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The Poetical Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden

With "A Cypresse Grove": Edited by L. E. Kastner

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[lxv] Linas Virginitie.

Who Lina weddeth, shall most happie bee,
For hee a Maide shall finde,
Though Maiden none bee shee,
A Girle, or Boy, beneath her Waste confinde:
And though bright Ceres Lockes bee neuer shorne
Hee shall be sure this Yeere to lacke no Corne.