| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907. | | | | Cards and Kisses | | By John Lyly (1555?–1606) |
| | | CUPID 1 and my Campaspe play’d | |
| At cards for kisses—Cupid paid: | |
| He stakes his quiver, bow, and arrows, | |
| His mother’s doves, and team of sparrows; | |
| Loses them too; then down he throws | 5 |
| 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. | 10 |
| At last he set her both his eyes— | |
| She won, and Cupid blind did rise. | |
| O Love! has she done this for thee? | |
| What shall, alas! become of me? | |
| | | Note 1. From Alexander and Campaspe, acted, it is surmised, at Court, 1581. [back] | | |
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