The Grecian Story Being an Historical Poem, in Five Books. To which is Annex'd The Grove: Consisting of Divers Shorter Poems upon several Subjects. By J. H. [i.e. John Harington] |
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The Duke beholding that Self-execution,
Their Silken Couch stain'd too with Blood's effusion,
O're-whelmed stands through Wonder, wrath sometime;
So little Fear'd, so basely false her Crime:
Strange grief withall, EUGENA's Discontent,
Clermanthe's loss when Thoughts did represent,
GONDACES Pride; through fondness sway'd before:
Clermanthe tho seem'd first withdrawn, no more,
Now Dead conceiv'd: sad Fortune, last, that She
Should Charm so far, enslave his Fantasie.
Their Silken Couch stain'd too with Blood's effusion,
O're-whelmed stands through Wonder, wrath sometime;
So little Fear'd, so basely false her Crime:
Strange grief withall, EUGENA's Discontent,
Clermanthe's loss when Thoughts did represent,
GONDACES Pride; through fondness sway'd before:
Clermanthe tho seem'd first withdrawn, no more,
Now Dead conceiv'd: sad Fortune, last, that She
Should Charm so far, enslave his Fantasie.
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