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Argalvs and Parthenia

Written by Fra: Quarles

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Morpheus, from hence is banisht, for this night,

The sentence.


And not to approch before the morning light;
Mars is exilde for euer, as a guest,

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Adiudg'd vnfitting for a mariage feast.
Cupid is doom'd to rome and roue about
To the worlds end, and both his eyes put out.
Venus is censur'd to perpetuall night,
And not (vnlesse by stealth) to see the light:
Her chiefest ioy to be but pleasing folly,
Perform'd wth madnes, dog'd with melancholly.