Clarastella Together with Poems occasional, Elegies, Epigrams, Satyrs. By Robert Heath |
To Clarastella. Loves enterteinment.
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Clarastella | ||
To Clarastella. Loves enterteinment.
When Love was exild Heav'n, and to and fro
For want of friends did here a begging go,
To seek relief, in this sad pilgrimage
I entertein'd the Youth my mænial page.
And though he was of many held in scorn,
Yet knew I he was of a Goddesse born.
For whose fair sake I took him home, and laid
Him in the fairest lodging that I had.
I cloath'd the hunger sterved wretch when he
Was almost dead for cold and misery:
Daily I fed him with my sighs, and in
My tears he quencht his thirst and bath'd his skin.
Encourag'd thus the lad-grew sawcie, he
Would from a servant now a Master be.
First he entic'd my thoughts and cuningly
Wrought their consent to the Conspiracie;
Then he fast bound my senses by surprise,
That so he might at th'Porthole of mine eys
Bring in's Associate; then set th'fort on fire,
Having betraid the breastworks to desire.
For want of friends did here a begging go,
To seek relief, in this sad pilgrimage
I entertein'd the Youth my mænial page.
And though he was of many held in scorn,
Yet knew I he was of a Goddesse born.
For whose fair sake I took him home, and laid
Him in the fairest lodging that I had.
I cloath'd the hunger sterved wretch when he
Was almost dead for cold and misery:
Daily I fed him with my sighs, and in
My tears he quencht his thirst and bath'd his skin.
Encourag'd thus the lad-grew sawcie, he
Would from a servant now a Master be.
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Wrought their consent to the Conspiracie;
Then he fast bound my senses by surprise,
That so he might at th'Porthole of mine eys
Bring in's Associate; then set th'fort on fire,
Having betraid the breastworks to desire.
You are that Goddesse hatcht and sent this spie,
I therefore do forgive his treacherie.
(Fair Empresse) now y'have got it by a wile,
I'l teach you how to keep it: with a smile.
I therefore do forgive his treacherie.
(Fair Empresse) now y'have got it by a wile,
I'l teach you how to keep it: with a smile.
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