Amorea, The Lost Lover Or The Idea of Love and Misfortune. Being Poems, Sonets, Songs, Odes, Pastoral, Elegies, Lyrick Poems, and Epigrams. Never before printed. Written by Pathericke Jenkin |
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An Elegie on the Death of the Princess Royal.
Goe, Ladies, stay, ah goe, no stay and mournA while, lay down your Lutes, ah come & turn
Your deep concerned eyes upon this Tombe,
Read, and lament, as if you read your doom
Alas make haste, come pay your Obsequies
Unto her memory with drowned eyes,
Attend this Monument, forget to see
Your selves carrassed, may you ever be,
In mourning habits, and where e're you walk,
May death and Funeralls be all your talk,
And if you sleep, may your dreams be of Bells,
Of Hearses, Coffins, Monuments, and Knells,
May all your daies of pleasure and delight,
Be Metamorphosed to dismal night,
For Vertue's dead, and in her all is gone
That Vertue's very self can think upon;
Now certainly a wrack is to be fear'd,
For gon's the Star, and North, by which you stear'd,
Gone is the Touch-stone, which was wont to try
Whither was richer love, or constancy;
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Your Lights extinguish'd e're it was begun,
Nothing is left but mourning, but you'l say
Who it should concern or dismay,
Or so obliege us HER to think upon;
Is't not enough to tell you Vertue's gone:
It is the Princess whom I'de nam'd, but when
I name Her once, grief drownds my tongue and pen.
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