| Araph. | Castara, you too fondly court The silken peace with which we cover'd are, Unquiet time may for his sport, Up from its iron den rowse sleepy warre. |
| Cast. | Then in the language of the drum, I will instruct my yet affrighted eare, All women shall in me be dumbe; If I but with my Araphill be there? |
| Araph. | If Fate like an unfaithfull gale, Which having vow'd to th' ship a faire event, Oth' sudden rends her hopefull saile; Blow ruine; will Castara then repent? |
| Cast. | Love shall in that tempestuous showre Her brightest blossome like the blacke-thorne show: Weake friendship prospers by the powre Of fortunes Sunne. I'le in her winter grow. |
| Araph. | If on my skin the noysome skar I should oth'leprosie, or canker weare; Or if the sulph'rous breath of warre Should blast my youth; Should I not be thy feare? |
| Cast. | In flesh may sicknesse horror move, But heavenly zeale will be by it refin'd, For then wee'd like two Angels love, Without a sense; imbrace[22] each others mind. |
| Araph. | Were it not impious to repine; 'Gainst rigid Fate I should direct my breath. That two must be, whom heaven did joyne In such a happy one, disjoyn'd by death. |
| Cast. | That's no divource. Then shall we see The rites in life, were types o'th marriage state, Our soules on earth contracted be; But they in heaven their nuptials consumate. |
[22] Without a sense; and clip each others mind. 1634, 1635.
[23]To the Right Honourable Henry Lord M.
My Lord.
My thoughts are not so rugged, nor doth earth
So farre predominate in me, that mirth
Lookes not as lovely as when our delight
First fashion'd wings to adde a nimbler flight
To lazie time; who would, to have survai'd