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CLOE JEALOUS.

I.
1 Forbear to ask Me, why I weep;
2 Vext Cloe to her Shepherd said:
3 'Tis for my Two poor stragling Sheep
4 Perhaps, or for my Squirrel dead.
II.
5 For mind I what You late have writ?
6 Your subtle Questions, and Replies;
7 Emblems, to teach a Female Wit
8 The Ways, where changing Cupid flies.
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III.
9 Your Riddle, purpos'd to rehearse
10 The general Pow'r that Beauty has:
11 But why did no peculiar Verse
12 Describe one Charm of Cloe's Face?
IV.
13 The Glass, which was at Venus' Shrine,
14 With such Mysterious Sorrow laid:
15 The Garland (and You call it Mine)
16 Which show'd how Youth and Beauty fade.
V.
17 Ten thousand Trifles light as These
18 Nor can my Rage, nor Anger move:
19 She shou'd be humble, who wou'd please:
20 And She must suffer, who can love.
VI.
21 When in My Glass I chanc'd to look;
22 Of Venus what did I implore?
23 That ev'ry Grace which thence I took,
24 Shou'd know to charm my Damon more.
VII.
25 Reading Thy Verse; who heeds, said I,
26 If here or there his Glances flew?
27 O free for ever be His Eye,
28 Whose Heart to Me is always true.
VIII.
29 My Bloom indeed, my little Flow'r
30 Of Beauty quickly lost it's Pride:
31 For sever'd from it's Native Bow'r,
32 It on Thy glowing Bosom dy'd.
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IX.
33 Yet car'd I not, what might presage
34 Or withering Wreath, or fleeting Youth:
35 Love I esteem'd more strong than Age,
36 And Time less permanent than Truth.
X.
37 Why then I weep, forbear to know:
38 Fall uncontroll'd my Tears, and free:
39 O Damon, 'tis the only Woe,
40 I ever yet conceal'd from Thee.
XI.
41 The secret Wound with which I bleed
42 Shall lie wrapt up, ev'n in my Herse:
43 But on my Tomb-stone Thou shalt read
44 My Answer to Thy dubious Verse.

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Title (in Source Edition): CLOE JEALOUS.
Author: Matthew Prior
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Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721. Poems on Several Occasions [English poems only]. London: Printed for JACOB TONSON at Shakespear's-Head over against Katharine-Street in the Strand, and JOHN BARBER upon Lambeth-Hill. MDCCXVIII., 1718, pp. 93-95. [42],506,[6]p.: ill.; 2°. (ESTC T075639) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [H 6.8 Art.].)

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