Now seems she to expresse
A bashfull willingnesse ;
Shewing a heart consenting,
As with a will repenting ;
Then gently lead her on
With wise suspicion :

For that, matrons say, a measure
Of that passion sweetens pleasure.

IX.

You, you that be of her neerest kin,
Now o're the threshold force her in.
But to avert the worst,

Let her her fillets first

Knit to the posts; this point
Remembring, to anoint

The sides, for 'tis a charme
Strong against future harme:
And the evil deads, the which
There was hidden by the witch.

X.

O Venus! thou, to whom is known
The best way how to loose the zone
Of virgins: Tell the maid

She need not be afraid;
And bid the youth apply

Close kisses, if she cry;
And charge he not forbears

Her, though she wooe with teares.

Tel them, now they must adventer,
Since that love and night bid enter.

XI.

No fatal owle the bedsted keeps,
With direful notes to fright your sleeps;
No furies here about,

To put the tapers out,

Watch, or did make the bed;
'Tis omen full of dread:

But all faire signes appeare
Within the chamber here.
Juno here, far off doth stand,
Cooling sleep with charming wand.

XII.

Virgins weep not, 'twill come when,
As she, so you'l be ripe for men ;

Then grieve her not with saying
She must no more a Maying;
Or by rose-buds devine,
Who'l be her Valentine;

Nor name those wanton reaks
Y'ave had at barly-breaks;

But now kisse her, and thus say,
Take time, lady, while ye may.

XIII.

Now barre the doors, the bridegroom puts

The eager boyes to gather nuts;

To keep, and to release

That, which may the honour'd stem

Circle with a diadem.

XIV.

And now, behold! the bed or couch,

That ne'r knew bride's or bridegroom's touch,
Feels in it selfe a fire,

And, tickled with desire,
Pants with a downie breast,
As with a heart possest
Shrugging as it did move,
Ev'n with the soule of love

And, oh, had it but a tongue,
Doves, 'two'd say, yee bill too long.

XV.

O enter then! but see ye shun
A sleep untill the act be done;
Let kisses, in their close,
Breathe as the damask rose;

Or sweet as is that

gumme

Doth from Panchaia come;

Teach nature now to know

Lips can make cherries grow

Sooner then she ever yet

In her wisdome co'd beget.

XVI.

On your minutes, hours, dayes, months, years,
Drop the fat blessing of the sphears;

That good which Heav'n can give
To make you bravely live ;
Fall, like a spangling dew,
By day and night on you.
May fortune's lilly hand
Open at your command,
With all luckie birds to side

With the bridegroom and the bride.

XVII.

Let bounteous fate your spindles full
Fill, and winde up with whitest wooll.
Let them not cut the thred

TEARES ARE TONGUES.

WHEN Julia chid, I stood as mute the while
As is the fish, or tonguelesse crocodile ;

Aire coyn'd to words, my Julia co'd not heare,
But she co'd see each eye to stamp a teare ;
By which mine angry mistresse might descry,
Teares are the noble language of the eye;
And when true love of words is destitute,
The eyes by teares speak, while the tongue is mute.

UPON A YOUNG MOTHER OF MANY CHILDREN.

LET all chaste matrons, when they chance to see
My num'rous issue, praise and pitty me.
Praise me for having such a fruitfull wombe;
Pity me too, who found so soone a tomb.

TO ELECTRA.

I'LE come to thee in all those shapes,
As Jove did when he made his

Onely, I'le not appeare to thee
As he did once to Semele.

rapes;

Thunder and lightning I'le lay by,
To talk with thee familiarly;

Which done, then quickly we'll undresse

To one and th' others nakednesse;
And ravisht, plunge into the bed,
Bodies and souls commingled,