The History of Polindor and Flostella With Other Poems. By I. H. [i.e. John Harington] The third Edition, Revised and much Enlarged |
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(Thus (Reader) from these Towry heights we view
Spread Cottage-plains, with Pastorall troops, anew;
Those two gentile-born Nymphs, Duicenza fair
Marpesa, in chief; to whom (kind noblest care)
Polindor wrot apart, with his own hand:
In which did (first) Confess th' obliging Band,
His great Ingagement for their Virgin-loves;
In th' second place with Pen conjuring moves
Their joyn'd Beliefs, that he nought disesteem'd
Their Persons, Parts, or Birth; since worthy'st deem'd:
But rather prov'd (as then) less freely Inclin'd
To setled Marriage, of untuned mind
To th' rustick Plains, besides some secret Fate
Ordain'd him for Floztels espoused mate:
Although he should their precious memories
Still strongly Love, eheir persons chastly prize
Next to his own Wife; rest to th' clozing end
(If prov'd) their Reall, true, commanded Friend.
Spread Cottage-plains, with Pastorall troops, anew;
Those two gentile-born Nymphs, Duicenza fair
Marpesa, in chief; to whom (kind noblest care)
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In which did (first) Confess th' obliging Band,
His great Ingagement for their Virgin-loves;
In th' second place with Pen conjuring moves
Their joyn'd Beliefs, that he nought disesteem'd
Their Persons, Parts, or Birth; since worthy'st deem'd:
But rather prov'd (as then) less freely Inclin'd
To setled Marriage, of untuned mind
To th' rustick Plains, besides some secret Fate
Ordain'd him for Floztels espoused mate:
Although he should their precious memories
Still strongly Love, eheir persons chastly prize
Next to his own Wife; rest to th' clozing end
(If prov'd) their Reall, true, commanded Friend.
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