The Remedy Of Love Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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When Cupid read this title straight he saidA
'Wars I perceive against me will be made 'B
But spare oh Love to tax thy poet soC
Who oft bath borne thy ensign 'gainst thy foeC
I am not he by whom thy mother bledA
When she to heaven on Mars his horses fledA
I oft like other youths thy flame did proveD
And if thou ask what I do still I loveE
Nay I have taught by art to keep Love's courseF
And made that reason which before was forceF
I seek not to betray thee pretty boyG
Nor what I once have written to destroyG
If any love and find his mistress kindH
Let him go on and sail with his own windH
But he that by his love is discontentedI
To save his life my verses were inventedJ
Why should a lover kill himself or whyK
Should any with his own grief wounded dieK
Thou art a boy to play becomes thee stillL
Thy reign is soft play then and do not killL
Or if thou'lt needs be vexing then do thisM
Make lovers meet by stealth and steal a kissM
Make them to fear lest any overwatch themN
And tremble when they think some come to catch themN
And with those tears that lovers shed all nightO
Be thou content but do not kill outrightO
Love heard and up his silver wings did heaveP
And said 'Write on I freely give thee leave 'B
Come then all ye despised that love endureQ
I that have felt the wounds your love will cureQ
But come at first for if you make delayR
Your sickness will grow mortal by your stayR
The tree which by delay is grown so bigS
In the beginning was a tender twigS
That which at first was but a span in lengthT
Will by delay be rooted past men's strengthT
Resist beginnings medicines bring no curingU
Where sickness is grown strong by long enduringU
When first thou seest a lass that likes thine eyeK
Bend all thy present powers to descryQ
Whether her eye or carriage first would shewV
If she be fit for love's delights or noC
Some will be easy such an one electW
But she that bears too grave and stern aspectW
Take heed of her and make her not thy jewelX
Either she cannot love or will be cruelX
If love assail thee there betime take heedY
Those wounds are dangerous that inward bleedY
He that to day cannot shake off love's sorrowC
Will certainly be more unapt to morrowC
Love bath so eloquent and quick a tongueZ
That he will lead thee all thy life alongA2
And on a sudden clasp thee in a yokeB2
Where thou must either draw or striving chokeB2
Strive then betimes for at the first one handC2
May stop a water drill that wears the sandC2
But if delayed it breaks into a floodJ
Mountains will hardly make the passage goodD2
But I am out for now I do beginE2
To keep them off not heal those that are inE2
First therefore lovers I intend to shewV
How love came to you then how he may goC
You that would not know what love's passions beF2
Never be idle learn that rule of meF2
Ease makes you love as that o'ercomes your willsG2
Ease is the food and cause of all your illsG2
Turn ease and idleness but out of doorQ
Love's darts are broke his flame can burn no moreQ
As feeds and willows love the water's sideH2
So love loves with the idle to abideH2
If then at liberty you fain would beF2
Love yields to labour labour and be freeF2
Long sleeps soft beds rich vintage and high feedingU
Nothing to do and pleasure of exceedingU
Dulls all our senses makes our virtue stupidJ
And then creeps in that crafty villain CupidI
That boy loves ease a' life hates such a stirQ
Therefore thy mind to better things preferQ
Behold thy country's enemies in armsI2
At home love gripes the heart in his sly charmsI2
Then rise and put on armour cast off slothJ2
Thy labour may at once o'ercome them bothJ2
If this seem hard and too unpleasant thenK2
Behold the law set forth by God and menK2
Sit down and study that that thou may'st knowC
The way to guide thyself and others shewV
Or if thou lov'st not to be shut up soC
Learn to assail the deer with trusty bowL2
That through the woods thy well mouth'd bounds may ringU
Whose echo better joys than love will singU
There may'st thou chance to bring thy love to endM2
Diana unto Venus is no friendM2
The country will afford thee means enowC
Sometimes disdain not to direct the ploughL2
To follow through the fields the bleating lambN2
That mourns to miss the comfort of his damN2
Assist the harvest help to prune the treesO2
Graft plant and sow no kind of labour leeseP2
Set nets for birds with hook'd lines bait for fishQ2
Which will employ thy mind and fill thy dishQ2
That being weary with these pains at nightO
Sound sleep may put the thoughts of love to flightO
With such delights or labours as are theseO2
Forget to love and learn thyself to pleaseO2
But chiefly learn this lesson for my sakeR2
Fly from her far some journey undertakeR2
I know thou'lt grieve and that her name once toldS2
Will be enough thy journey to withholdS2
But when thou find'st thyself most bent to stayR
Compel thy feet to run with thee awayR
Nor do thou wish that rain or stormy weatherQ
May stay your steps and bring you back togetherQ
Count not the miles you pass nor doubt the wayR
Lest those respects should turn you back to stayR
Tell not the clock nor look not once behindH
But fly like lightning or the northern windH
For where we are too much o'ermatch'd in mightO
There is no way for safe guard but by flightO
But some will count my lines too hard and bitterQ
I must confess them hard but yet 'tis betterQ
To fast a while that health may be provokedT2
Than feed at plenteous tables and be chokedT2
To cure the wretched body I am sureQ
Both fire and steel thou gladly wilt endureQ
Wilt thou not then take pains by any artU2
To cure thy mind which is thy better partU2
The hardness is at first and that once pastV2
Pleasant and easy ways will come at lastV2
I do not bid thee strive with witches' charmsI2
Or such unholy acts to cure thy harmsI2
Ceres herself who all these things did knowC
Had never power to cure her own love soC
No take this medicine which of all is sureQ
Labour and absence is the only cureQ
But if the fates compel thee in such fashionC
That thou must needs live near her habitationC
And canst not fly her sight learn here of meF2
Thou that would'st fain and canst not yet be freeF2
Set all thy mistress' faults before thine eyesW2
And all thy own disgraces well adviseW2
Say to thyself that 'she is covetousW2
Hath ta'en my gifts and used me thus and thusW2
Thus hath she sworn to me and thug deceivedX2
Thus have I hoped and thus have been bereavedX2
With love she feeds my rival while I starveY2
And pours on him kisses which I deserveZ2
She follows him with smiles and gives to meF2
Sad looks no lover's but a stranger's feeF2
All those embraces I so oft desiredA3
To him she offers daily unrequiredA3
Whose whole desert and half mine weighed togetherQ
Would make mine lead and his seem cork and featherQ
Then let her go and since she proves so hardA3
Regard thyself and give her no regard 'B
Thus must thou school thyself and I could wishQ2
Thee to thyself most eloquent in thisW2
But put on grief enough and do not fearQ
Grief will enforce thy eloquence t' appearQ
Thus I myself the love did once expelB3
Of one whose coyness vex'd my soul like hellB3
I must confess she touch'd me to the quickC3
And that am physician then was sickC3
But this I found to profit I did stillL
Ruminate what I thought in her was illL
And for to cure myself I found a wayR
Some honest slanders on her for to layR
Quoth I 'How lamely doth my mistress go 'B
Although I must confess it was not soW2
I said her arms were crooked fingers bentA3
Her shoulders bow'd her legs consumed and spentA3
Her colour sad her neck as dark as nightA3
When Venus might in all have ta'en delightA3
But yet because I would no more come nigh herQ
Myself unto myself did thus bely herQ
Do thou the like and though she fair appearQ
Think vice to virtue often comes too nearQ
And in that error though it be an errorQ
Preserve thyself from any further terrorQ
If she be round and plump say she's too fatA3
If brown say black and thick who cares for thatA3

Francis Beaumont



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