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KATHERINE PHILIPS ('ORINDA')

397. To One persuading a Lady to Marriage

"CORBEAR, bold youth ; all 's heaven here,

    • And what you do aver

To others courtship may appear,

'Tis sacrilege to her. She is a public deity ;

And were't not very odd She should dispose herself to be

A petty household god ?

First make the sun in private shine

And bid the world adieu, That so he may his beams confine

In compliment to you : But if of that you do despair,

Think how you did amiss To strive to fix her beams which are

More bright and large than his.

JOHN DRYDEN 3p8. Ode

To the Pious Memory of the accomplished young lady, Mrs. Anne KiHigrevj, excellent in the two sister arts of Poesy and Painting

nTHOU youngest virgin-daughter of the skies,

  • Made in the last promotion of the blest ;

Whose palms, new pluck'd from Paradise, In spreading branches more sublimely rise,

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