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Quotes from Lucasta — Richard Lovelace

1618–1657 England

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I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honor more.

Lucasta (1649)

Cease, large example of wise thrift a while.

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As when she ceas'd, we sighing saw
The floore lay pav'd with broken hearts.

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I could not love thee (Deare) so much,
Lov'd I not Honour more.

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When flowing Cups run swiftly round
With no allaying Thames.

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Then Love, I beg, when next thou takest thy bow,
Thy angry shafts, and dost heart-chasing go,
Pass rascal deer, strike me the largest doe.

Lucasta (1649)

Am not I shot
With the selfe same artillery?

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Oh could you view the Melodie
Of ev'ry grace,
And Musick of her face,
You'd drop a teare,
Seeing more Harmonie
In her bright eye,
Then now you heare.

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Heere wee'l strippe and coole our fire
In Creame below, in milke-baths higher:
And when all Well's are drawne dry,
I'le drink a tear out of thine eye.

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Lucasta, that bright northerne star.

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When thirsty griefe in Wine we steepe,
When Healths and draughts go free,
Fishes that tipple in the Deepe,
Know no such Libertie.

Lucasta (1649)

Poore verdant foole! and now green Ice, thy Joys
Large and as lasting, as thy Peirch of Grasse,
Bid us lay in 'gainst Winter, Raine, and poize
Their flouds, with an o'erflowing glasse.

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When Love with unconfinèd wings
Hovers within my Gates;
And my divine Althea brings
To whisper at the Grates;
When I lye tangled in her haire
And fettered to her eye;
The Gods that wanton in the Aire,
Know no such Liberty.

Lucasta (1649)

If to be absent were to be
Away from thee;
Or that when I am gone,
You or I were alone;
Then my Lucasta might I crave
Pity from blustring winde, or swallowing wave.

Lucasta (1649)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Lovelace (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.