Answer to CLOE Jealous, in the same Stile. The AUTHOR sick. Matthew Prior 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. T075639 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. 95-96. [42],506,[6]p.: ill.; 2°.

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Answer to CLOE Jealous , in the same Stile . The AUTHOR sick . I. Yes , fairest Proof of Beauty's Pow'r , Dear Idol of My panting Heart , Nature points This my fatal Hour : And I have liv'd ; and We must part . II . While now I take my last Adieu , Heave Thou no Sigh , nor shed a Tear ; Lest yet my half-clos'd Eye may view On Earth an Object worth it's Care . III . From Jealousy's tormenting Strife For ever be Thy Bosom free'd : That nothing may disturb Thy Life , Content I hasten to the Dead . IV . Yet when some better-fated Youth Shall with his am'rous Parly move Thee ; Reflect One Moment on His Truth , Who dying Thus , persists to love Thee .