JOHN FLETCHER

��2/5. Hear, ye Ladies

LJEAR, ye ladies that despise

• * What the mighty Love has done;

Fear examples and be wise :

Fair Callisto was a nun ; Led a, sailing on the stream

To deceive the hopes of man, Love accounting but a dream,

Doted on a silver swan ; Danae, in a brazen tower, Where no love was, loved a shower.

Hear, ye ladies that are coy,

What the mighty Love can do; Fear the fierceness of the boy :

The chaste Moon he makes to woo; Vesta, kindling holy fires,

Circled round about with spies, Never dreaming loose desires,

Doting at the altar dies ;

Ilion, in a short hour, higher He can build, and once more fire.

��2/4. God Lyaem

OD Lyaeus, ever young,

Ever honour'd, ever sung, Stain'd with blood of lusty grapes, In a thousand lusty shapes Dance upon the mazer's brini, In the crimson liquor swim ; . mazer] a bowl of maple-wood.

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