9

3 As Goddesse Isis (when she went,

Or glided through the street)

Made all that touch't her, with her scent,

And whom she touch't, turne sweet.

To Perenna.

WHEN I thy Parts runne o're, I can't espie

In any one, the least indecencie : 1

But every Line and Limb diffusèd thence,
A faire, and unfamiliar excellence :

So, that the more I look, the more I prove,

Ther's still more cause, why I the more should love.

Treason.

THE seeds of Treason choake up as they spring,
He Acts the Crime, that gives it Cherishing.

Two Things Odious.

TWO of a thousand things, are disallow'd,
A lying Rich man, and a Poore man proud.

9 Cf. "Love perfumes all paths" onward: 1. 7, mythical.

1

= inelegance or disorder. So Milton, "Over thy decent shoulders drawn" (Il Penseroso, 1. 36).

To his Mistresses.

HELPE me! helpe me! now I call
To my pretty Witchcrafts all;

Old I am, and cannot do

That, I was accustom'd to.

Bring your Magicks, Spels, and Charmes,

To enflesh my thighs, and armes :

Is there no way to beget

Eson had (as Poets faine) 2

Baths that made him young againe :

Find that Medicine (if you can)

For your drie-decrepid man :

Who would faine his strength renew,

Were it but to pleasure you.

The Wounded Heart.

COME bring your sampler,3 and with Art,

Draw in't a wounded Heart:

And dropping here, and there:

Not that I thinke, that any Dart,

2 Ovid. Met. vii. 163, 250, &c.

3 Fine canvas on which ornamental wool-work, and sometimes in silk, was wrought with the needle.

Can make your's bleed a teare:
Or peirce it any where;

Yet doe it to this end: that I,

May by

This secret see,

Though you can make

That Heart to bleed, your's ne'r will ake
For me.

No Loathsomnesse in love.

WHAT I fancy, I approve,

No Dislike there is in love:
Be my Mistresse short or tall,
And distorted there-withall:

Be she likewise one of those,
That an Acre hath of Nose :
Be her forehead, and her eyes
Full of incongruities:

Be her cheeks so shallow too,

As to shew her Tongue wag through:

Be her lips ill hung, or set,

And her grinders black as jet;

Ha's she thinne haire, hath she none,

She's to me a Paragon.

4-equal, or compeer, i. e., the peerless or pattern one.

Glossarial Index s. v.

See

To Anthea.

IF, deare Anthea, my hard fate it be

To live some few-sad-howers after thee:
Thy sacred Corse with Odours I will burne ;
And with my Lawrell crown thy Golden Vrne.
Then holding up (there) such religious Things,
As were (time past) thy holy Filitings: 5
Nere to thy Reverend Pitcher I will fall

Down dead for grief, and end my woes withall:
So three in one small plat of ground shall ly,
Anthea, Herrick, and his Poetry.

The Weeping Cherry.

I SAW a Cherry weep, and why?
Why wept it? but for shame,

Because my Julia's lip was by,

And did out-red the same.

But, pretty Fondling,8 let not fall

A teare at all for that:

Which Rubies, Corralls, Scarlets, all

For tincture, wonder at.

binding with fillets or bandages, and in the fillets themselves

as bindings, there were bands.

6

=

that from which she made libations and sacrificed.

7 = small piece of ground: sometimes ' plot.'

S

= foolish little thing.

9

colour or hue.

Soft Musick.

THE mellow touch of musick most doth wound The soule, when it doth rather sigh, then sound.

The Difference betwixt

Kings and Subiects.

'WIXT Kings and Subjects ther's this mighty

TWIXT

odds,

Subjects are taught by Men; Kings by the Gods.

His Answer to a Question.

SOME would know

Why I so

Long still doe tarry,

And ask why

Here that I

Live, and not marry?

Thus I those

Doe oppose;

What man would be here,

Slave to Thrall,

If at all

He could live free here?