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The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania

Written by the right honorable the Lady Mary Wroath
Wroth, Mary (ca. 1586-ca. 1640)

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PAMPHILIA, TO AMPHILANTHVS.
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A Crowne of Sonnets dedicated to Love.
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Deare famish not what you your selfe gaue foode,
Destroy not what your glory is to saue:
Kill not that soule to which you spirit gaue,
In pitty, not disdaine, your triumph stood.
An easie thing it is to shed the bloud
Of one who at your will yeelds to the graue:
But more you may true worth by mercy craue,
When you preserue, not spoyle, but nourish good.
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Your sight is all the food I doe desire,
Then sacrifice me not in hidden fire,
Or stop the breath which did your praises moue.
Thinke but how easie 'tis a sight to giue,
Nay, euen desert, since by it I doe liue,
I but Camelion-like, would liue, and loue.
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