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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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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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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Song 16. A Pastoral Dialogue,
Penned at the command of my noble freind, M. Theodo∣rus Loe Esquire, on the attaining his Mistress love.
MELIBEUS, ERGASTUS
Mel.
SHepherd, why dost thou hold thy peace?Sing, and thy joy to us report.
Erg.
My joy (good Shepherd) would be less,If it were told in any sort.
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Mel.
Though such great savours thou dost win,Yet deigne thereof to tell some part.
Erg.
The hardest thing is to begin,In enter prises of such art.
Mel.
It is not just we should consentThat thou should'st not thy joys recite.
Erg.
The soul that felt the punishment,Can onely feel this great delight.
Mel.
That joy is small, and doth not shine,That is not told abroad to many.
Erg.
If it be such a joy as mine,It cann't be pensill'd out by any.
Mel.
How can that heart of thine containA joy that is of so great force?
Erg.
I have it, where I did retainMy passions of so great remorse.
Mel.
So great and rare a joy as this,No man is able to withhold.
Erg.
But that the greatest pleasure is,That in low language cann't be told
Mel.
Yet I have heard thee heretofore,Thy joys in open songs report.
Erg.
I said I had of joy some store;But not how much, or in what sort.
Mel.
Yet when a joy is in excess,It self it will unfold.
Erg.
Thus then my joies I do express;I clip my Arnageld.
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