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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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Hespelon, and Amorea.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Hespelon, and Amorea.

A Dialogue.

Amorea.
VVho is it that cometh here,
To remove my setled fancies,

Hespelon.
It is one my onely dear,
That hath known all the chances
Of a Lovers carefull fear.

Amorea.
Why alas, is't you my friend!
Have not yet those follies left thee?

Hespelon.
Dear, I never doe intend,
Though my fortunes have bereft me
Of thy presence, for to end.

Amorea.
But perchance you will forget me
When the Object is removed.

Hespelon.
Thy opinion sure will fret me,
But too dearly I have loved
And my passion will not let me.

Amorea.
Yet I hope these toyes will leave you
When you see a fairer creature.


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Hespelon.
No your Author did deceive you
It was vertue, and not feature,
Which Induced me to crave you.

Amorea.
When you riper years aspire,
May be then your mind will falter.

Hespelon.
Who is he can quench the fire
Or his resolution alter
Being taken with desire

Amorea.
Yet in time and absence you
Will forget me, youth is fickle

Hespelon.
Which if time and absence do
Let the all destroying Sickle
Cut me from the world too:

Amorea.
Ah begon my dear I say,
Do not longer me Importune

Hespelon.
(Cursed be that cursed day
But more curs't my cursed fortune)
Saying So, she went away.