SONG. Lady Mary Chudleigh Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T97275 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.

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