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<v Speaker 1>Section one of Poems sixteen eighty six by Anne Killigrew.

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<v Speaker 1>This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in

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<v Speaker 1>the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please

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<v Speaker 1>visit LibriVox dot org. Poems sixteen eighty six by Anne Killigrew,

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<v Speaker 1>Section one Alexandreas. I sing the man that never equal knew,

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<v Speaker 1>whose mighty arms all Asia did subdue? Whose conquests through

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<v Speaker 1>the spacious world? Do ring that city? Razor king, destroying king?

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<v Speaker 1>Who o'er the warlike masdons did reign and worthily the

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<v Speaker 1>name of great did gain? This is the prince if

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<v Speaker 1>fame you will believe to ancient story any credit give

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<v Speaker 1>who when the globe of Earth he had subdued with tears,

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<v Speaker 1>the easy victory pursued because that no more worlds there

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<v Speaker 1>were to win, no further scene to act his glories

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<v Speaker 1>in Ah, that some pitying muse would now inspire my

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<v Speaker 1>frozen style with a poetic fire and raptures worthy of

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<v Speaker 1>his matchless fame. Whose deeds I sing, whose never fading name,

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<v Speaker 1>long as the world shall fresh and deathless last, no

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<v Speaker 1>less to future ages than the past. Great My presumption

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<v Speaker 1>is I must confess. But if I thrive my glories

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<v Speaker 1>near the less, nor will it from his conquests derogate

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<v Speaker 1>a female pen is accident it celebrate. If thou, O muse,

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<v Speaker 1>wilt thy assistance give such as made Nasso and great

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<v Speaker 1>Marrow live with him, whom Melus fertile banks did bear,

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<v Speaker 1>live though their bodies dust and ashes, are whose laurels

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<v Speaker 1>were not fresher than their fame is now and will

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<v Speaker 1>for ever be the same. If thee like favor thou

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<v Speaker 1>wilt grant to me, O, Queen of Verse, I'll not ungrateful,

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<v Speaker 1>be my choicest hours to THEE. I'll dedicate tis thou

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<v Speaker 1>shalt rule, Tis thou shalt be my fate. But if

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<v Speaker 1>coy goddess, thou shalt this deny, and from my humble

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<v Speaker 1>suit disdaining fly, I'll stoop and beg no more. Since

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<v Speaker 1>I know this writing of him, I cannot write amiss.

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<v Speaker 1>His lofty deeds will raise each feeble line, and god

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<v Speaker 1>like acts will make my verse divine. Twas at the

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<v Speaker 1>time the golden sun doth rise, and with his beams

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<v Speaker 1>in lights the azure skies, when lo a troop in

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<v Speaker 1>silver arms drew near the glorious sun did near so

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<v Speaker 1>bright appear. Dire scarlet plumes adorn'd their haughty crests, and

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<v Speaker 1>crescent shields did shade their shining breasts. Down from their

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<v Speaker 1>shoulders hung a panther's hide, A bow and quiver rattl'd

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<v Speaker 1>by their side, their hands a knotty well tried spear

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<v Speaker 1>did bear jocund. They seem'd and quite devoid of fear.

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<v Speaker 1>These warlike virgins were that du reside near Thermodon, on

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<v Speaker 1>smooth banks and verdant side. The plains of Themisgarri their

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<v Speaker 1>birth do boast. Theleestrius now did head thee beauteous host,

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<v Speaker 1>she emulating that illustrious dame who, to the aid of

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<v Speaker 1>Troy and Priam came, and her who thee Ritulian Prince

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<v Speaker 1>did aid, though dearly, both for their assistance paid But

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<v Speaker 1>fear she scorned, nor thee like fate did dread her host.

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<v Speaker 1>She often to the field had led as oft in triumph,

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<v Speaker 1>had returned to gain glory. She only sought for all

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<v Speaker 1>her pain. This martial queen had heard how loudly Fame

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<v Speaker 1>echoed our conqueror's redoubted name her soul, his conduct and

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<v Speaker 1>his courage fired to see the hero she so much admired,

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<v Speaker 1>and to Hyrcanea. For this cause, she went where Alexander Holy, then,

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<v Speaker 1>intent on triumphs and such military sport, at truce with war,

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<v Speaker 1>held both his camp and court. And while before the

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<v Speaker 1>town she did attend her messenger's return, she saw ascend

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<v Speaker 1>a cloud of dust that covered all the sky, and still,

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<v Speaker 1>at every pause there stroke her eye the interrupted beams

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<v Speaker 1>of burnished gold as dust. The splendor hid or did unfold.

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<v Speaker 1>Loud neighings of the steeds and trumpets sound filled all

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<v Speaker 1>the air and echoed from the ground. The gallant Greeks,

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<v Speaker 1>with a brisk march, drew near, and their great chief

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<v Speaker 1>did at their head appear, and now come up to

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<v Speaker 1>the Amazonian band. They made a halt and a respectful stand,

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<v Speaker 1>and both the troops, with like amazement struck did each

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<v Speaker 1>another with deep silence. Look. The heroic queen, whose high

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<v Speaker 1>pretense to war canceled the bashful laws and nicer bar

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<v Speaker 1>of modesty which did her sex restrain, first boldly did

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<v Speaker 1>advance before her train. And thus she spake all but

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<v Speaker 1>a god in name, and that a debt time owes

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<v Speaker 1>unto thy fame and of section one, section two of

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<v Speaker 1>Poems sixteen eighty six by Anne Killigrew. This LibriVox recording

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<v Speaker 1>is in the public domain to the Queen. As those

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<v Speaker 1>who passed the Alps do say, the rocks which first

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<v Speaker 1>oppose their way, and so amazing high do show by

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<v Speaker 1>fresh ascents appear but low, and when they come unto

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<v Speaker 1>the last they scorn the dwarfish hills they've passed. So

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<v Speaker 1>chose the greatest height, and imped with Alexander's name, believed

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<v Speaker 1>there was no further fame, behold an eye holy divine

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<v Speaker 1>vouchsafed upon my verse to shine. And from that time

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<v Speaker 1>I gan to treat with pity him the world called great,

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<v Speaker 1>to smile at his exalted fate unequal though gigantic state,

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<v Speaker 1>I saw that pitch was not sublime compared with this

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<v Speaker 1>which now I climb. His glories sunk and were unseen

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<v Speaker 1>when once appear'd the heav'n born Queen, Victory's laurels, conquer'd

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<v Speaker 1>kings took place among inferior things. Now surely I shall

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<v Speaker 1>reach the clouds, for none besides such virtue shrouds, having

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<v Speaker 1>scald this with holy strains, not higher, but the heaven

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<v Speaker 1>remains no more. I'll praise on them. Bestow who too

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<v Speaker 1>ill deeds their glories, owe who build their babbles of

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<v Speaker 1>renown upon the poor, oppressed crown whole kingdoms do depopulate

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<v Speaker 1>to raise a proud and short lived state. I prize

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<v Speaker 1>no more such frantic might than his that did with

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<v Speaker 1>windmills fight. No give me prowess that, with charms of

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<v Speaker 1>grace and goodness, not with harms, erects a throne. I

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<v Speaker 1>inward parts and rules men's wills, but with their who

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<v Speaker 1>with piety and virtue, thus propitiates God and conquers us.

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<v Speaker 1>And that now, like aarana here alters of praises I

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<v Speaker 1>could rear, suiting her worth, which might be seen like

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<v Speaker 1>a queen's present to a queen alone. She stands for

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<v Speaker 1>virtue's cause when all decry upholds her laws, when to

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<v Speaker 1>banish her is the strife keeps her unexiled in her life,

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<v Speaker 1>guarding her matchless innocence from storms of boldest impudence. In

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<v Speaker 1>spite of all the scoffs and rage and persecutions of

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<v Speaker 1>the age, owns virtues altar feeds the flame, adores her

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<v Speaker 1>much derided name, while impiously her hands they tie loves

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<v Speaker 1>her in her captivity. Like Perseus saves her when she

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<v Speaker 1>stands exposed to thee Leviathan. So did bright lamps once

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<v Speaker 1>live in urns, so camphor in the water burns. So

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<v Speaker 1>Etna's flames do near go out, those snows do freeze

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<v Speaker 1>her head without. How dares bold vice, unmasked walk and

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<v Speaker 1>like a giant proudly stalk when virtues so exalted, seen

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<v Speaker 1>armed and triumphant in the queen. How dares its ulcerous

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<v Speaker 1>face appear when heavenly beauty is so near? But so

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<v Speaker 1>when God was close at hand, and the bright cloud

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<v Speaker 1>did threatening stand in sight of Israel on the tent,

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<v Speaker 1>they on in their rebellion, went, Oh, that I once

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<v Speaker 1>so happy, were to find a nearer shelter there Till then,

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<v Speaker 1>poor dove, I wandering fly between the deluge and the sky,

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<v Speaker 1>Till then I mourn, but do not sing, and oft

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<v Speaker 1>shall plunge my wearied wing. If her blessed hand vouchsafe

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<v Speaker 1>the grace I the arc with her, to give a

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<v Speaker 1>place I safe from danger shall be found When vice

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<v Speaker 1>and folly others drowned and of section two, Section three

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<v Speaker 1>of Poems sixteen eighty six by Anne Killigrew. This LibriVox

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<v Speaker 1>recording is in the public domain. A pastoral dialogue. Dorinda

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<v Speaker 1>Sabie in perfumes fragrant roses bring with all the flowers

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<v Speaker 1>that paint the gaudy spring, scatter them all in young

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<v Speaker 1>Alexis's way, with all that's sweet, and like himself that's gay.

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<v Speaker 1>Alexis immortal laurels, and as lasting praise crown the divine.

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<v Speaker 1>Dorinda's matchless lays. May all hearts stoop where mine would

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<v Speaker 1>gladly yield, had not, like chorus, prepossessed the field. Dorinda,

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<v Speaker 1>would my Alexis meet my noble flame in all asnia.

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<v Speaker 1>Neither youth nor dame should so renowned in deathless numbers,

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<v Speaker 1>shine as thy exalted name should do in mine Alexis.

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<v Speaker 1>He'll need no trophy nor ambitious hears who shall be

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<v Speaker 1>honored by Dorinda's verse. But where it is inscribed that

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<v Speaker 1>here doth lie Lecorus's love, that fame can never die.

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<v Speaker 1>Dorinda on Tiber's bank I thrice as did spy, and

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<v Speaker 1>by his side did brightly chorus lie she crowned his

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<v Speaker 1>head and kissed his amorous brow. Ah Poor Alexis. Ah.

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<v Speaker 1>Then where wert thou Alexis? When thou sawest that I

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<v Speaker 1>ne'er had seen my fare, and what past then ought

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<v Speaker 1>not to be my care? I lived not then, but

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<v Speaker 1>first began to be when I look Chorus loved and

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<v Speaker 1>she loved me. Dorinda, Ah, choose a faith, A faith

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<v Speaker 1>that's like thine own. A virgin love. A love that's

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<v Speaker 1>newly blown tis not enough. A maiden's heart is chaste.

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<v Speaker 1>It must be single and not once misplaced Alexis. Thus,

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<v Speaker 1>do our priests of heavenly pastors tell eternal groves, all

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<v Speaker 1>earthly that is, sell and think to wean us from

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<v Speaker 1>our loves below by dazzling objects which we cannot know.

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<v Speaker 1>And of section three, Section four of Poems sixteen eighty

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<v Speaker 1>six by Anne Killigrew. This LibriVox recording is in the

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<v Speaker 1>public domain. On death, tell me thou safest end of

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<v Speaker 1>all our woe? Why wretched mortals do avoid thee So thou,

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<v Speaker 1>gentle drier o'er the inflicted tears, Thou, noble ender of

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<v Speaker 1>the coward spheres, Thou sweet repose to lover's sad despair,

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<v Speaker 1>Thou calm t ambition's rough, tempestuous care. If in regard

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<v Speaker 1>of bliss thou wert a curse, and then the joys

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<v Speaker 1>of paradise art worse. Yet, after Man from his first

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<v Speaker 1>station fell, and God from Eden Adam did expel, thou

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<v Speaker 1>wert no more an evil, but relief. THEE balm and

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<v Speaker 1>cure to every human grief. Through THEE. What man had

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<v Speaker 1>forfeited before, he now enjoys, and ne'er can lose it more.

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<v Speaker 1>No subtile serpents in the grave, betray worms on the body.

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<v Speaker 1>There not soul, do pray no vice there tempts, no terrors,

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<v Speaker 1>there affright, no cousining sin affords a false delight. No

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<v Speaker 1>vain contentions do that peace annoy. No fierce alarms break

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<v Speaker 1>the lasting joy. Ah, Since from THEE so many blessings flow,

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<v Speaker 1>such real good as life can never know. Come. When

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<v Speaker 1>thou wilt in thy a frighteningest dress, thy shape shall

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<v Speaker 1>never make thy welcome. Less Thou mayst to joy, but

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<v Speaker 1>near to fear give birth. Thou best, as well as

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<v Speaker 1>certainest thing on earth, fly THEE. May travelers then fly

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<v Speaker 1>their rest, and hungry infants fly the proffered breast. Know

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<v Speaker 1>those that faint and tremble at thy name fly from

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<v Speaker 1>their good on a mistaken fame. Thus childish fear did

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<v Speaker 1>Israel of old from plenty and the promised land withhold

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<v Speaker 1>with milk and honey flow and of section four, Section

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<v Speaker 1>five of Poems sixteen eighty six by Anne Killigrew. This

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<v Speaker 1>LibriVox recording is in the public domain. First epigram, upon

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<v Speaker 1>being contented with a little, we deem them moderate, but enough,

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<v Speaker 1>implore what barely will suffice? And ask no more who say,

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<v Speaker 1>Oh jove, a competency gives neither in luxury or want.

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<v Speaker 1>We'd live. But what is that which these enough do call?

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<v Speaker 1>If both the indies unto some should fall, such wealth

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<v Speaker 1>not want or luxury among the suits. O jove, my humbler,

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<v Speaker 1>second epigram on Belinda Wanton. Belinda loudly does complain, I've

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<v Speaker 1>I repent or do avoid a shame. The third epigram

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<v Speaker 1>farewell to worldly joys. Farewell ye, unsubstantial joys, ye gilded

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<v Speaker 1>nothing's gaudy toys. Too long, ye have my soul mislay

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<v Speaker 1>yonder craggy rock, whose head o'erlooks the swelling main, where

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<v Speaker 1>flame that scorches my tormented breast. Deep underneath a cave

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<v Speaker 1>in that dark melancholy cell. Retreat and solace to my woe,

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<v Speaker 1>love sad, despair, and iye do dwell the springs from

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<v Speaker 1>whence my griefs do flow treacherous love that did appear

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<v Speaker 1>when he at first approached my heart, dressed in a garb,

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<v Speaker 1>far from severe or threatening, aught of future, smart, so innocent,

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<v Speaker 1>those charms then seemed when Rosalind at first I spied ah,

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<v Speaker 1>who would them have deadly deemed? But flowers do often

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<v Speaker 1>Serpents hide beneath those sweets, concealed lay to love, the

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<v Speaker 1>cruel foe disdain with which Alas she does repay my

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<v Speaker 1>constant and deserving pain, When I, in tears, have spent

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<v Speaker 1>unto me alas in vain. For in my dreams I

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<v Speaker 1>am in love, and in them too she does disdain

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<v Speaker 1>sometimes to muse my sorrow eyes unto the hollow rocks repair,

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<v Speaker 1>and loudly to the echo, cry, Ah, gentle nymph, come

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<v Speaker 1>ease my care, thou who times past a lover word. Ah,

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<v Speaker 1>pity me, who now am so and by a sense

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<v Speaker 1>of thine own smart alleviate my mighty woe. Come flatter then,

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<v Speaker 1>or chide my grief, catch my last words and call

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<v Speaker 1>me fool, or say she loves for my relief my passion,

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<v Speaker 1>either soothe or school and of section six, Section seven

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<v Speaker 1>When first Alexis did in verse delight his muse in

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<v Speaker 1>low but graceful numbers, walked, and now and then a

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<v Speaker 1>little proudly stalked, but never aimed at any noble flight,

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<v Speaker 1>the herds, the groves, the gentle peerling streams adorned his

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<v Speaker 1>song and were his highest themes. But love these thoughts,

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<v Speaker 1>like mists, did soon disperse, enlarged his fancy and set

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<v Speaker 1>free his muse, biding him more illustrious subjects choose the

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<v Speaker 1>acts of gods and godlike men rehearse. From thence new

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<v Speaker 1>raptures did his breast inspire. His scarce warm heart converted

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<v Speaker 1>was to fire. The exalted poet, raised by this new

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<v Speaker 1>flame with vigor flies where late he crept along and

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<v Speaker 1>acts divine in a diviner song, commits to the eternal

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<v Speaker 1>tromp of fame. And thus Alexis does prove love to

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<v Speaker 1>be as the world's soul, the soul of poetry and

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<v Speaker 1>of section seven, Section eight of Poems sixteen eighty six

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<v Speaker 1>To my Lady Berkeley afflicted upon her son my Lord

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<v Speaker 1>Berkeley's early engaging in the sea service, so the renowned

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<v Speaker 1>eth Akensian queen in tears for her Telemachus was seen.

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<v Speaker 1>When leaving home, he did attempt the ire of raging

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<v Speaker 1>seas to seek his absent sire such bitter sighs, her

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<v Speaker 1>tender breast did rend. But had she known a god,

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<v Speaker 1>did him attend, and would with glory bring him safe again?

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<v Speaker 1>Bright thoughts would then have dispossessed her pain. Ah, noblest lady,

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<v Speaker 1>you that her excel in every virtue, may in prudence

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<v Speaker 1>well suspend your care, knowing what power befriends your hopes

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<v Speaker 1>and what on virtue still attends. In bloody conflicts, he

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<v Speaker 1>will armor find in strongest tempests, he will rule the wind.

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<v Speaker 1>He will, through thousand dangers, force away and still triumphant,

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<v Speaker 1>will his charge convey and the all ruling power that

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<v Speaker 1>can act. Thus will safe return your dear Telemachus alas

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<v Speaker 1>he was not born to live in peace. Souls of

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<v Speaker 1>his temper were not made for ease. The ignoble only

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<v Speaker 1>lives secure from harms. The generous tempt and seek out

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<v Speaker 1>fierce alarms. Huge labors were for Hercules designed Jason to

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<v Speaker 1>fetch the golden fleece engined the minotaur by noble. Theseus

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<v Speaker 1>died in vain. Were valor if it were not tried?

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<v Speaker 1>Should the admired and far sought diamond lie as in

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<v Speaker 1>its bed unpolished to the eye, It would be slighted

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<v Speaker 1>like a common stone. Its value would be small, its

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<v Speaker 1>gloriorry none. But when it has passed the wheel and

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<v Speaker 1>cutter's hand, then it is meet in monarch's crowns to

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<v Speaker 1>stand upon the noble object of your care. Heaven has

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<v Speaker 1>can him behold or credit all the wonders of him

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<v Speaker 1>told when others at his years were turning o'er the

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<v Speaker 1>acts of heroes that had lived before their valor to

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<v Speaker 1>excite when time should fit. He then did things were

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<v Speaker 1>worthy to be writ stayed not for time, his courage

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<v Speaker 1>that outran in actions far before in years a man

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<v Speaker 1>two French campaigns, he boldly courted fame, while his face

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<v Speaker 1>more the maid than youth, became. Add then to these

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<v Speaker 1>a soul so truly mild, though more than man, obedient

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<v Speaker 1>as a child. And ah should one small ale. All

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<v Speaker 1>these confine virtues created through the world to shine Heaven

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<v Speaker 1>that forbids and madam. So should you remember he but

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<v Speaker 1>bravely does pursue his noble father steps with your own hand.

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<v Speaker 1>Then gird his armor on like him, he'll stand his

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<v Speaker 1>his memory. End of section eight Section nine of Poems

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<v Speaker 1>sixteen eighty six by Anne Killigrew. This LibriVox recording is

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<v Speaker 1>in the public domain. Saint John Baptist, painted by herself

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<v Speaker 1>in the wilderness, with angels appearing to him, and with

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<v Speaker 1>the lamb by him. The sun's my fire when it

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<v Speaker 1>rocks and woods afford me meet this lamb, and I,

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<v Speaker 1>on one dish eat the neighboring herds. My garments, send

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<v Speaker 1>my palate. The kind earth doth lend excess and grandeur.

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<v Speaker 1>I decline. My associates only are divine Herodaeus daughter presenting

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<v Speaker 1>to her mother Saint John's head in a charger, also

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<v Speaker 1>painted by herself. Behold, dear mother, who was late, our fear,

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<v Speaker 1>disarmed and harmless. I present you here the tongue tied

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<v Speaker 1>up that made all jury quake, and which so often

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<v Speaker 1>did our greatness shake. No terror sits upon his awful brow,

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<v Speaker 1>where fierceness reigned. There, calmness triumphs now as lovers use.

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<v Speaker 1>He gazes on my face with eyes that languish as

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<v Speaker 1>they sued for grace. Wholly subdued by my victorious charms.

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<v Speaker 1>See how his head reposes in my arms. Come join

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<v Speaker 1>then with me in my just transport, who thus have

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<v Speaker 1>Diana's virgin train, descended of no mortal strain. Our bows

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<v Speaker 1>with our horn. We chase the hind and fallow deer,

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<v Speaker 1>behind we fawns and shaggy satyrs awe to Sylvan's ours.

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<v Speaker 1>which we shine like glittering beams, or crystal in the

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<v Speaker 1>crystal streams. Though venus we transcend in form no wanton

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<v Speaker 1>flames our bosoms warm. If you ask where such whites

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<v Speaker 1>poets only that can tell. And of section ten, Section

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<v Speaker 1>eleven of Poems sixteen eighty six by Ann Killigrew, This

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<v Speaker 1>Of all the poisons that the fruitful earth ere yet

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<v Speaker 1>There care and sin methinks I thee adventurous merchant see

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<v Speaker 1>plowing the faithless seas in search of thee his dearest

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<v Speaker 1>for a rude tempest wakes him from his dream and

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<v Speaker 1>the heav'nly fair despis'd a hag like hell with gold

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<v Speaker 1>who first found out thee oar. What kind of vengeance

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<v Speaker 1>thus caus'd to sin all humane kind? And of Section eleven,

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<v Speaker 1>fertile Pasturage by poets famed, stands a steep hill whose

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<v Speaker 1>thee melancholy chloris did repair as a fit place to

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<v Speaker 1>a seat, and these complaints did to the shades repeat

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<v Speaker 1>a wretched, truly wretched, humane race your woes from what

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<v Speaker 1>beginning shall I trace where end? From your first feeble

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<v Speaker 1>newborn cries to the last tears that wet your dying eyes.

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<v Speaker 1>Man common foe assail on every hand finds that no

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<v Speaker 1>ill does neuter by him stand inexorable death, lean, poverty, pale, sickness, ever,

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<v Speaker 1>sad captivity can I alas the several party's name which

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<v Speaker 1>mustered up the dreadful army frame, and sometimes in one

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<v Speaker 1>body all unite, sometimes again do separately fight, while sure

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<v Speaker 1>success on either way does wait either a swift or

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<v Speaker 1>else a lingering fate. But why gainst thee O death

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<v Speaker 1>should I invey that to our quiet art the only way,

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<v Speaker 1>And yet I would could I thy dart command cry

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<v Speaker 1>here o strike, and there oh hold thy hand thee lov'd,

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<v Speaker 1>the happy and the youthful, spare and end the sad,

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<v Speaker 1>the sick, the poor man's care. But whether thou or

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<v Speaker 1>blind or cruel art, whether tis chance or malice, guides

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<v Speaker 1>thy dart, Thou from the parents arms, dost pull away

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<v Speaker 1>thee hopeful child, Their ages only stay thee two whom

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<v Speaker 1>friendship in dear bands has tied, Thou dost with a

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<v Speaker 1>remorseless hand. Divide friendship the cement that does faster twine

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<v Speaker 1>two souls than that which soul and body join. Thousands

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<v Speaker 1>have been who their own blood didst spill, but never

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<v Speaker 1>any yet his friend did kill. Then gainst thy dart.

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<v Speaker 1>What armor can be found? Who or thou dost not

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<v Speaker 1>strike dost's deepest wound? Thy pity than thy wraths, more bitter, far,

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<v Speaker 1>most cruel, Where twould seem the most despair. Yet Thou,

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<v Speaker 1>of many evils are but one, Though thou by much

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<v Speaker 1>too many art alone? What shall I say of poverty?

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<v Speaker 1>Whence flows too miserable man, so many woes, ridiculous evil,

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<v Speaker 1>which too oft, we prove does laughter cause where it

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<v Speaker 1>should pity move solitary ill, into which no eye, though

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<v Speaker 1>near so curious, ever cares to pry. And were there

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<v Speaker 1>mong such plenty only one poor man, he certainly would

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<v Speaker 1>live alone. Yet poverty does leave the man entire, but

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<v Speaker 1>sickness nearer mischiefs does conspire, invades the body with a

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<v Speaker 1>loathed embrace, prides both its strength and beauty to deface.

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<v Speaker 1>Nor does its malice in these bounds restrain, but shakes

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<v Speaker 1>the throne of sacred wit. The brain, and with a

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<v Speaker 1>near enough detested force, reason disturbs and turns out of

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<v Speaker 1>its course again. When nature some rare peace has made

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<v Speaker 1>on which her utmost skill she seems to have laid polished,

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<v Speaker 1>adorned the work with moving grace, And in the beauteous

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<v Speaker 1>frame a soul doth place so perfectly composed it makes

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<v Speaker 1>divine each motion, word and look. From thence does shine

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<v Speaker 1>this goodly composition thee delight of every heart and joy

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<v Speaker 1>of every sight. Its peevish malice has the power to spoil,

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<v Speaker 1>and with a sullied hand its luster soil the grief

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<v Speaker 1>were endless, that should all bewail against whose sweet repose,

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<v Speaker 1>Thou dost prevail, Some freeze with agous, some with fevers, burn,

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<v Speaker 1>whose lives thou half out of their holds dost turn,

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<v Speaker 1>and of whose sufferings it may be said, they living

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<v Speaker 1>feel the very state of the dead. Thou in a

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<v Speaker 1>thousand several forms are dress, and in them all dost

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<v Speaker 1>wretched man infest. And Yet, as if these evils were

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<v Speaker 1>too few, men their own kind, with hostile aims, pursue

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<v Speaker 1>not Heaven's fierce wrath, nor yet the hate of hell,

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<v Speaker 1>not any plague that ere the world befell, not inundations, famines,

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<v Speaker 1>fire's blind rage. Did ever, mortals equally engage as man does.

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<v Speaker 1>Man more skillful to annoy, both mischievous and witty, to

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<v Speaker 1>destroy the bloody wolf. The wolf does not pursue the bore,

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<v Speaker 1>though fierce his tusk will not improve in his own

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<v Speaker 1>kind bears not on bears do pray? Then art thou

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<v Speaker 1>man more savage fire than they? And now methinks I

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<v Speaker 1>present to behold the bloody fields that are in fame enrolled.

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<v Speaker 1>I see, I see thousands in battle, slain, the dead,

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<v Speaker 1>in dying cover, all the plain confused noises here each

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<v Speaker 1>way sent out the vanquished cries, joined with the victor's shout,

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<v Speaker 1>their sighs and groans, who draw a painful breath and

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<v Speaker 1>feel the pangs of slow approaching death. Yet happier these,

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<v Speaker 1>far happier are the dead than who into captivity are

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<v Speaker 1>led what by their chains and by the victor's pride.

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<v Speaker 1>We pity these and envy those that died. And who

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<v Speaker 1>can say when thousands are betrayed to widowhood or fance

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<v Speaker 1>or childless maid, whither the day does draw more tears

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<v Speaker 1>or blood, a greater crystal, or a crimson flood. The

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<v Speaker 1>faithful wife, who laid her lord did arm and hoped

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<v Speaker 1>to shield by holy vows from harm, followed his parting

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<v Speaker 1>steps with love and care, sent after weeping eyes. While

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<v Speaker 1>e afhar Rod, heated on borne by a brave disdain,

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<v Speaker 1>may now go seek him. Lying among the slain lo

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<v Speaker 1>on the earth, shall find his lofty crest and those

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<v Speaker 1>refulgent arms which late his breast did guard by rough encounters,

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<v Speaker 1>broke and tore his face and hair, with brains all

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<v Speaker 1>clotted ore and warlike weeds, besmeared with dust and gore.

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<v Speaker 1>And will the suffering world never bestow upon the cursed

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<v Speaker 1>causers of such woe a vengeance that may parallel their loss.

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<v Speaker 1>Fix public thieves and robbers on the cross, such as

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<v Speaker 1>call ruin conquest in their pride, and having plagued mankind

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<v Speaker 1>in triumph, ride like that renounced murderer who stains in

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<v Speaker 1>these are days Alsatia's fertile planes, only to fill the

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<v Speaker 1>future tromp of fame, though greater crimes than glory. It

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<v Speaker 1>proclaim alcedy, scourge of thieves, return to earth, which uncontrolled

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<v Speaker 1>gives such monsterster's birth on sceptred caucus. Let thy power

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<v Speaker 1>be shown, pull him not from his den but from

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<v Speaker 1>his throne. Clouds of black thoughts. Her further speech here

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<v Speaker 1>broke her swelling. Grief too great was to bespoke, which

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<v Speaker 1>struggled long in her tormented mind, till it some vent

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<v Speaker 1>by sighs and tears did find, And when her sorrow

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<v Speaker 1>something was subdued, she thus again her sad complaint renewed.

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<v Speaker 1>Most wretched man, were the ills I named before all

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<v Speaker 1>which I could, in thy sad state deplore did things

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<v Speaker 1>without alone against thee prevail my tongue. I'd chide that

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<v Speaker 1>them I did bewail. But shame to read thou art

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<v Speaker 1>seen to be unto thyself, the fatalist enemy within thy breast,

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<v Speaker 1>the greatest plagues to bear, first them to breed and

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<v Speaker 1>then to cherish there unmanaged passions which the reins have

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<v Speaker 1>broke of reason and refuse to bear its yoke. But

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<v Speaker 1>hurry thee, uncurbed, from place to place, a wild, unruly

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<v Speaker 1>and an uncouth chase. Now cursed gold does lead the

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<v Speaker 1>man astray. False flattering honors do anon betray. Then beauty

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<v Speaker 1>does as dangerously delude, beauty that vanishes, while tis pursued

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<v Speaker 1>that while we do behold, it fades away. And even

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<v Speaker 1>a lo long encomium will not stay. Each one of

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<v Speaker 1>these can thee whole man employ, nor nosy, anger, sorrow,

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<v Speaker 1>fear or joy? But what to these relate? No thought

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<v Speaker 1>does start a side, but tends to its appointed part.

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<v Speaker 1>No respite to himself from cares he gives, but on

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<v Speaker 1>the rack of expectation lives. If crossed, the torment cannot

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<v Speaker 1>be expressed, which boils within his agitated breast. Music is harsh,

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<v Speaker 1>all mirth is an offense. The choicest meets cannot delight

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<v Speaker 1>his sense hard as the earth. He feels his downy bed,

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<v Speaker 1>his pillow stuffed with thorns that bears his head. He

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<v Speaker 1>rolls from side to side in vain seeks rest. For

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<v Speaker 1>if sleep comes at last to thee distress'd, his troubles

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<v Speaker 1>then ceased not to vex him too, but dreams present

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<v Speaker 1>what he does waking do On the other side, if

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<v Speaker 1>he obtains the prey, and fate to his impetuous suit

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<v Speaker 1>gives way, be he or rich, or amorous or great,

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<v Speaker 1>he'll find this riddle still of a de fate that

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<v Speaker 1>only care for bliss he home has brought, or else

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<v Speaker 1>contempt of what he so much sought. So that on

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<v Speaker 1>each event, if we reflect the joys and sufferings of

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<v Speaker 1>both sides collect, we cannot say where lies the greatest

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<v Speaker 1>pain in the fond pursuit loss or empty gain? And

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<v Speaker 1>can it be Lord of the Sea and Earth, offspring

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<v Speaker 1>of Heaven, that to thy state and birth things so

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<v Speaker 1>incompatible should be join'd passions should THEE confound to Heaven's assign'd,

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<v Speaker 1>passions that do the soul unguarded lay and to the

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<v Speaker 1>strokes of fortune ope away? Were it not that these

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<v Speaker 1>thy force did from thee take, How bold, how brave

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<v Speaker 1>resistance wouldst thou make defy the strength and malice of

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<v Speaker 1>thy foes. Unmoved stand the world's united blows. For what

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<v Speaker 1>ist man unto thy better part that thou, or sick

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<v Speaker 1>or poor or captive art? Since no material stroke the

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<v Speaker 1>soul can feel thee smart of fire, or yet the

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<v Speaker 1>edge of steel, as little can it. Worldly joys partake

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<v Speaker 1>though it the body does its agent make, and jointly

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<v Speaker 1>with it servile labor, bear for things alas in which

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<v Speaker 1>it cannot share. Survey the land and see by Heaven's

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<v Speaker 1>embraced thou'lt find no sweet immortal soul can taste. Why

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<v Speaker 1>dost thou then o man thyself torment good here to gain,

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<v Speaker 1>or evils to prevent who only miserable or happy? Art

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<v Speaker 1>as thou neglects, or wisely axt thy part for shame.

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<v Speaker 1>Then rouse thyself, as from a sleep thee long neglected reigns.

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<v Speaker 1>Let reason keep thee charot mount, and use both lash

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<v Speaker 1>and bit nobly resolve, and thou wilt fly sit fierce, anger, boggling, fear,

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<v Speaker 1>pride prompting still bounds, hating, hope, desire which naught can fill.

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<v Speaker 1>Are stubborn. All but thou mayst give them law their

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<v Speaker 1>hard mouthed horses, but they well can draw lash on,

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<v Speaker 1>and THEE well governed charit drive till thou of victor

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<v Speaker 1>at the goal arrive where THEE free soul does all

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<v Speaker 1>her burden leave, and joys commensurate to herself receive. End

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<v Speaker 1>of section twelve, Section thirteen of Poems sixteen eighty six

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<v Speaker 1>by Anne Killegrew. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.

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<v Speaker 1>Upon the saying that my verses were made by another

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<v Speaker 1>next Heaven, my vows to THEE, O sacred muse I

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<v Speaker 1>offered up, Nor didst thou them refuse, O Queen of Verse,

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<v Speaker 1>said I if thou'lt inspire and warm my soul with

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<v Speaker 1>thy poetic fire, no love of gold shall share with

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<v Speaker 1>THEE my heart, or yet ambition in my breast have

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<v Speaker 1>part more rich, more noble. I will ever hold thee

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<v Speaker 1>muses laurel than a crown of gold, an undivided sacrifice

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<v Speaker 1>allay upon thine altar, soul and body. Pay Thou shalt

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<v Speaker 1>my pleasure, my employment be my all. I'll make a

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<v Speaker 1>holocaust to THEE. The deity that ever does attend prayers

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<v Speaker 1>so sincere to mine did descend, I writ, and THEE

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<v Speaker 1>judicious praised my pen. Could any doubt ensuing glory? Then

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<v Speaker 1>what pleasing raptures filled my ravished sense? How strong, how

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<v Speaker 1>sweet fame was thy influence and thine false hope? That

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<v Speaker 1>to my flattered sight didst glories represent so near and

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<v Speaker 1>bright by thee deceived methought, each verdant tree Apollo's transformed

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<v Speaker 1>Daphne seem'd to be, and every fresher branch and every

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<v Speaker 1>bough appear'd as garlands to impale my brow. THEE learn'd

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<v Speaker 1>in love say, thus the winged boy does first approach,

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<v Speaker 1>dressed up in welcome joy. At first he too, the

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<v Speaker 1>cheated lover's sight not represents but rapture and delight, alluring hopes,

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<v Speaker 1>soft fears, which stronger bind their hearts than when they

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<v Speaker 1>more assurance find emboldened. Thus to fame, I did commit,

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<v Speaker 1>by some few hands, my most unlucky wit. But ah,

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<v Speaker 1>the sad effects that from it came, what ought to

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<v Speaker 1>have brought me honor brought me shame. Like Aesop's painted

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<v Speaker 1>j I seem'd to all adorned in plumes, I not

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<v Speaker 1>my own could call rifled like her. Each won my

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<v Speaker 1>feathers tore, and as they thought unto the owner, bore

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<v Speaker 1>my laurels thus, and other's brow adorn'd my numbers they admired,

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<v Speaker 1>but me they scorned, and others brow that had so

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<v Speaker 1>rich a store of sacred wreaths that circled it before,

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<v Speaker 1>where mine quite lost, Like a small dream that ran

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<v Speaker 1>into a vast and boundless ocean, was swallowed up with

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<v Speaker 1>what it joined, and drowned, And that abyss, yet no

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<v Speaker 1>accession found. Or Inda Albion's and her sex's grace owed

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<v Speaker 1>not her glory to a beauteous face. It was her

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<v Speaker 1>radiant soul that shone within, which struck a luster through

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<v Speaker 1>her outward skin, that did her lips and cheeks with

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<v Speaker 1>roses dye, advanced her height and sparkled in her eye.

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<v Speaker 1>Nor did her sex at all obstruct her fame. But

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<v Speaker 1>higher among the stars, it fixed her name. What she

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<v Speaker 1>did right, not only all aloud, but every laurel to

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<v Speaker 1>her laurel bowed the envious age only to me alone.

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<v Speaker 1>Will not allow what I do right my own, But

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<v Speaker 1>let him rage and gainst a maid conspire. So deathless

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<v Speaker 1>numbers from my tuneful liar do ever flow so Phoebus

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<v Speaker 1>I by thee divinely inspired and possessed, may be I

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<v Speaker 1>willingly accept Cassandra's fate to speak the truth, although believed

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<v Speaker 1>too late and of section thirteen, Section fourteen of Poems

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<v Speaker 1>sixteen eighty six by Anne Killigrew. This LibriVox recording is

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<v Speaker 1>in the public domain. On the birthday of Queen Catherine,

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<v Speaker 1>while yet it was the empire of the night, and

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<v Speaker 1>stars still checkered darkness with their light from temples round,

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<v Speaker 1>the cheer bells did ring, but with the peals a

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<v Speaker 1>churlish storm did sing. I slumbered, and the heavens like

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<v Speaker 1>things did show, like things which I had seen and

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<v Speaker 1>heard below playing on harps. Angels did singing fly, But

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<v Speaker 1>through a cloudy and a troubled sky. Some fixed a throne,

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<v Speaker 1>and royal robes displayed, and then a massy cross upon

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<v Speaker 1>it laid. I wept and earnestly implored to know why

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<v Speaker 1>royal ensigns were disposed. So an angel said, the emblem

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<v Speaker 1>thou hast seen denotes the birthday of a saint and

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<v Speaker 1>queen ah glorious minister. I then replied, goodness and bliss

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<v Speaker 1>together do reside in heaven and thee. Why then on

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<v Speaker 1>earth below these two combined? So how rarely do we know?

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<v Speaker 1>He said, Heaven so decrees, And such a sable morn

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<v Speaker 1>was that in which thee son of God was born.

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<v Speaker 1>Then mortal wipe thine eyes and ceased to rave. God

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<v Speaker 1>darkened heaven when he the world did save and of

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<v Speaker 1>section fourteen Section fifteen of Poems sixteen eighty six by

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<v Speaker 1>Anne Killigrew. This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.

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<v Speaker 1>To my Lord Colraine, in answer to his complimental verses,

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<v Speaker 1>sent me under the name of Cleonor, long, my dull

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<v Speaker 1>muse in heavy slumbers, lay, indulging, sloth and too soft

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<v Speaker 1>ease gave way her fill of rest, resolving to enjoy

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<v Speaker 1>or fancying little worthy her employ When Noble Cleonor's obliging

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<v Speaker 1>strains her, the neglected liar to tune constraints. Confused at first,

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<v Speaker 1>she raised her drowsy head, pondered awhile, then pleased, forsook

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<v Speaker 1>her bed, surveyed each line with fancy, richly fraught, re read,

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<v Speaker 1>and then revolved them in her thought. And can it be,

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<v Speaker 1>she said, And can it be that among the great

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<v Speaker 1>ones I a poet see the great ones, who their

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<v Speaker 1>ill spent time divide TwixT dangerous politics and formal pride,

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<v Speaker 1>destructive vice, expensive vanity in worse ways. Yet if worse

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<v Speaker 1>than any be leave to inferiors. The despised arts, let

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<v Speaker 1>their retainers be the men of parts. Herewith wonder and

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<v Speaker 1>with joy, I find is the noble born a no

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<v Speaker 1>less noble mind, one who on ancestors does not rely

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<v Speaker 1>for fame in merit, as in title high. The severe

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<v Speaker 1>goddess thus approved the lays, yet too much pleased alas

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<v Speaker 1>with her own praise. But to vain pride my muse

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<v Speaker 1>ceased to give place Virgil's immortal numbers once did grace

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<v Speaker 1>a smothered gnat by high applause is shown if undeserved

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<v Speaker 1>the praiser's worth alone, nor that you should believedst always

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<v Speaker 1>meant tis often for instruction, only sent to praise men

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<v Speaker 1>to amendment, and display by its perfection where their weakness lay.

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<v Speaker 1>This use of these applauding numbers make them, for example,

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<v Speaker 1>not encomium. Take and of section fifteen, Section sixteen of

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<v Speaker 1>Poems sixteen eighty six by Anne Killigrew. This LibriVox recording

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<v Speaker 1>is in the public domain. The discontent here take no care.

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<v Speaker 1>Take here no care, my muse, nor aught of art

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<v Speaker 1>or labor use. But let thy lines, rude and unpolished go,

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<v Speaker 1>Nor equal be their feet, nor numerous, Let them flow

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<v Speaker 1>thee ruggedder My measures run when read, they'll livelier paint

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<v Speaker 1>unequal paths. Fond mortals tread who when they are tempted

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<v Speaker 1>by the smooth ascents which flattering hope presents. Briskly they climb,

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<v Speaker 1>and great things undertake. But fatal voyages alas they make,

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<v Speaker 1>for tis not long before their feet in extra couple

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<v Speaker 1>mazes meet perplexing doubts obstruct their way. Mountains withstand them

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<v Speaker 1>of dismay, or to the brink of black despair them

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<v Speaker 1>lead wears, not their ruin to impede in vain for aid.

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<v Speaker 1>They then, to reason call their series dazzle, and their

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<v Speaker 1>heads turn round the sight does all their powers confound,

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<v Speaker 1>and headlong down the horrid precipice they fall, where storms

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<v Speaker 1>of size forever blow, where rapid streams of tears do flow,

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<v Speaker 1>which drown them in a briny flood. My muse pronounce aloud,

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<v Speaker 1>there's nothing good, not that the world can show, not

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<v Speaker 1>that it can bestow, not bountless heaps of its admired clay,

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<v Speaker 1>a too successful to betray when spread in our frail

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<v Speaker 1>virtue's way. For few do run with so resolved a

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<v Speaker 1>pace that for the golden apple will not loose the race.

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<v Speaker 1>And yet not all the gold the vein would spend,

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<v Speaker 1>or greedy avarice would wish to save, which on the

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<v Speaker 1>earth refulgent beams doth send, or in the sea has

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<v Speaker 1>found a grave join'd in one mass can bribe sufficient

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<v Speaker 1>be thee body from a stern disease to free or

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<v Speaker 1>purchase for thee mind's relief one moment's sweet repose when

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<v Speaker 1>restless made by grief. But what may laughter more than

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<v Speaker 1>pity move when some the price of what they dearest

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<v Speaker 1>love are masters of, and hold it in their hand,

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<v Speaker 1>to part with it their hearts they can't command, but

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<v Speaker 1>chose to miss what mist does them torment, and that

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<v Speaker 1>to hug affords them no content wise fools to do

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<v Speaker 1>them right. We these must hold, who love, depose and

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<v Speaker 1>homage pay to gold. Nor Yet, if rightly understood, does

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<v Speaker 1>grandeur carry more of good? Two be o the number

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<v Speaker 1>of the great enrolled a scepter or a mighty realm

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<v Speaker 1>to hold. For what is this if I not judge amiss,

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<v Speaker 1>but all the afflicted of a land to take, and

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<v Speaker 1>of one single family to make the wrong, the poor,

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<v Speaker 1>the oppressed, the sad, the ruined, malc and mad, which

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<v Speaker 1>a great part of every empire, frame and interest in

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<v Speaker 1>the common father. Claim again what is't but always to

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<v Speaker 1>abide a gazing crowd upon a stage, to spend a

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<v Speaker 1>life that's vain or evil, without end, and which is

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<v Speaker 1>yet nor safely held, nor laid aside. And then, if

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<v Speaker 1>lesser titles carry less of care, yet none but fools

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<v Speaker 1>ambitious are to share such a mock good, of which

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<v Speaker 1>tis said tis best when of the least of it

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<v Speaker 1>men are possessed. But O the lrld fool that dotes

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<v Speaker 1>on fame, whose hopes applause, whose fears to want a name,

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<v Speaker 1>who can accept for pay of what he does, what

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<v Speaker 1>others say, exposes now to hostile arms, his breast too

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<v Speaker 1>toilsome study, then betrays his rest, now to his soul,

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<v Speaker 1>denies a just content, then forces on it what it

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<v Speaker 1>does resent, and all for praise of fools. For such

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<v Speaker 1>are those which most of thee admiring crowd compose. O

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<v Speaker 1>famish'd soul, which such thin food can feed. Oh wretched

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<v Speaker 1>labor crown'd with such a mead too loud o fame

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<v Speaker 1>thy trumpet is too shrill, too lulla mind to rest

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<v Speaker 1>or calm a stormy breast, which asks a music soft

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<v Speaker 1>and still twas not a Maleek's vanquish'd cry, nor Israel's

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<v Speaker 1>shout of victory that could insul the rising passion. Lay

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<v Speaker 1>twas these soft strains of David's lyre. The evil spirit

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<v Speaker 1>chased away, But friendship fain would yet itself defend, and

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<v Speaker 1>mighty things it does pretend to be of this sad

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<v Speaker 1>journey life, the bait, the sweet refection of our toilsome state.

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<v Speaker 1>But though true friendship a rich cordial be alas by most,

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<v Speaker 1>tis so allayed, its good so mixed with ill. We

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<v Speaker 1>see that dross for gold is often paid, and for

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<v Speaker 1>one grain of friendship that is found, falsehood and interest

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<v Speaker 1>do the mass compound or coldness worse than steel. The

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<v Speaker 1>loyal heart doth wound love in no two was ever

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<v Speaker 1>yet the same, no happy two ere felt an equal flame.

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<v Speaker 1>Is there that earth by humane foot, near prest that

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<v Speaker 1>air which never yet by humane breast rispired, did life supply?

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<v Speaker 1>Oh thither? Let me fly where from the world at

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<v Speaker 1>such a distance, set all that's past, present and to come.

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<v Speaker 1>I may forget the lover's sighs and the afflicteds tears.

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<v Speaker 1>What ear may wound my eyes or ears, the grating

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<v Speaker 1>noise of private jars, the horrid sound of public wars,

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<v Speaker 1>of babbling fane, the idle stories, the short lived triumph's

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<v Speaker 1>noisy glories, the curious nets, the subtile weave, the word,

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<v Speaker 1>the look that may deceive no mundane care shall more

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<v Speaker 1>affect my breast, my profound peace, shake or molest, but

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<v Speaker 1>stupor like to death. My senses bind that so I

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<v Speaker 1>may anticipate that rest which only in my grave I

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<v Speaker 1>hope to find. And of Section sixteen, Section seventeen of

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<v Speaker 1>Poems sixteen eighty six by Anne Killigrew. This LibriVox recording

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<v Speaker 1>is in the public domain. A pastoral dialog amentor stay

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<v Speaker 1>gentle nymph, nor socialistist bee to fly his sight that

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<v Speaker 1>still would gaze on thee with other swains, I see

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<v Speaker 1>thee oft converse, content to speak and hear what they rehearse.

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<v Speaker 1>But I unhappy when I ear draw nigh thou straight,

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<v Speaker 1>dost leave both place and company. If this thy flight

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<v Speaker 1>from fear of harm doth flow ah shere thou little

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<v Speaker 1>of my heart dost know, Alinda, what wonder swain? If

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<v Speaker 1>THEE pursued by flight seeks to avoid the close pursuer's sight,

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<v Speaker 1>And if no cause I have to fly from THEE,

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<v Speaker 1>then thou hast none Why thou dost follow me Amantor

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<v Speaker 1>if to the cause thou wilt propitious prove, take it

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<v Speaker 1>at once, fair nymph, and know tis love, Alinda, to

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<v Speaker 1>my just prayer, Ye, favoring God's attend these vows to

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<v Speaker 1>heaven with equal zeal, I send my flocks from wolves,

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<v Speaker 1>my heart from love defend amantor the gods which did

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<v Speaker 1>on thee such charms bestow ne'er meant thou shouldst to

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<v Speaker 1>love have proved a foe that so divine a power

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<v Speaker 1>thou shouldst defy. Could there a reason be I'd ask THEE? Why, Alinda?

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<v Speaker 1>Why does Lecorus, once so bright and gay, pale as

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<v Speaker 1>a lily, pine herself away? Why does Elvira ever sad

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<v Speaker 1>frequent thee lonely shades? Why does yon monument, which we

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<v Speaker 1>upon our left hand do behold hapless amintas youthful limbs

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<v Speaker 1>enfold say, shepherds say, But if thou wilt not tell

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<v Speaker 1>damon felicities, and stephon well can speak the cause whose

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<v Speaker 1>falsehood each upbraids, and justly me from cruel love dissuades

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<v Speaker 1>amantor hear me ye gods, me and my flock's forsake,

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<v Speaker 1>if ear like them my promised faith, I break Alinda

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<v Speaker 1>by others sad experience wise be amenttor, but such thy

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<v Speaker 1>wisdom highly injures me, and naught but death can give

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<v Speaker 1>a remedy. Ye learn'd in physic. What does it avail

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<v Speaker 1>that you by art, wherein ye never fail present relief

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<v Speaker 1>have for the mad dog's bite, thee serpents sting the

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<v Speaker 1>poisonous aconite, while helpless love upbraids your baffled skill, and

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<v Speaker 1>far more certain than the rest, doth kill Alinda. Fund swain,

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<v Speaker 1>go doat upon the new blown rose, whose beauty with

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<v Speaker 1>the morning did disclose, and ere day's king forsakes. The

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<v Speaker 1>enlighten'd earth withered returns from whence it took its birth.

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<v Speaker 1>As much excuse will there thy love attend as what

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<v Speaker 1>thou dost on women's beauty, spend amantor ah nymph, those

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<v Speaker 1>charms which I in THEE admire, can nor before nor

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<v Speaker 1>with thy life, expire from heaven. They are, and such

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<v Speaker 1>as ne'er can die. But with thy soul they will

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<v Speaker 1>ascend the sky. For though my ravished eye beholds in

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<v Speaker 1>thee such beauty as I can in none else, see

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<v Speaker 1>that nature there alone is without blame. Yet did not

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<v Speaker 1>this my faithful heart inflame, Nor when in dance thou

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<v Speaker 1>movest upon the plain, or other sports pursuest among the

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<v Speaker 1>train of choicest nymphs, where thy attractive grace shews thee alone,

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<v Speaker 1>though thousands be in place, Yet not for these do

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<v Speaker 1>I Inlinda love here? Then what tis what does my

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<v Speaker 1>passion move? That thou still early at the temple art,

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<v Speaker 1>and still the last that does from thence depart. Pan's

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<v Speaker 1>altar is by thee the oftenest prest thine, still the

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<v Speaker 1>fairest offering, and the best, and all thy other actions

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<v Speaker 1>seem to be the true result of unfeigned piety. Strict

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<v Speaker 1>in thyself to others, just and mild, careful, nor to

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<v Speaker 1>deceive nor be beguiled, wary without the least offense to give,

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01:17:34.680 --> 01:17:39.399
<v Speaker 1>yet none than thee more ready to forgive. Even on

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<v Speaker 1>thy beauty, Thou dost fetters lay least unawares if any

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01:17:44.560 --> 01:17:49.680
<v Speaker 1>should betray far unlike sure to many of thy sex,

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<v Speaker 1>whose pride it is the doting world to vex, spreading

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<v Speaker 1>their universal nets to take who ere their artifice can captive. Make.

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<v Speaker 1>But thou commandest thy sweet but modest eye, that no

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<v Speaker 1>inviting glance from thence should fly beholding with a generous

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<v Speaker 1>disdain the lighter courtships of each amorous swain, knowing true

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<v Speaker 1>fame virtue alone can give. Nor dost thou greedily even

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<v Speaker 1>that receive, and what above this thy character can raise,

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<v Speaker 1>thirsty of merit, yet neglecting praise, while daily these perfections

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<v Speaker 1>I descry matchless Olinda makes me daily die. Thou absent

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01:18:42.560 --> 01:18:47.279
<v Speaker 1>flowers to me, No odors yield, nor find iy freshness

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<v Speaker 1>in the dewy field. Not Thyrus's voice, nor melebeus liar,

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<v Speaker 1>can my sad heart, with one gay thought inspire my

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<v Speaker 1>thriving flock. Young shepherd's vows the chief I unconcerned behold

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<v Speaker 1>as they my grief. This I profess. If this thou

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<v Speaker 1>not believe a further proof I ready am to give command.

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<v Speaker 1>There's nothing I'll not undertake, and thy injunctions love will

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<v Speaker 1>easy make. And if thou couldst incline a gentle ear

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<v Speaker 1>of plighted faith and hated hymen, here thou hourly, then

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<v Speaker 1>my spotless love shouldst see that all my study how

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<v Speaker 1>to please, should be how to protect thee from disturbing care,

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<v Speaker 1>and in thy griefs to bear the greatest share. Nor

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<v Speaker 1>should a joy my weary heart's surprise that first I

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<v Speaker 1>read not in thy charming eyes, Alinda. If ever I

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<v Speaker 1>to any due in part my till this present, our

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<v Speaker 1>well guarded heart, that passion I have feared, I'll surely

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<v Speaker 1>prove for one that does like to amentor love amentor

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<v Speaker 1>ye gods, Alinda Shepherd, no more enough it is that

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<v Speaker 1>I thus long to love, have listened, patient, lie, farewell,

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<v Speaker 1>pankeep thee swain, amentur and blessings thee rare as thy

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<v Speaker 1>virtues still accompany and of section seventeen, Section eighteen of

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<v Speaker 1>Poems sixteen eighty six by Anne Killigrew. This LibriVox recording

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<v Speaker 1>is in the public domain. A pastoral dialog Melebeus al Kippie, Asteeria,

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<v Speaker 1>Lacaida Alchimedon and emrh Melobius, Welcome, fair nymphs, most welcome

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01:21:09.439 --> 01:21:14.520
<v Speaker 1>to this shade. Distempering heats do now the plains invaded.

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01:21:15.239 --> 01:21:19.880
<v Speaker 1>But you may sit from sun securely here, if you

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<v Speaker 1>an old man's company, not fear Alkippie, most reverend Swain

855
01:21:26.399 --> 01:21:31.239
<v Speaker 1>far from us, ever be the imputation of such vanity

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01:21:31.960 --> 01:21:36.720
<v Speaker 1>from hill to holt wave. Thee unwearied sought and bless

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01:21:36.760 --> 01:21:42.560
<v Speaker 1>the chance that us hath hither brought Asteria famed Meleabius

858
01:21:42.840 --> 01:21:47.319
<v Speaker 1>for thy virtuous lays. If thou dost not disdain our

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01:21:47.399 --> 01:21:51.880
<v Speaker 1>female praise, we come to sue thou wouldst to us

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01:21:51.920 --> 01:21:56.800
<v Speaker 1>recite one of thy songs which gives such high delight

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01:21:57.560 --> 01:22:03.560
<v Speaker 1>to every ear wherein thou dost dispense sage precepts. Clothed

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01:22:03.760 --> 01:22:10.359
<v Speaker 1>in flowing eloquence. Lacaida fresh garlands, we will make for

863
01:22:10.600 --> 01:22:15.239
<v Speaker 1>thee each morn, thy reverend head to shade and to

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01:22:15.359 --> 01:22:21.279
<v Speaker 1>adorn two cooling springs. Thy fainting flock will guide all

865
01:22:21.359 --> 01:22:27.600
<v Speaker 1>thou command'st to do. Shall be our pride, Melobius, cease,

866
01:22:27.840 --> 01:22:32.239
<v Speaker 1>gentle nymphs, the willing to entreat to have your wish

867
01:22:32.680 --> 01:22:36.880
<v Speaker 1>each needs. But take a seat with joy. I shall

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01:22:37.319 --> 01:22:42.279
<v Speaker 1>my ancient art revive, with which when young I did

869
01:22:42.399 --> 01:22:47.479
<v Speaker 1>for glory strive. Nor for my verse will I accept

870
01:22:47.479 --> 01:22:54.600
<v Speaker 1>a hire your bare attentions. All I shall require Alkippie

871
01:22:54.880 --> 01:22:57.840
<v Speaker 1>lo from the plain I see draw near a pair

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01:22:58.479 --> 01:23:03.239
<v Speaker 1>that I could wish in our converse might share. Amrah

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01:23:03.359 --> 01:23:12.359
<v Speaker 1>Tis and young Alchimidon Lekaida serious discourse industriously, they shun Alkipie, it,

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01:23:12.560 --> 01:23:16.239
<v Speaker 1>being yet their luck to come this way. The fond

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01:23:16.279 --> 01:23:20.760
<v Speaker 1>ones too, our lecture will betray, and though they only

876
01:23:20.920 --> 01:23:26.159
<v Speaker 1>sought a private shade, perhaps they may depart more virtuous maid,

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01:23:27.039 --> 01:23:31.800
<v Speaker 1>I will accost them, gentle nymph and swain good Melebius

878
01:23:32.039 --> 01:23:36.680
<v Speaker 1>us doth entertain with lays divine, If you'll his hearers

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01:23:36.760 --> 01:23:44.119
<v Speaker 1>be take straight your seats without apology. Alchimidon, paying short

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01:23:44.199 --> 01:23:48.520
<v Speaker 1>thanks at fair Amra's feet, I'll lay me down. Let

881
01:23:48.560 --> 01:23:54.239
<v Speaker 1>her choose where tis meet Alkipi shepherd. Behold, we all

882
01:23:54.279 --> 01:23:59.760
<v Speaker 1>attentive sit Melobius. What shall I sing? What shall my

883
01:24:00.119 --> 01:24:04.720
<v Speaker 1>muse rehearse? Love is a theme well suits a pastoral verse,

884
01:24:05.600 --> 01:24:11.520
<v Speaker 1>that general error universal ill, that darling of our weakness

885
01:24:11.560 --> 01:24:16.000
<v Speaker 1>and our will by which though many fall, few hold

886
01:24:16.079 --> 01:24:20.199
<v Speaker 1>its shame, smile at the fault which they would seem

887
01:24:20.359 --> 01:24:25.520
<v Speaker 1>to blame. What wonder, then, if those with mischief play

888
01:24:26.239 --> 01:24:32.079
<v Speaker 1>it to destruction, them doth oft betray. But by experience

889
01:24:32.279 --> 01:24:36.600
<v Speaker 1>it is daily found that love, the softer sex, does

890
01:24:36.680 --> 01:24:41.399
<v Speaker 1>sorest wound in mind as well as body, far more

891
01:24:41.439 --> 01:24:46.640
<v Speaker 1>weak than men. Therefore to them my song shall speak,

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01:24:47.399 --> 01:24:53.199
<v Speaker 1>advising well, however it succeed. But unto all I say

893
01:24:53.680 --> 01:24:58.800
<v Speaker 1>of love, take heed so hazardous, because so hard to

894
01:24:58.880 --> 01:25:02.880
<v Speaker 1>know on whom they are. We do our hearts bestow

895
01:25:03.840 --> 01:25:07.960
<v Speaker 1>how they will use them, or with what regard our

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01:25:08.159 --> 01:25:12.920
<v Speaker 1>faith and high esteem they will reward. For few are

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01:25:13.039 --> 01:25:20.520
<v Speaker 1>found that truly acted be by principles of generosity, that

898
01:25:20.800 --> 01:25:25.039
<v Speaker 1>when they know of Virgin's heart they've gained. And though

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01:25:25.079 --> 01:25:30.239
<v Speaker 1>by many thous and arts obtained, will think themselves obliged

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01:25:30.319 --> 01:25:34.680
<v Speaker 1>their faith to hold. Tempted by friends, by interest or

901
01:25:34.720 --> 01:25:40.199
<v Speaker 1>by gold, expect it not. Most love their pastime, make

902
01:25:41.000 --> 01:25:46.680
<v Speaker 1>lightly they like, and lightly they forsake their roving humor

903
01:25:47.239 --> 01:25:51.920
<v Speaker 1>wants but a pretense with oaths, And what's most sacred

904
01:25:52.039 --> 01:25:56.199
<v Speaker 1>to dispense when unto such a maid has given her

905
01:25:56.279 --> 01:26:01.680
<v Speaker 1>heart and said, alone my happiness, thou art in thee,

906
01:26:01.880 --> 01:26:06.520
<v Speaker 1>and in thy truth I place my rest. Her sad surprise,

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01:26:07.239 --> 01:26:11.640
<v Speaker 1>How can it be expressed, when all on which she

908
01:26:11.880 --> 01:26:18.119
<v Speaker 1>built her joy she finds vanish, like clouds dispersed before

909
01:26:18.239 --> 01:26:22.800
<v Speaker 1>the winds. Herself, who the adored idle want to be

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01:26:23.840 --> 01:26:30.640
<v Speaker 1>a poor, despised idolater to see regardless tears she may

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01:26:30.800 --> 01:26:37.600
<v Speaker 1>profusely spend unpitied sighs, her tender breast may rend, but

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01:26:37.840 --> 01:26:42.960
<v Speaker 1>the false image she will near erase, though far unworthy

913
01:26:43.239 --> 01:26:47.840
<v Speaker 1>still to hold its place so hard at his even

914
01:26:47.880 --> 01:26:52.439
<v Speaker 1>wiser grown to take the impression out which fancy once

915
01:26:52.560 --> 01:26:59.039
<v Speaker 1>did make. Believe me nymphs, believe my hoary hairs. Truth

916
01:26:59.279 --> 01:27:05.159
<v Speaker 1>and euriance waits on many years before the eldest of

917
01:27:05.319 --> 01:27:10.079
<v Speaker 1>eu light beheld a nymph we had in beauty, all

918
01:27:10.119 --> 01:27:16.880
<v Speaker 1>excelled rodanthe called, in whom each grace did shine, could

919
01:27:17.079 --> 01:27:22.159
<v Speaker 1>make a mortal maid appear divine, And none could say

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01:27:22.720 --> 01:27:27.159
<v Speaker 1>where most her charms did lie in her enchanting tongue

921
01:27:27.359 --> 01:27:33.399
<v Speaker 1>or conquering eye, her virtue. Yet her beauty so outshone

922
01:27:34.000 --> 01:27:39.279
<v Speaker 1>as beauty did the garments she put on among the swains,

923
01:27:39.600 --> 01:27:44.119
<v Speaker 1>which hear their flocks, then fed all candor with the

924
01:27:44.359 --> 01:27:49.920
<v Speaker 1>highest held his head. The most accomplished, was esteemed to

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01:27:49.960 --> 01:27:56.960
<v Speaker 1>be of comely form, well graced activity. The muses, too,

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01:27:57.159 --> 01:28:01.800
<v Speaker 1>like him, did none inspire, so did stop the pipe

927
01:28:01.920 --> 01:28:06.560
<v Speaker 1>or touch the lyre. Sweet was his voice, and eloquent

928
01:28:06.720 --> 01:28:12.600
<v Speaker 1>his tongue alike admired when he spoke or sung. But

929
01:28:13.000 --> 01:28:19.359
<v Speaker 1>these so much excelling parts. The swain, with imperfections no

930
01:28:19.560 --> 01:28:24.680
<v Speaker 1>less great, did stain for proud. He was of an

931
01:28:24.760 --> 01:28:30.760
<v Speaker 1>ungoverned will, with love familiar, but a stranger still to

932
01:28:31.039 --> 01:28:37.159
<v Speaker 1>faith and constancy. And did his heart retaining none exposed

933
01:28:37.199 --> 01:28:43.840
<v Speaker 1>to every dart hapless Rodante, the fond rover caught to

934
01:28:44.000 --> 01:28:49.279
<v Speaker 1>whom for love, with usual arts he sought, which she ah,

935
01:28:49.439 --> 01:28:55.760
<v Speaker 1>too unwary, did bestow, because true herself believed that he

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01:28:55.920 --> 01:29:00.800
<v Speaker 1>was so. But he alas more wavering than the wind,

937
01:29:01.680 --> 01:29:06.119
<v Speaker 1>straight broke the chain she thought so fast did bind

938
01:29:07.199 --> 01:29:11.039
<v Speaker 1>for he no sooner saw her heart was gained, but

939
01:29:11.239 --> 01:29:17.520
<v Speaker 1>he as soon the victory disdained mad love. Elsewhere As

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01:29:17.560 --> 01:29:21.960
<v Speaker 1>if twere like renown, hearts to subdue as to take

941
01:29:22.000 --> 01:29:26.119
<v Speaker 1>in a town, but in the one as manhood does

942
01:29:26.199 --> 01:29:32.680
<v Speaker 1>prevail both truth and manhood in the other fail. And

943
01:29:32.840 --> 01:29:37.359
<v Speaker 1>now the nymph of late, so gay and bright, the

944
01:29:37.840 --> 01:29:42.640
<v Speaker 1>glory of the plains and the delight, who still in

945
01:29:42.760 --> 01:29:49.159
<v Speaker 1>wit and mirth all pastimes led hung like a withered flower,

946
01:29:49.560 --> 01:29:56.159
<v Speaker 1>her drooping head. I need not tell the grief Rhodante found,

947
01:29:57.159 --> 01:30:02.640
<v Speaker 1>how all that should assuage in aged her wound, her form,

948
01:30:02.840 --> 01:30:09.560
<v Speaker 1>her fame, her virtue riches, wit like death's sad weights

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01:30:09.640 --> 01:30:14.880
<v Speaker 1>upon her soul did sit, or else like furies stood

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01:30:14.920 --> 01:30:21.439
<v Speaker 1>before her face, still urging and upbraiding her disgrace in

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01:30:21.560 --> 01:30:25.960
<v Speaker 1>that the world could yield her no content. But what

952
01:30:26.119 --> 01:30:31.920
<v Speaker 1>alone the false alcandor scent twas said, through just disdain.

953
01:30:32.039 --> 01:30:38.119
<v Speaker 1>At last she broke the disingenuous and unworthy yoke. But

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01:30:38.520 --> 01:30:44.359
<v Speaker 1>this I know, her passion held long time. Constancy, though

955
01:30:44.479 --> 01:30:50.479
<v Speaker 1>unhappy is no crime. Remember when you love, from that

956
01:30:50.600 --> 01:30:56.119
<v Speaker 1>same hour your peace, you put into your lover's power.

957
01:30:57.079 --> 01:31:00.800
<v Speaker 1>From that same hour from him you love, law, receive,

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01:31:01.800 --> 01:31:07.960
<v Speaker 1>and as he shall ordain you joy or grieve, hope, fear, laugh, weep.

959
01:31:08.439 --> 01:31:16.359
<v Speaker 1>Reason aloof does stand disabled both to act and to command, Oh,

960
01:31:16.720 --> 01:31:21.960
<v Speaker 1>cruel fetters, rather wish to feel on your soft limbs

961
01:31:22.079 --> 01:31:27.760
<v Speaker 1>the galling weight of steel, rather to bloody wounds, oppose

962
01:31:27.840 --> 01:31:32.560
<v Speaker 1>your breast. No ill by which the body can be pressed,

963
01:31:33.520 --> 01:31:38.439
<v Speaker 1>You will so sensible a torment find as shackles on

964
01:31:38.720 --> 01:31:44.159
<v Speaker 1>your captivated mind. The mind from heaven its high descent,

965
01:31:44.359 --> 01:31:50.000
<v Speaker 1>did draw and brooks uneasily any other law than what

966
01:31:50.199 --> 01:31:56.000
<v Speaker 1>from reason dictated shall be reason, a kind of innate

967
01:31:56.159 --> 01:32:02.520
<v Speaker 1>deity which only can adapt to every soul, A yoke

968
01:32:02.720 --> 01:32:08.720
<v Speaker 1>so fit and light that thee control all liberty, excels

969
01:32:09.039 --> 01:32:13.359
<v Speaker 1>so sweet a way. THEE same tis to be happy,

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01:32:13.800 --> 01:32:19.319
<v Speaker 1>and obey commands so wise and with rewards so drest,

971
01:32:20.119 --> 01:32:26.600
<v Speaker 1>that the according soul replies, I'm blest. This teaches rightly

972
01:32:27.119 --> 01:32:31.600
<v Speaker 1>how to love and hate, to fear and hope by measure,

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01:32:31.720 --> 01:32:36.039
<v Speaker 1>And just wait, what tears in grief ought from our

974
01:32:36.119 --> 01:32:42.239
<v Speaker 1>eyes to flow, what transport in felicity, to show in

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01:32:42.359 --> 01:32:47.479
<v Speaker 1>every passion, how to steer the will, though rude the shock,

976
01:32:48.119 --> 01:32:54.359
<v Speaker 1>to keep it steady still, Oh, happy mind, What words

977
01:32:54.399 --> 01:32:59.239
<v Speaker 1>can speak thy bliss when in a harmony, thou movest

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01:32:59.319 --> 01:33:04.199
<v Speaker 1>like this, Your heart's fair virgins keep smooth as your brow.

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01:33:05.039 --> 01:33:09.960
<v Speaker 1>Not thee least amorous passion there allow hold not a

980
01:33:10.079 --> 01:33:15.039
<v Speaker 1>parley with what may betray your inward freedom to a

981
01:33:15.239 --> 01:33:20.600
<v Speaker 1>foreign sway. And while thus o'er yourselves, you queens remain

982
01:33:21.720 --> 01:33:27.239
<v Speaker 1>unenvied o'er the world, let others reign. The highest joy,

983
01:33:27.720 --> 01:33:32.560
<v Speaker 1>which from dominion flows, is short of what a mind

984
01:33:32.760 --> 01:33:39.279
<v Speaker 1>well governed knows. Whither my muse, which uncontrolled run content

985
01:33:39.399 --> 01:33:44.800
<v Speaker 1>in motion with the restless sun. Immortal Thou, but I

986
01:33:45.079 --> 01:33:50.760
<v Speaker 1>a mortal sire, exhaust my strength and hearers also tire

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01:33:51.880 --> 01:33:56.720
<v Speaker 1>Al Kippie O heaven taught bard to ages couldst prolong

988
01:33:57.359 --> 01:34:02.000
<v Speaker 1>thy soul instructing health in fume using song, I with

989
01:34:02.279 --> 01:34:07.680
<v Speaker 1>unwearied appetite, could hear and wish my senses were turned

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01:34:07.800 --> 01:34:14.520
<v Speaker 1>all to ear Alchimidon, old man, thy frosty precepts well,

991
01:34:14.600 --> 01:34:19.520
<v Speaker 1>betray thy blood is cold, and that thy head is gray,

992
01:34:20.439 --> 01:34:23.880
<v Speaker 1>who past the pleasure love and youth can give, too

993
01:34:24.039 --> 01:34:28.720
<v Speaker 1>spoilt in others? Now dost only live? Wouldst thou? Indeed,

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01:34:29.199 --> 01:34:33.359
<v Speaker 1>if so thou couldst persuade thee fair, whose charms have

995
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<v Speaker 1>many lovers made, should feel compassion for no one. They

996
01:34:38.439 --> 01:34:45.880
<v Speaker 1>won't but be to all inexorable, found Melobius, young man.

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01:34:46.239 --> 01:34:49.920
<v Speaker 1>If my advice thou well hadst wayed, thou wouldst have

998
01:34:50.079 --> 01:34:55.680
<v Speaker 1>found for either sex twas made, and would from women's beauty.

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01:34:55.800 --> 01:35:01.399
<v Speaker 1>THEE no less preserve than them. Secure from thy address.

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01:35:01.840 --> 01:35:09.199
<v Speaker 1>But let thy youth, thy rash reproach excuse Alchymidon fairest Amerah.

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01:35:09.560 --> 01:35:14.319
<v Speaker 1>Let him not abuse thy gentle heart by his imprinting

1002
01:35:14.479 --> 01:35:19.680
<v Speaker 1>there his doting maxims. But I will not fear, for

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01:35:19.800 --> 01:35:24.600
<v Speaker 1>when gainst love he fiercest did innvey methoughts, I saw

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<v Speaker 1>THEE turn with scorn away Amrah. Alchymidon, according to his will,

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<v Speaker 1>does all my words and looks interpret still. But I

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<v Speaker 1>shall learn at length thou to disdain, or at the

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<v Speaker 1>least more cunningly to feign alkippie. No wonder thou Alchymidon

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<v Speaker 1>art rude when with no generous quality endued, but hopes

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<v Speaker 1>by railing words vice to defend which fowlers made by

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<v Speaker 1>having such a friend. Amerah, thou art warned wisely, beware

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<v Speaker 1>leap not with open eyes into the snare thee. Faith

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<v Speaker 1>that's given to THEE was given before to Neaeus, am Moret,

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01:36:15.399 --> 01:36:19.960
<v Speaker 1>and many more thee perjured did the gods to witness

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<v Speaker 1>call that unto each he was the only thrall asteria,

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01:36:27.399 --> 01:36:31.399
<v Speaker 1>you have made his cheeks with conscious blushest glow. Al

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01:36:31.479 --> 01:36:36.000
<v Speaker 1>kippie tis thee best color a false heart can show.

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<v Speaker 1>And well it is with guilt. Some shame remains. Melebeus, hast, shepherd,

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01:36:43.319 --> 01:36:48.000
<v Speaker 1>hast to cleanse away thy stains. Let not thy youth

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<v Speaker 1>of time the goodly spring neglected pass that nothing forth

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<v Speaker 1>it bring but noxious weeds, which cultivated might produce such

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<v Speaker 1>crop as now would thee delight and give thee after

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<v Speaker 1>fame for virtue's fruit. Believe it not alone with age

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01:37:10.119 --> 01:37:14.840
<v Speaker 1>does suit not adorns youth like to a noble mind

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<v Speaker 1>in thee this union. Let a mirror find the Kaida.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh fear her not shall serve him in his kind.

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<v Speaker 1>Melebeus see how discourse upon the time does prey those

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<v Speaker 1>hours past swiftest that we talk away declining soul forsaken

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<v Speaker 1>hath the fields and mountain's highest summits only guilds which

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01:37:44.439 --> 01:37:49.000
<v Speaker 1>warns us homewards with our flocks, to make i'l kippie

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<v Speaker 1>along with thee our thanks and praises take asteria in

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01:37:54.960 --> 01:37:59.520
<v Speaker 1>which our hearts do all in one unite. The Kaida

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<v Speaker 1>are wishes too that on thy head may light. What

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<v Speaker 1>ere the gods, as their best gifts bestow melebeus kind

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<v Speaker 1>nymphs on you may equal blessings flow and of Section eighteen,

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<v Speaker 1>Section nineteen of Poems sixteen eighty six by Anne Killigrew.

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<v Speaker 1>This LibriVox recording is in the public domain. On My Aunt,

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<v Speaker 1>Missus a k drowned under London Bridge in the Queen's

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<v Speaker 1>Barge Anno. Sixteen forty one, The darling of a father

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<v Speaker 1>good and wise, the virtue which a virtuous age did prize,

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<v Speaker 1>the beauty excellent, even to those were fair subscribed, unto

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<v Speaker 1>by such as might compare the star that above her

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<v Speaker 1>orb did always move, and yet the noblest did not

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<v Speaker 1>hate but love, and those who most upon their title

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01:39:13.439 --> 01:39:19.520
<v Speaker 1>stood veiled also too, because she did more good to

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01:39:19.720 --> 01:39:24.520
<v Speaker 1>whom the wronged and worthy did resort and held their

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01:39:24.560 --> 01:39:29.960
<v Speaker 1>suits obtained if only brought the highest saint in all

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<v Speaker 1>the heaven of court. So noble was her heir, so

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01:39:34.680 --> 01:39:39.479
<v Speaker 1>great her mean, she seemed a friend, not servant to

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01:39:39.600 --> 01:39:44.880
<v Speaker 1>the queen to sin. If known she never did give way.

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<v Speaker 1>Vice could not storm her, could it not betray when

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<v Speaker 1>angry heaven extinguished her fair light it seemed to say,

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<v Speaker 1>not so precious in my sight as I in waves

1053
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<v Speaker 1>this paragon have drown'd the nation next, and King I

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<v Speaker 1>will confound and of Section nineteen, Section twenty of Poems

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01:40:21.560 --> 01:40:26.239
<v Speaker 1>sixteen eighty six by Anne Killigrew. This LibriVox recording is

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01:40:26.279 --> 01:40:31.720
<v Speaker 1>in the public domain. On a young lady whose lord

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01:40:31.920 --> 01:40:38.640
<v Speaker 1>was traveling no sooner I pronounced Celinda's name, but troops

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01:40:38.640 --> 01:40:42.840
<v Speaker 1>of winged powers did chant the same. Not those the

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01:40:42.920 --> 01:40:47.800
<v Speaker 1>poets bows and arrows lend, but such as on the

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01:40:47.960 --> 01:40:53.439
<v Speaker 1>altar do attend. Celinda named flowers spring up from the ground,

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01:40:54.239 --> 01:41:00.239
<v Speaker 1>excited merely with the charming sound. Cylinder the court's glorylory

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01:41:00.319 --> 01:41:05.039
<v Speaker 1>and its fear. Thee gazed at wonder where she does appear.

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<v Speaker 1>Cylinder great in birth, greater and mean, yet none so

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<v Speaker 1>humble as this fair one seen. Her youth and beauty

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01:41:16.640 --> 01:41:22.600
<v Speaker 1>justly might disdain, but THEE least pride her glories, ne'er disdain.

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<v Speaker 1>Cylinder of each state the ambitious strife at once a

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<v Speaker 1>noble virgin and a wife, who, while her gallant lord

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01:41:33.600 --> 01:41:39.079
<v Speaker 1>in foreign parts adorns his youth with all accomplish'd arts,

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01:41:39.840 --> 01:41:44.359
<v Speaker 1>grows ripe at home in virtue more than years, and

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01:41:44.920 --> 01:41:50.199
<v Speaker 1>in each grace a miracle appears. When other of her

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01:41:50.279 --> 01:41:53.960
<v Speaker 1>age a madding go to the park and plays, and

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01:41:54.159 --> 01:41:59.640
<v Speaker 1>every public show proud from their parents bondage they have broke.

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01:42:00.520 --> 01:42:06.000
<v Speaker 1>Though justly freed, she still does wear the yoke, preferring

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01:42:06.159 --> 01:42:10.680
<v Speaker 1>more her mother's friend to be than idle of the

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01:42:10.800 --> 01:42:15.840
<v Speaker 1>town's loose gallantry on her. She, too, the temple does

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01:42:15.880 --> 01:42:20.760
<v Speaker 1>attend where they their blessed hours, both save and spend.

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01:42:22.039 --> 01:42:27.199
<v Speaker 1>They smile, they joy together, they do pray. You'd think

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01:42:27.359 --> 01:42:33.680
<v Speaker 1>two bodies did one soul obey like angels. Thus they

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01:42:33.720 --> 01:42:38.960
<v Speaker 1>do reflect their bliss and their bright virtues, each the

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<v Speaker 1>other kiss return, young Lord, while thou abroad dost roam

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<v Speaker 1>thee world to see thou losest heav'n at home and

1082
01:42:53.199 --> 01:43:02.119
<v Speaker 1>of Section twenty section two twenty one of Poems sixteen

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<v Speaker 1>eighty six by Anne Killigrew. This LibriVox recording is in

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01:43:06.520 --> 01:43:12.079
<v Speaker 1>the public domain on the Duchess of Grafton under the

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01:43:12.159 --> 01:43:18.079
<v Speaker 1>name of Alinda. A song the ambitious eye that seeks alone,

1086
01:43:18.319 --> 01:43:22.560
<v Speaker 1>where beauty's wonders most are shown, of all that bounteous

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01:43:22.600 --> 01:43:27.319
<v Speaker 1>heaven displays, Let him on bright, Alinda gaze and in

1088
01:43:27.399 --> 01:43:31.119
<v Speaker 1>her high example, see all can admired or wished for

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01:43:31.399 --> 01:43:36.640
<v Speaker 1>be an unmatched form mind like endowed is state and title,

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01:43:36.800 --> 01:43:40.520
<v Speaker 1>great and proud, a charge heaven dares to few commit,

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01:43:40.920 --> 01:43:44.640
<v Speaker 1>so few like her can manage it without all blame

1092
01:43:44.760 --> 01:43:49.560
<v Speaker 1>or envy. Bear the being witty, great and fair, so

1093
01:43:49.720 --> 01:43:53.680
<v Speaker 1>well these murdering weapons wield, at first herself with them

1094
01:43:53.720 --> 01:43:58.159
<v Speaker 1>to shield, then slaughter none, in proud to sport, destroy

1095
01:43:58.279 --> 01:44:02.279
<v Speaker 1>those she invites to court. Great are her charms, but

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01:44:02.520 --> 01:44:08.640
<v Speaker 1>virtues more. She wounds no hearts. Though all adore tis

1097
01:44:08.640 --> 01:44:14.920
<v Speaker 1>amorous beauty, love invites a passion like itself excites the paragon.

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01:44:15.079 --> 01:44:20.560
<v Speaker 1>Though all admire kindles in none of fond desire, no

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01:44:20.680 --> 01:44:25.159
<v Speaker 1>more than those the king's renown and state applaud affect

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01:44:25.239 --> 01:44:36.840
<v Speaker 1>his crown. And of section twenty one, Section twenty two

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01:44:37.279 --> 01:44:42.039
<v Speaker 1>of Poems sixteen eighty six by Anne Killigrew. This LibriVox

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<v Speaker 1>recording is in the public domain. Penelope to Ulysses, return

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01:44:50.399 --> 01:44:55.680
<v Speaker 1>my dearest lord at length. Return Let me no longer

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01:44:55.880 --> 01:45:01.680
<v Speaker 1>your sad absence morn ilium and dust does no more work,

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01:45:01.760 --> 01:45:08.520
<v Speaker 1>afford no more employment for your wit or sword. Why

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<v Speaker 1>did not thee foreseeing God's destroy Helen the fire brand

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<v Speaker 1>both of Greece and Troy. Ere Yet the fatal youth

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<v Speaker 1>her face had seen ere loved and borne away. The

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01:45:24.039 --> 01:45:30.960
<v Speaker 1>wanton queen then had been stopp'd the mighty flood of woe,

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01:45:31.159 --> 01:45:37.439
<v Speaker 1>which now both Greece and Phrygia overflow. Then I these

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<v Speaker 1>many tears should not have shed, nor thou, the source

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<v Speaker 1>of them, to war been led. I should not then

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<v Speaker 1>have trembled at the fame of Hector's warlike and victorious name.

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<v Speaker 1>Why did I wish the noble Hector slain? Why Ilium

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<v Speaker 1>ruin'd rise O rise again again? Great city flourish from

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01:46:09.279 --> 01:46:13.760
<v Speaker 1>thine urn. For though thou art burn'd, my lord does

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<v Speaker 1>not return. Sometimes I think, but O most cruel thought

1118
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<v Speaker 1>that for thy absence th art thyself in fault, that

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01:46:27.039 --> 01:46:32.239
<v Speaker 1>thou art captiv'd by some captive dame, who, when thou

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<v Speaker 1>fired'st Troy, did thee inflame. And now with her thou

1121
01:46:39.720 --> 01:46:50.239
<v Speaker 1>lead'st thy amorous life forgetful and despising of thy wife

1122
01:46:50.479 --> 01:46:59.520
<v Speaker 1>and of Section twenty two Section twenty three of Poems

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<v Speaker 1>sixteen eighty six by Anne Killigrew. This LibriVox recording is

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01:47:04.319 --> 01:47:12.000
<v Speaker 1>in the public domain an epitaph on herself. When I

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<v Speaker 1>am dead, few friends attend my hearse, and for a

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01:47:16.600 --> 01:47:25.359
<v Speaker 1>monument I leave my verse an ode, Arise my dove

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<v Speaker 1>from midst of pots. Arise thy sullied habitation, leave to dust,

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01:47:32.199 --> 01:47:36.680
<v Speaker 1>no longer cleave unworthy. They of heaven that will not

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01:47:36.880 --> 01:47:43.159
<v Speaker 1>view the skies thy native beauty, reassume, Prune each neglected

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01:47:43.279 --> 01:47:49.479
<v Speaker 1>plume till more than silver white, then burnished gold more bright.

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01:47:50.319 --> 01:47:56.800
<v Speaker 1>Thus ever, ready stand to take thy eternal flight. Thee

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<v Speaker 1>bird to whom the spacious air was given, as in

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<v Speaker 1>a smooth and trackless path to go, a walk which

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<v Speaker 1>does no limits know, pervious alone to her and Heaven.

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<v Speaker 1>Should she her airy race forget on earth effect to

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<v Speaker 1>walk and sit? Should she so high a privileged neglect

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01:48:20.680 --> 01:48:25.159
<v Speaker 1>as still on earth to walk and sit effect? What

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01:48:25.279 --> 01:48:28.880
<v Speaker 1>could she have wrong? Complain? Who thus her birdly kind

1139
01:48:29.039 --> 01:48:33.800
<v Speaker 1>doth stain if all her feathers molted, were and naked,

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01:48:33.880 --> 01:48:37.319
<v Speaker 1>she were left and bare the just and scorn of

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<v Speaker 1>earth and air. The bird of Paradise, the soul and

1142
01:48:46.439 --> 01:48:56.199
<v Speaker 1>of Section twenty three, Section twenty four of Poems sixteen

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<v Speaker 1>eighty six by Anne Killigrew this librivoxarding is in the

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<v Speaker 1>public domain. Extemporary counsel given to a young gallant in

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01:49:06.840 --> 01:49:13.880
<v Speaker 1>a frolic. As you are young, if you'll be also wise, danger,

1146
01:49:14.000 --> 01:49:19.760
<v Speaker 1>with honor, court quarrels, despise. Believe you then are truly

1147
01:49:20.000 --> 01:49:24.840
<v Speaker 1>brave and bold to beauty when no slave, and less

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01:49:25.000 --> 01:49:29.359
<v Speaker 1>to gold when virtue you dare own. Not think it

1149
01:49:29.439 --> 01:49:37.760
<v Speaker 1>odd or ungenteel to say I fear a god. And

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<v Speaker 1>of section twenty four and of Poems sixteen eighty six

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<v Speaker 1>by Anne Killigrew