Poems, with a maske by Thomas Carew ... ; the songs were set in musick by Mr. Henry Lawes ...

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Title: Poems, with a maske by Thomas Carew ... ; the songs were set in musick by Mr. Henry Lawes ...
Author: Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639?
Publication: London :: Printed for H.M., and are to be sold by J. Martin ...,; 1651.
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STop the chafed Bore, or play
With the Lyons paw, yet fear
From the Lovers side to tear
Th'Idoll of his soul away.

Though Love cries by the sight
To the heart, it doth not fly
From the mind, when from the eye
The fair objects take their flight.

But since want provokes desire,
When we lose what we before
Have enjoy'd, as we want more,
So is Love more set on fire.

Love doth with an hungry eye
Glut on Beauty, and you may

Safer snatch the Tygers pray Than his vitall food deny.

Yet though absence for a space,
Sharpen the keen Appetite,
Long continuance doth quite
All Loves characters efface.

For the sense not fed, denies
Nourishment unto the mind,
Which with expectation pin'd
Love of a consumption dyers.