Selected quad for the lemma: love_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
love_n	heart_n	love_v	world_n	13,220	5	5.1546	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08881	Cupids posies, for bracelets, handkercers, and rings, with scarfes, gloves and other things. Written by Cupid on a day, when Venus gave me leave to play, verbum sat amanti. The lover sheweth his intent, by gifts that are with posies sent.		1674 (1674)	Wing C7609; ESTC R171657	5,723	30

CUPIDS POSIES For Bracelets Handkercers and Rings With Scarfes Gloves and other things Written by Cupid on a day When Venus gave me leave to play Verbum sat amanti The Lover sheweth his intent By Gifts that are with posies sent London Printed by E. C. for J. Wright next to the Globe in Little-Brittain 1674. To his Mother VENUS Cupid Dedicateth his Posies MOther your Love to me was shown Before that I could go alone For with Nectar then you fed me And in tender manner bred me Till perceiving once that I Was able on my wings to flie I did descend unto the Earth With my Bow to make some mirth For all the World is my park Where when I shoot I hit the Mark Young Men and Maidens are my Game While I the little Bowman am Yet lest you may think my leasure 〈◊〉 do only waste in pleasure These Posies I have writ of late Which to you I dedicate That so the love may be exprest Of your son that loves you best CUPIDS Posies I That Cupid called am And shall never be a Man But am still the blinded Boy That bréeds Lovers much anoy Having gotten on a day From my Mother leave to play And obtained use of sight I in wantonnese did write These same Posies which I send And to Lovers do commend Which if they be writ within The little circle of a Ring Or be sent unto your Loves With fiue Handkerchers Gloves I do know that like my Dart They have power to wound the heart For instead of Flowers and Roses Here are words bound up in Posies 1. A posie written on a pair Bracelets and sent by a young Man to his Love My Love these Braclets take and think of them no harm But since they Bracelets be let them imbrace thy arm 2. Another Receive this Sacrifice in part From the Altar of my heart 3. I do owe both love and duty To your vertue and your beauty 4. A posie sent with a pair of Gloves You are that one For whom alone my heart doth only care Then do but joyn Your heart with mine and we will make a pair 5. Another I send to you a pair of Gloves If you love me Leave out the G. And make a pair of Loves 6. Another Though these Gloves be white and fair Yet thy hands more whiter are 7. Another These Gloves are happy That kiss your hands Which long have held my heart in Cupids bands 8. The posie of a Lover to his disdaining Mistress Vt Stella in tenebris Sic Amor in adversis Englished As the Stars in darkest night So love despised shining 9. The posie of a handkercher sent from a young man to his Love being wrought in blew silk This handkercher to you assures That this and what I have is yours 10. Another Love is like a hidden flame Which will at last blaze forth again 11. Another in Letters My love is true which IOV Is true to me then CVB 12. The posie of a Ring sent to a Maid from her Lover My constant Love shall ne're remove 13. Another This and I untill I die 14. Memento mei When this you sée Remember me 15. Like to a cirrle round no end in love is found Take me with it for both are fit 16. A young mans conceit to his dear Love being wrought upon a scarf This Scarf is but an embleme of my love Which I have sent with full intent my service to approve 17 Another wherein the Lover seeketh her Love One was the Bow one was the Dart That wounded us both to the heart Then since we both do féel one pain Let one love cure us both again 18. A young mans posie to his Sweet heart shewing that Love is most violent in absence Love is a flame that with a violent desire Doth burn us most when we are farthest from the fire 19. As those that die are said for to depart So when you went a way all life forsook my heart For though with inward pain I draw my very breath Yet this I will maintain departure is a Death 20. A Lover coming into a Maidens chamber in her absence did write this posie on her looking-glass In this same Looking-glass my watry eyes I sée But I do wish that thou coulds shew her chéerful eyes to me Yet why do I accuse thée here t is not thy fault for thou art cléer 21. posies of Rings for young Lovers which have newly discovered their affection Let me serve till I desire 22. Another Had I not spoke my heart had broke The utmost scope of love is hope 23. Loves delight is to unite I now do sue for love to you 24. Love I have yet Love I crave 25. A posie of a young Prentise sent to his Love with a pair of Amber Bracelets Let these same bind You to be kind unto me for Loves own sake And when we méet With kisses swoot we will Indentures make And I will bind my self to be In love a Prentice unto thée 26. A Lovers short posie in the praise of his Mistriss You have Venus lip and eye With Diana's Chastity In those parts which are revealed Venus beauty is exprest Yet there is some parts concealed which my fancy judgeth best 27. A young man to his Sweet-heart setting forth the better eff●cts of a disdained Love Love is like a golden trée Whose fruit most pleasant séems to be Whiles disdain doth never sléep But this trée of Love doth kéep Yet I hope you will at last Think upon my service past 28. A posie sent by a young man to a pretty young maid in the same Town with a very fair point of Coronation colour Ribbon My dearest Love I send this Ribbon point to thée In hope the young men of the Town shall not still point at me Because I am thy Lover true Then grant me thy Love swéet Sue 29. Another There is no joy can be to Lovers half so swéet As when that Lovers do agrée and in one point do méet 93. the posie of a Ring Thou art my heart 1. More dearer to me then life can be 32. Another Love is joy without annoy 33. Another T is in your will to save or kill 34. A Posie wrought in Red Silk Letters upon an Ash coloured Scarf Every Letter here doth shew That my heart is link't to you And by this Token is exprest That you are she whom I love best 35. A Batchelors Posie sent with a fair pair of Gloves to a young Maid with whom he was to be married on the next Holy-day following Dulce bellum in expertis Thou art a Maid my dearest Nan And I a Batchelor too am Then néeds must Venus wars be swéet When two maiden-Lovers méet 36. The Posie of a Handkercher very fairly laced about with a flaiming heart wrought in the middle Great is the greif that I sustain Which here is figured by a fleme That doth torment me in each part But chiefly seizeth on my heart Yet

rather then my heart shall turn From my Faith in love I 'le burn From a Young-man to his off●nded Mistress Dearest if I have offended enjoyn me then some pennance hard That my fault may be amended ere your favour be debard For if I must pennance do I 'le go unto no Saint but you 37. A posie sent to a Maid being cunningly enterwoven in a Silk Bracelet Kindly take this Gift of mine For Gift and Giver both are thine 38. A posie written in a piece of guilt paper folded up very neatly like a Letter and bound about with green Silk and so sent to a Maid that had the Green-Sickness Like to this Silk that is so Gréen So doth the fading colour séem A Letter changed in thy Name Will bring your colour back again Change N. for M. my gréen chéeckt Nan For I do sée you lack a Man 40. Posies for Rings Faithful Love can ne're remove 41. Another If you consent I am content 42. To a maid Engraven on each side of a Silver Bodkin Like unto a Bodkin so is love Sharp untill the swéet we prove 43. To his Sweet-heart that had objected against him for want of means Come my Love if Love you grant What is it that Love can want In thée I have sufficient store Grant me thy Love I wish no more A posie sent from a maid to a young man wiih a very fair wrought purse My Hearts Purse you are my wealth And I will kéep you to my self 44. The posie of a Ring True Love well plac'd is ne're disgrac'd 45. I am your friend unto the end 46. Yours I am be mine again 47. Love it self discloses by gifts with Posies 48. A Posie sent with a pair of Gloves What should I write some words do move Suspition unto those that Love Then without any further art In one word you have my heart 49. Her Reply Lest for a heart you should complain With mine I send yours back again For Love to me this power doth give That my heart in your heart doth live 50. A young Mans posie wrought in a Handkercher A Maiden vertuous chaste and fair Is a Iewel past compare And such are you in whom I find Vertue is with beauty Ioyn'd 51. A Maidens posie sent with a willow colour point to a young man that had forsaken her Your love was like a spark which in the Ashes lies That shineth for a time but afterwards it dies Since therefore you did faithless prove I do here denounce your love 52. posies for Rings Be true to me As I to thée I love none But thée alone To his Sweet-heart to whom he sent a purse with these Verses in it swéet-Swéet-heart my love to you I commend And therewithal this Purse to you I send Which is not fil'd with silver or with gold Only my heart it doth contain and hold I do rejoyce In thée my choice One love one troth Betwéen us both Constant true Love Comes from above You are my friend Vnto the end To a Maid these Lines were sent with a Scarf This Scarf will kéep off the rude wind Which to your Lips the way would find I would have none know the bliss But my self at your swéet kiss Which I would hav● none else to taste Lest your stock of kisses waste Verses written on a Gentle-womans Lute and left in her Chamber Lute I intreat thée to complain To her that doth my love disdain And when thy Mistress cometh home Tell her here hath béen one Would if she had not thought it much Have given her a gentle touch On a Knife If you love me as I love you Nothing can cut our love in two To a Gentlewoman who appointed one to buy her a Mask which he bought and sent it with this Posie It is a pitty you should wear a Mask This is the reason if you do ask Because it hides your face so fair Where Roses mixt with Lillies are It clouds your beauty so that we Your Cherry Lips can seldom sée And from your face kéeps off our eyes Which is indéed loves Paradice Verses sent with a pair of Bracelets These Bracelets like a circle shall environ round your Arm Happy are they what ere befal that shall be kept warm And may they like two circles prove to charm your heart for to love me Let Cupid the Magician be to charm your heart for to love me Posies for Rings I will remain Always the same You and I Will Lovers die My vow is past While life doth last Lovers knot once tide Who can divide Verbum sat amanti Amo te Si amas me I love thée If thou love me To a fair Maid sent with a posie of Flowers Beauty is like a flower swéet Maid Which quickly doth decay and fade Then wisely now make use of time Since you are now even in your prime Two lines embroidered on the top of a pair of Gloves I wish that we two were a pair As these happy Gloves here are Nick a Farmers son sendeth to Joan Hobson a yard of blew Ribbond with these Lines I send you here of Ribbond a whole yard And money goeth with me very hard For else this yard two yards should be Since I do hold nothing too dear for thée And part therefore my love if that thou wilt In this same Ribbon which is made of silk A posie wrought upon a Handkercher in silk Letters Do not too lightly of me think Who write in Letters stead of Ink To send this token I made shift Estéem the giver and not the gift A posie on a Thimble He that sent me Loveth thée A Cabinet being sent to a Gentle-Woman these Verses were put in one of the Drawers This little Cabinet will conceal All things which you would not reveal Your Letters and your other things As your Iewels and your Rings Let me know then in what part Or box you will lay up my heart Which with it I do send and pray That in your heart you would it lay Let me such favour from you get Make your heart my hearts Cabinet To a Maid a young Man sendeth a silk Girdle This girdle haply shall be plac'd To compass round your neat small waste I were happy if in this place I might thy slender waste imbrace A posie of four lines written in red Letters on the four sides of an Handkercher Things of most constancy still are Resembled to solid square So my triangular heart shall be A four square figure of constancy Posies for Rings Be thou mine As I am thine In weal and woe My love I 'le show I will be true Always to you There is no joy Like love without annoy Love crost is best And prosper best Ioy doth abound Where love is found My Vow that 's past Till death shall last I lode none But you alone To thée my heart I give Whilest I here do live Love joyneth hands In wedlock bands A Posie Engraven about a Jewel sent to a Gentle-Woman There is no Iewel I can sée Like love that 's sent in constancy The Conclusion Cupids Posies now at last are done For if you read them all you will like some For these new Posies are both swéet brief And will disclose the sighing Lovers grief For Cupid having too much idle leasure Compos'd these Posies for his pleasure 52. A Posie to an unkind disdainful Maid Each frown of yours is like a Dart That woundeth me unto the heart What conquest were it if that I By your cruel frown should die Since love my only trespass is And shall I die alass for this Her Reply If alass for love you chance to die 'T is your own folly kills your heart not I. 53. To a young Maid about fifteen years of Age. Fiftéen Years you now have staid Fie t is too long to be a Maid 54. A posie engraven on a Gold Ring By this Ring of Gold Take me to have and hold 55. Another What joy in life To a good wife A posie embroidered on a Scarf Fairest wear this scarf that I do send That may our Beauty from the wind defend For I do know the winds if like to me To kiss your lips and chéeks desirous be On the choice of a Wife If thou intend'st to chuse a wife With whom to lead a happy life Look not for beauty since there are Few that can be chaste and fair But if thou do her vertues find Which is the beauty of the mind Woe her then to gain consent For vertuous Love can ne're repent Cupids Conclusion Fair Maids my posies now are done Which for yours sakes I first begun And young men here may alwayes chuse Such posies as they mean to use I Cupid writ them on a day When Venus gave me leave to play And if you like them for my pain Then Cupid means to write again FINIS