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[Page 29]1 Why Damon, why, why, why so pressing?
2 The Heart you beg's not worth possessing:
3 Each Look, each Word, each Smile's affected,
4 And inward Charms are quite neglected:
5 Then scorn her, scorn her, foolish Swain,
6 And sigh no more, no more in vain.
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7 Beauty's worthless, fading, flying;
8 Who would for Trifles think of dying?
9 Who for a Face, a Shape, wou'd languish,
10 And tell the Brooks, and Groves his Anguish,
11 Till she, till she thinks fit to prize him,
12 And all, and all beside despise him?
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13 Fix, fix you Thoughts on what's inviting,
14 On what will never bear the slighting:
15 Wit and Virtue claim your Duty,
16 They're much more worth than Gold and Beauty:
17 To them, to them, your Heart resign,
18 And you'll no more, no more repine.
Source edition
Chudleigh, Mary Lee, 1656-1710. Poems on several occasions. Together with the Song of the three children paraphras'd. By the Lady Chudleigh. London: Printed by W.B. for Bernard Lintott at the Middle Temple Gate in Fleetstreet, 1703, pp. 28-29. [16],125,[17],73,[1]p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T97275) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [(OC) 280 j.452].)
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Other works by Lady Mary Chudleigh
- The Choice. A Dialogue between Emilia and Marissa. ()
- A Dialogue between Alexis and Astrea. ()
- A Dialogue between Virgil and Mævius. ()
- The Elevation. ()
- The Fifteenth Psalm Paraphras'd. ()
- FRIENDSHIP. ()
- The Happy Man. ()
- ICARUS. ()
- The Inquiry. A Dialogue between Cleanthe and Marissa. ()
- The Observation. ()
- The Offering. ()
- On the Death of his Highness the Duke of Glocester. ()
- On the Death of my dear Daughter Eliza Maria Chudleigh: A Dialogue between Lucinda and Marissa. ()
- On the Death of my Honoured Mother Mrs. Lee: A Dialogue between Lucinda and Marissa. ()
- On the Vanities of this Life: A Pindarick Ode. ()
- One of Lucian's Dialogues of the Dead Paraphras'd. ()
- A Pindarick Ode. ()
- The Resolution. ()
- The Resolve. ()
- Solitude. ()
- THE SONG OF THE Three Children PARAPHRAS'D. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. ()
- SONG. To Lerinda. ()
- To Almystrea. ()
- To Clorissa. ()
- To Eugenia. ()
- To Mr. Dryden, on his excellent Translation of Virgil. ()
- To the Ladies. ()
- To the Learn'd and Ingenious Dr. Musgrave of Exeter. ()
- To the QUEEN's most Excellent MAJESTY. ()
- To the QUEEN's most Excellent MAJESTY. ()
- The Wish. ()