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Poems on Several Occasions

Written by Charles Cotton

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Foco di sdegno.

From Cavalier Guarini. Madrigal.

Fair, and False, I burn 'tis true,
But by Love am no ways moved;
Since your Falshood renders you
So unfit to be beloved.
Tigress then, that you no more,
May triumph it in my smart;
It is fit you know before,
That I now have cur'd my Heart.

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Henceforth then if I do Mourn,
And that still I live in pain.
With another flame I burn;
Not with Love; but with Disdain.