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First Line: Cupid, in myra's fair bewitching eyes
Last Line: Both head and feather all thy shafts with fear?
Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord


Cupid, in Myra's fair bewitching eyes,
Where beauty shows the miracles of pleasure,
When thou lay'st bound for honor's sacrifice,
Sworn to thy hate, equality and measure,

With open hand thou offered'st me her heart,
Thy bow and arrows, if I would conspire,
To ruin honor, with whose frozen art
She tyrannized thy kingdom of desire.

I, glad to dwell and reign in such perfections,
Gave thee my reason, memory, and sense,
In them to work thy mystical reflections
Against which nature can have no defense;
And wilt thou now to nourish my despair
Both head and feather all thy shafts with fear?





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