The Minor Poems of Joseph Beaumont ... Edited from the autograph manuscript with introduction and notes by Eloise Robinson |
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The Cheat
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The Cheat
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Sweet Beguilings,Cruel Smileings,
Tickling Soules to death;
Tedious Leisures,
Bitter Pleasures,
Smooth yet cragged Path;
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Heavy lightnes,Whose sad Sleightnes
Cheers, yet breaks the Bearer;
Dainty Treasons
Whose quaint Reasons
Teach yet fool the Hearer:
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Glorious Troubles,Mighty Bubbles,
Horror fairly brimmed,
Bane in Honey,
Brass in Money,
Nothing neatly timmed:
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Are the PrizesLife devizes
To warm fond Desires;
Which by growing
Hot, are blowing
Their own funeral Fires.
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