Matthew Prior Poems

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41.
Songs Set To Music: 5. Set By Mr. De Fesch

Let perjured fair Amynta know
What for her sake I undergo;
Tell her, for her how I sustain
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Say, dearest Villiers, poor departed friend,
(Since fleeting life thus suddenly must end)
Say, what did all thy busy hopes avail,
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43.
The Conversation. A Tale

It always has been a thought discreet
To know the company you meet;
And sure there may be secret danger
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Try then, O man, the moments to deceive
That from the womb attend thee to the grave:
For wearied Nature find some apter scheme;
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45.
The Ladle. A Tale

To see who were their friends or foes,
And how our actions fell or rose;
That since they gave things their beginning,
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46.
The Lady Who Offers Her Looking-Glass To Venus

47.
The Remedy Worse Than The Disease

I sent for Ratcliffe, was so ill,
That other doctors gave me over,
He felt my pulse, prescribed his pill,
And I was likely to recover.
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48.
Love Disarmed

Beneath a Myrtle's verdant Shade
As Cloe half asleep was laid,
Cupid perch'd lightly on Her Breast,
And in That Heav'n desir'd to rest:
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49.
Cupid Mistaken

As after noon, one summer's day,
Venus stood bathing in a river;
Cupid a-shooting went that way,
New strung his bow, new fill'd his quiver.
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50.
Song

THE merchant, to secure his treasure,
   Conveys it in a borrow'd name:
Euphelia serves to grace my measure;
   But Chloe is my real flame.
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