Poems (Philips)/An Answer to another perswading a Lady to Marriage
An Answer to another perswading a Lady to Marriage.
I.
FOrbear bold Youth, all's Heav'n here,
And what you do aver,
To others Courtship may appear,
'Tis Sacrilege to her.
II.
She is a publick Deity,
And were't not very odd
She shou'd depose her self, to be
A petty Houshold God?
III.
First make the Sun in private shine,
And bid the World adieu,
That so he may his Beams confine
In Complement to you.
IV.
But if of that you do despair,
Think how you did amiss,
To strive to fix her Beams, which are
More bright and large than his.