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The poems and translations of Sir Edward Sherburne (1616-1702)

excluding Seneca and Manilius Introduced and Annotated by F. J. Van Beeck

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The broken Faith.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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The broken Faith.

Lately by cleer Thames his side,
Fair Lycoris I espy'd
With the Pen of her white hand
These words printing on the Sand:
None Lycoris doth approve
But Mirtillo for her Love.
Ah false Nymph! those Words were fit
In Sand only to be writ:
For the quickly rising Streams
Of Oblivion, and the Thames,
In a little Moments stay
From the Shore wash'd clean away
What thy hand had there imprest,
And Mirtillo from thy Brest.