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These threatening dangers to remove,
Make me believe at least you love;
Dissemble well, and by that art,
Preserve and governe well my hart:
But if youll learne a nobler way
To keepe your empire from decay,
And so for ever fix your throne,
Be kind, but kind to me alone.

 

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XIV.

Damon.

 

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Blushing Aurora lead the way,
Before the monarke of the day,
When wretched Damon had espide
His Phillis by a river side;
And sighing to himselfe he said,
Oh I lovely, yet, oh, cruel I maid;