The art of love in two books. Written both to men and ladies. A new poem.

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Title
The art of love in two books. Written both to men and ladies. A new poem.
Author
Hopkins, Charles, 1664?-1700?
Publication
London :: printed for Joseph Wild, at the Elephant at Charing-Cross,
1700. Where gentlemen and ladies may pick novels at 6 s. per doz. and be furnish'd with most sorts of plays.
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Subject terms
Love poetry -- Early works to 1800.
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"The art of love in two books. Written both to men and ladies. A new poem." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A23605.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.

Pages

Constancy.

PErhaps the Haughty Nymph thy Presence shun's, And Daphne like from the pursuer runs. Bold, like the Youthful Phaebus, follow, you, Swift tho' she flys, do thou as swift pursue. Intreat, like him, like him, maintain thy way, Stay, Phaebus cry'd, my Charming Daphne, stay, The Winds bore her, and his lost Pray'rs away. Yet, as he follow'd fast the Flying Maid, The more he saw her Fleet, the more he Pray'd. A long, long Course the Virgin had maintain'd, But what he follow'd long, at last he gain'd.

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He gain'd that Fair, who did his Passion flee, Not now a Virgin, yet he claspt her Tree. Let not her change in thee suspicion raise, There are no Daphne's in these kinder Days. All that she could, she did; her Lawrel bow'd, At his each gentle Breath, to thank the God.
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