Love
A SONG.
NAy! let me alone, protest I'le be gone▪
'Tis a folly to think I…le be subject to One:
Never hope to Co…sine
A Young Gallant to dine,
Like a Sch…lar of Oxford, on naught but the Loyn,
For, after Enjoyment, our Bellies are full;
And the same dish again makes the Appetite dull.
By your Wantoning Art;
Of a Sigh, and a Start,
You endeavour, in vain, to inveigle my heart?
For the Pretty Disguise
Of your Languishing Eyes,
Will never prevail with my Sinews to rise:
And 'twas never the Mode, in an Amorous …
When a Lover has din'd, to perswade him to …
Faith Betty the Jest
Is almost at the best,
Tis only variety makes up the Feast?
For when we've enjoy'd;
And with pleasures are cloy'd?
The vows, that we made to love, ever are …
And you know, pretty Nymph, it was ever …
That a meal should be made of a Relishing …
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Sedley, Charles. “A SONG.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/sedley/88/.
Chicago
Sedley, Charles. “A SONG.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/sedley/88/.
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