Dryden
Chloe
found Amyntas lying,
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All in tears, upon the plain,
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Sighing to himself, and crying,
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Wretched I, to love in vain!
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Kiss me, dear, before my dying;
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Kiss me once, and ease my pain.
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Sighing to himself, and crying,
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Wretched I, to love in vain!
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Ever scorning, and denying
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To reward your faithful swain.
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Kiss me, dear, before my dying;
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Kiss me once, and ease my pain.
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Ever scorning, and denying
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To reward your faithful swain.---
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Chloe, laughing at his crying,
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Told him, that he loved in vain.
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Kiss me, dear, before my dying;
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Kiss me once, and ease my pain.
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Chloe, laughing at his crying,
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Told him, that he loved in vain;
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But, repenting, and complying,
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When he kissed, she kissed again:
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Kissed him up, before his dying;
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Kissed him up, and eased his pain.
From Marriage a la Mode
I
WHILST Alexis
lay prest
In her Arms he lov’d best,
With his hands round her
neck,
And
his head on her breast,
He
found the fierce pleasure too hasty to stay,
And
his soul in the tempest just flying away.
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When
Caelia saw this;
With
a sigh, and a kiss,
She
cry'd, Oh my dear, I am robb'd of my bliss; '
Tis
unkind to your Love, and unfaithfully done,
To
leave me behind you, and die all alone.
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The youth, though in haste,
And breathing his last,
In pity dy’d slowly, while
she dy'd more fast;
Till at length she cry’d,
Now, my dear, now let us go,
Now die, my Alexis, and I
well die too.
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Thus intranc'd they did lie,
Til1
Alexis did try
To
recover new Breath, that again he might die:
Then
often they di'd; but the more they did so,
The
Nymph dy'd more quick, and the Shepherd more slow.