London :: Printed for John Starkey, at the Miter, near the Middle Temple-gate in Fleet-street,
1660.
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Subject terms
Italian poetry
Tasso, Torquato, -- 1544-1595. -- Aminta
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"Aminta." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A94684.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
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The Farewel.
1.
NOw perverse world I'l bid thee quite fare∣wel,What is there in thee that can please?Thy greatest joy's disturb our ease,Thy favours thou at too dear rate dost sell,No, I'l thy slave no longer be,But quite retreat my self from thee,Or to some pleasant shade, or to a gloomy Cell.
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2.
There in dull silence will I spend my dayes,Slighting thy favours and my fame,In vain men seek to get a name,Or their false glory in thy crouds to raise,Since that their living trophees mustBy time or fate consume to dust,And then what rests there of their toil-got praise?
3.
Yet in despite of thee my name shall beThe talk of ages yet to come,In every time there shall be some,Which shall applaud me more for leaving thee,Then those fond simple fools who doImbrace thy woes and honours too,And make me famous to posteritie.
FINIS.
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