Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, A collection of lives, letters, poems with characters of sundry personages : and other incomparable pieces of language and art : also additional letters to several persons, not before printed / by the curious pencil of the ever memorable Sir Henry Wottan ...

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Reliquiae Wottonianae, or, A collection of lives, letters, poems with characters of sundry personages : and other incomparable pieces of language and art : also additional letters to several persons, not before printed / by the curious pencil of the ever memorable Sir Henry Wottan ...
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Wotton, Henry, Sir, 1568-1639.
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London :: Printed by T. Roycroft for R. Marriott, F. Tyton, T. Collins and J. Ford,
1672.
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A Poem

O Faithless World, & thy more faithless part, a Womans heart! The true Shop of variety, where sits nothing but fits And feavers of desire, and pangs of love, which toyes remove. Why, was she born to please, or I to trust, words writ in dust? Suffering her Eyes to govern my despair, my pain for air; And fruit of time rewarded with untruth, the food of youth.

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Untrue she was: yet, I believ'd her eyes (instructed spies) Till I was taught, that Love was but a School to breed a fool. Or sought she more by triumphs of denial, to make a trial How far her smiles commanded my weakness? yield and confess, Excuse no more thy folly; but for Cure, blush and endure As well thy shame, as passions that were vain: and think, 'tis gain To know, that Love lodg'd in a Womans brest, Is but a guest.

H. W.

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