An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History and Literature (8 of 8)
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An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History and Literature (8 of 8)
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49.
_Another._
My promise past shall ever last.
50.
_From a young man to his Love shewing that Virtue and Beauty
should be together._
Thy beauty much, thy virtue such, my heart hath fired:
The first alone is worse than none; but both, admired.
51.
_The Posy of a pitiful Lover writ in a Riband Carnation three
pennies broad, and wound about a fair branch of Rosemary; upon which
he wittily plays thus_:
Rosemary, ROSE, I send to thee;
In hope that thou wilt marry me.
Nothing can be sweet, ROSE!
More sweeter unto HARRY,
Than marry ROSE:
Sweeter than this Rosemary.
52.
_The Sweet Reply, in a conceit of the same cut, sent by
ROSE, with a vial of Rosewater of her making._
Thy sweet commands again, my sweetest HARRY!
My sweet Rosewater for thy sweet Rosemary:
By which, sweet HAL, sweet ROSE doth let thee see,
Thy love's as sweet to her as hers to thee.
53.
_A wanton Lover's wish sent in a Handkercher with a Cupid wrought
in the middle._
To me by far more fair is my fair ANNE
Than sweet-cheeked LEDA, with her silver swan:
That I ne'er saw, but have the picture seen;
And wished myself between thine arms, sweet NAN.
54.
_For a Ring._
Desire like fire doth still aspire.
55.
_A Posy sent with a pair of Bracelets._
Mine eye did see, my heart did choose;
True love doth bind till death doth loose.
56.
_Another sent with a silk Girdle._
Accept of this, my heart withal;
My love is great, though this be small.
57.
_Another sent with a rich pair of Gloves._
This for a certain truth true love approves.
"The heart's not where it lives, but where it loves."
58.
_For Rings._
Heart's content can ne'er repent.
59.
_Another._
My heart and I until I die.
60.
Not two but one till life be gone.
61.
_A Lover's conceit upon a Bracelet and Partlet_ [neck-kerchief, or
ruff]; _sent with a pair of amber Bracelets._
Bracelets I'll give, embrace let's ever!
Let Partlets go, for part let's never.
62.
Love ever, or love never.
63.
_A Posy sent by a young Man to his Love, with a Looking Glass._
Be true as fair, then past compare!
64.
_For a Ring._
A woman kind, all joy of mind.
65.
As I to thee, so wish to me!
66.
_A drooping Lover's conceit, playing upon the word._
Hard and Heart in sound are near;
And both within thy breast I fear.
67.
_Her coy and nipping Reply, in his own invention._
The sound's as near in Brace and Brass,
In Hose and Horse, in Ace and Ass.
68.
_The Posy of a young Man, sent with a Scarf._
For one and love, some say are blind:
I say they see, if thou prove kind.
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