nocence?
Those only this feel who have guilty been, 15
Not any blushes know, but who know[16:2] sin.
Then blush no more; but let thy chaster flame,
That knows no cause, know no effects of shame.

THE COLD KISS.

Such icy kisses, anchorites that live
Secluded from the world, to dead skulls give;
And those[17:1] cold maids on whom Love never spent
His flame, nor know what by desire is meant,
To their expiring fathers such bequeath, 5
Snatching their fleeting spirits in that breath:
The timorous priest doth with such fear and nice
Devotion touch the Holy Sacrifice.

Fie, Chariessa! whence so chang'd of late,
As to become in love a reprobate? 10
Quit, quit this dulness, Fairest, and make known
A flame unto me equal with mine[17:2] own.
Shake off this frost, for shame, that dwells upon
Thy lips; or if it will not so be gone,
Let's once more join our lips,[17:3] and thou shalt see 15
That by the flame of mine 'twill melted be.

THE IDOLATER.

Think not, pale lover, he who dies
Burnt in the flames of Celia's eyes,
Is unto Love a sacrifice;

Or, by the merit of this pain,
Thou shalt the crown of martyrs gain! 5
Those hopes are, as thy passion, vain.

For when, by death, from[18:1] these flames free,
To greater thou condemn'd shalt be,
And punish'd for idolatry,

Since thou, Love's votary before, 10
(Whilst she[18:2] was kind,) dost him no more,
But, in his shrine, Disdain adore.

Nor will this fire the gods prepare
To punish scorn, that cruel Fair,
Though now from flames exempted, spare; 15

But as together both shall die,
Both burnt alike in flames shall lie,
She in thy heart,[18:3] thou in her eye.

THE MAGNET.

Ask the empress of the night
How the Hand which guides her sphere,
Constant in unconstant light,
Taught the waves her yoke to bear,
And did thus by loving force 5
Curb or tame the rude sea's course.

Ask the female palm how she
First did woo her husband's love;
And the magnet, ask how he[19:1]
Doth th' obsequious iron move;