<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=428971" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To One Persuading A Lady To Marriage</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Forbear, bold youth; all 's heaven here,<br> And what you do aver<br>To others courtship may appear,<br> 'Tis sacrilege to her.<br>She is a public deity;<br> And were 't not very odd<br>She should dispose herself to be<br> A petty household god? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">First make the sun in private shine<br> And bid the world adieu,<br>That so he may his beams confine<br> In compliment to you:<br>But if of that you do despair,<br> Think how you did amiss<br>To strive to fix her beams which are<br> More bright and large than his.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Katherine+Philips">Katherine Philips</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=428971" data-title="To One Persuading A Lady To Marriage de Katherine Philips" data-description="Forbear, bold youth; all 's heaven here, And what you do aver To others courtship may appear, 'Tis sacrilege to her. She is a public deity; And were 't not very odd She should dispose herself to be A petty household god? First make the sun i..."></div> </div> </div>

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