• my sweetest lesbia

- "but let all lovers, rich in triumph, come & with sweet pastimes grace my happy tomb; & lesbia, close up thou my little light, & crown my love my ever-during night"

• the relic

- "coming & going, we perchance might kiss, but not between those meals; which nature, injured by late law, sets free; these miracles we did; but now, alas, all measure & all language i should pass, should i tell what a miracle she was"

• the passionate shepherd to his love

- "the shepherd's swains shall dance & sing for thy delight each may morning; if these delights thy mind may move, then live with me & be my love"

• the nymph's reply to the shepherd

- "but could youth last, and love still breed, had joys no date, nor age no need, then these delights my mind might move to live with thee, and be thy love"