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MAIDEN fair! if you would learn
Well to play this pleasant game;
You must strike in quick return,
So that I may do the same.
Should you fail to strike at all,
And that I may play alone,
And the game at once is done.
Mark, sweet maiden, when I strike,
And attend to what I say:
Tennis and Love's game alike
Need a quick return of play:
Who their pleasure most would know,
And in equal share partake,
In both games alike must shew
Equal zest to give and take.
Love and Tennis both, play'd ill,
Soon upon the players pall,
When one shews a want of will
To hit back the flying ball.
Love, to Love is demonstrative;
Love, gives life and strength to Love,
And in being thus creative,
Love doth most its power prove.
Love, of Love's at once the Price,
And Reward that Love loves best;
Nothing can to love suffice,
But the Love that gives it rest.
If from me to Love you'd learn,
Love; and be my Sweetheart true;
But if you give no return,
Then I'll say- good-bye to you.
JAMAIS l'Amour ne se paye que par Amour réciproque.
ET Pretium, et Merces solus Amoris amor.
BENEFICIUM non est aurum, sed Amor per quem datur.
Amor enim Beneficii anima. -Vid, SENECA de Benef.
Divinissimus est, quam redamare piget priùs amantem.
AUGUST. de Amore divino.
AMA à chi t'ama,
Rispond à chi ti chiama.
Antwoord dieje vraegt,
Min dieje Liefde draegt.
Answer him who calls unto you,
And love him who brings Love to you.
UNA mano lava l'altra, e le due lavano il viso.
L'une main lave l'autre, et les deux le visage.
Als d'eene hant d'ander wast, soo wordense beyde reyn.
D'eene Min brengt d'ander in.
MANUS manum fricat, gratia gratium parit.
FERRO ferrum acuitur.
FRUCTUS Amoris Amor.
AMOUR au coeur me poind,
Quand bien aimé je suis;
Mais aimer je ne puis,
Quand on ne m'aime point.
Chacun soit adverti
De faire comme moi;
Car d'aimer sans party,
C'est un trop grand esmoy.-MAROT.
EXCUTE mihi ignem, et allucebo tibi. -Proverbium Arabicum ex Erpenio.
Id est, ut Jos. Scaliger interpretatur,
ESTO mihi, ero tibi. Be mine, I will be thine.
UT ameris, amabilis esto. -OVID.
AIMER sans Amour est amer.
Vriendtschap van eener zijde en duert niet lang.
Friendship all on one side lasts not long.
[GREEK]
-Amare recuso.
Illum quem fieri vix puto posse meum. -OVID. Ep. Helen.
AMOUR est d'Amour récompense,
Et celui est trop à blâmer
Qui pour le moins (s'il ne commence)
Ne veut pas, quand on l'aime, aimer.
WHEN I this wisht-for light to tinne desire,
I prostrate crave it from this flaming fire;
From whence if light come not in fitting time,
I am consum'd before the light be mine.
Whose meanes are small, whom Fortune favours not,
They take their patrons mercy for their lot;
To them their supplications they direct,
Attending still with homage and respect;
Delay undo'th them, makes them spend their oyle,
Their hopes grow lesse, and greater is their toyle;
Unlesse their Patrons timely shew their love:
For gifts, by timely giving, double prove.
FARLIE'S Emblems.
LOVE, LIKE A BALL, REQUIRES TO BE THROWN BACK
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