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John Suckling · Barroco

Lutea Allison

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Though you, Diana-like, have liv'd still chaste,

Yet must you not (fair) die a maid at last:

The roses on your cheeks were never made

To bless the eye alone, and so to fade;

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To please no other sense than that of seeing:

You were not made to look on, though that be

A bliss too great for poor mortality:

In that alone those rarer parts you have,

To better uses sure wise nature gave10

Than that you put them to; to love, to wed,

For Hymen's rights, and for the marriage-bed

You were ordain'd, and not to lie alone;

One is no number, till that two be one.

To keep a maidenhead but till fifteen,15

Is worse than murder, and a greater sin

Than to have lost it in the lawful sheets

With one that should want skill to reap those sweets:

But not to lose 't at all—by Venus, this,

And by her son, inexpiable is;20

And should each female guilty be o' th' crime,

The world would have its end before its time.

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John Suckling
Título
Lutea Allison
Lengua
inglés
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Barroco
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John Suckling, «Lutea Allison», Poetósfera, poetosfera.com/p/ws-en-lutea-allison--john-suckling-8a8593.html

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