Poems by the most deservedly admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, the matchless Orinda ; to which is added Monsieur Corneille's Pompey & Horace, tragedies ; with several other translations out of French.
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Poems by the most deservedly admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, the matchless Orinda ; to which is added Monsieur Corneille's Pompey & Horace, tragedies ; with several other translations out of French.
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Philips, Katherine, 1631-1664.
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London :: Printed by J.M. for H. Herringman ...,
1667.
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"Poems by the most deservedly admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, the matchless Orinda ; to which is added Monsieur Corneille's Pompey & Horace, tragedies ; with several other translations out of French." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54716.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 4, 2024.
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A Dialogue of Friendship multiplyed.
Musidorus.
WIll you unto one single senseConfine a starry Influence?Or when you do the raies combine,To themselves only make them shine?Love that's engross'd by one alone,Is envy not affection.
Orinda.
No Musidorus, this would beBut Friendships prodigality,Union in raies does not confine,But doubles lustre when they shine,
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And souls united live aboveEnvy, as much as scatter'd LoverFriendship (like Rivers) as it multiplies,In many streams, grows weaker still and dies.
Musidorus.
Rivers indeed may lose their force,When they divide or break their course,For they may want some hidden Spring,Which to their streams recruits may bring;But Friendship's made of purest fire,Which burns and keeps its stock entire.Love, like the Sun, may shed his beams on all,And grow more great by being general.
Orinda.
The purity of friendship's flameProves that from simpathy it came,And that the hearts so close do knitThey no third partner can admit;Love like the Sun does all inspire,But burns most by contracted fire.Then though I honour every worthy guest,Yet my Lucasia only rules my breast.
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