| J. C. Squire, ed. A Book of Women’s Verse. 1921. | | | | An Answer to another persuading a Lady to Marriage | | By Katherine Philips (‘Orinda’) (1631–1664) |
| | | FORBEAR, bold youth, all’s Heaven here, | |
| And what you do aver, | |
| To others, courtship may appear, | |
| ’Tis sacriledge to her. | |
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| She is a publick deity, | 5 |
| And were’t not very odd | |
| She should depose her self to be | |
| A petty household god? | |
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| First make the sun in private shine, | |
| And bid the world adieu, | 10 |
| That so he may his beams confine | |
| In complement to you. | |
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| But if of that you do despair, | |
| Think how you did amiss, | |
| To strive to fix her beams which are | 15 |
| More bright and large than this. | | | | |
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