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The Invitation.

XXII.

Come my Fair, the heat t'evade
Let us sit beneath this shade;
See, the Tree doth bow his head,
And his armes t'invite thee spread;
Hark, the kinde perswasive Spring
Murmurs at thy tarrying;
Who molested by the Sun
Would so sweet a refuge shun?