1 STARVE not yourself, because you may Thereby make me pine away; T. Carew's Poems. HUE AND CRY AFTER CHLORIS. And TELL me, ye wand'ring spirits of the air, Go search the vallies; pluck up ev'ry rose, Go call the echoes to your aid, and cry, But stay awhile, I have inform'd you ill, Go fly to heav'n, examine ev'ry sphere, And try what star hath lately lighted there; If any brighter than the sun you see, Fall down, fall down and worship it, for that is she *. Select Airs. Printed for J. Playford, 1659. * These verses are somewhat on the plan of Tasso's Amore Fuggitivo, who was indebted to the first Idyllium of Moschus. See an elegant paraphrase of this in Crashaw's Delights of the Muses, p. 110, Edit. 1670. Likewise the Hue and Cry after Cupid, by Ben Jonson, in his Masque on the Marriage of Lord Haddington. Soft souls she binds in tender twist, Her wat'ry eyes have burning force*; May never was the month of love, Like tyrant, cruel wound she gives, With soothing words enthralled souls * Her wat❜ry eyes have burning force.] Anacreon, in his directions to the painter, orders him to give his mistress the moist, watery eye: Τὸ δὲ βλέμμα νῦν ἀληθῶς + Her eye in silence hath a speech In Amicam Suam. Which eye best understands.] The expression of silence was Her little sweet hath many sours, Short hap immortal harms; Like winter rose and summer ice Modes, passions, fancies, jealous fits, Her house is Sloth, her door Deceit, Her diet is of such delights As please till they be past; But then the poison kills the heart That did entice the taste. never more poetically introduced, or applied with greater truth, than by Mr. Sheridan, in his noble verses to the memory of Garrick: Th' expressive glance, whose subtil comment draws Gesture that marks, with force and feeling fraught; G. Fletcher has, in his description of Justice, with great sublimity, attributed to her the power of interpreting the silence of thought: for she each wish could find Within the solid heart; and with her ears The silence of the thought, loud speaking hears. Part I. St. 10, |