Chapman, George · published 1613 · first performed or written 1610 [c.1610-1611] (Annals) tragedy · Children of the Queen's Revels · Whitefriars unassigned nearest T4 Love-longing and the lover's complaint · 511 words
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of the nearest topic T4: love, heart, sweet, loves, fair, phillis, eyes, beauty, amyntas, lovers.
If there were love in marriage so I would; But I deny that any man doth love, Affecting wives, maids, widows, any women: For neither flies love milk, although they drown In greedy search thereof; nor doth the Bee Loue honey, though the labour of her life Is spent in gathering it; nor those that fat Or beasts, or fowls, do any thing therein For any love: for as when only nature Moves men to meat, as far as her power rules, She doth it with a temperate appetite, The too much men devour, abhorring nature; And in our most health, is our most disease: So, when humanity rules men and women. 'tis for society confined in reason. But what excites the beds desire in blood, By no means justly can be construed love; For when love kindles any knowing spirit, It ends in virtue and effects divine; And is in friendship chaste, and masculine. Thou shalt my Mistress be; methinks my blood Is taken up to all love with thy virtues. And howsoever other men despise These Paradoxes strange, and too precise, Since they hold on the right way of our reason, I could attend them ever. Come, away; Perform thy brothers thus importuned wreak; And I will see what great affairs the King Hath to employ my counsel, which he seems Much to desire, and more and more esteems. Saw you his saucy forcing of my hand To D'Ambois freedom? Saw, and through mine eyes Let fire into my heart, that burned to bear An insolence so Giantly austere. The more Kings bear at subjects hands, the more Their lingering justice gathers; that resembles The weighty, and the goodly-bodied Eagle, Who (being on earth) before her shady wings Can raise her into air, a mighty way Close by the ground she runs; but being aloft, All she commands, she flies at; and the more Death in her Seres bears, the more time she stays Her thundery stoop from that on which she preys. You must be then more secret in the weight Of these your shady counsels, who will else Bear (where such sparks fly as the Guise and D'Ambois) Powder about them. Counsels (as your entrails) Should be unpierced and sound kept; for not those, Whom you discover, you neglect; but open A ruinous passage to your own best hope. we have Spies set on us, as we on others; And therefore they that serve us must excuse us, If what we most hold in our hearts, take wind, Deceit hath eyes that see into the mind. But this plot shall be quicker than their twinkling, On whose lids Fate, with her dead weight shall lie, And Confidence that lightens ere she die. Friends of my Guard, as ye gave oath to be True to your Sovereign, keep it manfully: Your eyes have witnessed oft th'Ambition That never made access to me in Guise But Treason ever sparkled in his eyes: Which if you free us of, our safety shall You not our Subjects, but our Patrons call.
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If there were loue in mariage so I would; But I denie that any man doth loue, Affecting vviues, maides, widowes, any women: For neither Flys loue milke, although they drowne In greedy search thereof; nor doth the Bee Loue honey, though the labour of her life Is spent in gathering it; nor those that fat Or beasts▪ or fowles, doe any thing therein For any loue: for as when onely nature Moues men to meate, as farre as her power rules, Shee doth it with a temperate appetite, The too much men deuoure, abhorring nature; And in our most health, is our most disease: So, when humanitie rules men and vvomen. Tis for societie confinde in reason. But what excites the beds desire in bloud, By no meanes iustly can be construed loue; For when loue kindles any knowing spirit, It ends in vertue and effects diuine; And is in friendship chaste, and masculine. Thou shalt my Mistresse be; me thinkes my bloud Is taken vp to all loue vvith thy vertues. And howsoeuer other men despise These Paradoxes strange, and too precise, Since they hold on the right way of our reason, I could attend them euer. Come, away; Performe thy brothers thus importun'd wreake; And I will see what great affaires the King Hath to employ my counsell, which he seemes Much to desire, and more and more esteemes. Saw you his sawcie forcing of my hand To D'Ambois freedome? Saw, and through mine eyes Le ire into my heart, that burn'd to beare An insolence so Giantly austere. The more Kings beare at Subiects hands, the more Their lingring Iustice gathers; that resembles The waightie, and the goodly-bodied Eagle, Who (being on earth) before her shady wings Can raise her into ayre, a mightie way Close by the ground she runnes; but being aloft, All shee commands, she flyes at; and the more Death in her Seres beares, the more time shee stayes Her thundry stoope from that on which shee preyes. You must be then more secret in the waight Of these your shadie counsels, who will else Beare (where such sparkes flye as the Guise and D'Ambois) Pouder about them. Counsels (as your enailes) Should be vnpierst and sound kept; for not those, Whom you discouer, you neglect; but ope A ruinous passage to your owne best hope. Wee haue Spies set on vs, as we on others; And therefore they that serue vs must excuse vs, If what wee most hold in our hearts, take winde, Deceit hath eyes that see into the minde. But this plot shall be quicker then their twinckling, On whose lids Fate, with her dead waight shall lie, And Confidence that lightens ere she die. Friends of my Guard, as yee gaue othe to be True to your Soueraigne, keepe it manfully: Your eyes haue witnest oft th'Ambition That neuer made accesse to me in Guise But Treason euer sparkled in his eyes: Which if you free vs of, our safetie shall You not our Subiects, but our Patrons call.