Facetiae : Musarum deliciae, or, The Muses recreation, conteining ...

Fancies and Fantasiicks. 327Or in a cloudy rime invaHe the light,Or court the trembling Watchmen of the night ;Some vulgar vertue, or a single blaze,Might stand in verse ;and would endure a gaze:But when both Art, and Nature, shall agreeTo summe them all in one Epitome :When the perfections of both sexes, areLock'd in one female store-house ;In an audacious rapture, to untwinewho shall dareInto loose numbers, what heaven doth enshrine,In one rich breast ?Dazled invention say,Canst thou embowell either India,In one poor rime ?Or can thy torch-light fire,Shew us the Sunne ; or any Star that's higher ?If thou wilt needs spend thy officious flame,Do it in admiration : but disclaimeThy power to praise :thy senders wishes, beare,And be the Herauld of the new-born yeare:Wish that each rising Sunne, may see her moreHappy, then when he rose the morne before ;And may, when e'r he gilds the envious West,Leave her more blest, then when he grac'd the feast ;Wish higher yet, that her felicityMay equalize her vertues :PoetiyThou art too low ;Axwucanst thou not swell a straineMay reach my thoughts : good Madam sihce 'tis vain,(And yet my verse to kisse your hand presum'd)Let it to be your sacrifice be doom'd :And what it wants in true Poetique fire,Let the flame adde,till so my Muse expire;