Occasions Off-spring Or Poems upon Severall Occasions: By Mathew Stevenson |
Mrs. E. G. To hir false and faithlesse servant.
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Mrs. E. G. To hir false and faithlesse servant.
Bvt whence false wretch are these delayes,
Didst thou not sweare,
By all that's deare.
Should lyons block up thy assayes,
Thy Pinnace scorn'd such remoraes.
Didst thou not sweare,
By all that's deare.
Should lyons block up thy assayes,
Thy Pinnace scorn'd such remoraes.
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2
Most faithlesse of thy sex farewel:Art not thou hee
That vow'd to mee
No fates decree nor Circian spell,
Should keep thee from my Cittadell?
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Yet flatterer thou art fleg'd, and flownFrom the warm nest
Of my soft breast,
And like that night thou left's mee gone
Ah! who would such a traytor owne?
4
They that dare most, I see dare leastPeter pretends
More then his friends,
But being brought unto the test,
Hee turnes more cravant then the rest.
5
A feeble hermit raz'd the fortOf secresie
Twixt thee and mee,
O shame, Cowards I see resort
To Lov's, though not to Mars his Court.
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6
Thinkst thou the gods that testifieFrom Heaven above
Thy vowes of love,
Will quit thee of thy perjury?
That were, to make themselves like thee.
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Well I conclude then nothing elseBut love is dead
And faith is fled,
Unto the breasts of infidells
And there, if any where it dwells.
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False and faint heart adieu, nere sueNor wooe no more,
As here to fore,
For here is all Ile answer you,
False and faint heart adieu adieu.
— Piget infido consuluisse viro.
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