16 [9].
"By the Bride's eyes, and by the teeming life
Of her green hopes, we charge you that no strife,
Further than virtue lends, gets place
Among you catching at her Lace.
Oh, do not fall
Foul in these noble pastimes, lest you call
Discord in, and so divide
The gentle Bridegroom and the fragrous Bride,
Which Love forefend: but spoken
Be't to your praise: 'No peace was broken'.
17[10].
"Strip her of spring-time, tender whimpering maids,
Now Autumn's come, when all those flowery aids
Of her delays must end, dispose
That Lady-smock, that pansy and that Rose
Neatly apart;
But for prick-madam, and for gentle-heart,
And soft maiden-blush, the Bride
Makes holy these, all others lay aside:
Then strip her, or unto her
Let him come who dares undo her.
18 [11].
ye]"And to enchant you more, view everywhere
About the roof a Syren in a sphere,
As we think, singing to the din
Of many a warbling cherubin:
List, oh list! how
ye]Even heaven gives up his soul between you now,
Mark how thousand Cupids fly
To light their Tapers at the Bride's bright eye;
To bed, or her they'll tire,
Were she an element of fire.
19 [12].
"And to your more bewitching, see the proud
Plump bed bear up, and rising like a cloud,
Tempting thee, too, too modest; can
You see it brussle like a swan
And you be cold
To meet it, when it woos and seems to fold
The arms to hug you? throw, throw
Yourselves into that main, in the full flow
Of the white pride, and drown
The stars with you in floods of down.
20 [13].
"You see 'tis ready, and the maze of love
Looks for the treaders; everywhere is wove
Wit and new mystery, read and
Put in practice, to understand
And know each wile,
Each Hieroglyphic of a kiss or smile;
And do it in the full, reach
High in your own conceipts, and rather teach
Nature and Art one more
Sport than they ever knew before.