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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67615	The effigies of love being a translation from the Latine of Mr. Robert Waring of Christ-Church in Oxford, master of arts, and proctor of that university. To which is prefixt a tombstone-encomium, by the same author, sacred to the memory of the prince of poets, Ben. Johnson; also made English by the same hand.; Amoris effigies. English.	Waring, Robert, 1614-1658.; Cross, Thomas, fl. 1632-1682, engraver.; Nightingale, Robert, fl. 1680.	1680 (1680)	Wing W866; ESTC R219407	44,991	161

not of Pleasure Thou hast invented a new Delight beyond that of embracing By this sort of Wantonness worse than that of the Stews thou hast deflowr'd Love it self Diligently to please is the Art of Flatterers and the alluring venome of Harlotrie Society Splendidly to entertain is the Intrigue of those that fish for their own ends to soothe with Bribes the common trick of Suitors the Rudiment of loving not the life of Lovers Far be it from us to believe him to be a Friend whom while we desire he is a torment to us when we enjoy him irksome Yet they are not far out of the way who believe all Lovers inhabit Elysium and that Flowers spring up wherere they tread There are no other Joys in Heaven than to Love and be Belov'd no other upon Earth That divine Flame which makes the Empyreum and is to be the Happiness of our future Life shall be the only Solace of this All other things we suffer those only we enjoy which we pluck up by force with our wishes which we chuse and for whose sake we endure all other Hardships In Storms we see the Brethren Twins with an earnest gladness rejoycing together and bringing no less liquid Joys to the Saylors than to themselves but having joyn'd their Lights they loose themselves in their Embraces and become Twins again We have seen the Favourites of Venus encompass'd with a Cloud like young Brides under their silken Veils led to their wishes with a more secret Triumph We confess there is in Love something more potent than Misery more Majestical than Honour more splendid than Riches more delightful than Pleasure for whose sake we despise all those things for whose sake on the other side we do not contemn but have those things in Veneration It enjoys that Priviledge of Majesty that no Ignominy can touch it rather it frees from Infamy and renders glorious the very stains and blemishes of Life Hence it comes to pass that the Thirteenth Labour of Hercules is so much applauded and that it is reckon'd among his praise-worthy deeds to have handled a Distaff as well as brandish'd his Club wherewith after he had vanquish'd all other wilde Beasts it remain'd for him to tame that Monster Woman Why do we admire those immaculate Rays of Phoebus since the Tapers of Hymen give a lustre to sordid things being never themselves defil'd Why does the famish'd Soul so sollicitously seek Divinity in things below if it bring Divinity along with it And indeed whatever we love all that is Deity Whatever thou desirest is Jupiter How Does Jupiter buy and sell for that sordid person stampt all over that admits no Companion without a Dowry Yes but Jupiter thundering under the shape of Gold and the Deity converted into a Price How Does Jupiter itch with a libidinous Desire Yes but Jupiter in the shape of a Satyr and the Deity converted into Semeleian flames Jupiter invites himself to Supper but Jupiter lurking under the soft Down of a beautiful Swan Jupiter is luxurious but 't is the Ganymedean Iupiter bedew'd with Nectar and Ambrosia The Poets were not altogether deceived Our Loves and Amours not those of Jupiter transform'd the Deity into these conceited Disfigurements But because volatile and wandering Love is never at a stay till it come to the top or pleasingly discern'd believes itself there arriv'd when it is always the companion of the chiefest Good or as if it were the chiefest it ought to acquiesce in this one thing and travel earnestly toward this as Souls covet Heaven or Fire the Center He will have no leasure to tend the Allurements of new Felicity if there be any such He will not endure to love another nor so much as himself he will complain that he is below his own desires and so overmuch wanting to that which fills and wearies with overmuch desire and after he has wholly set his minde upon one yet cannot finde he has done enough it remains that he must be cruel to all but Stoics and Monks Hence Monster of Syracuse who invented a new Tyranny a third degree of Friendship Who could not endure to murder a pair of Friends but endeavoured to separate them and to intercept the Fidelity which he had emulated of a Tyrant being become a Rival Tell me Tyrant if thou cam'st a threefold Lover to these Twins which wouldst thou first receive into thy Bosome If thou challengest the equal Embraces of both Suppose one of them to be led to Death which wouldst thou choose to dye with the one or live with the other I finde thee at a loss like a piece of Iron between two Loadstones detain'd from both upon the confines of the two Elections Foolishly thou desir'st to live and dye both at a time Equality of Affection amuses a Lover about to adhere to neither yet to both The one expects thy tears the other would have thee laugh Toward the one over-faithful and officious toward the other impious So that the Minde thus torn in several pieces like Metius deservedly merits the punishment of Metius for its Perjury Consider well Loves Dominion or his Submission for certainly these new Eteocle's and Polynice's command and obey by turns there is in both somwhat singular they will not admit of two Masters If thou supposest Love to be a God he has but one Heaven If Fire Fire has but one Sphere If Death the Gods forbid us to expire often and not above once to deposite our Souls in the bosome of another having allow'd us but once to live If thou callest a Lover the Representation Coin or Seal of the Party beloved which take their form and price from the Image the Mirrour can be enliven'd but with one Effigies at a time the Coin is to carry the Face but of one Lord or Prince the Seal closes up the Epistle to all but one But if in Friendship you look upon the Marriage of Souls it would be a great Crime to admit Polygamy in male Amours to wed a new one having married a former and commit Adultery with his Friend Does this Affection then which has distinguish'd Humane Society from the herding of Beasts bring Men about again to Stoic Barbarism which is the contempt of all men Must the the rest of Mankinde be hated to love one Heavens forbid There is nothing more kinde nothing more benigne than Friendship and Philosophy nothing more the support of the World except the Deity Minds already soft easie and prone to Affability behave themselves without Severity or Perversness to all others They diffuse their beams like Phoebus who guilds Rhodes with a more peculiar Light The party beloved is dedicated to the Lover no otherwise than a Book sent to one but to be read by all We congratulate those candid Souls who like the Gods cherish with their favourable Influence not one person but all humane Kinde Who like our first Parents look upon all Nations as one Family or as if their Minds