Love's fierce desire, and hopes of Recovery.  
Or, A true and brief Description of two Resolved Lovers; whose Excellent wits, suitable minds, and faithful hearts one to another, shall heedfully be spoken of in this following new made paper of Verses.  
To a delightful new tune, Or, Fair Angel ofEngland.  
 

NOw the Tyrant hath stolen  
my dearest away;  
And I am confined  
with Mopsa to stay:  
Yet let Celia remember  
how faithful i'll be,  
Neither distance nor absence  
shall terrify me.   

In Volumes of sighs,  
I will send to my Dear,  
And make my own heart  
correspond to my fear:  
Till the Soul of my life  
may be pleased to see,  
How delightful her safest  
return is to me.   

It cheers my sad heart  
to remember her love,  
Though malice hath caused  
this sudden remove:  
And my mind is resolved  
what ever ensue,  
Whether Sunshine or thunder,  
to be constant and true.   

If my Bark sail but safely  
through this rugged Sea,  
Though with contrary Wind,  
much tossed it be:  
In the Haven of rest,  
and long looked for content,  
I'll chant forth melodious  
Songs of merriment.   

Till than i'll retreat to  
the Forest and mourn;  
Actaeon shall echo  
my Hound and my Horn.  
No Reynard shall escape me  
that runs on the way,  
But patience perforce  
I will make him to stay.   

My heart hath enquired  
of every Stone,  
What convoy the Heavens  
hath bequeathed to my moan:  
But for aught I can find,  
holy Angels are agreed,  
To rival my hopes,  
and to slacken her speed.   
 
 

Therefore i'll sit down, and  
bewail my sad Fate,  
Like the Turtle i'll mourn  
for the loss of my mate:  
All the world's greatest glories  
vexation to me,  
Till my Celia and I,  
in our loves may be free.   Celia her sweet Reply to her faithful friend. 

Thy speeches dear friend  
I have well understood,  
And how in exile  
thou hast wandered at the wood  
But I am resolved  
thy sorrows to free,  
To make thee amends,  
i'll soon come unto thee.   

'Tis neither the Tiger,  
the Wolf, nor the Bear,  
Nor shall Nilus Crocodile  
put me in fear:  
I'll swim through the Ocean  
upon my bare Breast,  
To find out my Darling,  
whom I do love best.   

And when I have found him,  
with double delight,  
I'll comfort him kindly  
by day and by night:  
And i'll be more faithful  
than the Turtle-Dove,  
Which never at all did  
prove false to her Love.   

The fierce Basilisks that  
kills with the eye,  
Shall not have the power  
once thee to come nigh:  
I'll clip thee and hug thee  
so close in my arms,  
And i'll venture my life  
for to save thee from harms.   

My Lap for thy head love,  
a Pillow shall be,  
And whilst thou dost sleep,  
i'll be careful of thee:  
I'll wake, and i'll watch, and  
i'll kiss thee for joy,  
And no Venomous Creature  
shall my Love annoy.   

The Satyrs shall Pipe,  
and the Sirens shall sing,  
The wood-nimphs with music  
shall make the Groves ring:  
The Horn it shall sound,  
and the Hounds make a noise,  
To recreate my Love  
with ten thousand rare joys.   

So now I am coming  
to hasten the deed,  
Pray Heaven and God's Angels  
to be my good speed:  
If fortune me favour, and  
Seas quiet prove,  
I soon will arrive at  
the Port which I love.   

Now Celia is gone to  
find out her Dear,  
His Heart that was sad  
to comfort and cheer:  
No doubt but each other  
they will lovingly greet,  
When as they together  
do lovingly meet.   
L. P.  
FINIS.   

Printed for F, Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, I Clerk, W. Thackeray, and T. Passenger.