<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348027" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To the Fair Clarinda</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fair lovely Maid, or if that Title be<br>Too weak, too Feminine for Nobler thee,<br>Permit a Name that more Approaches Truth:<br>And let me call thee, Lovely Charming Youth.<br>This last will justifie my soft complaint,<br>While that may serve to lessen my constraint;<br>And without Blushes I the Youth persue,<br>When so much beauteous Woman is in view.<br>Against thy Charms we struggle but in vain<br>With thy deluding Form thou giv'st us pain,<br>While the bright Nymph betrays us to the Swain.<br>In pity to our Sex sure thou wer't sent,<br>That we might Love, and yet be Innocent:<br>For sure no Crime with thee we can commit;<br>Or if we shou'd - thy Form excuses it.<br>For who, that gathers fairest Flowers believes<br>A Snake lies hid beneath the Fragrant Leaves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though beauteous Wonder of a different kind,<br>Soft Cloris with the dear Alexis join'd;<br>When e'er the Manly part of thee, wou'd plead<br>Though tempts us with the Image of the Maid,<br>While we the noblest Passions do extend<br>The Love to Hermes, Aphrodite the Friend.v</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Aphra+Behn">Aphra Behn</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=348027" data-title="To the Fair Clarinda de Aphra Behn" data-description="Fair lovely Maid, or if that Title be Too weak, too Feminine for Nobler thee, Permit a Name that more Approaches Truth: And let me call thee, Lovely Charming Youth. This last will justifie my soft complaint, While that may serve to lessen my const..."></div> </div> </div>

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