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20.
And never will I (though by Time supply'd
With such discretion as does Man improve)
To shew discretion, wiser Nature hide,
By seeming now asham'd to say I love.
And never will I (though by Time supply'd
With such discretion as does Man improve)
To shew discretion, wiser Nature hide,
By seeming now asham'd to say I love.
21.
For Love his pow'r has in grey Senates shown,
Where he, as to green Courts, does freely come▪
And though loud youth, his visits makes more known,
With graver Age he's privately at home.
For Love his pow'r has in grey Senates shown,
Where he, as to green Courts, does freely come▪
And though loud youth, his visits makes more known,
With graver Age he's privately at home.
22.
Scarce Greece, or greater Rome a Victor shows,
Whom more victorious Love did not subdue;
Then blame not me who am so weak to those;
Whilst Gartha all exceeds, that ere they knew.
Scarce Greece, or greater Rome a Victor shows,
Whom more victorious Love did not subdue;
Then blame not me who am so weak to those;
Whilst Gartha all exceeds, that ere they knew.
23.
Hope (Love's first food) I ne'r till now did know;
Which Love, as yet but temp'rately devours,
And claims not love for love, since Gartha so
For Autumn Leaves, should barter Summer Flowers.
Hope (Love's first food) I ne'r till now did know;
Which Love, as yet but temp'rately devours,
And claims not love for love, since Gartha so
For Autumn Leaves, should barter Summer Flowers.
24.
I dare not vainly wish her to be kind,
Till for her love, my Arts and Pow'r bestow
The Crown on thee, adorn'd with Rhodalind;
Which yet for Gartha is a price too low.
I dare not vainly wish her to be kind,
Till for her love, my Arts and Pow'r bestow
The Crown on thee, adorn'd with Rhodalind;
Which yet for Gartha is a price too low.
25.
This said, he paws'd; and now the hectick heat
Of Oswald's blood, doubled their Pulses pace;
Which high, as if they would be heard, did beat,
And hot Ambition shin'd in eithers face.
This said, he paws'd; and now the hectick heat
Of Oswald's blood, doubled their Pulses pace;
Which high, as if they would be heard, did beat,
And hot Ambition shin'd in eithers face.
26.
For Hermegild they knew could much out-doe
His words, and did possess great Aribert,
Not in the Courts cheap Glass of civil show,
But by a study'd Tenure of the heart.
For Hermegild they knew could much out-doe
His words, and did possess great Aribert,
Not in the Courts cheap Glass of civil show,
But by a study'd Tenure of the heart.
Whilst
