Cupid
laid by his brand, and fell asleep:
A
maid of Dian's this advantage found,
And
his love-kindling fire did quickly steep
In
a cold valley-fountain of that ground;
Which
borrow'd from this holy fire of Love
A
dateless lively heat, still to endure,
And
grew a seething bath, which yet men prove
Against
strange maladies a sovereign cure.
But
at my mistress' eye Love's brand new-fired,
The
boy for trial needs would touch my breast;
I,
sick withal, the help of bath desired,
And
thither hied, a sad distemper'd guest,
But
found no cure: the bath for my help lies
Where
Cupid got new fire--my mistress' eyes.
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