The Works of the Late Aaron Hill ... In Four Volumes. Consisting of Letters on Various Subjects, And of Original Poems, Moral and Facetious. With An Essay on the Art of Acting |
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To the Lady, that laughs, at dying in Metaphor.
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To the Lady, that laughs, at dying in Metaphor.
And why, fair Trifler, does that meaning eyeSmile, in contempt, when lovers swear they die?
'Twixt death, and love, but one small diff'rence lies,
The soul, in both, from its left body flies:
In death, 'tis gone, like smoak, dissolv'd in air,
Lost, in expance, the loser knows not where:
In love, we trace it, with such willing pain,
'Twere to die twice, to take it back again.
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