The Passionate Poet With a Description of the Thracian Ismarus. By T. P. [i.e. Thomas Powell] |
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The Fig-tree and the Palme.
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The Fig-tree and the Palme.
Their fruit is sensuall, pleasing for the time,But softnes doth the sense and soule deline.
The present pleasure hath an after vice;
The Date her leprie, and the Figge breeds lyce.
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