The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04 by John Dryden
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I know you false, yet in your snares I fall;
You grant me nothing, and I grant you all. _Lyndar._ I would grant all; but I must curb my will, Because I love to keep you jealous still. In your suspicion I your passion find; But I will take a time to cure your mind. _Halyma._ O, madam, the new king is drawing near! _Lyndar._ Haste quickly hence, lest he should find you here! _Abdelm._ How much more wretched than I came, I go! I more my weakness and your falsehood know; And now must leave you with my greatest foe! [_Exit_ ABDELM. _Lyndar._ Go!--How I love thee heaven can only tell: And yet I love thee, for a subject, well.-- Yet whatsoever charms a crown can bring, A subject's greater than a little king. I will attend till time this throne secure; And, when I climb, my footing shall be sure.-- [_Music without._ Music! and, I believe, addressed to me. SONG. I. _Wherever I am, and whatever I do, My Phyllis is still in my mind; |
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