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 |
Love and Respect.
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Love and Respect.
1
It is not that I love the fairest,Less then when my love I tendred,
But 'twas hopeless love, my dearest,
That my deep affection hindred.
2
Yet 'tis not hopeless love shall fear me,Or command my love to end,
'Tis the high respect I bear thee,
Will not leave me to offend.
3
Were I confident to carry,Thy affection it would be
No content at all to marry,
If the conquest were not free.
4
But if you vouchsafe to pardonMy presumption, do but prove,
I will render thee the geurdon
Of a never-dying love.
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