Ben. Johnson's poems, elegies, paradoxes, and sonnets
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Ben. Johnson's poems, elegies, paradoxes, and sonnets
Author
King, Henry, 1592-1669.
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London :: Printed and sold by the booksellers,
1700.
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"Ben. Johnson's poems, elegies, paradoxes, and sonnets." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A47404.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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The Retreat.
PUrsue no more (my thoughts!) that false unkinYou may assoon imprison the North-wind;Or catch the Lightning as it leaps; or reachThe leading billow first ran down the breach;Or undertake the flying clouds to trackIn the same path they yesterday did rack.Then, like a Torch turn'd downward, let the sa••Desire which nourisht it, put out your flame.
Loe thus I doe divorce thee from my brest,False to thy vow, and traitour to my rest!
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Henceforth thy tears shall be (though thou repent)Like pardons after execution sent.Nor shalt thou ever my loves story read,But as some Epitaph of what is dead.So may my hope on future blessings dwell,As 'tis my firm resolve and last farewell.
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