The art of love in two books. Written both to men and ladies. A new poem.
About this Item
- Title
- The art of love in two books. Written both to men and ladies. A new poem.
- Author
- Hopkins, Charles, 1664?-1700?
- Publication
- London :: printed for Joseph Wild, at the Elephant at Charing-Cross,
- 1700. Where gentlemen and ladies may pick novels at 6 s. per doz. and be furnish'd with most sorts of plays.
- Rights/Permissions
-
To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
- Subject terms
- Love poetry -- Early works to 1800.
- Link to this Item
-
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A23605.0001.001
- Cite this Item
-
"The art of love in two books. Written both to men and ladies. A new poem." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A23605.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
Pages
Page 6
Women and Kings alike their sway maintain,
And by dissembling what the feel, they Reign.
Blameless, your Sex does in this art excel;
'Tis no deceit, if you deceive us well.
Dissemble on, Shoot your devices far,
Be every Charm, yet be but what you are.
Be all, that Man, unsinning would adore.
Be Woman—Woman! can a Name be more?
You are of those whom all the World admire,
The Hearts of Mortals, and of Gods you Fire.
Men, to be Blest, retires to Shades with you,
And when you please we grow Immortal too.
In Beauteous Spheres, more bright than ours, you move,
You give us Paradise, you give us Love.
Page 7
For you, bright Maids, I draw my conqu'ring Pen,
To fix your Empire ore presuming Men.