Speculum Amantis / Love Poems, from Rare Songbooks and Miscellanies of the Seventeenth Century

τὁ ῥὀδον ἀκμἀζει βαιὀν χρονὁν' ἢν δἑ παρἐλθυ,
ζητων εὐρἠσεισ οὐ ῥὀδον, ἀλλἁ βἀτον.

Incert.

The season of the rose is brief, make haste to
pluck your posies;
Another day you'll chance to find bare thorns
where bloomed the roses.

LOVE-POEMS
FROM RARE SONG-BOOKS AND MISCELLANIES
OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.

EDITED BY
A. H. BULLEN.

LONDON:
PRIVATELY PRINTED.
1889.

Note.—Five Hundred Copies only printed, each numbered as issued.

No. 133

Warning and Welcome.

GRAVE moralist, with eyes a-squint,
And pucker'd mouth, pack hence! away!
Your heart is hard as any flint:
Avaunt! Love's feast is spread to-day.

And you, coy maiden, come not nigh,
Lest wanton rhyme assail your ears:
Wait till your chaste zone you untie
And Hymen put to flight your fears.

But, ho! all ye whose brisker veins
Glow with Dan Cupid's genial fire,
Post hitherwards, 'tis worth your pains,
And harken to our tuneful quire.

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