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DAVIDS ELEGIE UPON JONATHAN by JOSEPH BEAUMONT

First Line: WHAT NAME OF COMFORT CAN RETURNE
Last Line: THY LOVE, AS THOU, WAS MASCULINE.
Subject(s): LOVE; MASCULINITY (PSYCHOLOGY); MOURNING; BEREAVEMENT;

WHAT Name of Comfort can returne
My Heart to mee!
Deare Freind in Thee
My life is dead, my Joy doth mourne.

O @3Jonathan,@1 my Reverend Mother,
(Though fertile Shee,)
Ne'r blessed Mee
With halfe so sweet & deare a Brother.

Delicious, Freind, wert Thou to Mee;
@3Engaddies@1 Bed
Did never spread
Perfumes so rich & sweet as Thee.

Thy love to Mee, my @3Jonathan,@1
(Heart spare to break
Before I speak)
Thy love knew no Comparison.

Weak Woman's Love, esteem'd wth thine,
Though stout before,
Grew faint & poore;
Thy Love, as Thou, was Masculine.



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