To Splendora Not to Be Persuaded
Still so obdurate, hast thou vowed to liue
still in contempt of mee, whose chaste thoughts giue
their burden to thy view? twixt euery line
conceiue a sighe, but would that make thee mine
Ide sighe so oft, so deepe, that who soere
should heare me, should suppose my whole life were
but one continuate breath; Ide turne to ayre
so I might hover about thee my faire,
and fanne thy Rosy Cheeke, and now and then
steale a soft kisse from't, and retire againe,
but by and by I should presume to sippe
ravishing sweetnesse from thy scarlett lipp;
would weeping winne thee, I would practise it
till thou shouldst thinke each line thou readst were writt
with dropps of eye-brine. I haue in my eyes
a spring, which as it wastes still multiplyes;
Ide weepe till I became all but one teare,
then turne into a pearle, so thou wouldst weare
me in thy eye, pearles hurt the sight they say[;]
I would not thine my faire, but rather pray
To Loues great Deity, and neuer cease
till thou wert brought in loue with thy disease;
I would be sighe, teare, any thing that might
come but so neere thee, as thy touch or sight;
nay lesse, I would be nothing, could I proue
after my change that thou wouldst nothing loue;
Then I whom now the world doth something call
in being nothing, should be all in all.
still in contempt of mee, whose chaste thoughts giue
their burden to thy view? twixt euery line
conceiue a sighe, but would that make thee mine
Ide sighe so oft, so deepe, that who soere
should heare me, should suppose my whole life were
but one continuate breath; Ide turne to ayre
so I might hover about thee my faire,
and fanne thy Rosy Cheeke, and now and then
steale a soft kisse from't, and retire againe,
but by and by I should presume to sippe
ravishing sweetnesse from thy scarlett lipp;
would weeping winne thee, I would practise it
till thou shouldst thinke each line thou readst were writt
with dropps of eye-brine. I haue in my eyes
a spring, which as it wastes still multiplyes;
Ide weepe till I became all but one teare,
then turne into a pearle, so thou wouldst weare
me in thy eye, pearles hurt the sight they say[;]
I would not thine my faire, but rather pray
To Loues great Deity, and neuer cease
till thou wert brought in loue with thy disease;
I would be sighe, teare, any thing that might
come but so neere thee, as thy touch or sight;
nay lesse, I would be nothing, could I proue
after my change that thou wouldst nothing loue;
Then I whom now the world doth something call
in being nothing, should be all in all.
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