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SONG. To Lerinda.

1 CEase, Dear Lerinda, cease admiring
2 Why Crouds and Noise I disapprove;
3 What e'er I see abroad is tiring;
4 O let us to some Cell remove;
5 Where all alone our selves enjoying,
6 Enrich'd with Innocence and Peace,
7 On noblest Themes our Thoughts employing,
8 Let us our inward Joys increase:
9 And still the happy Taste pursuing,
10 Raise our Love and Friendship higher,
11 And thus the sacred Flames renewing,
12 In Extasies of Bliss expire.
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Title (in Source Edition): SONG. To Lerinda.
Author: Lady Mary Chudleigh
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Genres: song

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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. 31-32. [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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  • Alexander, Laura. The forbidden space in Mary, Lady Chudleigh's Song: to Lerinda (1703). Renascence 68(2) (2016): 115-125. Print.