SONGS. BY THOMAS CAREW, ESQ. I'L MURDRING BEAUTY. gaze no more on her bewitching face, Since ruine harbours there in every place : For my enchanted foul alike fhe drowns 5 With calms and tempefts of her smiles and frowns. I furfet with exceffe of joy, and dye. ETERNITY OF LOVE PROTESTED. How ill doth he deferve a lover's name, Whose pale weak flame Cannot retain 10 His heat in spight of absence or disdain; True love can never change his feat, That noble flame, which my breft keeps alive, When my foule's filed; Nor fhall my love dye when my bodye's dead; And never fade. My very afhes in their urn Shall, like a hallowed lamp, for ever burn. 5 10 15 THE FAREWELL. BY HENRY KING, BISHOP OF CHICHESTER.' * Splendidis longùm valedico nugis. FAREWELL, fond Love, under whofe childish whip Thou that haft made me thy fcorn'd property, 5 Farewell, falfe Hope, that fann'd my warm defire, Which nor fighs cool, nor tears extinguish can, 10 Farewell, vain World, upon whose restless stage Twixt Love and Hope, I have foold out my age; Henceforth, ere fue to thee for my redress, Ile wooe the wind, or court the wilderness; And buried from the dayes difcovery, Study a flow yet certain way to dy. 15 My woful monument fhall be a cell, The murmur of the purling brook my knell; 20 THE STORY OF PHOEBUS AND DAPHNE APPLIED. BY EDMUND WALLER, ESQ. THIRSIS, a youth of the inspired train, 5 10 Or form fome image of his cruell fair. 15 |