Loues Garland OR, Posies for Rings, Hand-ke [...] chers, and Gloues; And such pretty Tokens that Louers send their Loues.
Reade, Skanne, then Judge,
LONDON, Printed by N. O. for IOHN SPENCER, [...] are to be sold at his shop on London Bridge. 1624.
Loues Garland.
1 The Posie of a Handkercher from a Young man to his Loue.
LOue is a chayne
whose linkes of gold,
Two hearts within
one Bosome hold.
2 Another signifying the mutuall loue that should be betweene man and wife.
In loue this good
doth still remaine:
Though both do giue
yet both do gaine.
3 Another from a doubtfull Louer.
By Cupids bow, my weale or woe.
4 A Posie sent with a paire of Gloues, [Page]shewing what a young man should most respect in his choyce.
I loue thy Beauty,
vertue most,
For vertues found
when beautie's loft.
5 The Posie of a Ring from a crost Lover.
No hap so hard,
As loue debard.
6 Another.
A happy Breast▪
Where Loue doth rest.
7
All perfect loue,
Is from aboue.
The sight of this,
Deserues a kisse.
8 A young man to his Loue, wrought in a Skarfe.
[Page] A constant heart
within a womans breast
Is Ophir gold
Within an Iuory Chest.
9 Her kind answere.
Of such a treasure then
art thou possest,
For thou hast such a heart
in such a breast.
10 The Posie of a Ring.
To me till death,
As deare as breath.
11 Another.
In thee a flame,
In me the same.
12 Another.
Where once I choose,
I nere refuse.
14 The Posie of a Handkercher from a young man to his Loue.
Pray take me kindly Mistresse,
kisse me toe:
My Master sweares
heele do as much for you.
15 A passionate Louers Posie.
Till that from thee,
I hope to gaine:
All sweete is sower,
all pleasure paine.
16 Another of the same Cut.
Thy loue my light:
Disdaine my night.
18 Another where the Louer doth protest, and request.
Hand, heart, and all I haue is thine:
Hand, heart, and all thou hast, be mine.
19 Another.
As you finde me, minde me.
20 The Posie of a Young man to his Loue, shewing the simplicity, and truth of Loue.
Two hands, two feete,
Two eares, two eyes:
One tongue, one heart,
Where true Loue lies.
21 Another from a Louer, far from his Loue.
Though from mine eye,
yet from my heart,
No distance ere
can make thee part.
23 A Posie in a Ring.
Be true to me, as I to thee.
24 Another.
25 All thine, is mine.
26 Another.
Nere ioy the heart,
That seekes to part.
27 Another sent with a paire of Bracelets.
Faire as Venus, as Diana
Chast and pure is my Susana.
28 The Posie of a young man to his Loue, shewing her what a woman should be.
Tell him that.
[Page] If woman should to man be woe,
She should not be what God did make her,
make her,
That was to be a helper so,
God then did giue, man now doth take her.
man now doth take her.
29 The Posie of a mayd cast off, expressing how lightly she takes it.
Tell him that had my heart in chace,
And now at other game doth flye,
Gréen sicknes nere shal spoile my face,
Nor puling heigh-hoes wet mine eye.
30 The Posie of a Ring.
I do reioyce, in thee my choyce.
31 A Posie of a scornfull Louer.
Since thy hot loue sof quickly's done,
Do thou but go, Ile striue to runne.
32 A Posie shewing man and wife to be one.
Flesh of my flesh, hone of my bone,
From onemade two, is two made one.
33 Posies for Ringes.
As true to thee,
As death to mee.
34 Another.
If you deny, I wish to dye.
35 Another.
In trust, be iust.
36 Another.
I liue if I: if no I dye.
37 Another.
No bitter smart, can change my heart.
[...]nother.
Rather dye, then faith deny.
39 Another.
Not lust but loue: as time shall prooue.
40 Another.
To loue as I do thee;
Is to loue none but mee.
41 A Posie sent by a young man to his loue in a Handkercher, in which was wrought the fashion of a heart with winges.
Of all had things, a heart with wings
is still the worst:
And he that meets, with one so fleets,
of all's accurst.
42 The maydens reply in a Handkercher, in which was the shape of a Heart, with an arrow through it.
A flying heart, a piercing dart,
doth well deserue;
So be it with me, if I from thee
shall euer swerue.
43
Thou mine, I thine.
44 Another.
Be true to me, as I to thee.
45 A young mayd to he Loue in a Skarfe.
She that of all doth loue thee deerest,
Doth send the this which as yu wearst;
And oft do [...] looke on, thinke on mee,
As I by thine do thinke on thee.
46 From a young man to his loue, wrought in a silke girdle.
Till death deuide, what ere betide.
47 Another.
The worlds a Lottery, my prize
A loue that's faire, as chaste, as wise.
48 A young man to his Loue, describing the power and euer-flourishing vertue of Loue.
Loue til beomes day in his prime,
Like Apollo, rob'd in gold:
Though't haue beene as long as time,
Yet still is young, though time be old.
49 Another.
My promise past,
Shall euer last.
50 From a young man to his Loue, shewing that vertue and beauty should go together.
Thy Beauty much, thy Vertue such,
my heart hath fir'de,
The first alone, is worse then none,
but both admirde.
51 The Posie of a pitifull Louer writ in a Ribon Cornation three peny broad, and wound about a faire branch of Rose-mary, vpon which he witely playes thus.
Rose mary Rose, I send to thee,
In hope that thou wilt marry mee:
Nothing can be sweete Rose,
More sweeter vnto Harry,
Then marry Rose,
Sweeter then this Rose-mary.
52 The sweet reply in a conceit of the same &c. sent by Rose with a Vyoll of Rose-water of her owne making.
[Page] Thy sweete commends againe,
my sweetest Harry,
And sweete Rose water,
for thy sweete Rose-mary:
By which sweete Hal,
sweete Rose doth let thee ses,
Thy loues as sweet to her,
as hers to thee.
53 A wanton Louers wish sent in a Handkercher with a Cupid wrought in the middle.
To me by farre more faire
is my faire Anne,
Then sweete cheekt Leda
with her siluer Swanne
That I nere saw
but haue the picture seene,
And wisht my selfe betweene,
thine armes sweete Nanny.
54 For a Ring.
Desire like fire, doth still aspire.
55 A Posie sent with a paire of Bracelets.
Mine eye did see, my heart did choose,
True loue doth binde, till death doth
56 Another sent with a silke girdle.
Accept of this, my heart withall:
My loue is great, though this be small.
57 Another sent with a paire of rich gloues.
This for a certaine truth,
true loue approoues:
The hearts not where it liues,
but where it loues.
58 For Rings.
Hearts content, can nere repent.
59 Another.
My heart and I, vntill I dye.
60
Not two, but one, till life be gone.
61 A Louers conceite vpon Bracelet, and Parclet, sent with a paire of amber Bracelets.
Bracelets Ile giue, en brace lets euer:
Let Partlets go, for part lets neuer.
62
Loue euer, or loue neuer.
63 A Posie written by one Simon Mattocke Sexton of great Wambleton, in the behalfe of a youth of his Parrish, to the fairest Milke-mayde in the next, sent to her pinn'd to the Orange tawny top of a very faire paire of gloues of six pence.
My Loue is set, to loue thee still,
Then Nan remember thou thy will:
That William, good will to thee,
I long haue borne, beare yu with me
64 Her answer in a faire Romish letter, lapt vp hand somely, and bound about with a cruell long Codpeece poynt.
I hope my Willy makes no doubt,
I take in others keepe him out:
No for thy sake I looke my Wilkin
Pale as the payle, I vse to milke in.
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