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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GIve Lucinda Pearl, nor Stone,
Lend them light who else have none,
Let Her beauty shine alone.

Gums nor spice bring from the East,
For the Phoenix in Her breast
Builds his funerall Pile, and nest.

No tyre thou canst invent,
Shall to grace her forme be sent,
She adornes all ornament,

Give Her nothing, but restore
Those sweet smiles which heretofore,
In Her chearfull eyes she wore.

Drive those envious clouds away,
Veiles that have o'r-cast my day,
And ecclips'd Her brighter ray.

Let the royall Goth mow down
This yeares harvest with his own
Sword, and spare Lucinda's frown,

Ianus, if when next I trace
Those sweet lines, I in her face
Read the Charter of my grace,

Then from bright Apollo's tree,
Such a Garland wreath'd shall be,
As shall Crown both Her and Thee.