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A Dialogue between Cloris and Doris.
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A Dialogue between Cloris and Doris.
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You have forgot then, Doris, your protest?No, I have not my Cloris, 'tis confest.
But yet I saw you slide a
Garland neatly tide
Into Urania's hand; Let it suffice,
Though love be blind, Lovers have many eyes.
Will you appear so strangely full of passion?
I've cause to fear dissembled Love's in Fashion.
Then why did you, I pray,
With Strephon Sport and Play?
You Kiss'd and Danc'd till day was past its prime,
And all the while my Heart did beat the Time.
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May I not dance, or harmlesly be kist?
Do.—
So I may chance give Garlands, if I list.
Clo.—
But when you are so free,
Me thinks you steal from me
For every Lover, will this Text approve
There's Charity in all things, but in Love?
Do.—
That day the storm fell to be true you swore.
Clo.—
But when the Sun did shine, you vow'd much more.
Do.—
Those constant vows I made,
Were by your self betray'd;
For I am taught to know, it is my due
To be no faithfuller in Love than you.
Chorus.
Then jealousies be gone, and keep our sheep,Lest that the Wolfe should make their number Small;
But of our Loves our Loves no thing Command shall keep,
But Cloris will, and Cloris will is all.
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