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UPON JULIA WISHING HER SELFE IN THE RIVER by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS

First Line: HOW FIERCE WAS I, WHEN I DID SEE
Last Line: HAD NOT THY WAVES FORBAD THE REST.
Subject(s): BATHS & BATHING;

How fierce was I, when I did see
My Julia wash her self in thee!
So Lillies thorough Christall look:
So purest pebbles in the brook:
As in the River Julia did,
Halfe with a Lawne of water hid,
Into thy streames my self I threw,
And strugling there, I kist thee too;
And more had done (it is confest)
Had not thy waves forbad the rest.



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