A Miscellany of Poems consisting of Original Poems, Translations, Pastorals in the Cumberland Dialect, Familiar Epistles, Fables, Songs, and Epigrams, by the late Reverend Josiah Relph ... With a Preface and a Glossary |
To Narcissa,
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To Narcissa,
who took it ill to have me call'd her Lover.
I
Lord! Miss, how folks can frame a lie!Love you say they?—by Jove not I.
Both Jove and you may witness bring
I never dreamt of such a thing.
II
Henceforth bid jealousie be gone;Thy dear, dear self is thine alone:
From fear of rivals thou art free:
—O! were I half so blest as thee.
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