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A SONG.
1 PHylaster's grown unkind,
2 The lovely perjur'd Youth,
3 Tho' by sacred Oaths confind;
4 Has now lost all his Truth.
[Page 41]5 He swore ten thousand times,
6 By all the Powers above,
7 Wish'd they would revenge his Crimes,
8 If he was false to Love.
9 Yet, spite of all he's gone,
10 Fled my once dear Imbrace;
11 And now I must be undone,
12 For some new Shape or Face.
13 Ye heedless Nymphs beware,
14 How you receive my Swain,
15 Ah! believe not tho' he Swear,
16 For he will change again.
17 The sullen part of Love,
18 Doth only Torture us,
19 When the Men please to remove,
20 They make some new Address.
21 With Passion like soft Truths,
22 They court fresh gentle scorn;
23 We must wait till other Youths,
24 Do want to be forsworn.
About this text
Author: Sarah Fyge Egerton
Themes:
love
Genres:
song; lyric
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Egerton, Sarah Fyge, 1668-1723. Poems on Several Occasions, Together with a Pastoral. By Mrs. S. F. [poems only] London: printed, and are to be sold by J. Nutt, near Stationers-Hall, 1703, pp. 40-41. [20],117,[3],15,[1]p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T125148) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [280 e.4058].)
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- The Emulation. ()
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- Euterpe: The Lyrick Muse, On the Death of John Dryden, Esq; An ODE. ()
- The Extacy. ()
- The Fatality. ()
- The Fate. ()
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- The Gratitude. ()
- The Invocation. ()
- The Liberty. ()
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- An occasional Copy, in Answer to Mr. Joshua Barns, Extempore. ()
- An Ode on the Death of Mr. Dryden. ()
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- On my leaving London, June the 29. ()
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- On the Author of Religion by Reason, or the Light of Nature a Guide to Divine Truth. ()
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- On the Honourable Robert Boyl's, Notion of Nature. ()
- The Platonick. ()
- The Power of Love. ()
- The Repulse to Alcander. ()
- The Retreat. ()
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- Terpsichore: A Lyrick Muse, On the Death of John Dryden, Esq; extempore. ()
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- To Clarona drawing Alexis's Picture and presenting it to me. ()
- To Marcella. ()
- To Marina. ()
- To Mr. Norris, on his Idea of Happiness. ()
- To Mr. Yalden, on his Temple of Fame, Extempore. ()
- To my much valu'd Friend Moneses. ()
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- To One who said I must not Love. ()
- To Orabella, Marry'd to an old Man. ()
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- To the Lady Cambell, with a Female Advocate. ()
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- The Vision. ()