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

Song: ‘Phillis, men say that all my vows’

Sir Charles Sedley (1639–1701)

PHILLIS, men say that all my vows

Are to thy fortune paid:

Alas! my heart he little knows

Who thinks my love a trade.

Were I of all these woods the lord,

One berry from thy hand

More real pleasure would afford

Than all my large command.

My humble love has learned to live

On what the nicest maid,

Without a conscious blush, may give

Beneath the myrtle shade.