Love's Kingdom A Pastoral Trage-Comedy |
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Filena's Song, of the commutation of Love's and Death's Darts. In the narrative Style. |
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Filena's Song, of the commutation of Love's and Death's Darts. In the narrative Style.
Love and Death o'th' way once meeting,Having past a friendly greeting:
Sleep their weary Eye-lids closing,
Lay them down themselves reposing.
Love whom divers cares molested,
Could not sleep, but while Death rested,
All in haste away he postes him,
But his haste full dearly costs him:
For it chanc't that going to sleeping
Both did give their darts in keeping
Unto Night, who Errors mother,
Blindly knowing not one from t'other,
Gave Love Death's, and ne're perceiv'd it,
Whilst as blindely Love receiv'd it;
Since which time their Darts confounding,
Love now kills instead of wounding:
Death our hearts with sweetness filling,
Gently wounds instead of killing.
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