<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=580041" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To a Lady who (though Married) could not endure Love should be made to any but her Self.</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Say, jealous <br>Phillida<br>, what Humor's this? <br>No Shepherd can bestow a Smile or Kiss <br>On any Nymph, but you must pout and vex: <br>Would you Monopolize the Masc'line Sex? <br>Is not the sprightly <br>Damon's<br>heart Your Prize, <br>Securely bound by <br>Hymen's<br>(1) Sacred ties? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Strephon <br>and <br>Colon<br>, your Adorers are, <br>And bashful <br>Cleon<br>does your Fetters wear: <br>Young <br>Coridon<br>did by your Beauty fall; <br>Insatiate Nymph! would you engross them All? <br>Who doth not smile, to see what Pains you take <br>To watch our private Meetings, and to make <br>Our Amours public? and if your list'ning Ear <br>By chance soft Amorous Discourses hear, <br>Then raging Mad: with Jealousy and Pride, <br>You curse the Shepherds, and the Nymphs you chide. <br>But why thus Angry? if we entertain <br>The Heart and Love of some poor humble Swain, <br>Who never his cheap Thoughts so high durst lift, <br>As to present you with so mean a Gift; <br>What wrong have you? why should you break your Rest, <br>If they to us present a <br>Linnet's<br>(2) Nest, <br>A Wreath of Flowers, or a Bunch of Grapes, <br>Filberts, or Strawberries, or the Roots of Rapes?(3) <br>When Lambs and Kids, are daily offered you <br>By the great Swains, that for your favor sue; <br>If any Shepherdess so bold dare be, <br>T'invade thy Right, or proudly Rival thee, <br>Th'had'st Reason for thy Anger; but while we <br>Content with what you slight and scorn can be, <br>Why should you Envy, or disturb our Joys? <br>Let us possess in Peace these little Toys.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ephelia">Ephelia</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=580041" data-title="To a Lady who (though Married) could not endure Love should be made to any but her Self. de Ephelia" data-description="Say, jealous Phillida , what Humor's this? No Shepherd can bestow a Smile or Kiss On any Nymph, but you must pout and vex: Would you Monopolize the Masc'line Sex? Is not the sprightly Damon's heart Your Prize, Securely bound by Hymen's (1)..."></div> </div> </div>

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