Compared with that was next her chin,
Some bee had stung it newly.

_Song_.

Why so pale and wan, fond lover,
Prithee, why so pale?
Will, when looking well can't move her,
Looking ill prevail?
Prithee, why so pale?

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ROBERT HERRICK.
1591-1660.

_The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls_.

Some asked me where the Rubies grew,
And nothing I did say;
But with my finger pointed to
The lips of Julia.
Some asked how Pearls did grow, and where?
Then spoke I to my Girl,
To part her lips, and showed them there
The quarelets of Pearl.

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_On her Feet_.

Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep
A little out, and then,
As if they played at Bo-peep,
Did soon draw in again.

_To the Virgins to make much of Time_.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying,
And this same flower, that smiles to-day,
To-morrow will be dying.

* * * * *

_Night Piece to Julia_.

Her eyes the glowworm lend thee,
The shooting stars attend thee;
And the elves also,
Whose little eyes glow
Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.

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SIR RICHARD LOVELACE.
1618-1658.

_Orpheus to Beasts_.

Oh! could you view the melody
Of every grace,
And music of her face,
You'd drop a tear;
Seeing more harmony
In her bright eye,
Than now you hear.

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_To Lucasta on Going to the Wars_.

I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honor more.

_To Althea from Prison_.

Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron barres a cage;
Mindes innocent, and quiet, take
That for an hermitage.

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JAMES SHIRLEY.
1596-1666.

_Contention of Ajax and Ulysses_.

Only the actions of the just
Smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

* * * * *

RICHARD CRASHAW.
--1650.
The conscious water saw its God and blushed.[5]

[Note 5: Lympha pudica Deum vidit et erubuit.--_Latin Poems_]

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_In Praise of Lessius' Rule of Health_.

A happy soul, that all the way
To heaven hath a summer's day.

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THOMAS DEKKER.
--1638.

_Old Fortunatus_.

And though mine arm should conquer twenty worlds,
There's a lean fellow beats all c