Clarastella Together with Poems occasional, Elegies, Epigrams, Satyrs. By Robert Heath |
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The effects of Brainsick's letters.
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Clarastella | ||
The effects of Brainsick's letters.
Your lines were all so sweet, and work't so wel,So purg'd me too, that I can hardly tel
Whether they wrought on my affections more
Or on my body, I drew thence such store
Of precious Elixer, and so much
Compounded Cates, whose qualitie was such,
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By virtue of your lines I had eleven,
But yet I'l tel you; troth 'twas een forgot
It purg'd and scar'd and wipt off you know what;
It griev'd mee your fair hand should undergo
So foul an office as to wipe it too;
But rather then your hand or paper bee
Stain'd with this act, let the guilt lie on mee.
I did it 'cause I know that you could write
Such lines again as fast as I could—
Write to me oftner pray! so I may save
Physicians fees, and may bum-fodder have.
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