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The Posy of a young Man, sent with a Scarf.
For one and love, some say are blind:
I say they see, if thou prove kind.

The Posy of a Handkercher.
Love and Wine in this degree,
The elder better still they be:

So our long suit then shall be true,
"Change not thy old Love for a new!"

70. A Posy sent by a young Maiden to her Love, plaitea in a Bracelet of her own hair.

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When this about thine arm doth rest,
Remember her that loves thee best!

Another from a young Man to his Love
protesting constancy.

To thee as constant as the sun to day:
Till from this light, I must be forced away.

A Posy sent with a silk Girdle.

VENUS naked in her chamber,

Wounds more deep than MARS in armour.

The Maid's Answer.

If such a wound you fear;

Take heed you come not there!

A drooping Lover's Posy, sent with a pair of Gloves. 'Tween hope and sad despair I sail;

Thy help I crave!

My grief the sea, thy breath the sail
May sink or save.

Another of the same kind.

Hope and despair attend me still :
Hope strives to save; despair, to kill!

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Lust loves to range:
Love knows no change.

Thine mine, mine thine.

Both must be one, or one be none.

Love ever, or love never!

A neglected Lover, to his Mistress. 'Tis true as old, "Hot Love, soon cold!"

Another expressing the power of Love.
Who is't withstands,

When Love commands?

Short Posies for Rings in prose.
The loadstone of Love is love.

Be true to the end!

I live in hope.

I like my choice.

No change in Virtue's choice!

Keep me in mind!

Desire hath no rest.

I present, thee absent.

Not the gift but the giver.

Be firm in faith!

This and myself.

I choose thee, not to change.

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Advised choice admits no change.

Accept my goodwill!

I love no lack.

The heart lives where it loves.

Not me, nor mine; but ours.

Thy [?], my wish.

Love is the bond of Peace.

No life to Love!

Remember this, and give a kiss!

Thy love I crave, mine thou shalt have.

Good Counsel.

If poor thou art, yet patient bide!
For after ebb may come a tide :
Yet at full sea, keep water store!

That afterward thou want no more.

On the World.

The World's a City furnishèd with spacious streets :
And Death's the Market Place; whereat all creatures meet.

When GOD made all, he made all good;

So Woman was, if she had stood :
Though Woman was the cause of fall;
Yet JESUS' blood made amends for all.

On a Good Woman.

A wise man poor is like a Sacred Book that's never read. To himself he lives, though to the World seems dead:

Yet this Age counts more of a golden fool

Than of a thread-bare Saint, nursed up in Wisdom's School.

FINIS.

For Bracelets, Handkerchers, and Rings; With Scarfs, Gloves, and other things.

Written by CUPID on a day,

When VENUS gave him leave to play.

Verbum sat amanti.

The Lover sheweth his intent
By gifts, that are with Posies sent.

LONDON.

Printed by E. C. for J. WRIGHT, next to

the Globe in Little Britain.