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| Ayre and Angels |
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| Twice or thrice had I lou'd thee [275] |
| Before I knewe thy face or name |
| (So in a voyce, so in a shapelesse flame |
| Angels affect vs oft, and whorshipd bee.) |
| Still when to where thou wert I came |
| Some louely glorious Nothing I did see |
| But, since my soule, (whose child Loue is,) |
| Takes lim̄s of flesh, and else could nothing doe: |
| More subtill then the parent is |
| Loue must not bee; but take a body too |
| And therefore what thou wert and who |
| I bidd Love aske, and now |
| That it assume thy body I allow |
| And fixe it selfe in thy Lipps eye, and browe |
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| Whilst thus to ballast Loue I thought |
| And so more steadily to haue gon |
| With waues w.ch would sinke Admiration |
| I saw I had Loues Pinnace overfraught |
| Every thy hayre for Loue to worke vpon |
| Is much too much, some fitter must bee sought |
| ffor, nor in Nothing, nor in things |
Extreame and Scattering-bright can Love inhere.
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| Then as an Angell face and wings |
| Of Ayre, (not pure as it, yet pure) doth weare: |
| So thy Loue may bee my Loues spheare. |
| Iust such disparity |
| As is twixt Ayre and Angels purity |
| Twixt woemens Loues and mens will ever bee
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[CW: J fixe] |