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TEACH me to love? go teach thyself more wit; 1 chief profeffor am of it.

Teach craft to Scots, and thrift to Jews;
Teach boldness to the stews;

In tyrants' courts teach supple flattery;
Teach Jefuits, that have travell'd far, to lie;
Teach fire to burn, and winds to blow;
Teach restless fountains how to flow;
Teach the dull earth fix'd to abide;
Teach woman-kind inconftancy and pride:
See if your diligence here will ufeful prove;
But, prithee, teach not me to love.

11.

The god of Love, if fuch a thing there be,
May learn to love from me.

He who does boast that he has been
In every heart fince Adam's fin,

I'll lay my life, nay, Mistress, on 't, that's more,
I'll teach him things he never knew before;

I'll teach him a receipt to make
Words that weep, and tears that speak;
I'll teach him fighs, like thofe in death,

At which the fouls go out, too, with the breath;
Still the foul stays, yet ftill does from me run,
As light and heat does with the fun.

III.

'Tis I who Love's Columbus am; 'tis I
Who must new worlds in it defcry.;
Rich worlds, that yield of treasure more
Than all that has been known before :
And yet, like his, I fear, my fate must be,
To find them out for others, not for me.
Me times to come, I know it, shall
Love's laft and greatest Prophet call;
But, ah! what's that, if she refuse

To hear the wholefome doctrines of my Mufe?
If to my fhare the Prophet's fate must come,
Hereafter fame, here martyrdom?

The Refolution.

I.

THE devil take thofe foolish men Who gave you first such pow'rs;

Called inconftant.

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