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The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 2 - With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by John Dryden
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Away with your sheephooks, and take to your arms;
Then laurels and myrtles your brows shall adorn,
When Pan, and his son, and fair Syrinx return.

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FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 44: Intended to apply to the banishment of King James and his
wife, Mary of Este.]

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VI.

A SONG.


1 Fair, sweet, and young, receive a prize
Reserved for your victorious eyes:
From crowds, whom at your feet you see,
O pity, and distinguish me!
As I from thousand beauties more
Distinguish you, and only you adore.

2 Your face for conquest was design'd,
Your every motion charms my mind;
Angels, when you your silence break,
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