es betray'd,
And to their short joys cruel,
Who foolishly 20
Themselves persuade
Flames can outlast their fuel;
None (though platonic their pretence),
With reason love, unless by sense.

And he,[33:1] by whose 25
Command to thee
I did my heart resign,
Now bids me choose
A deity
Diviner far than thine; 30
No power can Love from Beauty sever:
I'm still Love's subject; thine was, never.

The fairest she
Whom none surpass,
To love hath only right; 35
And such to me
Thy beauty was,
Till one I found more bright;
But 'twere as impious to adore
Thee now, as not to have done 't before. 40

Nor is it just
By rules of Love,
Thou shouldst deny to quit
A heart that must
Another's prove 45
Even in thy right to it;
Must not thy subjects captives be
To her who triumphs over thee?

Cease, then, in vain
To blot my name 50
With forg'd apostasy!
Thine is that stain
Who dar'st to claim
What others ask of thee.
Of lovers they are only true 55
Who pay their hearts where hearts[33:2] are due.

TO CHARIESSA,

_Beholding herself in a Glass._[34:1]

Cast, Chariessa, cast that glass away;
Not in its crystal face thine own survey.
What can be free from Love's imperious laws,
When painted shadows real flames can cause?
The fires may burn thee from this mirror rise, 5
By the reflected beams of thine own eyes;
And thus at last fall'n with thyself in love,
Thou wilt my rival, thine own[34:2] martyr, prove.
But if thou dost desire thy form to view,
Look in my heart, where Love thy picture drew, 10
And then, if pleas'd with thine own shape thou be,
Learn how to love thyself by[34:3] loving me.

SONG.

When I lie burning in thine eye,
Or freezing in thy breast,
What martyrs, in wish'd flames that die,
Are half so pleas'd or ble