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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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Hopeless Affection.

A Song.

1.

Hopeless Affection, flatter me no more,
Or else still flatter me,
Take from me quickly, ah but first restore
My loved destiny,
But 'tis the cruell fair
Augmenteth my dispair,
Yet my unhappy fates,
Her love participates.

2.

'Tis Amorea, it is only she,
My dying heart hath slain,
Pardon me dear mine inhumanitie,
Come wound it once again,
For where I die or live
I freely doe forgive
Mine own betraying eyes
Made me thy Sacrifice.

3.

Come, come away, and kill me with disdain,
And then I am set free,
When thou hast done, look on the gniltlesse stain,
That then doth follow thee:
For 'twas mine own desire
To steal Celestial fire
From off thy beauteous Heaven,
Forgive, thou art forgiven.