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What I speak, my fair Chloe, and what I write, shows
The difference there is betwixt Nature and Art:
I court others in verse, but I love thee in prose;
And they have my whimsies, but th...
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Matthew Prior (1664-1721), British poet. Answer to Cloe Jealous (l. 13-16). . .
New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, e...
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''A diff'rent cause, says Parson Sly,
The same effect may give:
Poor Lubin fears, that he shall die;
His wife, that he may live.''
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Matthew Prior (1664-1721), British poet. A Reasonable Affliction (l. 5-8). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, e...
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