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<NAME>Mona Logarbo</NAME>
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<HEAD>The True Lover's Paradice.</HEAD>
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<L><HI><HI>Cupid</HI> with his Golden Dart</HI></L>
<L><HI>Pierc'd this Young&s;ter to the Heart;</HI></L>
<L><HI>He counts Love a plea&s;ant pain,</HI></L>
<L><HI>And his Freedom doth di&s;dain,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Let other Lovers pattern take</HI></L>
<L><HI>By him who'll Dye for <HI>Celia's</HI> &s;ake,</HI></L>
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<OPENER>To an Excellent New Play-Hou&s;e Tune: Or, <HI>Ah how Plea&s;ant are the Charms of Love.</HI></OPENER>
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<L>AH! how plea&s;ant are the Charms of Love,</L>
<L>which like Streams are always flowing?</L>
<L>Ah! how plea&s;ant are the Charms of Love,</L>
<L>which like Streams are always flowing?</L>
<L>So my Pa&s;&s;ion's &s;till a growing,</L>
<L>nothing but my <HI>Celia</HI>'s eyes can move,</L>
<L>So my Pa&s;&s;ion's &s;til a growing,</L>
<L>perfect and immortal are the joys above.</L>
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<L>When <HI>Celia</HI> did my heart &s;urprize,</L>
<L>every Sinew felt a plea&s;ure:</L>
<L>Each kind look from her obliging eyes</L>
<L>fill'd my heart with endle&s;s Trea&s;ure:</L>
<L>Love, O Love! is the only Trea&s;ure,</L>
<L>joy and ble&s;&s;ing from the grave and wi&s;e,</L>
<L>Give me Love, and Life, and Plea&s;ure,</L>
<L>I &s;hall never envy what the World enjoys.</L>
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<L>In Love I chiefly now delight,</L>
<L>and Doting grown in me on wonder,</L>
<L>The Darts which did me once affright,</L>
<L>and dread me far wor&s;e than Thunder,</L>
<L>Now are welcome unto me,</L>
<L>increa&s;ing &s;till my warm de&s;ire:</L>
<L><HI>Celia's</HI> Captive I mu&s;t be,</L>
<L>'tis &s;he and none but &s;he, that feeds my fire.</L>
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<L>'Tis &s;he that breeds my hearts content,</L>
<L>I am like one dead without her,</L>
<L>If from me once &s;he doth ab&s;ent,</L>
<L>&s;he carries all joys about her:</L>
<L>With her looks &s;he kills or &s;aves me,</L>
<L>and breeds my comfort, or my grief,</L>
<L>In &s;ubjection &s;he en&s;laves me,</L>
<L><HI>Celia</HI> thou mo&s;t cunningly ha&s;t plaid the Thief.</L>
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<L>I now take plea&s;ure in my Chains,</L>
<L>in my Fetters I delight me,</L>
<L>Yet &s;ure to feel unce&s;&s;ant pains,</L>
<L>if my <HI>Celia</HI> once doth &s;light me:</L>
<L>On my heart is her impre&s;&s;ion,</L>
<L>adding to my pa&s;&s;ion night and day,</L>
<L>I from Love make no digre&s;&s;ion,</L>
<L><HI>Celia</HI> at thy feet my deare&s;t Life I'll lay.</L>
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<L>Oh was ever &s;uch a plea&s;ant wound</L>
<L>as my tender heart hath pierced?</L>
<L>Or ever &s;uch a plea&s;ing found:</L>
<L>or any in love better ver&s;ed;</L>
<L>Freedom now &s;hall be de&s;pi&s;ed,</L>
<L>and <HI>Celia</HI> I am only thine;</L>
<L>His &s;ences &s;ure mu&s;t be di&s;gui&s;ed</L>
<L>that in his heart de&s;ires to be a Libertine.</L>
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<L><HI>Cupid</HI> I will only thee adore,</L>
<L>and account it clear my Duty,</L>
<L>My rea&s;on I do &s;hew therefore,</L>
<L>'tis I am compell'd by Beauty</L>
<L>Thy faire&s;t eyes have so encharm'd me,</L>
<L>thy &s;elf love I mu&s;t deny,</L>
<L>And Love's Fire's &s;o &s;trangely warm'd me,</L>
<L><HI>Celia</HI> I mu&s;t freely for thy Love can dye.</L>
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<L>Farewell all tho&s;e plea&s;ant Ioys</L>
<L>wherein Free-men are delighted;</L>
<L>For they to me appear as Toys,</L>
<L>by me they ever &s;hall be &s;lighted:</L>
<L>Love's the thing that doth po&s;&s;e&s;s me,</L>
<L>his Riches fain I would enjoy,</L>
<L>With my <HI>Celia, Cupid</HI> ble&s;s me,</L>
<L>nothing then of Cro&s;&s;es can my Love annoy.</L>
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<P><HI>Printed for</HI> I. Conyers <HI>at the Black Raven in</HI> Holborn.</P>
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