To Lucasta: Going Beyond the Seas, st. 1.
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“Love, then unstinted, Love did sip,
And cherries plucked fresh from the lip”
Love Made in the First Age: To Chloris (l. 13–18).
Kontext: Love, then unstinted, Love did sip,
And cherries plucked fresh from the lip;
On cheeks and roses free he fed;
Lasses like autumn plums did drop,
And lads indifferently did crop
A flower and a maidenhead.
“I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honor more.”
To Lucasta: Going to the Wars, st. 3.
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Kontext: Yet this inconstancy is such
As you too shall adore;
I could not love thee, dear, so much,
Loved I not honor more.
“When flowing cups pass swiftly round
With no allaying Thames.”
To Althea: From Prison, st. 2. Compare: "A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't", William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act ii, Scene 1.
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To Lucasta: Going to the Wars, st. 1.
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To Amarantha, That She Would Dishevel Her Hair (l. 21–24).
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“Fishes that tipple in the deep,
Know no such liberty.”
To Althea: From Prison, st. 2.
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To Althea: From Prison, st. 1.
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Orpheus to Beasts. Compare: "There is music in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres", Thomas Browne, Religio Medici, Part ii, Section ix; "The mind, the music breathing from her face", Lord Byron, Bride of Abydos (1813), canto i, stanza 6.
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La Bella Bona Roba (l. 13–15).
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To Lucasta: Going to the Wars, st. 3.
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