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With morning looks; and they when he does She not the robber knows, yet feels the stealth;

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The world thinks now, is in her sickness seen, And that her noble influence is decay'd.

LV.

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And the records fo worn of her firft law,
That men, with art's hard fhifts, read what is
Because your beauty many never saw,

The text by which your mind is understood.
LVI.

And I with the apoftate world should grow,
From fov'reign Nature, a revolted flave,
But that my lucky wounds brought me to know,
How with their cure my ficker mind to fave.
LVII.

A mind ftill dwelling idly in mine eyes,

LXVIT.

With bashful looks the fought him to retire; Least the sharp air fhould his new health in And as fhe fpake, fhe faw her rev'rend fire [vače, Approach to feek her in her usual fhade.

LXVIII.

To whom with filial homage she does how:
The Duke did firft at diftant duty stand,
But foon embrac'd his knees; whilft he more low
Does bend to him, and then reach'd Birtha's
hand.

LXIX.

Her face, o'ercaft with thought, does foon betray
Th' affembled fpirits, which his eyes detec

Where it from outward pomp could ne'er ab- By her pale look, as by the milky way

ftain;

But even in beauty, coft of courts did prize, And nature, unaffifted, thought too plain.

LVIII.

Yet by your beauty now reform'd, I find
All other only current by false light;
Or but vain vifions of a fev'rifh mind;

Too flight to ftand the test of waking fight.

LIX.

And for my healthful mind (difeas'd before) My love I pay; a gift you may disdain, Since love to you, men give not, but restore; As rivers to the fea pay back the rain.

LX.

Yet eastern kings, who, all by birth possess, Take gifts, as gifts, from vaffals of the crown; So think in love, your property not lefs,

By my kind giving what was firft your own.

LXI.

Lifted with love, thus he with lover's grace,
And love's wild wonder, fpake; and he was
rais'd

So much with rev'rence of this learned place,
That still he fear'd to injure all he prais'd.

LXII.

And the in love unpractis'd and unread, (But for fome hints her miftrefs, nature, taught) Had it, till now, like grief with filence fed;

For love and grief are nourish'd best with thought.

LXIII.

But this clofs diet, Love endures not long;
He must in fighs, or fpeech, take air abroad;
And thus, with his interpreter, her tongue,
He ventures forth, though like a firanger aw'd.

LXIV.

She said, those virtues now the highly needs,
Which he fo artfully in her does praise,
To check (fince vanity on praises feeds)
That pride which his authentic words may raife.

LXV.

That if her pray'rs, or care, did ought restore Of abfent health, in his bemoan'd distress; She beg'd, he would approve her duty more, And fo commend her feeble virtue lefs.

LXVI.

That the the payment he of love would make
Lefs understood, then yet the debt she knew;
But coins unknown, fufpicioufly we take,
And debts, till manifeft, are never due.

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