From The Westminster Drollery, 1671.
The Advice.[71]
PHILLIS, for shame! let us improve
A thousand several ways
These few short minutes stol'n by love
From many tedious days.
Whilst you want courage to despise
The censure of the grave,
For all the tyrants in your eyes,
Your heart is but a slave.
My love is full of noble pride,
And never will submit
To let that fop Discretion ride
In triumph o'er our wit.
False friends I have, as well as you,
That daily counsel me
Vain friv'lous trifles to pursue
And leave off loving thee.
When I the least belief bestow
On what such fools advise,
May I be dull enough to grow
Most miserably wise.
From Songs and Poems of Love and Drollery. By T. W., 1654.
To Sylvia,