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 POEMS & SONNETS OF SUNDRY OTHER NOBLEMEN AND GENTLEMEN.

THE AUTHOR OF THIS POEM, S[AMUEL]. D[ANIEL].

Go, wailing verse! the infant of my love— MINERVA-like, brought forth without a mother— That bears the image of the cares I prove; Witness your father's grief exceeds all other.

Sigh out a story of her cruel deeds, With interrupted accents of despair: A monument that whosoever reads, May justly praise and blame my loveless Fair.

Say! her disdain hath dried up my blood, And starvèd you, in succours still denying. Press to her eyes! importune me some good! Waken her sleeping cruelty with crying! Knock at her hard heart! Say! I perish for her! And fear this deed will make the world abhor her.