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THE COY, SELECTION by WILLIAM BROOME

Poet Analysis

First Line: YE FAIR THAT WOULD VICTORIOUS PROVE
Last Line: "BUT WHEN HER LOVE IS BORN, HIS DIES."
Subject(s): LOVE;
"Ye fair that would victorious prove,
Seem but half kind, when most you love;
Damon pursues if Cælia flies,
But when her love is born, his dies."



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