Poems on Several Occasions Together with the Song of the Three Children Paraphras'd. By The Lady Chudleigh |
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[Cease, fair Calistris, cease disdaining]
Damon.Cease, fair Calistris, cease disdaining;
'Tis time to leave that useless Art:
Your Shepherd's weary of complaining;
Be kind, or he'll resume his Heart.
Calistris.
Damon, be gone; I hate complying;
Go court some fond, believing Maid:
I take more Pleasure in denying,
Than in the Conquests I have made.
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Why, cruel Nymph, why, why so slighting?
Is this the Treatment I must have?
Were not your Beauty so inviting,
I wou'd no longer be your Slave.
Calistris.
Damon, begon, I hate complying,
Your Heart's not worth the having;
Were there Ten thousand Shepherds dying,
Not one were worth the saving.
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