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CLORIS by SIDNEY GODOLPHIN

Poet Analysis

First Line: CLORIS, MAY I UNHAPPY PROVE
Last Line: THEN MAY I NEVER LOVE THEE MORE.
Subject(s): LOVE;

CLORIS, may I unhappy prove
Whenever I do leave to love,
Or if my love be e'er remov'd
Then, Cloris, let me not be lov'd:
I nothing more can imprecate,
But if there be a harder fate,
Cloris, when I to love give o'er
Then may I never love thee more.



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