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SONG.

Damon.
1 CEase, fair Calistris, cease disdaining;
2 'Tis time to leave that useless Art:
3 Your Shepherd's weary of complaining;
4 Be kind, or he'll resume his Heart.
Calistris.
5 Damon, be gone; I hate complying;
6 Go court some fond, believing Maid:
7 I take more Pleasure in denying,
8 Than in the Conquests I have made.
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Damon.
9 Why, cruel Nymph, why, why so slighting?
10 Is this the Treatment I must have?
11 Were not your Beauty so inviting,
12 I wou'd no longer be your Slave.
Calistris.
13 Damon, begon, I hate complying,
14 Your Heart's not worth the having;
15 Were there Ten thousand Shepherds dying,
16 Not one were worth the saving.

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Title (in Source Edition): SONG.
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. 105-106. [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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