William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.
To One Persuading a Lady to MarriageKatherine Philips (Orinda) (16321664)
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And what you do aver
To others courtship may appear,
’Tis sacrilege to her.
She is a public deity;
And were ’t not very odd
She should dispose herself to be
A petty household god?
And bid the world adieu,
That so he may his beams confine
In compliment to you:
But if of that you do despair,
Think how you did amiss
To strive to fix her beams which are
More bright and large than his.