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Hearts with equal love combined kindle never-dying fires. - [Matrimony] Nor virtue, wit, or beauty, could preserve from death's hand this their heavenly mould. - [Death] He that loves a rosy cheek, Or a coral lip admires, Or from star-like eyes doth seek Fuel to maintain his fires;-- As old Time makes these decay, So his flames must waste away. - Disdain Returned [Decay : Love] The magic of a face. - Epitaph on the Lady S----- [Face] Loe here the precious dust is layd; Whose purely-temper'd clay was made So fine that it the guest betray'd. Else the soule grew so fast within, It broke the outward shall of sinne And so was hatch'd a cherubin. - Inscription on Tomb of Lady Maria Wentworth, in Toddington Church, Bedfordshire, England [Epitaphs] But an untimely grave. - On the Duke of Buckingham [Graves] Then fly betimes, for only they Conquer love, that run away. - Song--Conquest by Flight [Love] Those curious locks so aptly twin'd, Whose every hair a soul doth bind. - To A.L.--Persuasions to Love (l.37) [Hair] To lead, or brass, or some such bad Metal, a prince's stamp may add That value, which it never had. But to the pure refined ore, The stamp of kings imparts no more Worth, than the metal held before. - To T.H.--A Lady Resembling My Mistress [Man]
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