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TO MADAM S---AT THE COURT, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come, prethee, leave the courts
Last Line: Can here procure for thee.
Subject(s): Country Life


Come, prethee, leave the Courts,
And range the Fields with me;
A thousand pretty Rural sports
I'le here invent for thee.

Involv'd in blissful innocence
Wee'l spend the shining day,
Untoucht with that mean influence
The duller world obey.

About the flowry Plains wee'l rove
As gay and unconfin'd
As are inspir'd by thee and love
The saleys of my mind.

Now seated by a lovely Stream
Where beauteous Mermaids haunt,
My Song, while William is my Theam,
Shall them and thee inchant.

Then in some gentle, soft retreat,
Secure as Venus' Groves,
We'l all the charming things repeat
That introduc'd our loves.

I'le pluck fresh Garlands for thy brows,
Sweet as a Zephir's breath,
As far and well-design'd as those
The Elisyum Lovers wreath.

And, like those happy Lovers, we,
As careless and as blest,
Shall, in each others converse, be
Of the whole world possest.

Then prethee, Phillis, leave the Courts,
And range the Fields with me,
Since I so many harmless sports
Can here procure for thee.





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