Epigram 77. To my especial Friend Mr. Henry Thimbleby

Platonick Love must needs a Friendship be,
Or els Platonick Love's a Gullery:
Love is (as Johnson in's NewInne hath prov'd)
Desire of union with the belov'd:
And cannot onely be a gazing at;
But a strong Appetite t'incorporate.
Why do you praise a Ladies Beauties so,
And (in a silence) let her vertues go?
Leave trifling; for we gather (by your suit)
Your marriage shortly will your words confute.