Elegy. To Chast Love.

C HAST Love, let mee embrace thee in mine armes

Without the thought of lust. From thence no harmes

Ensue, no discontent attende those deeds

So innocently good wch thy love breeds.

5Th'approche of day brings to thy sence no feares,

Nor is the black nights worke washd in thy teares;

Thou takst no care to keepe thy lover true,

Nor yet by flighte, nor fond inventions new

To hold him in, who with like flame of love