While such as willingly themselves beguile,
And sell away their freedoms for a smile,
Blush to confess our joys as far above
Their hopes, as Friendship's longer liv'd than Love.
To Mr. W. Hammond.] In 1647, as usually, initials only. His relation (see Introduction) and the author of the poems in vol. ii. As in some other cases, this poem shows the nisus of the more or less stopped couplet—the way in which it was communicating energy to writers of the time even when they mainly belong to the older division.
30 1647 'Nor any flame, but what is thine, will own'.
On Mr. Shirley's Poems.
When, dearest friend, thy verse doth re-inspire
Love's pale decaying torch with brighter fire,