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If from th'embrace of a lov'd wife you rise, |
View your fat Beasts, stretch'd Barnes, and labour'd fields, |
Eate, play, ride, take all joyes which all day yeelds, |
And then againe to your imbracements goe: |
Some houres on us your friends, and some bestow |
Vpon your Muse, else both we shall repent, |
I that my love, she that her guifts on you are spent. |
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To M. I. P. |
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Blest are your North parts, for all this long time |
My Sun is with you, cold and darke'is our Clime; |
Heavens Sun, which staid so long from us this yeare, |
Staid in your North (I thinke) for she was there, |
And hither by kinde nature drawne from thence, |
Here rages chafes and threatens pestilence; |
Yet I, as long as she from hence doth stay, |
Thinke this no South, no Sommer, nor no day. |
With thee my kinde and unkinde heart is runne, |
There sacrifice it to that beauteous Sunne: |
So may thy pastures with their flowery feasts, |
As suddenly as Lard, fat thy leane beasts; |
So may thy woods oft poll'd, yet ever weare |
A greene, and (when she list) a golden haire; |
So may all thy sheepe bring forth Twins; and so |
In chace and race may thy horse all out-goe; |
So may thy love and courage ne'r be cold; |
Thy Sonn ne'r Ward; Thy lov'd wife ne'r seem old; |
But maist thou wish great things, and them attaine, |
As thou tell'st her, and none but her my paine.
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