“For sure such two conspiring minds,

Which no accident, or sight,

Did thus unite;

Whom no distance can confine

Start, or decline,

One for another were design’d.”

(Stzs. 3, 4.)

In a second lyric, “A Song to Amoret,” he describes his love as superior to that which a “mighty amorist” could give, because it is a love that was born with his soul in heaven.

“For all these arts I’d not believe,

—No, though he should be thine—