Clievelandi Vindiciæ, or, Clieveland's genuine poems, orations, epistles, &c. purged from the many false and spurious ones which had usurped his name, and from innumerable errours and corruptions in the true copies : to which are added many never printed before, with an account of the author's life.
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Clievelandi Vindiciæ, or, Clieveland's genuine poems, orations, epistles, &c. purged from the many false and spurious ones which had usurped his name, and from innumerable errours and corruptions in the true copies : to which are added many never printed before, with an account of the author's life.
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Cleveland, John, 1613-1658.
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London :: Printed for Robert Harford ...,
1677.
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Cleveland, John, 1613-1658.
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"Clievelandi Vindiciæ, or, Clieveland's genuine poems, orations, epistles, &c. purged from the many false and spurious ones which had usurped his name, and from innumerable errours and corruptions in the true copies : to which are added many never printed before, with an account of the author's life." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A33433.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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A Fair Nymph scorning a Black Boy courting her.
Nymph.
STand off, and let me take the Air,Why should the smoke pursue the fair?
Boy.
My Face is smoke, thence may be guestWhat Flames within have scorch'd my breast
Nymph.
Thy flaming Love I cannot viewFor the dark Lanthorn of thy Hue.
Boy.
And yet this Lanthorn keeps Love's TaperSurer than your's that's of white Paper.What ever Midnight can be here,The Moon-shine of your Face will clear.
Nymph.
My Moon of an Eclipse is 'fraid;If thou should'st interpose thy shade.
Boy.
Yet one thing, Sweet-heart, I will ask,Take me for a new fashion'd Mask.