The History Of the Most Vile Dimagoras Who by Treachery and Poison blasted the incomparable Beauty of Divine Parthenia: Inter-woven with the History of Amoronzo and Celania. By John Quarles |
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First we must know this pleasing Bowr, wherein
Corinda was, has for a long time bin
A pleasant reseptacle for all such
Distressed Ladies, that had griev'd too much
For their unconstant Lovers; There they find
So many rare diversions of the mind,
That fright'ned Melancholy seems to be
A non-apparent in that Libertie.
Here liv'd the fair Corinda, who indeed
In Virtue, Riches, Beauty, did exceed
Most of her time, nay, I may boldly say
She did exceed, all, but Celania:
This Lady, who to safe-guard her delights
Was still attended with a hundred Knights,
And fifty Damosels, who were still t' invent
New Rarities to crown her with content;
And whatsoever pastime seem'd to be,
Without the Bowr, she stood unseen, to see:
Corinda was, has for a long time bin
A pleasant reseptacle for all such
Distressed Ladies, that had griev'd too much
For their unconstant Lovers; There they find
So many rare diversions of the mind,
That fright'ned Melancholy seems to be
A non-apparent in that Libertie.
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In Virtue, Riches, Beauty, did exceed
Most of her time, nay, I may boldly say
She did exceed, all, but Celania:
This Lady, who to safe-guard her delights
Was still attended with a hundred Knights,
And fifty Damosels, who were still t' invent
New Rarities to crown her with content;
And whatsoever pastime seem'd to be,
Without the Bowr, she stood unseen, to see:
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