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HINC LACHRIMAE; OR THE AUTHOR TO AURORA: 31 by WILLIAM BOSWORTH

First Line: WHAT THOUGH I HAVE TRANSGREST AGAINST THY WILL?
Last Line: OF CONSTANT LOVE, WE OTHER BLESSINGS MISS.
Subject(s): UNFAITHFULNESS; INFIDELITY; ADULTERY; INCONSTANCY;

What though I have transgrest against thy will?
And run as idle ways as many other?
I am not minded to pursue them still,
If thou no more wilt thy affections smother;
And know, Azile, that the chiefest cause
Of all mishaps, sprung first from thy unkindness,
It is a statute made in Cupid's laws,
@3Neglected lovers spend their days in blindness:@1
And so it is, when once depriv'd the bliss
Of constant love, we other blessings miss.



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