The poems of George Daniel ... From the original mss. in the British Museum: Hitherto unprinted. Edited, with introduction, notes, and illustrations, portrait, &c. By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart: In four volumes |
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To the Platonicke pretender.
Dull ffoole, to mock a flame
Beyond thy Fate;
Thou canst but prate
Of Common Love, veil'd in another Name.
The word Platonicke pleases thy Conceit;
And some new thing
Thou would'st have others vnderstand in it;
But canst not bring
One Accent, to evince
It, from the Common Sins
Of Appetite and Naturall Desire.
The word is all thy Flame!
Dull Sinner! doe not blame
These Iust reproaches, if a Zealous fire
Let the world see,
A strange Hypocrisie.
For in Platonicke Love thou canst doe more
With yeilding Females, then in Lust before.
Beyond thy Fate;
Thou canst but prate
Of Common Love, veil'd in another Name.
The word Platonicke pleases thy Conceit;
And some new thing
Thou would'st have others vnderstand in it;
But canst not bring
One Accent, to evince
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Of Appetite and Naturall Desire.
The word is all thy Flame!
Dull Sinner! doe not blame
These Iust reproaches, if a Zealous fire
Let the world see,
A strange Hypocrisie.
For in Platonicke Love thou canst doe more
With yeilding Females, then in Lust before.
Ladies beware, he will deceive you, in
That Face of vertue, to the Act of Sin.
That Face of vertue, to the Act of Sin.
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