The Works of John Sheffield Earl of Mulgrave, Marquis of Normanby, and Duke of Buckingham. In two volumes ... The third edition, Corrected |
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The VENTURE.
Oh, how I languish! What a strange
Unruly fierce Desire!
My Spirits feel some wondrous Change,
My Heart is all on fire.
Unruly fierce Desire!
My Spirits feel some wondrous Change,
My Heart is all on fire.
Now, all ye wiser Thoughts, away,
In vain your Tale ye tell
Of patient Hopes, and dull Delay,
Love's foppish Part; farewel.
In vain your Tale ye tell
Of patient Hopes, and dull Delay,
Love's foppish Part; farewel.
Suppose one Week's Delay would give
All that my Wishes move;
Oh, who so long a Time can live,
Stretch'd on the Rack of Love?
All that my Wishes move;
Oh, who so long a Time can live,
Stretch'd on the Rack of Love?
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Her Soul perhaps is too sublime,
To like such slavish Fear;
Discretion, Prudence, all is Crime,
If once condemn'd by her.
To like such slavish Fear;
Discretion, Prudence, all is Crime,
If once condemn'd by her.
When Honour does the Soldier call
To some unequal Fight,
Resolv'd to conquer or to fall,
Before his Gen'ral's Sight;
To some unequal Fight,
Resolv'd to conquer or to fall,
Before his Gen'ral's Sight;
Advanc'd the happy Hero lives;
Or if ill Fate denies,
The noble Rashness Heav'n forgives,
And gloriously he dies,
Or if ill Fate denies,
The noble Rashness Heav'n forgives,
And gloriously he dies,
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