CUPID'S COURT
of EQUITY.
The scornful Lady quickly took,
While she her love Disdain'd:
She was prick'd down in Cupid's Book,
His Vassal she remain'd.
Tune of, When first I bid my Love Good-Morrow.
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WHen first I bid my Love good morrow,
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with tear in Eye, and hand on breast;
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My heart was even drown'd in sorrow,
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and I poor soul was much opprest.
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The glances from her Eye so darted,
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I her captive soon was made;
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The Prisoner took was broken-hearted,
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this I find is Cupids Trade.
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All my reason then was banish'd,
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and I left in Captivity:
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My hop'd for joys were quickly vanish'd,
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by the Lightning of her Eye.
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All my hopes at once were blasted,
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by one seeming scornful look:
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The joys I hop'd for to have tasted,
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had no Record in Cupids Book.
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I sigh'd, I groan'd just like a Lover,
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ready just for to depart;
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And had no hopes for to recover,
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for she, Oh she! had broke my heart.
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Away I went without her smiling,
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which was worse then death to me:
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And Cupid was me then beguiling
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of my Life and Liberty.
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BUt when she see that I absented,
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almost melted into Tears,
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My Love-sick case she then lamented,
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and like myself was fill'd with fears.
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Alas, quoth she, am I so cruel,
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as to let this Lover dye?
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Or to his flames to add such fuel,
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as makes his heart to scorch and fry.
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A Balsome then I will provide him,
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shall effect a perfect cure;
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And in my bosome I will hide him,
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he shall not these pains indure.
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My thinks I feel myself relenting,
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and in tears I almost melt:
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Now do I grieve at his tormenting,
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I now feel the pains he felt.
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None can indure this bitter anguish,
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which at this time I do feel:
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For want of him I grieve, I languish,
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none but he my wounds can heal.
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Let not your beauty make you peevish,
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you that nature made so fair:
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For mens as womens eyes are thievish,
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love commands or breeds dispair.
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At first too strangely I did slight him,
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whom I now so much adore:
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He is the Man I do delight in,
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and now will do forevermore.
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His sighs and groans shall be requited,
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with a shoure of brackish tears:
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And my senses are benighted,
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fill'd with storms of dreads and fears.
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Oh come again before my sorrow
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brings me to the brink of Death,
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I cannot hope to see tomorrow,
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except you come to save my breath.
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Then come & take thy conquest quickly
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I am ready to depart:
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Just at this moment I am sickly,
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thou hast won my tender heart.
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