The card of courtship: or the language of love; fitted to the humours of all degrees, sexes, and conditions. Made up of all sorts of curious and ingenious dialogues, pithy and pleasant discourses, eloquent and winning letters, delicious songs and sonnets, fine fancies, harmonious odes, sweet rhapsodies.

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Title: The card of courtship: or the language of love; fitted to the humours of all degrees, sexes, and conditions. Made up of all sorts of curious and ingenious dialogues, pithy and pleasant discourses, eloquent and winning letters, delicious songs and sonnets, fine fancies, harmonious odes, sweet rhapsodies.
Publication: London :: Printed by J.C. for Humphrey Mosley; and are to be sold at his shop, at the signe of the Prince's Arms in S. Paul's Church-yard,; 1653.
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The Lover assuring his Mistress that her doubts are vain, and he is unmoveably constant.

WHy dost thou (my dear mistress) doubt my love
Which beauty bred, and vertue still doth nou∣rish
That any other object can remove,
Or faint with time, but still more freshly flourish?
No; know, thy beauty is of such a force,
The fancy cannot flit, that's with it taken;
Thy vertue such, my heart doth hate divorce
From thy sweet love, which ne'er shall be forsaken.

So setled is my soul, in this resolve,
That first the radiant stars from heaven shall fall;
The heavens shall lose their influence, and dissolve;
To the first Chaos shall be turn'd this all,

Ere I from thee (dear mistress) do remove My true, my constant, and my sincere love.

Thine while his owne, A D.