L VST is a Tyrant, Loue a Seruant Is:
This is the Sentence of Proofes euidence:
For, I nere see you (Sweete!) but feel by This
Both Cold and Heate , through Loue , and reuerence ,
What Eye can look, through cleere Loues Spectacle,
On Vertues Maiestie , that shines in Beauty ,
But (as to Natures diuin'st Miracle! )
Performes not to It all subiecture dutie?
BEAVTIES Diuinitie none dare prophane
That are of Humane , or of Brutish kinde,
But when Its full, where Vertue's in the wane:
Where a faire Body hids a filthie Minde:
But were thy Mind and Bodies beauty one,
Twere Natures Maiesties diuinest Throne!
This is the Sentence of Proofes euidence:
For, I nere see you (Sweete!) but feel by This
Both Cold and Heate , through Loue , and reuerence ,
What Eye can look, through cleere Loues Spectacle,
On Vertues Maiestie , that shines in Beauty ,
But (as to Natures diuin'st Miracle! )
Performes not to It all subiecture dutie?
BEAVTIES Diuinitie none dare prophane
That are of Humane , or of Brutish kinde,
But when Its full, where Vertue's in the wane:
Where a faire Body hids a filthie Minde:
But were thy Mind and Bodies beauty one,
Twere Natures Maiesties diuinest Throne!