove,
As long as thy divine perfections stay:
Thy godhead then, he sought to take away.
Dear! seek revenge, and him a liar prove!
Gods only do impossibilities.
"Impossible," saith he, "thy grace to gain."
Show then the power of thy divinities
By granting me thy favour to obtain !
So shall thy foe give to himself the lie;
A goddess thou shalt prove; and happy I!
HINE eye, the glass where I behold my heart.
Mine eye, the window through the which thine eye
May see my heart; and there thyself espy
In bloody colours, how thou painted art!
Thine eye, the pyle is of a murdering dart :
Mine eye, the sight thou tak'st thy level by
To hit my heart, and never shoots awry.
Mine eye thus helps thine eye to work my smart.
Thine eye, a fire is both in heat and light;
Mine eye, of tears a river doth become.
O that the water of mine eye had might
To quench the flames that from thine eye doth come! Or that the fires kindled by thine eye,
The flowing streams of mine eyes could make dry!
JINE Eye with all the deadly sins is fraught.
1. First proud, sith it presumed to look so high.
A watchman being made, stood gazing by ;
2. And idle, took no heed till I was caught.
3. And envious, bears envy that by thought,
Should in his absence, be to her so nigh.
To kill my heart, mine eye let in her eye;
4. And so consent gave to a murder wrought.
5. And covetous, it never would remove
From her fair hair. Gold so doth please his sight! 6. Unchaste, a baud between my heart and love. 7. A glutton eye, with tears drunk every night. These sins procurèd have a goddess' ire: Wherefore my heart is damned in love's sweet fire.
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