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 62. Icarus

Robert Jones's Second Book of Songs and Airs, 1601 Love wing'd my Hopes and taught me how to fly Far from base earth, but not to mount too high:       For true pleasure       Lives in measure,       Which if men forsake, Blinded they into folly run and grief for pleasure take. But my vain Hopes, proud of their new-taught flight, Enamour'd sought to woo the sun's fair light,      Whose rich brightness       Moved their lightness       To aspire so high That all scorch'd and consumed with fire now drown'd in woe they lie. And none but Love their woeful hap did rue, For Love did know that their desires were true;      Though fate frownèd,       And now drownèd       They in sorrow dwell, It was the purest light of heav'n for whose fair love they fell. 63. Madrigal

Davison's Poetical Rhapsody, 1602

My Love in her attire doth show her wit, It doth so well become her; For every season she hath dressings fit, For Winter, Spring, and Summer. No beauty she doth miss When all her robes are on: But Beauty's self she is     When all her robes are gone.