SPECULUM AMANTIS:
Reading edition
LOVE-POEMS FROM RARE SONG-BOOKS AND MISCELLANIES OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
EDITED BY A. H. BULLEN.
LONDON: PRIVATELY PRINTED. 1889.
Note.—Five Hundred Copies only printed, each numbered as issued.
No. 133
Warning and Welcome.
GRAVE moralist, with eyes a-squint, And pucker'd mouth, pack hence! away! Your heart is hard as any flint: Avaunt! Love's feast is spread to-day. And you, coy maiden, come not nigh, Lest wanton rhyme assail your ears: Wait till your chaste zone you untie And Hymen put to flight your fears. But, ho! all ye whose brisker veins Glow with Dan Cupid's genial fire, Post hitherwards, 'tis worth your pains, And harken to our tuneful quire.