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An Answer to it.
Stay, O stay, and still pursue,
Bid not such happinesse adue,
Know'st thou what a woman is?
An Image of Celestiall bliss.
Such a one is thought to be
The nearest to Divinity.
2.
Stay, O stay, how can thine eye
Feed on more felicity?
Or thy better Genius dwell
On subjects that doe this excell?
Had it not been for her at first;
Man and beast had liv'd accurst.
3.
Stay, O stay, has not there been
O•• Beauty, and of Love a Q••een?
Does not sweetnesse term a she
Worthy its onely shrine to thee?
And where will vertue chuse to ly,
If not in such a Treasury?
4.
Stay, O stay, wouldst thou live free?
Then seek a Nuptiall destiny:
'Tis not natures blisse alone,
(She gives) but Heavens, and that in one;