| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | Phillis Knotting | | By Sir Charles Sedley (1639–1701) |
| | | ‘HEARS not my Phillis how the birds | |
| Their feathered mates salute? | |
| They tell their passion in their words: | |
| Must I alone be mute?’ | |
| Phillis, without frown or smile, | 5 |
| Sat and knotted all the while. | |
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| ‘The god of love in thy bright eyes, | |
| Does like a tyrant reign; | |
| But in thy heart a child he lies | |
| Without his dart or flame.’ | 10 |
| Phillis, without frown or smile, | |
| Sat and knotted all the while. | |
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| ‘So many months in silence past, | |
| And yet in raging love, | |
| Might well deserve one word at last | 15 |
| My passion should approve.’ | |
| Phillis, without frown or smile, | |
| Sat and knotted all the while. | |
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| ‘Must then your faithful swain expire | |
| And not one look obtain, | 20 |
| Which he to soothe his fond desire | |
| Might pleasingly explain?’ | |
| Phillis, without frown or smile, | |
| Sat and knotted all the while! | | | | |
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