<p>MAIDEN fair! if you would learn<lb/> Well to play this pleasant game;<lb/> You must strike in quick return,<lb/> So that I may do the same.<lb/> Should you fail to strike at all,<lb/> And that I may play alone,<lb/> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac094"/> Then the shuttle's sure to fall, <lb/> And the game at once is done.<lb/> Mark, sweet maiden, when I strike, <lb/> And attend to what I say:<lb/> Tennis and Love's game alike<lb/> Need a quick return of play:<lb/> Who their pleasure most would know,<lb/> And in equal share partake,<lb/> In both games alike must shew<lb/> Equal zest to give and take.<lb/> Love and Tennis both, play'd ill,<lb/> Soon upon the players pall,<lb/> When one shews a want of will<lb/> To hit back the flying ball.<lb/> Love, to Love is demonstrative;<lb/> Love, gives life and strength to Love,<lb/> And in being thus creative,<lb/> Love doth most its power prove.<lb/> Love, of Love's at once the Price,<lb/> And Reward that Love loves best;<lb/> Nothing can to love suffice,<lb/> But the Love that gives it rest.<lb/> If from me to Love you'd learn,<lb/> Love; and be my Sweetheart true;<lb/> But if you give no return,<lb/> Then I'll say- good-bye to you.</p> <p>JAMAIS l'Amour ne se paye que par Amour réciproque.<lb/> ET Pretium, et Merces solus Amoris amor.<lb/> BENEFICIUM non est aurum, sed Amor per quem datur.<lb/> Amor enim Beneficii anima. -Vid, SENECA de Benef.<lb/> Divinissimus est, quam redamare piget priùs amantem.<lb/> AUGUST. de Amore divino.</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac095"/> <p>AMA à chi t'ama,<lb/> Rispond à chi ti chiama.<lb/> Antwoord dieje vraegt,<lb/> Min dieje Liefde draegt.<lb/> Answer him who calls unto you,<lb/> And love him who brings Love to you.<lb/> UNA mano lava l'altra, e le due lavano il viso.<lb/> L'une main lave l'autre, et les deux le visage.<lb/> Als d'eene hant d'ander wast, soo wordense beyde reyn.<lb/> D'eene Min brengt d'ander in.<lb/> MANUS manum fricat, gratia gratium parit.<lb/> FERRO ferrum acuitur.<lb/> FRUCTUS Amoris Amor.<lb/> AMOUR au coeur me poind,<lb/> Quand bien aimé je suis;<lb/> Mais aimer je ne puis,<lb/> Quand on ne m'aime point.<lb/> Chacun soit adverti<lb/> De faire comme moi;<lb/> Car d'aimer sans party,<lb/> C'est un trop grand esmoy.-MAROT.<lb/> EXCUTE mihi ignem, et allucebo tibi. -Proverbium Arabicum ex Erpenio.<lb/> Id est, ut Jos. Scaliger interpretatur,<lb/> ESTO mihi, ero tibi. Be mine, I will be thine.<lb/> UT ameris, amabilis esto. -OVID.<lb/> AIMER sans Amour est amer.<lb/> Vriendtschap van eener zijde en duert niet lang.<lb/> Friendship all on one side lasts not long.<lb/> [GREEK] <lb/> <lb/> -Amare recuso.<lb/> Illum quem fieri vix puto posse meum. -OVID. Ep. Helen.<lb/> AMOUR est d'Amour récompense,<lb/> Et celui est trop à blâmer<lb/> Qui pour le moins (s'il ne commence)<lb/> Ne veut pas, quand on l'aime, aimer.</p> <pb n="uiuc_83931c29eep_fac096"/> <p>WHEN I this wisht-for light to tinne desire,<lb/> I prostrate crave it from this flaming fire;<lb/> From whence if light come not in fitting time,<lb/> I am consum'd before the light be mine.<lb/> Whose meanes are small, whom Fortune favours not,<lb/> They take their patrons mercy for their lot;<lb/> To them their supplications they direct,<lb/> Attending still with homage and respect;<lb/> Delay undo'th them, makes them spend their oyle,<lb/> Their hopes grow lesse, and greater is their toyle;<lb/> Unlesse their Patrons timely shew their love:<lb/> For gifts, by timely giving, double prove.<lb/> FARLIE'S Emblems.</p>

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Love, Like a Ball, Requires to be Thrown Back

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Man and woman playing a form of badminton (shuttlecock)

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<p>LOVE, LIKE A BALL, REQUIRES TO BE THROWN BACK</p>

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