To CYNTHIA. Thomas D'Urfey 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. R17889 D'Urfey, Thomas, 1653-1723. New poems, consisting of satyrs, elegies, and odes together with a choice collection of the newest court songs set to musick by the best masters of the age / all written by Mr. D'Urfey. London Printed for J. Bullord ... and A. Roper ... 1690 pp. 59-60. [16],207,[1]p.

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To CYNTHIA . I. IF Beauty by Enjoyment can Reward a Love that's true , To bless our Patience or our Pain , All I deserve from you . II . But oh , to Love too well's a Curse Of such a strange degree , Were my Fidelity far worse Much happier should I be . III . Sad Recompence , relentless Fate To faithful Love does give ; You'r pleas'd in being obstinate , Whilst I in Tortures live . III . Like wretches gull'd to Foreign Shores , I cruelly am serv'd , Instead of Loves dear promis'd Stores Am made a Slave and starv'd