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| Loues Deity |
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| I long to talke with some old Louers ghost [266] |
| who dyd before the God of Loue was borne |
| I cannot thinke that hee who then lou'd most |
| Sunk so lowe as to loue one w.ch did scorne |
| But since this God produc'd a Destiny |
| And that Vice-nature Custome lets it bee |
| I must loue her that loues not mee |
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| Sure they that made him God ment not so much |
| Nor hee in his young Godhead practizd it |
| But when an even flame two hearts did touch, |
| His office was indulgently to fitt |
| Actiues to passiues; correspondency |
| Onely, his Subiect was, It cannot bee |
| Loue, if I loue her who loues not mee |
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| But every moderne God will now extend |
| His vast Prerogatiue as far as Iove |
| To rage, to lust, to write to, to com̄end |
| All is the purlew of the god of Loue |
| Oh were wee wakned by this tyranny |
| To vngod this Child agayne, it could not bee |
| I should loue her who loues not mee |
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| Rebell and Atheist too, why murmure I |
| As though I felt the worst that Loue could doe? |
| Loue might make mee leaue louing, or might trye |
| A deeper plague to make her loue mee too |
| Wch, since shee loues before, I am lothe to see |
| ffalshood is worse then Hate, and that must bee |
| If shee whome I loue should loue mee |