A Collection of poems written upon several occasions by several persons with many additions, never before in print.

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A Collection of poems written upon several occasions by several persons with many additions, never before in print.
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London :: Printed for Tho. Collins and John Ford ... and Will. Cademan ...,
1673.
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English poetry -- 17th century.
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"A Collection of poems written upon several occasions by several persons with many additions, never before in print." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A33849.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 16, 2024.

Pages

SONG.

GEet you gone, you will undo me, If you love me, don't pursue me; Let that inclination perish, Which I dare no longer cherish; It does of late so fast prevail, It must go now or not at all: For should it gather farther strength, 'Twould give my Honour Laws at length: With harmless thoughts I did begin, But in the Crowd Love entred in;

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I knew him not he was so gay, So innocent and full of play; At every hour, in every place, I neither saw; nor form'd your face; All that in Playes was finely writ, My thoughts for you, and me were fit. My Dreams at night were all of you, Such as till then I never knew: I sported thus in young desire, Chear'd with light, free from his fire: But now his Teeth and Claws are grown, Let me the Fatal Lion shun; You found me harmless, leave me so; For were I not, you'd leave me too.
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