A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne: Quickened With Metrical Illustrations, Both Morall and Divine, Etc.Wither, George
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A Collection of Emblemes, Ancient and Moderne: Quickened With Metrical Illustrations, Both Morall and Divine, Etc.
Wither, George
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Hee that shall say he _Loves_, and was againe
So well-belov’d, that neither _Hee_ nor _Shee_
Suspects each other, neither needs to gaine
New proofes, that they in all Desires agree;
And, yet, shall coole againe in their _Affection_,
(And leave to Love) or live till they are _Lovers_
The second-time; It some grosse Imperfection
In _One_ (if not in _Both_) of them discovers.
It was not _Love_ which did between them grow;
But, rather, somewhat like unto the same;
Which (having made a faire deceiving _Show_)
Obtain’d, a while, that honorable Name.
For, _False-Affections_ will together play
So lovingly; and, oft, so act those Parts
Which reall seeme; that, for a time, they may
Appeare the _Children_ of _Vnfeigned-Hearts_:
Yea, Many-times, true _Turtles_ are deceiv’d
By counterfeited _Passions_, till their _Love_
Of her true _Object_ findes her selfe bereav’d;
And, after it, is forced to remove:
But, where _True-Love_ begetteth, and enjoyes
The proper _Object_, which shee doth desire,
Nor _Time_, nor _Injury_ the same destroyes;
But, it continues a _Perpetuall Fire_.
Like am’rous _Thisbe_ to her _Pyramus_,
On all occasions, it continues true:
Nor _Night_, nor _Danger_, makes it timorous;
But, through all Perills, it will him pursue.
Thus, both in _Life_, in _Death_, in all estates,
True-_Lovers_ will be true-_Associates_.
_When =Two= agree in their =Desire=,
One =Sparke= will set them =both= on =Fire=._
[Illustration: FLAMMESCIT VTERQVE
ILLVSTR. XXXIV. _Book. 1._]
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