SPECULUM AMANTIS:
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.