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MELANDER SUPPOS'D TO LOVE SUSAN, BUT DID LOVE ANN, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who doth presume my mistress's name to scan
Last Line: Must I not however love susan? Echo. Ann.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord
Subject(s): Love


WHO doth presume my mistress's name to scan,
Goes about more than any way he can,
Since all men think that it is Susan. Echo. Ann.

What sayst? Then tell who is as white as swan,
While others set by her are pale and wan;
Then, Echo, speak, is it not Susan? Echo. Ann.

Tell, Echo, yet, whose middle's but a span,
Some being gross as bucket, round as pan;
Say, Echo, then, is it not Susan? Echo. Ann.

Say, is she not soft as meal without bran?
Though yet in great haste once from me she ran,
Must I not however love Susan? Echo. Ann.





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