The poems of William Habington Edited with introduction and commentary by Kenneth Allott |
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Eccho to Narcissus.
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Eccho to Narcissus.
In praise of CASTARA'S discreete Love.
Scorn'd in thy watry Vrne Narcissus lye,Thou shalt not force more tribute from my eye
T' increase thy streames: or make me weepe a showre,
To adde fresh beauty to thee, now a flowre.
But should relenting heaven restore thee sence,
To see such wisedome temper innocence,
In faire Castara's love; how shee discreet,
Makes causion with a noble freedome meete,
At the same moment; thould'st confesse fond boy,
Fooles onely think them vertuous, who are coy.
And wonder not that I, who have no choyce
Of speech, have praysing her so free a voyce:
Heaven her severest sentence doth repeale,
When to Castara I would speake my zeale.
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