We anchor there, and think our selves at home, For they seem all: there Syrens songs, and there 55 Wise Delphick Oracles do fill the ear; There in a Creek where chosen pearls do swell, The Remora, her cleaving tongue doth dwell. These, and the glorious Promontory, her Chin Ore past; and the streight _Hellespont_ betweene 60 The _Sestos_ and _Abydos_ of her breasts, (Not of two Lovers, but two Loves the neasts) Succeeds a boundless sea, but yet thine eye Some Island moles may scattered there descry; And Sailing towards her _India_, in that way 65 Shall at her fair Atlantick Navell stay; Though thence the Current be thy Pilot made, Yet ere thou be where thou wouldst be embay'd, Thou shalt upon another Forest set, Where many Shipwrack, and no further get. 70 When thou art there, consider what this chace Mispent by thy beginning at the face. Rather set out below; practice my Art, Some Symetry the foot hath with that part Which thou dost seek, and is thy Map for that 75 Lovely enough to stop, but not stay at: Least subject to disguise and change it is; Men say the Devil never can change his. It is the Emblem that hath figured Firmness; 'tis the first part that comes to bed. 80 Civilitie we see refin'd: the kiss Which at the face began, transplanted is, Since to the hand, since to the Imperial knee, Now at the Papal foot delights to be: If Kings think that the nearer way, and do 85 Rise from the foot, Lovers may do so too; For as free Spheres move faster far then can Birds, whom the air resists, so may that man Which goes this empty and Ætherial way, Then if at beauties elements he stay. 90 Rich Nature hath in women wisely made Two purses, and their mouths aversely laid: They then, which to the lower tribute owe, That way which that Exchequer looks, must go: He which doth not, his error is as great, 95 As who by Clyster gave the Stomack meat. [Elegie XVIII. _&c._ _Ed:_ Elegie XVIII. _1669, where it is first included among the Elegies. It had already been printed in_ Wit and Drollery. By Sir J. M., J. S., Sir W. D., J. D., and the most refined Wits of the Age. _1661. It appears in A18, A25, B, Cy, D, H49, Lec, N, O'F, S, S96, TC, with title_ Loves Progress., _or_ Elegie. on Loves Progresse., _or with no title_] [4 Love is a _1669:_ And Love's a _MSS._] [5 strange _1661 and MSS.:_ strong _1669_] [11 I,] I _1669_] [14 ever _1669:_ for ever _O'F_, _S_, _S96_] [16 (our new nature) use, _1661_] [17 these _1669 and MSS.:_ this _1661_, _Cy_, _P_, _Chambers_] [20 them] _om. 1661_] [25 beauty'is not _1661 and MSS.:_ beauties no _1669_ thus] thus: _1669_]