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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.

The Lady Who Offers Her Looking-glass to Venus

Matthew Prior (1664–1721)

VENUS, take my votive glass:

Since I am not what I was;

What from this day I shall be,

Venus, let me never see.