Tudor and Stuart Love Songs — John Lyly

CUPID AND MY CAMPASPE: APELLES' SONG.

Cupid and my Campaspe played At cards for kisses: Cupid paid.

He stakes his quiver, bows and arrows, His mother's doves and team of sparrows;

Loses them too; then down he throws The coral of his lip, the rose Growing on 's cheek, but none knows how;

With these the crystal of his brow, And then the dimple of his chin-- All these did my Campaspe win.

At last he set her both his eyes.

-- She won, and Cupid blind did rise.

O Love, has she done this to thee?

What shall, alas!

become of me?

John Lyly.