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Book: The Delights of the Muses

  • An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife
    Peace, good reader, do not weep;
    Peace, the lovers are asleep.
    16 lines, 5 comments
  • Music's Duel
    Now westward Sol had spent the richest beams
    Of noon's high glory, when, hard by the streams
    168 lines, 1 comment
  • Upon Ford's Two Tragedies
    \Love's Sacrifice, and the Broken Heart.\
    Thou cheat'st us, Ford, mak'st one seem two by art ;
    3 lines
  • On Marriage
    I would be married, but I'd have no wife ;
    I would be married to a single life.
    2 lines, 6 comments

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