Love
To the same Loving Lady, telling me, abuse was an ill requital for sost Passion, but she thank'd her Stars, she was but in Jest
From Amasia (1700), Vol. III
Such Jugling Tricks I cannot understand;
You hold, unhurt, Coals burning in your Hand.
Long may you sport in the false Am'rous fit;
Love is a Jest, I ne'er could laugh at yet.
I'm pleas'd to find your wrongs already o'er,
For, should I Wed, I might abuse you more.
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MLA
Hopkins, John. “To the same Loving Lady, telling me, abuse was an ill requital for sost Passion, but she thank'd her Stars, she was but in Jest.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/hopkins_john/118/.
Chicago
Hopkins, John. “To the same Loving Lady, telling me, abuse was an ill requital for sost Passion, but she thank'd her Stars, she was but in Jest.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/hopkins_john/118/.
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