ON THE FRIENDSHIP BETWIXT SACCHARISSA AND AMORET.
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1 Tell me, lovely, loving pair! Why so kind, and so severe? Why so careless of our care, Only to yourselves so dear?
2 By this cunning change of hearts, You the power of Love control; While the boy's deluded darts Can arrive at neither soul.
3 For in vain to either breast Still beguilèd Love does come, Where he finds a foreign guest, Neither of your hearts at home.
4 Debtors thus with like design, When they never mean to pay, That they may the law decline, To some friend make all away.
5 Not the silver doves that fly, Yoked in Cytherea's car; Not the wings that lift so high, And convey her son so far;
6 Are so lovely, sweet, and fair, Or do more ennoble love; Are so choicely match'd a pair, Or with more consent do move.