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LOVE SEES NO FAULTS.
So lov'd one though untouch'd by thee, I feel,
Senfe of thy touch through all my being fteal ;
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I VETUS verbum esr, similitudinem amoris auctorem esse. PLATO, lib. 6, De Leg.
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Hear thy lov'd voice though filent thou may'ft be,
See thy lov'd form though far away from me,
And all the radiance of thy Beauty's light,
Undimm'd to me by diftance, mine no lefs
To me effulgent in my dream of night,
As doth by day its light of lovelinefs.
Experientia notum est arcanam quandam et occultam inter homines esse naturarum
affinitatem aut odium, vel naturae quadam occulta vi, vel astrorum influentia,
vel, &c. Unde fit ut aliquis ab altero toto pectore abhorreat, in alterum verb pro-
pensus sit, nee rogatus causam dicere posset cur hunc amet, ilium oderit, juxta illud
Catulli,
Non amo te, Volusi, nee possum dicere quare,
Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te.
QUID non cernit Amor ! quid non vestigat Amator !
CYPR. Tract, de Spans, cap. 7.
BEROALD.
T OVE looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind ;
Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste,
Wings and no eyes, figure unheedy haste ;
And therefore is Love said to be a child,
Because in choice he often is beguil'd. SHAKESPEARE.
THINGS base and vile, holding no quality,
Love can transpose to form and dignity. Ibid.
AH !
I remember, and how can I
But ever more remember well, when first
Our flame began ; when scarce we knew what 'twas,
The flame we felt ; when as we sat and sigh'd,
And looked upon each other and conceived
Not what we ail'd, yet something we did ail ;
And yet were well, and yet we were not well :
And what was our disease we could not tell. Old Poet.
O AMOR NAO TEM LEI. LOVE KNOWS NO LAW.
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