William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.
The LibertineAphra Behn (16401689)
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All sacrificed to my desire,
A thousand beauties have betrayed
That languish in resistless fire:
The untamed heart to hand I brought,
And fix’d the wild and wandering thought.
But both, though false, were well received;
The fair are pleased to give us pain,
And what they wish is soon believed:
And though I talked of wounds and smart,
Love’s pleasure only touched my heart.
I always laughing bore away;
The triumphs without pain or toil,
Without the hell the heaven of joy;
And while I thus at random rove
Despise the fools that whine for love.