et ac Pervigilum Veneris OED Editor
My Love was fickle once and changing, Nor e er would settle in my Heart; From Beauty still to Beauty ranging, In ev ry Face I found a Dart. Twas first a Charming Shape enslav d me; An Eye then gave the fatal Stroke: Till by her Wit Corinna sav d me, And all my former Fetters broke. But now a long and lasting Anguish For Belvidera I endure; Hourly I Sign and hourly Languish, Nor hope to find the wonted Cure. For here the false unconstant Lover, After a thousand Beauties shown; Does new surprising Charms discover, And finds Variety in One. And Changing and & and Nor e er would ever would e er In my Heart on my Heart I found a Dart I T The fatal Stroke c. 1484 1558 synaeresis
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