Natures Picture Drawn by Fancies Pencil To the Life Being several Feigned Stories, Comical, Tragical, Tragi-comical, Poetical, Romancical, Philosophical, Historical, and Moral: Some in Verse, some in Prose; some Mixt, and some by Dialogues. Written by the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, and most Excellent Princess, The Duchess of Newcastle [i.e. Margaret Cavendish]. The Second Edition |
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Fairest of all your Sex, for so you are
Unto all others; as a Blazing-Starr,
VVhich shews it self, and to the VVorld appears
As a great VVonder once in many years;
And never comes, but doth portend on Earth
Either the fall of Princes, or their Birth.
O let your influence only at me aim,
Not for to work my Overthrow, or Fame;
But Love, to make me happy all my life;
Then yeeld your self to be my Virtuous VVife.
But if you (this Request) to me deny,
The Gods, I hope, will grant me soon to dye.
Unto all others; as a Blazing-Starr,
VVhich shews it self, and to the VVorld appears
As a great VVonder once in many years;
And never comes, but doth portend on Earth
Either the fall of Princes, or their Birth.
O let your influence only at me aim,
Not for to work my Overthrow, or Fame;
But Love, to make me happy all my life;
Then yeeld your self to be my Virtuous VVife.
But if you (this Request) to me deny,
The Gods, I hope, will grant me soon to dye.
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