George Withers' Emblemes

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Love,*- Mufician it profcft*
And, of all Mufickc, it the beft.
ILLVSTH. XX. Bfek.i
>F to his thoughts my Comments have aifented,
By whom the following Emblem was invented,
Fie hereby teach you (Lxditt) to difcover
A true-bred Cupid, from a fained Lover $
And, (hew (if you have Wooers) which be they,
That worth'eft are to beare your Hems away.
As is the Boy, which, here, you pictured fee,
Let them be young, or let them, rather, be
Of friting-yeares (which is inftead of youth)
And, wooe you in the nakednejje, of Truth}
Not in the common and difguifed Clothes,
Of Mimick-gefiures, Complements, and Oatbes t
Let them be winged with a fwift Defire i
And,not withjkw-afetfioni,that will tyre.
But, looke to this, as to the pi incipall,
That, Love doc make them truly MuficaU.-
For, Love's a good Mufician ;
and, will (how
How, every faithfull Lover may be Co.
Each word he fpeakes, will prefently appearc
To be melodious Raptures in your care:
Enchgejture of his body, when he moves,
Will fecme to play, or (ing, a Song ofLoves t
The very looke* , and motions of his eyes,
Will touch your Hurt-firings, with fwcet H*rmtn$es- y
And, if the Name of him, be butexpreft,
T'will caufe a thoufand^/wi/m*^ in your brcaft.
Nay, cv'n thofe Difcords, which occafion'd are,
Will make your Muftcke, much the fweeter, farre.
And, fnch a mooving Dupafon ftrikc,
As none but Love, can ever play the like.
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