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48.
Yet when her solitude he did invade,
Shame (which in Maids is unexperienc'd fear)
Taught her to wish Night's help to make more shade,
That Love (which Maids think guilt) might not appear.
Yet when her solitude he did invade,
Shame (which in Maids is unexperienc'd fear)
Taught her to wish Night's help to make more shade,
That Love (which Maids think guilt) might not appear.
49.
And she had fled him now, but that he came
So like an aw'd, and conquer'd Enemy,
That he did seem offenceless, as her shame;
As if he but advanc'd for leave to flie.
And she had fled him now, but that he came
So like an aw'd, and conquer'd Enemy,
That he did seem offenceless, as her shame;
As if he but advanc'd for leave to flie.
50.
First with a longing Sea-mans look he gaz'd,
Who would ken Land, when Seas would him devour;
Or like a fearfull Scout, who stands amaz'd
To view the Foe, and multiplies their pow'r.
First with a longing Sea-mans look he gaz'd,
Who would ken Land, when Seas would him devour;
Or like a fearfull Scout, who stands amaz'd
To view the Foe, and multiplies their pow'r.
51.
Then all her knowledge which her Father had
He dreams in her, through purer Organs wrought;
Whose Soul (since there more delicately clad)
By lesser weight, more active was in thought.
Then all her knowledge which her Father had
He dreams in her, through purer Organs wrought;
Whose Soul (since there more delicately clad)
By lesser weight, more active was in thought.
52.
And to that Soul thus spake, with trembling voice,
The world will-be (O thou, the whole world's Maid!)
Since now 'tis old enough to make wise choice,
Taught by thy mind, and by thy beauty sway'd.
And to that Soul thus spake, with trembling voice,
The world will-be (O thou, the whole world's Maid!)
Since now 'tis old enough to make wise choice,
Taught by thy mind, and by thy beauty sway'd.
53.
And I a needless part of it, unless
You'd think me for the whole a Delegate,
To treat, for what they want of your excess,
Virtue to serve the universal State.
And I a needless part of it, unless
You'd think me for the whole a Delegate,
To treat, for what they want of your excess,
Virtue to serve the universal State.
54.
Nature (our first example) and our Queen,
Whose Court this is, and you her Minion Maid,
The World, thinks now, is in her sickness seen,
And that her noble influence is decay'd.
Nature (our first example) and our Queen,
Whose Court this is, and you her Minion Maid,
The World, thinks now, is in her sickness seen,
And that her noble influence is decay'd.
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