Whenas the nightingale chanted her verses
  And the wild forester couch'd on the ground,
Venus invited me in the evening whispers
  Unto a fragrant field with roses crown'd,
  Where she before had sent
  My wishes' complement;
  Unto my heart's content
  Play'd with me on the green.
     Never Mark Antony
     Dallied more wantonly
     With the fair Egyptian Queen.

First on her cherry cheeks I mine eyes feasted,
  Thence fear of surfeiting made me retire;
Next on her warmer lips, which, when I tasted,
  My duller spirits made me active as fire.
  Then we began to dart,
  Each at another's heart,
  Arrows that knew no smart,
  Sweet lips and smiles between.
     Never Mark Antony
     Dallied more wantonly
     With the fair Egyptian Queen.

Wanting a glass to plait her amber tresses,
  Which like a bracelet rich decked mine arm,
Gaudier than Juno wears whenas she graces
  Jove with embraces more stately than warm,
  Then did she peep in mine
  Eyes' humor crystalline;
  I in her eyes was seen
  As if we one had been.
     Never Mark Antony
     Dallied more wantonly
     With the fair Egyptian Queen.

Mystical grammar of amorous glances;
  Feeling of pulses, the physic of love;
Rhetorical courtings and musical dances;
  Numbering of kisses arithmetic prove;
  Eyes like astronomy;
  Straight-limb'd geometry;
  In her arts' ingeny*         [ingenuity]
  Our wits were sharp and keen.
     Never Mark Antony
     Dallied more wantonly
     With the fair Egyptian Queen.