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Argalvs and Parthenia

Written by Fra: Quarles

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Parthenia, ah Parthenia; Then must I
Be bought and sold for teares? Is my condition
So poore, I cannot liue, but by petition?
So said; He stept aside (for feare, by chance,
The fury of some misguided blow may glance
And touch Parthenia) and, fill'd with high disdaine,
Would haue began the Combat fresh againe.