4. Incommunicabilitie of Love.

By what power was Love confinde
To one object? who can binde,
Or fixe a limit to the free-borne minde?
Nature; for as bodyes may
Move at once but in one way,
So nor can mindes to more then one love stray.
Yet I feele a double smart
Loves twinn'd-flame, his forked dart.
Then hath wilde lust, not love possest thy hear.
Whence springs love?
From beauty.
Why
Should th'effect not multiply
As fast i'th'heart, as death the cause i'th'eye?
When two Beauties equall are,
Sense preferring neither fayre,
Desire stands still, distracted 'twixt the paire.
So in equall distance lay
Two fayre Lambes in the Wolfe's way;
The hungry beast will sterve e're chuse his prey.
But where one is chiefe, the rest
Cease, and that's alone possest
Without a Rivall Monarch of the breast.