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A80038	The card of courtship or the language of love; fitted to the humours of all degrees, sexes, and conditions. Made up of all sorts of curious and ingenious dialogues, pithy and pleasant discourses, eloquent and winning letters, delicious songs and sonnets, fine fancies, harmonious odes, sweet rhapsodies.	Musophilus.	1653 (1653)	Wing C489; Thomason E1308_2; ESTC R13318	76,907	193

thee I beg some help to have In thee it lies to kill or save The dying Lover NOw that Boreas with his cold Doth this County round infold And his Isicles displaies Whilst the verdure green he slayes I must end my life ere long With a sad and mournsul song Now that more then cruel pain Makes my hopes to be but vain And that love makes me distil Salt tears signes of my kind will Needs now must my lives term end Unto the heavens to ascend Now that such is my sad care That I 'm droven to dispaire That cross Fates me strive to greive Why shòuld I desire to live Better 't is to dye then still Follow us what works more ill Now that sighs and sobs and teares The subject of my verses bears And whilst this plague usurps my heart I 'll try if I can make it smart By a death that one day may Make me victor every way Now that skies with lightning blast Force my pleasures not to last And that the sun no more doth shine I must yeild to tempest Time Loyally I lay me down And go willing to my Tomb. Now that cold and chilly fear Still doth dog me everywhere Seek I must by cruelty For to end my misery For an end to every thing Gentle death none else doth bring Now that burning fire o'r-bright Hath my sense consumed quite Leaving nought with me but groanes Thus I do rid all at once The Lover to his Mistress LUckloss and lucky both at once am I With fear and hope I tremble as a reed Luckless by beauty thine by destiny Lucky because I am thy slave indeed For then thy face there 's nothing is more faire Then thy sweet eyes nought more divine or rare One while I hope another while I fear Nor can there any thing my fancy please It grieves me to see the heavens though clear So much I doubt thy favour to displease Then thy fair face there 's nothing is more fair Then thy sweet eyes nought more divine or rare The united Lovers WHo ever saw so faire a sight Love and Vertue met aright And that wonder Constancy Like a comet to the eye Sound aloud so rare a thing That all the Hills and Vales may ring Look lovers look with passion see If that any such there be As there cannot but be such Who do feel this noble touch Sound aloud so rare a thing That all the hills and vales do ring The Lover to his Mistress upon her apparelling her self in black SInce that thou hast victory Ore my dearest liberty Why with black that form of thine Dost thou cloath so rich and fine If thou wear'st it for to witness As a friend my sad distress Happy I since for my sake Thou the colour sad dost take Sweet my life content be thou That this black weed I bear now Hapless was my life and so Sad my life i' th' end should show To me these sad cloaths alone Appertain as signes of mone Nature in one body ne'r Black and white at once doth bear From my black all hate be wide With which I my crosses hide He that in despair doth rest Black doth bear for colour best Cruel this not colour 's thine Since thine eyes bright and divine Sacred as the hallowed day Chase the gloomy night away My heart wounded thou dost make The habit of a conquerour take And let me alone with this Since my fitting colour ' t is Live thou in eternal glory While I dye as desp'rate sory Whilst this dye thou put'st on thee Thou depriv'st of comfort me Change then this same weed of dole Fit for a departing soul Give to me the colour black With it the flitting Ghosts to track The forsaken Lovers complaint 1 UNto the soundless vaults of hell below I 'll with my greifes remediless amaine Whilst frighted Ghosts as pitiful shall show And flinty rocks remorse take of my paine Yea death it self my bitter paines shall know To witness that my life in hell hath lame For Lovers true can never dye indeed Whose loyal hearts a heavenly fire doth feed 2 My body laid along within my grave Shall show its tears its torment and its love And for my mind did never change nor wave Far brighter then the sun the same shall prove By me my Ladies picture I will have Which though being dead afresh will make me love Like to the fire in ashes covered Which though it show no flame yet is not dead 3 Love is not tam'd by death but still doth live Although that life doth flit and pass away Then Lady think not though by death thou grieve My body that thou love canst make decay As long as fancy doth by beauty drive Into my soul no this will ' bide for aye Within my heart the beauty printed is Love in my Tombe to harbour will not miss 4 Thinkst thou I 'll leave to love thee being dead When thy faire portraicture revives my sight Voices from Tombs they say have some men lead Restoring them unto their senses right Then how much more ought love be honoured Whom then the greatest Gods is more of might Then think not when my corps bury'd you see That from thy love as thou wouldst I am free 5 List to my monument and thou shalt hear How I will sigh for without soul thy fire Shall hold me up whilst living I appear Being dead as 'fore my death I did desire Nor deadly pangs thereof will I once fear Nor part from thee as thou wouldst fain require For in thy life so cruel th' hast not been But in my death as loyal I 'll be seen 6 Yet is my fortune better far then thine For without breach of saith as thou hast done I shall have leave to plaine those Ills of mine Thou thinkst in killing me a martyrdome More tedious then before me to assigne But th' art deceiv'd a wrong race hast thou run For whilst I liv'd thy rigour was my bane But being dead I am freed from my pain The despairing Lover ELsewhere declare Thy wosul care And leave the skies Thy wosul plaints Thy heart that taints They do despise See they look red With rage o'respread And horror too 'T is they in griefe Without reliefe That us undoo He is a sot That thinketh not That from that place Through destiny Most wretchedly Comes our disgrace Then better 't is For death to wish And end our daies Then still in strife Lead such a life So plagu'd alwaies For death 's our friend When he doth end Our bitter smart And through the same Doth rid our paine With his keen dart A Knell GOme list and hark The bell doth toul For some but new Departing soul And was not that Some ominous fowle The Bat the Night Crow or Skreech-owle To these I hear The wild wolfe howle In this black night That seems to scowle All these my black Book shall inrowle For hark still still The bell doth towl For some but now

at least to beg which is most sutable one salve from those Srar-shining eyes which have shot forth their conquering darts at my love-sick heart making me acknowledge the conquest yours my self happy in your being victorious O heavenly Adrastina govern and direct me for I am wholly given over unto thee Adra. Sir Were I but ascertained of the truth and reality of your affection I might perhaps meet your love with an equal burning but Fortu. Pardon sweet soul my interrupting you If my love be not real let me be an object of all mens scorn and let the heavens as a just guerdon of my dissembling showre down upon me their most horrible plagues but if it be love chaste and real love let our souls meet in a reciprocal affection and be imparadized into fruition of each other Adrast As far as a Virgins modesty will permit her hereafter I shall be ever ready to accomplish your desires and obey your commands and in the mean time be confident that I am entirely yours But time calls me away All happiness attend you Fortu. And as in you all vertues shine so upon you may all the blessings both of heaven and earth wait A Letter to a Gentlewoman requesting Love COnsidering with my self most divine Lady the many vertues wherewith nature hath in a superabundant measure adorned you and then weighing the insufficiency of any service I can do you my trembling hand is scarce able to hold the pen and my stammering tongue dare hardly express that which my afflicted heart desireth to manifest unto you yet love which holds in his dominion my enflamed heart forceth me to lay open to your sweetest self the secrets of my love-tormented brest Excuse then I humbly beseech you these humble lines that invisibly present to your sair hands an humbler suit then can be expressed I beseech you to extend a gratious hand to stay a fainting soul from sinking that without you is as nothing whose worth and remembrance gives me being for I desire not to be where your being is not It is that only that betters my joy and makes me sensible of content there being no content equal to the enjoying a companion of so great worth To conclude I shall expect the sentence of my life or death in your answer and remain so perfectly yours that I can say nothing neer it when I say I am Madam your most faithful most obedient and most affectionate servant Another to a Gentlewoman desiring his forbearance to visit her c WIth what words sufficiently to set forth my affection and with what expressions high enough to manifest the constancy of my love because I cannot tell I shall appeal to your self whether the sincerity of my actions and the integrity of my words be not able to justify me And I dare appeal to heaven whether or no my words have in the least manner tended to dissimulation swerving from professed truth or my actions digressed from nature but since your rigor pleases to command I shall withdraw my person yet in lieu of return will leave my heart with you and maugre fate subscribe my self Mistress ever thine in an unalterable affection A Gentleman debarred the society of his Mistress thus writes to her SInce my misfortunes are so great that those most happy opportunities we formerly enjoyed by a mutual intercourse and converse are at present vanished I cannot but by these manifest the constancy of my affection which shall remain even to my latest gaspe I hope nay am confident that you will not now after the heaping on me so many and so great favours estrange your self and for my part I am and even will be wholly thine And since my endeavours have been so happy to win your favour they will double in length and redouble in goodness the remainder of my daies All my right in all things is yours and your demand my content you are my joy and my greatest height of happiness is to enjoy you Your person is the food of my thoughts the relief of my wishes and the repast of my desires Your love to me is a continual hunger after which I daily earnestly more and more long your absence my extreme famine which makes me pine away with grief And if any poor endeavours of mine may be but pleasing to your most vertuous self I shall esteem my self most happie when most serviceable to you And in the mean while shall rest assured of your love as you may of having his heart who is Yours inseparably A Gentleman having made his suit by speech thus seconds it by writing THat I should begin my Letter with the declaration of my love seems to me altogether preposterous and unnecessary sith I manifested it to you so long since But I may well bemoan my ill fortune that cannot yet gain your good opinion of me to credit your words but that you still think me one of those who are altogether faithless Is it my lot for Love to reap Disdain Let me but know wherein I have offended and my life shall answer my misdemeanour All I desire is love your love because nothing can satisfie love but love I could enlarge but lest I be too troublesome I will say no more but that I am Your affectionate servant Her Answer Sir I Received a Paper from you which I here answer to clear my self of that accusation of being scornful which you cast upon me That I do not forget you witness this but yet I am so far from being pleased with your Letters that I can hardly bear the reading them especially since they proceed from a deceitful heart as I believe yours is If then you love me as you profess shew it in this That you trouble me no more with your Letters in hopes whereof I remain Sir Your c. His Reply My Dearest THat you do not forget me is my onely my chief happiness but that to think of me should move you to impatience is my greatest misery What greater torment then to love and not to be loved again Heaven and earth are not able to parallel so great cruelty But your words that you cannot believe my seigned vows carry with them a killing accent O heavens bear ye witness of my reality and sincere affection I love you as I profess but by obeying your command a breach might be made into the love of Yours while he lives and even in death Another ACcording to my duty and the obligements that lic upon me for the manifestation of my loyal constancie I do hereby humbly kiss your hands protesting that my love increases and renews with the day more and more The Sun in its greatest splendor hath been over-pow'red with clouds and darkned with mists and sometimes even the most constant affection has been scandalized with disloyalty Let Envie then pine it self to death and let Malice burst it self with rage yet will I remain constant yet will I be unremoveable never to be altered from my

Departing soul A warning to the Grave HArk now every think is still The Skreech-owle and the whistler shrill Call upon our Dame aloud And bid her quickly d'on her shrowd Much you had of Land and Rent Your length in clay 's now competent A long war disturb'd your mind Here your perfect peace is sign'd Of what is' t Fooles make such vain keeping Sin their conception their birth weeping Their life a general mist of error Their death a hideous storm of terror Strew your haire with powder sweet D'on clean linen bathe your feet 'T is now full tide tween night and day End your groan and come away A mournful Ditty on the death of a drowned friend FLow streams of Equid salt from my sad eyes To celebrate his mournful obsequies R. S. is dead he 's dead and I remain To draw my poor life in continual pain Till it hath paid to his sad memory Duty of love O then most willingly Drown'd with my teares as he with waves I dye Of women in general THere are some holy but some apt to sin Some tractable but some that none can win Such as are vertuous gold nor wealth can move Some vicious of themselves are prone to love Some grapes are sweet and in the garden grow Others unprun'd turn wild neglected so The purest oare containes both gold and dross The one all gain the other nought but loss The one disgrace reproach and scandal taints The other Angels and sweet featur'd Saints DUst is lighter then a feather And the wind more light then either But a womans fickle mind More light then feater dust or wind A Dialogue between ENDYMION EXPENDITION Ex. WHat ho Endymion how the Dormouse sleeps A wake for shame open thy wink a peeps End What stir you make I come with speed I can And too much speed for I have tyr'd my man Expe. Who Dulman End Yes I thought the Knave would shame us And play us one horse trick for Ignoramus Anagrams A good Patron 's Anagram is PATREN Anag PARENT An evil ones PATRONE Anag ROPEAN'T CHEATER Anag TEACHER Teacher you are for you have taught me more Then I was taught in all my life before Bliss or Bale No medium in love IF you reward my love with love again My bliss my life my heaven I will deem you But if for love you render me disdain My bale my death my hell I must esteem you A Madrigal WHosoever longs to try Both love and Jealousie My fair unconstant Lady let him see And he will soon a jealous lover bee The Lovers Letany FRom a fair face and a false heart From the force of Cupids forked dart From a wagtail'd wench with an wart Libera me From an oiled skin and a false hair From towsed fullied and o'er-jaded ware From a painted Fro of St. James his faire Libera me From a wanton hag and a noseless Jone From ent'ring the pass a Frenchman has gon From her that will for a shilling be won Libera me From a City-decoy and a suburb-Bawd From a Panders gripe and a courtesans fraud From a parcht Parachito whose face is flau'd Libera me From a drunken female who spreads her thies From an old woman that hath lust in her eyes From a common strumpet who seems to be nice Libera me The Bride-maids Song FRom the Temple to the Boord From the Boord unto the Bed We conduct your maidenhead Wishing Hymen to afford All the pleasures that he can 'Twixt a woman and a man A Song to be sung the marriage-night by two in parts The first THine O Hymen thine O shee Whose beauties verse Caliope Sing to marriage-rites an Io. Io to Hymen The second To thee Apollo is my sute Lend me a while thy silver Lute O what a wo it is to bring A Bride to bed and never sing Io to Hymen Ambo When she 's old still seem she young When she 's weak to her be strong Be Cyprus both and Paplos here Love sing with merry cheere Io to Hymen Ad eundem the bridegroom being wanting at bed-time DRop golden showers gentle sleep And all the Angels of the night Which do us in protection keep Make the Bride dream of delight Morpheus be kind a little and be Deaths true Image for 't will prove To this poor bride that then th art he Her lord is absent from her love Thus with sweet sweets can heaven mix gall Come quickly Bridegroom or not at all Song SIng sweetly that our notes may cause The heav'nly orbes themselves to pause And at our musick stand as still As at Joves amorous will So now release them as before Th 'ave waited long enough no more The description of a matchless beauty written at the request of the most brave and gallant Lady the Lady L. S. during my residence at Winchester 1648. HEr haire like hemlocks careless fall To deck her amorous eyes withall As fiery as the evening where We read the next day will be fair Her curious forehead well doth show Where Carbuncles in number grow But the beauty of her nose Would fright a man out of his clothes To dance a naked round-delay When on the tobacco-pipe you play And the pale brightness of her lips Doth force the Sun to an eclipse Her cheeks of fat and soggy stuff Like the running dropsey swell and puff But oh the apples on them grow I think were rotten long ago Her precious neck and brests display Her skins antiquity for they Like a dri'd dunghil chop and break Until her snout begins to leak Her parched fists defie the Sun For all the malice he hath don Can't change her hide nor any stain Corrupt it for it 's dy'd in grain Her spacious belly and her waste Have grease sufficiently to baste A herd of swine they have such store A Shambles cannot purchase more Her thighes like two Colossus seem Proportion'd with her bodies teem And those which bear her pond'rous betch Are mighty columns full of itch But some that have her hoofes espi'd With fear the fooles fell down and di'd Yet all this while I have forgot Her tongue as still as Cannon-shot All parts of her I can't display The rest unseen the Devil may She is the wonder of our age Nor lacks she ought but a large cage Englands Elyzium An Heroick Poem intended THou fertil Island seated in the sea Whose waves do dance by musick of the Moon That on thy banks pretty Lavolta's play As if they would intreat thee take a boon Receive all fish that 's food and bless the store For never monster shall come neer thy shore Thou little world yet all without the world Thou second Eden seated in the west From thee thy fountains in seven mouths are hurl'd Such as from Nile the garden door so blest Humber ware Tine Dee four so have their names Severn and Owze the last and richest Thames No beasts of danger live upon thy earth No Panther Tyger ought procuring harms To Lyons Dragons thou

setled resolution which is to be Yours wholly and onely A Gentleman to his Mistress having won her consent to affection THe thoughts of those many great favours I have received from you especially your grant of affection drive me to so high a rapture of joy that I am neither able to contain my self in any bounds nor yet to express the ardencie of my affection What shall I say I am so full of love that there is no room in my heart for any thought but of thee Happie I who am blessed with the love of so heavenly so vertuous a companion Now shall cuhearts seed on pleasures and our eyes behold the bliss of each other in the full comfort of all content we will sleep in love and wake and walk in all sulness of joy enjoying in our hearts more delights then either Nature affords or Art can express among which this shall be chief That thou art mine and that I am Thine c A Gentleman crossed in his affection thus writes to his Mistress THere is no creature in this spacious fabrick of the whole world so wide either of Sense or Reason which being diseased or afflicted but doth finde by meer instinct of nature some present remedy to help his infirmity Man onely excepted who can finde no medicine by whose secret vertues he may allay his grief This now I know by proof and therefore speak by experience But it is not to complain of you that I now take pen in hand but onely to lament my unfortunate birth that has brought me into so unhappie a predicament as to be contemned of you And I protest I have called my soul to an account for all her actions but cannot accuse any one of them Go then my Paper and in your Masters name first humbly kiss her hands then tell her she can never heal the wound she hath made in her Faith and my Love which I am resolved to carry with me to my grave hoping that the heavens moved at last will through my patient suffering make me as dear to you as you are now cruel to me However no earthly thing shall hinder me from serving you for I will rather die then be inconstant in my love and will flee with the hazard of my life the reproach of disloyalty A Gentleman going into the Country after this manner writes his Adieu to his Mistress TO tell you of my constancie I think is unnecessary since you finde it and to declare in what a continued course of perseverance my faithful affection has gone from its very beginning to this present would make my Letter swell to a Volume Besides so perfect a thing as my love to your divine self as it will suffer no question so it seems to receive injury by addition of any words unto it I could not but write to you not knowing whether you would be pleased to grant me the favour to see you or make me happie in the fruition of your company before my departure And when I am abroad my actions shall testifie that you are always in my heart And if I can be so happie to keep a room in your thoughts and memory it will be my greatest comfort in my loneliness and my chief joy in my recess c. A Letter protesting love WIth how great pleasure do I now whilst I sit alone recount my happiness in my love which in my greatest me lancholy is my chiefest and most most pleasing comfort If you knew but the delight that I take in the remembring your dear self you would wonder at my felicity I cannot tell how to express my affection I love I love you yea you alone with an everlasting and most vertuous affection But this is too short since then words sail services and actions shall take their place whose real performance shall prove a perfect demonstration of the never-altering never-dying affection of My Dear Yours devoted to eternily A Gentleman in the Country writes to his Mistress in London IT is not length of time distance of place or absence from you can any whit lessen my love or put the remembrance of your most dear self either out of my minde or heart And seriously were it not for the want of your dear company I could be content always to be here but you are the Star on whom both my good fortune and welfare depends you are the Loadstone whose vertue attracts keeps possesses my heart and thoughts where-ever my person is This very thing makes this place tedious to me in that I am debarred of your society but if the place were sweetned with your presence I should account every tree a Paradise and every tree would seem an Elizium c. A Gentleman writes to his displeased Mistress IF ever any man could on a sudden be thrown down from the highest pinacle of Joy to the lowest gulf of infinite unsupportable miseries certainly I am he for your causless anger hath filled me with such a confusion of thoughts that I know not which way to turn my self But now at last I have got my pen to paper which does in all humility crave pardon of you if in any thing I have offended or were guilty of what you mislike and withal promises such an amendment for the future as shall never incur the danger of your dislike And if ever my thoughts did receive so much as a fainting in their affections if they have not continually with more and more ardor from time to time pursued the possession of your favour then let heavens most horrible plagues fall upon me Do not then use him so hardly who would for your sake hazard himself and all his future hopes Nay though you should be cruelly severe to me yet let me say thus much There is no one in the world that does or shall more cordially affect your person or more really wish your good then my dejected self and Your despised servant A Letter requesting love SEeing the many vertues that so resplendently shine in you and that heavenly beauty wherewith Nature in an extraordinary measure hath eariched you unless I were blotted with a stupid senslesness I cannot but acknowledge you divine and able to command Cupid to let flie a shaft where you please Hoping therefore your ingenuity will admit my unpolished lines without a superficial complemental gloss or the rich accent of a ceremonial eloquence which could I use I would not yet censure me not to be altogether void of Oratory when my style is bound to be friendly and the best lines are drawn from the centre of a strong affection Know I love nay start not Madam at that word since you can so easily prescribe a remedy for my love-inflamed heart Love is all I crave which with modesty may be granted to Madam Yours to eternity A Letter from a Gentleman in the Country to his sweet-heart in the City OF all earthly things there is nothing wherein I take so much pleasure or whence I receive so