| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | To One Persuading a Lady to Marriage | | By Katherine Philips (‘Orinda’) (1632–1664) |
| | | FORBEAR, bold youth; all’s heaven here, | |
| And what you do aver | |
| To others courtship may appear, | |
| ’Tis sacrilege to her. | |
| She is a public deity; | 5 |
| And were ’t not very odd | |
| She should dispose herself 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 compliment to you: | |
| 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 his. | | | | |
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